Roussel, Mick

(Emile Roussel / April 8, 1909, Beaurainville, Pas-de-Calais, France - June 21, 1969, Saint-Cloud, Hauts-de-Seine, France)

   Having trained at the National School of Decorative Arts, he started as a decorator and journalist before entering the film industry as an assistant director (1935 Maternité, as Emile Roussel, Jean Choux; 1938 La Glu, as Emile Roussel, also screenwriter, Jean Choux; Paix sur le Rhin, as Emile Roussel, Jean Choux; 1939 L'Intrigante, as Emile Roussel, Emile Couzinet; 1940 Le Café du Port, as Emile Roussel, Jean Choux; 1943 Port d'Attache, as Emile Roussel, Jean Choux; 1947 Le Mystérieux Monsieur Sylvain, Jean Stelli; Torrents, Serge de Poligny; 1948 Par la Fenêtre, Gilles Grangier; Les Dernières Vacances / USA: The Last Vacation, as Emile Roussel, Roger Leenhardt; 1949 La Veuve et l'Innocent, as Emile Roussel, André Cerf; Tabusse, as Emile Rous­sel, Jean Gehret; 1950 Le Crime des Justes, as Emile Roussel, Jean Gehret, shot in 1948; 1951 Paris est toujours Paris / Parigi è sempre Parigi, as Emile Roussel, Luciano Emmer, France / Italy). He also occasionally worked as a screenwriter (1936 Paris, as Emile Rous­sel, as co-screenwriter, Jean Choux; 1937 Miarka, la Fille à l'Ourse, as Emile Roussel, as co-screenwriter, co-adapter, Jean Choux; 1943 Malaria, as Emile Roussel, as adapter, Jean Gourguet) and actor (1938 Le Temps des Cerises, as Emile Roussel, Jean-Paul Dreyfus = Jean-Paul Le Chanois). Other credit (as technical adviser): 1954 Le Vicomte de Bragelonne / Il visconte di Bragelonne / USA: The Last Musketeer / Count of Bragelonne (Fernando Cerchio, France / Italy).

 Filmography

1953 ◘ Histoires de Bicyclettes (short)

1955 ◘ Pas de Coup dur pour Johnny (as Emile Roussel)

1958 ◘ Le Désir mène les Hommes (also screenwriter)

 Television Filmography

1963 ◘ L'Inspecteur Leclerc / L'Inspecteur Leclerc en­quête (episode "La Chasse")

1965 ◘ Le Train bleu s'arrête 13 Fois (episodes "Dijon: Premier Courrier", "Coup fourré")