Baroncelli, Jacques de

(Marquis Marie Joseph Henri Jacques de Baroncelli de Javon / June 25, 1881, Bouillargues, Gard, France - January 12, 1951, Paris, France)

   Born into an aristocratic family of Florentine origin, he started out as a journalist publishing in various weekly newspapers (L'Opinion, Le Monde illustré) be­fore becoming chief editor of L'Eclair. A film director from 1915 to 1947, he also was a screenwriter (as Jacques de Javon) (1919 La Cigarette, Germaine Dulac; 1931 La Terreur des Batignolles, short, Henri-Georges Clouzot; Niebla, Benito Perojo, Spain; 1928 Minuit . .. Place Pigalle, René Hervil; 1933 Sahara, Terre féconde, documentary, Pierre Dufays; 1954 Bonnes à tuer / Quattro donne nella notte / USA: One Step to Eternity, also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist, France / Italy) and art director (1929 La Tentation, René Barberis, René Leprince). He finished L'Honorable Catherine / USA: The Honorable Catherine (Marcel L'Herbier, 1943). His son, film critic Jean de Baroncelli (1914-1998), was married to actress Sophie Des-marets (b. 1922).

 Filmography

1915 ◘ La Classe 1935 (short)

        ◘ Lequel? (short)

        ◘ La Maison de l'Espion (short; also original novel, screenwriter, adapter)

        ◘ Un Signal dans la Nuit (short)

1916 ◘ La Faute de Pierre Vaisy (as Jacques de Javon; also screenwriter)

        ◘ Trois Filles en Portefeuille (short; also screenwriter)

        ◘ Le Drame du Château de Saint-Privat (short)

        ◘ Le Jugement de Salomon (short; also screenwriter)

        ◘ La Main qui étreint / La Main qui prend (short)

        ◘ Soupçon tragique (short; also screenwriter)

        ◘ La Nouvelle Antigone

        ◘ Le Suicide de Sir Leston (short)

        ◘ Noël Cambrioleur (short)

1917 ◘ L'Hallali

        ◘ Une Mascotte (short)

        ◘ Le Cas du Procureur Lesnin / Le Procureur Lesnin (short; as Jacques de Javon)

        ◘ L'Inconnue (as Jacques de Javon; also screenwriter)

        ◘ Une Vengeance (short)

        ◘ La Revenante (also screenwriter)

        ◘ Le Fils naturel

        ◘ Les Trois KK (short)

        ◘ Le Délai (as Jacques de Javon; also screenwriter)

        ◘ Le Roi de la Mer / USA: The King of the Sea (also screenwriter)

        ◘ Pile ou Face (short)

1918 ◘ Le Retour aux Champs (also screenwriter)

        ◘ Le Siège des Trois (also screenwriter)

        ◘ Le Scandale (also screenwriter, adapter)

1919 ◘ L'Héritage

        ◘ Ramuntcho (short; also screenwriter, adapter)

1920 ◘ La Rafale

        ◘ Le Secret du "Lone Star"

        ◘ Flipotte (also screenwriter, adapter)

        ◘ La Rose (short)

1921 ◘ Champi-Tortu (also screenwriter, adapter)

        ◘ Le Rêve (also screenwriter, adapter)

        ◘ Le Père Goriot (also screenwriter, adapter)

1922 ◘ Amour / Liefde (also screenwriter; Belgium)

        ◘ Roger la Honte (two episodes: "Roger-la-Honte", "Mère coupable"; also screenwriter, adapter)

        ◘ La Robe (short)

1923 ◘ Le Carillon de Minuit / De Beiaard van Middernacht / USA: The Midnight Chimes (France / Belgium)

        ◘ La Femme inconnue

        ◘ La Légende de Sœur Béatrix / USA: The Legend of Sister Beatrix (also screenwriter, adapter)

1924 ◘ Nène (also screenwriter, adapter, producer)

        ◘ Pêcheur d'Islande (also screenwriter, adapter, producer)

        ◘ La Flambée des Rêves / Un Homme riche (also screenwriter)

1925 ◘ Veille d'Armes (also screenwriter, adapter, producer)

        ◘ Le Réveil (also producer)

1927 ◘ Nitchevo, l'Agonie du Sous-Marin (also screenwriter, adapter, producer)

        ◘ Leu! (also screenwriter)

1928 ◘ Duel (also screenwriter, adapter)

        ◘ Le Passager (also screenwriter, adapter)

1929 ◘ La Femme et le Pantin

        ◘ La Femme du Voisin (also screenwriter, adapter)

        ◘ L'Arlésienne (also screenwriter, adapter)

        ◘ Le Rêve

        ◘ La Messe de Minuit / Vitrail (short)

        ◘ Je serai seule dans la Nuit

        ◘ Le Dernier Choc (also co-screenwriter)

        ◘ Gitanes (also screenwriter, dialogist, producer)

        ◘ L'Ami Fritz

        ◘ Crainquebille

        ◘ Le Calvaire de Cimiez (co-director with René Dallière)

        ◘ Cessez le Feu Chansons de Paris

1935 ◘ Aux Portes de Paris (finished by Charles Barrois)

        ◘ Roi de Camargue

        ◘ Michel Strogoff (French version of Richard Eich-berg's Der Kurier des Zaren; Germany / France)

        ◘ Nitchevo (also co-screenwriter)

        ◘ Feu! (also co-screenwriter)

        ◘ Belle Etoile S.O.S. Sahara

        ◘ Volpone (unfinished; Maurice Tourneur re­sumed the shooting and finished the movie)

        ◘ L'Homme du Niger / USA: Forbidden Love

        ◘ Le Pavillon brûle Ce n'est pas moi!

        ◘ Soyez les Bienvenus (shot in 1940)

        ◘ La Duchesse de Langeais / USA: Wicked Duchess Haut-le-Vent

1943 ◘ Les Mystères de Paris

1945 ◘ Fausse Alerte / USA: The French Way (also producer; shot in 1940)

        ◘ Marie la Misère

1946 ◘ Tant que je vivrai

        ◘ La Rose de la Mer

1948 ◘ Rocambole / Rocambole (two episodes: "Ro­cambole / Il ragno della metropoli", "La Revanche de Baccarat / La rivincita di Bacca­rat"; France / Italy; shot in 1946-1947)