Mamy, Jean

(July 8, 1902, Chambéry, Savoie, France - March 29, 1949, Arcueil, Val-de-Marne, France)

   From 1920 to 1931, he was an actor with Charles Dullin's theatrical group. After playing in a few movies (1924 Entracte, short, René Clair; 1925 Veille d'Armes, Jacques de Baroncelli; 1928 Maldone / USA: Misdeal, also location manager, Jean Grémillon), he worked as an editor (1929 Gardiens de Phare / USA: The Lighthouse Keepers, Jean Grémillon; 1930 Les Amants de Minuit, Marc Allégret, Augusto Genina; 1931 Le Blanc et le Noir, Robert Florey; L'Amour à l'Américaine / USA: American Love, Claude Heymann, Pàl Fejôs; Mam'zelle Nitouche, Marc Allégret; On purge Bébé, short, Jean Renoir; Le Collier, short, Marc Allégret; On opère sans Douleur, short, Jean Tarride; Les Quatre Jambes, medium-length, Marc Allégret; 1932 La Petite Chocolatière, Marc Allégret; Fanny, Marc Allégret; Seul, short, Jean Tarride; 1933 L'Agonie des Aigles / USA: The Death Agony of the Eagles, Roger Richebé; 1934 Le Voyage de Monsieur Perrichon, Jean Tarride; Minuit, Place Pigalle, Roger Richebé; 1936 Mister Flow / USA: Mr Flow, Robert Siodmak; 1937 Un Déjeuner de Soleil, Marcel Cravenne; L'Habit vert, Roger Richebé) and production manager (1935 Koenigsmark / USA: Crim­son Dynasty, Maurice Tourneur; 1939 Dédé la Musique, André Berthomieu). Overhelmed by the rout of 1940, he became a convinced Petainist and published articles in collaborationist newspapers under the pseudonym of Paul Riche. He notably was chief editor of L'Appel. A former Freemason, he directed the antimasonic medium-length Forces occultes, in which he denounced the ascendancy of Freemasonry over French society and its supposed responsibility in the defeat. In August 1944, his mother was arrested by the FFI (French Resistance), and he gave himself up. He had to wait for four years to be judged and then sentenced to death. He was shot in March 1949. A playwright, he also authored poems in jail that were collected by his son and published in Swiss in 1963 (Les Barreaux d'Or).

 Filmography

1931 ◘ Baleydier

1933 ◘ Le Chemin du Bonheur

1943 ◘ Forces occultes (medium-length; as Paul Riche; also adapter, dialogist)