Gréville, Edmond T.

(Edmond Gréville Thonger / June 20, 1906, Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France - May 26, 1966, Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France)

   The son of an English Protestant minister father and a French schoolteacher mother, he started out as a journalist publishing his articles in Le Soir, L'Intransigeant, Paris-Soir, Vu, and Comoedia. From 1926 to 1928, he published novels (Chantegrenouille; Supprimé par l'Ascenseur), collections of poems and plays (Colin-Maillard; Oiseaux des Saxophones). He entered films as an extra and a production assistant on Napoléon / Napoléon Bonaparte / Napoléon vu par Abel Gance / USA: Abel Gance's Napoleon / Napoleon (Abel Gance, 1927, shot in 1925) and made his directing debut shooting a documentary (Un Grand Journal illustré) and an avant-garde commercial (La Naissance des Heures). He also was an actor (1927 Antan (Histoire de deux Hommes), Louis Durieux, Léon Ardouin; 1930 Sous les Toits de Paris / UK and USA: Under the Roofs of Paris, René Clair; Un Coup de Dés, short, Pierre Chenal), assistant director (1929 Picadilly, UK; 1930 L'Arlésienne, Jacques de Baroncelli; Prix de Beauté / UK: Miss Europe / USA: Beauty Prize, also editor, Augusto Genina; 1931 La Fin du Monde / UK and USA: The End of the World, Abel Gance; 1941 Vénus aveugle / UK and USA: Blind Venus, Abel Gance; 1951 Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. / Captain Horatio Hornblower, Raoul Walsh, UK / France), and screenwriter (1963 La vergine di Norimberga / UK: The Castle of Terror / USA: Horror Castle, Anthony M. Dawson = Antonio Margheriti, Italy). In 1952, he directed some scenes of Ralph Baum's Plaisirs de Paris. He died in a car crash.

   Autobiography: 1995 Trente-Cinq Ans dans la Jungle du Cinéma (Institut Lumière-Actes Sud).

 Filmography

        ◘ Le Grand Illustré moderne (commercial)

        ◘ La Vie d'un Faux-Col (commercial)

        ◘ Minuit (short; also screenwriter)

        ◘ La Naissance des Heures (medium-length)

1931 ◘ Le Train des Suicidés (also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist, editor)

        ◘ La Peau sur l'Herbe (unfinished)

        ◘ La Belle Madame Moïse (short)

        ◘ Crime passionnel / Un Crime passionnel (short)

        ◘ La Guerre aux Sauterelles (short)

        ◘ Le Mariage de Sarah (short)

        ◘ Marius Amateur de Cidre (short)

        ◘ Marius chasse le Lion (short)

        ◘ Marius fait un Pari (short)

        ◘ Moïse et Cohen Businessmen (short)

        ◘ Moïse Marchand d'Habits (short)

        ◘ Moïse, Marchand de Tapis (short)

        ◘ Le Testament de Moïse (short)

1932 ◘ Plaisirs de Paris (Edmond Gréville disawoved the movie cut by the producer and removed his name from the film)

        ◘ Le Triangle de Feu (co-director with Dr. Jo­hannes Guter)

        ◘ Le Maître chez soi / Un Homme (medium-length)

1933 ◘ Berlingot (short; also parrot's voice)

        ◘ Le suis un Homme perdu / Prête-moi Mélanie (medium-length)

        ◘ Martini sec (short)

        ◘ Le Rayon des Amours (short)

        ◘ Vacances conjugales (short; also screenwriter, dialogist)

1934 ◘ Remous / USA: Whirlpool (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist, editor)

        ◘ La Croix des Cimes (short; also screenwriter)

        ◘ Monsieur le Vagabond (short; also screenwriter)

        ◘ Marchand d'Amour (also screenwriter, dialogist)

        ◘ Princesse Tam-Tam / UK and USA: Princess Tam-Tam

        ◘ Gypsy Melody (UK)

        ◘ L'Agence Security (medium-length)

1937 ◘ Secret Lives / USA: I Married a Spy (UK)

        ◘ Brief Ecstasy / USA: Dangerous Secrets (UK)

        ◘ Mademoiselle Docteur / USA: Under Secret Orders (English-language version of Georg Wilhelm Pabst's Mademoiselle Docteur)

        ◘ What a Man! (UK)

1938 ◘ Veertig Jaren (co-director with Johan de Meester; Netherlands)

1940 ◘ Menaces (also screenwriter, dialogist; shot in 1938)

1943 ◘ Une Femme dans la Nuit (shot in 1941)

1945 ◘ Dorothée cherche l'Amour

1947 ◘ Pour une Nuit d'Amour / USA: Passionnelle (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter)

        ◘ Le Diable souffle / USA: Woman of Evil (also screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist)

1948 ◘ Noose / USA: The Silk Noose (UK)

        ◘ Neit tevergreefs / But Not in Vain (shot in double version; Netherlands / UK)

1949 ◘ The Romantic Age / USA: Naughty Arlette (UK)

1951 ◘ Die Bilderschnitzer vom Walsertal (West Germany)

1953 ◘ L'Envers du Paradis (also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist)

1955 ◘ Le Port du Désir / USA: House on the Water-front

        ◘ Tant qu'il y aura des Femmes

1956 ◘ Je plaide non Coupable / UK and USA: Guilty? (also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist; France / UK)

        ◘ Quand sonnera Midi / Plotone di esecuzione (France / Italy)

        ◘ L'Île du Bout du Monde / UK: Temptation Island / USA: Temptation (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter)

        ◘ Beat Girl / USA: Wild for Kicks (UK)

        ◘ Les Mains dOrlac / The Hands of Orlac / USA: Hands of a Strangler / Hands of a Strangler (shot in double version; also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist as Max Montagut; France / UK)

1961 ◘ Les Menteurs / UK: House of Sin / USA: The Liars / Twisted Lives (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist as Max Montagut)

1963 ◘ L'Accident / USA: The Accident (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist)

 Television Filmography

1964 ◘ Dossiers de Guerre secrète: Les Exploits de Jim Laloy (episode "Péril au Paradis"; also dialogist)