Kéroul, Maurice

(November 30, 1886, France - 1976, France)

   Destined to become a marine officer by his family, he dropped out of school to turn a journalist at age six­teen. He won some fame with his humoristic articles. He invested and lost his money in a movie theater in Montrouge. He vainly tried to sell three screenplays to Lux, a production company that finally bought his fourth script. He wrote 139 screenplays before the beginning of World War I. Mobilized for the next four years, he resumed his career as an author in 1919 as a journalist (Le Film) and screenwriter. From 1923 to 1937, he co-directed (mostly with Georges Monca) eleven movies and filmed alone only one motion picture. He also was an occasional assistant director (1934 Flofloche, Gaston Roudès).

 Filmography

        ◘ L'Engrenage / Die geliebte des Môrders (co-director with Max Reichmann; France / Austria)

        ◘ Altemer le Cynique (co-director with Georges Monca; also screenwriter)

        ◘ La Double Existence de Lord Samsey (co-di­rector with Georges Monca; also co-screenwriter, co-adapter)

        ◘ L'Ironie du Sort (co-director with Georges Monca; also co-screenwriter)

1925 ◘ Sans Famille (six episodes: "Pour l'Argent", "Enfant trouvé", "Au Hasard des grands Chemins", "Le Malheur passé", "Une Etrange Famille", "Les Deux Frères"; also co-screenwriter, co-adapter)

        ◘ Autour d'un Berceau / Cheveux blancs, Boucles blondes / La Raison de vivre (co-director with Georges Monca; also screenwriter)

1926 ◘ Le Chemineau (co-director with Georges Monca; also co-screenwriter, co-adapter)

        ◘ Miss Helyett (co-director with Georges Monca)

        ◘ Graine au Vent / USA: Sowing the Wind (co-director with Jacques Mills)

1930 ◘ Les Papillons de Nuit (short; filmed song)

1935 ◘ Une Nuit de Noces (co-director with Georges Monca)

1936 ◘ Trois Jours de Perm' (co-director with Georges Monca)

        ◘ Les Frères Delacloche (short; co-director with Jean Mugeli)

1937 ◘ Le Choc en Retour (co-director with Georges Monca; also co-screenwriter)