Jabely, Jean

(April 3, l92l, Paris, France - )

   He made his film debut in animation cinema with Paul Grimault in 1940. After working as an assistant direc­tor to Marcello Pagliero, Louis Daquin, and Pierre Prévert and directing many commercials, he filmed his own animated pictures that earned him several awards in the Venice, Locarno, and Berlin festivals. He was the animator of the prologue and the links between the segments (1960 La Française et l'Amour / La Francese e l'amore / UK and USA: Love and the Frenchwoman, Michel Boisrond, France / Italy). He was an occasional screenwriter for other filmmakers (l976 Trois de Coeur, 25 X l3', as co-screenwriter, co-dialogist, Roger Andrieux, Alain Périsson, Michel Picard, Jean-Pierre Richard; l979 Ils sont grands ces Petits, author of original script, Joël Santoni; 1983 C'est Facile et ça peut rapporter . . . 20 Ans, as screenwriter, Jean Luret; l984 Adam et Eve, original idea and dialogist, Jean Luret; Vénus / Venus on Fire, also actor, Peter Hollison, France / UK).

 Filmography

1955 ◘ Napoléon raconté par un vieux Soldat (animated short)

        ◘ De Sable et de Feu (animated short)

        ◘ TeufTeuf (animated short)

        ◘ Ballade Chromo (animated short)

        ◘ Bang . . . Bang . . . (animated short)

        ◘ Lui et elle (animated short)

1963 ◘ Une Blonde comme ça / Miss Shumway jette un Sort (also co-screenwriter, France / Argen­tina)

        ◘ Le Petit Zizi (animated short)

        ◘ Images pour Bach (animated short)

1981 ◘ Minoïe (animation; co-director with Philippe Landrot; shot in l979)

1986 ◘ La Peau de l'Ours (also screenwriter, dialogist)

 l988 ◘ Les Gauloises blondes (also screenwriter, dialogist)

 Television Filmography

1976 ◘ Trois de Coeur (l3 X 25'; co-director, co-screenwriter, actor; shot in l974-l975)