Leroy, Serge

(May 14, 1937, Paris, France - May 27, 1993, Paris, France)

   A report that he shot in Alaska for Belgian TV drew the attention of Pierre Lazareff, Pierre Dumayet, and Pierre Desgraupes. For their famous news program Cinq Colonnes à la Une, he filmed documentaries on the inquest into the assassination of President John F. Kennedy and the Vietnam War. After directing more than 200 reports for French, Canadian, Swiss, and Bel­gian TV, he opted for fiction and cinema in 1970. He occasionally worked as a screenwriter (1993 La Règle du Silence, TV, as co-screenwriter, Marc and Marie Rivière; 1995 Pasteur, Cinq Années de Rage, TV, as co-screenwriter, Luc Béraud), assistant director (1984 Le Tueur triste, TV, Nicolas Gessner), and actor (1984 Le Scénario défendu, TV, Michel Mitrani).

 Filmography

1959 ◘ Hiver sur un Bois (documentary; short; also screenwriter; Belgium)

        ◘ Une Journée à Chimay (documentary; short; also screenwriter; Belgium)

        ◘ La Terre des Jeunes (short; also screenwriter)

        ◘ Les Hommes de Nieuport (documentary; short; also screenwriter; Belgium)

1971 ◘ Ciel bleu (also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist)

1973 ◘ Le Mataf / Tre per una granda rapina (also co-screenwriter, actor; France / Italy)

1975 ◘ La Traque / Il sapore della paura / UK and USA: Gunman in the Streets (France / Italy)

1977 ◘ Les Passagers / Viaggio di Paura / US video: The Intruder (also co-screenwriter; France / Italy)

1978 ◘ Attention, les Enfants regardent (also co-screenwriter)

        ◘ Légitime Violence (also co-adapter, actor)

        ◘ L'Indic (also co-screenwriter)

1985 ◘ Le 4ème Pouvoir (also co-author of original story)

1988 ◘ Contrainte par Corps (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)

1993 ◘ Taxi de Nuit (also screenwriter, dialogist)

 Television Filmography

1965 ◘ Seul à Seul (also screenwriter, dialogist)

1981 ◘ Les Héritiers (episode "La Propriété")

        ◘ Pause-Café (six episodes)

1985 ◘ Double Face

        ◘ Une Saison de Feuilles (also co-screenwriter; France / Canada / Switzerland)

        ◘ Navarro (episode "Mauvaises Actions")

        ◘ Les Cahiers bleus

        ◘ Navarro (episode "Samouraï")

        ◘ Maigret chez les Flamands (also screenwriter, dialogist; France / Belgium / Switzerland)

        ◘ Alice Nevers: Le Juge est une Femme (episode "Aux Marches du Palais"; also actor)

        ◘ Maigret et le Corps sans Tête (also screenwriter, dialogist; France / Switzerland / Belgium)