Page, Alain

(Jean-Emmanuel Conil / March 5, 1930, Paris, France - )

   After receiving his high school diploma, he frequented the literary and artistic Saint-Germain-des-Prés after World War II. In 1955, he published his first novel under the pseudonym of Henri Dalbret (La Forêt fré-mt à l'Aube, Editions Robert Laffont). Then he wrote poems (Fumées), four spy novels as Alain Ray (Editions de l'Arabesque), almost 100 spy and detective novels, plays (La Ballade du Vampire; Les Petits Soldats; B 29), and numerous radio serials for France Inter and Europe I and historical programs for France - Culture. He entered films as a screenwriter (1968 La Piscine / La piscina / UK: The Sinners / USA: The Swimming Pool, Jac­ques Deray, France / Italy; 1978 La Part du Feu, Etienne Périer, France / Canada; 1983 Tchao Pantin, also original novel, Claude Berri) and collaborated on many TV screenplays (1972 Les Dossiers de Me Robineau, episode "Cette Mort si proche", Nat Lillenstein; Les Dossiers de Me Robineau, episode "Main basse à la Campagne", Jean-Claude de Nesle; 1973 Les Aventures du Capitaine Luckner / Cap sur l'Aventure / Trois Mâts pour l'Aventure / Graf Luckner, as co-screenwriter only, 26 X 13', Yannick Andréi, Jean Couturier, Jean-Pierre Decourt, François Villiers, France / West Germany; 1974 A Dossiers ouverts, as co-screenwriter, only, 25 X 13', Claude Boissol; 1978 Le Mutant, 6 X 52', Bernard Toublanc-Michel; 1991 Piège pour une Fille seule, Gérard Marx; 1992 Les Cordier, Juge et Flic, TV series, creator of the characters and episode "Cécile mon Enfant", Marion Sarraut; 1995 Tatort—Eine tôdsichere Falle, Hans-Christoph Blumemberg, Germany; 1998 Un Taxi dans la Nuit, Alain-Michel Blanc).

 Filmography

1964 ◘ Pourquoi nous espionnons (short;also screenwriter, dialogist)

1965 ◘ Play Bach (short; also screenwriter, dialogist)

1986 ◘ Taxi Boy (also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist)

1988 ◘ La Ballade de Kouki (short; also screenwriter, dialogist)

1993 ◘ Une Journée très ordinaire (short;also screenwriter, dialogist)