Kerchner, Jean

(January 31, 1929, Paris, France - )

   A former assistant director to Jean Gourguet and Jean Stelli, he was above all a production manager (1956 Alerte au Deuxième Bureau / US TV: Nest of Spies, also screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist, Jean Stelli; Mitsou, Jacqueline Audry; 1957 Deuxième Bureau contre Inconnu / USA: Whereabouts Unknown, also co-screenwriter, Jean Stelli; 1958 La Tour, prends garde! / Agli ordini del re / USA: King on Horseback, Georges Lampin, France / Italy / Yugoslavia; Rapt au Deuxième Bureau / USA: Operation Abduction, also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist, Jean Stelli; 1959 Minute Papillon, also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist, Jean Lefèvre; 1962 Les Ennemis / USA: A Touch of Treason, Edouard Molinaro; 1963 Les Femmes d'abord / USA: Ladies First, Raoul André; 1965 La Bonne Occase, Michel Drach; 1966 Le Solitaire passe à l'Attaque / El solitario al ataque, Ralph Habib, France / Spain; 1968 A tout casser / Quella carogna di Frank Mitraglia / UK: The Great Chase / USA: Breaking It Up, John Berry, France / Italy; 1971 Qu'est-ce qui fait courir les Crocodiles?, Jacques Poitrenaud, shot in 1969; Les Assassins de l'Ordre / Inchiesta su un delitto della polizia / UK and USA: Law Breakers, Marcel Carné, France / Italy; 1974 La Rivale / USA: The Rival / My Husband His Mistress and I, Sergio Gobbi; Die Antwort kennt nur der Wind / Seul le Vent connaît la Réponse, Alfred Vohrer, West Germany / France; 1977 A chacun son Enfer / Jedem seine Hôlle, André Cayatte, France / West Germany; 1978 L'Amour en Question, André Cayatte; 1982 La Passante du sans-Souci / Die Spaziergangerin von sans-Souci / USA: The Passerby, Jacques Rouffio, France / West Germany; 1985 Le 4ème Pouvoir, Serge Leroy). He also co-wrote Requiem pour un Caïd (Maurice Cloche).

 Filmography

1960 ◘ La Dragée haute (also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist, producer)