Pirès, Gérard

(August 31, 1942, Paris, France - )

   He studied at the Arts Appliqués (Applied Arts) before working for two years in fashion and adver­tising photography. From 1963 to 1965, he directed his first films for the French army's Cinematographic Service. A TV director (1967 Dim Dam Dom), he served as an assistant director to Michel Deville (1966 Martin Soldat / UK: Kiss Me General). Mostly a comedy director until the early 1980s, he had a motorcycle crash in 1981 that damaged his vocal cords and interrupted his career. He returned to cinema seventeen years later, filming action movies produced by Luc Besson.

 Filmography

        ◘ Danse 1 & 2 (shorts; also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)

        ◘ Le Grand Pas (short; also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)

        ◘ Vol tactique (short; also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)

1965 ◘ Opération Panthère (short; also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)

        ◘ Vie et Opinion d'Adrien (short; also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)

1966 ◘ Un Misanthrope (short; also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)

        ◘ Je ne sais pas (short; also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)

        ◘ S.W.B. (short; also screenwriter, stunts)

        ◘ Erotissimo (also co-adapter; France / Italy)

        ◘ La Fête des Mères (short; also screenwriter)

        ◘ L'Art de la Turlute (short; also screenwriter)

1971 ◘ Fantasia chez les Ploucs / Il Rompiballe . . . rompe ancora (also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist; France / Italy)

1973 ◘ Elle court, elle court la Banlieue / La pendolare (also co-screenwriter; France / Italy)

        ◘ L'Agression / Appuntamento con l'assassino / UK and USA: Act of Aggression (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter; France / Italy)

        ◘ Attention les Yeux! / UK and USA: Let's Make a Dirty Movie (also co-screenwriter)

        ◘ L'Ordinateur des Pompes funèbres / Caccia al montone / USA: The Probability Factor (also co-screenwriter; France / Italy)

        ◘ L'Entourloupe

        ◘ Rends-moi la Clé! (also co-dialogist, actor)

1998 ◘ Taxi (with the collaboration of Gérard Krawczyk, who shot a few scenes during the hospi-talization of Gérard Pirès)

2002 ◘ Riders (also co-screenwriter; France / UK / Canada)

        ◘ Double Zéro

        ◘ Les Chevaliers du Ciel (also co-screenwriter)