Leboursier, Raymond

(May 12, 1917, Paris, France - July 26, 1987, Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, France)

   From 1930 to 1933, he played in French-language ver­sions of Paramount productions (1931 A mi-chemin du Ciel, Alberto Cavalcanti; Les Vacances du Diable, Al­berto Cavalcanti; Le Réquisitoire, Dimitri Buchowetzki; L'Amour à l'Américaine, Claude Heymann; 1932 Une Jeune Fille et un Million, Max Neufeld, Fred Ellis; Château de Rêve, Henri-Georges Clouzot). Then he became an editor (about thirty films from 1935 Touche à tout, Jean Dréville, to 1967 Comment les sédu­ire / UK: 1001 Ways to Love, Jean-Claude Roy). Other credits (as assistant director): 1935 L'Ecole des Vierges (Pierre Weill); 1948 Les Parents terribles / UK and USA: The Storm Within (Jean Cocteau).

 Filmography

1937 ◘ Aventure hawaienne (short; also editor)

1942 ◘ Les Petits Riens (also editor)

1945 ◘ Nais (co-director with Marcel Pagnol, who directed most of the movie)

1946 ◘ L'Assassin était trop familier (medium-length)

1948 ◘ Mémoires d'un 5 CV (short; also original story, author of commentary, screenwriter)

        ◘ Menace de Mort (also screenwriter, dialogist)

        ◘ Le Furet (also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist)

        ◘ La Vie est un Jeu (also screenwriter, co-dialogist)

1952 ◘ La Femme à l'Orchidée (also co-dialogist)

        ◘ Henri Gagnon, Organiste (medium-length; doc­umentary)

        ◘ Le Prix de la Science (documentary; short; also editor)

        ◘ Dubois et Fils (documentary; co-director with Bernard Devlin)

1969 ◘ Les Gros Malins (also screenwriter, co-adapter, dialogist)