Toublanc-Michel, Bernard

(December 6, 1927, Ancenis, Loire-Atlantique, France - )

   While studying architecture at the Ecole Nationale des Beaux-Arts (National Art School), he landed a job as a trainee assistant director to Jacques Becker (1951 Edouard et Caroline / USA: Edward and Caroline). Other credits (as assistant): 1953 Les Trois Mousquetaires / Fate largo ai moschettieri! / USA: The Three Musketeers (André Hunebelle, France / Italy); L'Impossible Monsieur Pipelet (André Hunebelle); Mannequins de Paris (André Hunebelle); 1957 La Garçonne (Jacqueline Audry); S.O.S. Noronha (Georges Rouquier); Un Amour de Poche / UK: Nude in His Pocket / USA: Girl in His Pocket (Pierre Kast); Donnez-moi ma Chance (Léonide Moguy); 1958 L'Ecole des Cocottes (Jacqueline Audry); La Moucharde / USA: Why Women Sin (Guy Lefranc); Suivez-moi jeune Homme (Guy Le-franc); 1959 Arrêtez le Massacre! (André Hunebelle); Ars (short, also actor, Jacques Demy); 1960 Le Bossu / La spada degli Orleans / USA: The Hunchback of Paris / The King's Avenger (André Hunebelle, France / Italy); 1961Lola / Donna di vita (Jacques Demy, France / Italy); Cause toujours, mon Lapin / USA: Keep Talking, Baby (Guy Lefranc); 1962 Cléo de 5 à 7 / Cleo dalle 5 alle 7 / USA: Cleo From 5 to 7 (Agnès Varda, France / Italy); Vivre sa Vie: Film en douze Tableaux / Vivre sa Vie / UK: It's My Life / USA: My Life to Live (Jean-Luc Godard, France / Italy); Bonne Chance, Charlie (Jean-Louis Richard); 1965 Alphaville, une étrange Aventure de Lemmy Caution / Agente Lemmy Caution, missione Alphaville / UK and USA: Alphaville / USA: Dick Tracy on Mars (Jean-Luc Godard, France / Italy); 1966 Masculin Féminin / Maskulinum- feminimum / UK and USA: Masculine-Feminine (Jean-Luc Godard, France / Sweden). He played a bit part in Les Révoltés de Lomanach / L'eroe della vendea (Richard Pottier, France / Italy, 1953) and appeared as himself in two documentaries (1996 L'Univers de Jacques Demy, Agnès Varda; 2005 Cléo de 5 à 7: Souvenirs et Anecdotes, video short, Agnès Varda). A technical adviser to Robert Lamoureux (1973 Mais où est donc passé la septième Compagnie? / Dov'è finita la settima compania?, France / Italy) and Michel Legrand (1988 Cinq Jours en Juin), he also di­rected plays (1995 La Nuit des Rois, Jean Dupré; 1998 Sacrée Sophie, Michèle Ressi).

 Filmography

1955 ◘ Âmes d'Argile (short)

        ◘ La Difficulté d'être Infidèle / I piaceri coniugali (also co-screenwriter; France / Italy)

        ◘ Les Baisers / I baci / Una voglia matta di donna (segment "Baiser d'Eté"; France / Italy; shot in 1963)

1965 ◘ L'Or du Duc (co-director with Jacques Baratier; France / Italy / West Germany)

        ◘ Cinq Gars pour Singapour / Cinque marines per Singapore / UK: Singapore, Singapore / USA: Five Ashore in Singapore (also co-screenwriter; France / Italy)

        ◘ Adolphe ou l'Âge tendre / Adolphe / Tanjas Ge-liebter / UK and USA: Adolphe or The Awkward Age / The Tender Age (also screenwriter; France / West Germany / Poland)

1970 ◘ Le Petit Bougnat (France / Italy)

1975 ◘ Le Malin Plaisir / USA: Evil Pleasure / Sly Pleasure (also screenwriter)

 Television Filmography

1973 ◘ Témoignages (TV series; co-director only; France / Switzerland / Canada)

        ◘ Le Provocateur (20 X 13'; also screenwriter)

1974 ◘ Etranger, d'où viens-tu? (30 X 13')

1976 ◘ Histoires peu ordinaires (8 X 26'; co-director only)

        ◘ Anne Jour après Jour (54 X 13')

        ◘ Le Mutant (6 X 52')

        ◘ Les Z'Ados (episode "Métro, Boulot, Bachot")

        ◘ Les Moyens du Bord (two parts)

        ◘ Julien Fontanes, Magistrat (episode "Une Femme résolue")

        ◘ La Grotte aux Loups

        ◘ Martine Verdier (6 X 52')

        ◘ Allons voir si la Rose

        ◘ La Dernière Cigarette

        ◘ Vincente (shot in 1983)

        ◘ Michigan Mélodie (France / USA)

1990 ◘ Plus fort que la Reine

1992 ◘ Les Cinq dernières Minutes (episode "Le Bap­tême du Feu")