Barouh, Pierre

(Elie Pierre Barouh / February 19, 1934, Paris, France - )

   A sports journalist and a first-rate volleyball player after World War II, he is known mostly as a singer, songwriter, composer, and music producer. Also an actor (1962 En plein Cirage / Operazione Gold Ingot / USA: Operation Gold Ingot, Georges Lautner, France / Italy; 1964 Des Filles et des Fusils / UK and USA: To Be a Crook, Claude Lelouch; D'où viens-tu, Johnny?, Noel Howard, Bernard Paul; La Dérive, Paula Delsol, shot in 1962; Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez / Una ragazza a Saint Tropez / UK and USA: The Gendarme of St. Tropez, Jean Girault, France / Italy; 1965 Les Grands Moments, Claude Lelouch; 1966 Arrastôo / Les Amants de la Mer, also composer, Antoine d'Ormesson, Portugal / France; Un Homme et une Femme / UK and USA: A Man and a Woman, also lyricist, Claude Lelouch; 1967 Vivre pour vivre / Vivere per vivere / USA: Live for Life; also lyricist, Claude Lelouch; 1976 Le Journal de Getug­lio, 5 X 50', Michel Parbot; Les Naufragés de l'Île de la Tortue, Jacques Rozier; 1977 Un Autre Homme, une autre Chance / UK: Another Man, Another Woman / USA: Another Man, Another Chance, Claude Lelouch; 1982 Elle voit des Nains partout, Jean-Claude Sussfeld; 1990 Il y a des Jours . . . et des Lunes, Claude Lelouch; 2005 Le Courage d'aimer, Claude Lelouch), he wrote lyrics for such films as Treize Jours en France (documentary, Claude Lelouch, François Reichenbach, 1968), House of Cards (John Guillermin, USA, 1968), and Les Uns et les Autres / UK: Within Memory / USA: Bolero (Claude Lelouch, 1981).

 Filmography

1972 ◘ Ça va, ça vient (also screenwriter, producer, composer)

        ◘ Saravah (documentary; also composer; Brazil)

1977 ◘ Le Labyrinthe (unreleased)

1979 ◘ Le Divorcement (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist)

1981 ◘ Album de Famille (shot in 1976)