Villiers, François

(François Salomons / March 2, 1920, Paris, France - January 29, 2009, Boulogne-Billancourt, France)

   The brother of actor Jean-Pierre Aumont (1911­1991), he started as an assistant director to Pierre Caron in 1940 (Ils étaient Cinq Permissionnaires, released in 1945) and news cameraman and then cinematographer. His first film was shot in Africa during World War II. He was an uncredited technical adviser to Gregg G. Tallas (1949 Siren of Atlantis, USA) and supervised Le Siècle des Lumières, a TV movie directed by Claude Brûlé in 1976. He appeared in L'Eternel Mari (TV movie, Denys Granier-Deferre) and as himself in a documentary on his brother Jean-Pierre Aumont, Charme et Fous-Rires, Patty Villiers). His daughter, Aruna Villiers, is also a director.

 Filmography

1943 ◘ L'Amitié noire (documentary; short)

        ◘ Autour de Brazzaville (documentary; short)

1944 ◘ Croix de Lorraine (documentary; short)

1946 ◘ Hollywood-sur-Seine (documentary; short)

        ◘ Hans le Marin / UK: Hans the Sailor/ USA: Wicked City (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter)

        ◘ L'Or du Rhône (documentary; short)

1958 ◘ L'Eau vive / US TV: Girl and the River (shot in 1956-1957)

        ◘ Le Foulard de Smyrne (documentary; short)

        ◘ La Duchesse (short)

1959 ◘ La Verte Moisson (also co-adapter)

        ◘ Pierrot la Tendresse (also co-adapter)

        ◘ Le Puits aux trois Vérités / Il pozzo delle tre verità / UK and USA: Three Faces of Sin (also co-adapter; France / Italy)

        ◘ Fumée, Histoire et Fantaisie (short; co-director with Edouard Berne)

        ◘ Jusqu'au Bout du Monde / Un filo di speranza (also co-adapter; France / Italy)

        ◘ Constance aux Enfers / Un balcon sobre el infi-erno / USA: Web of Fear (France / Spain)

        ◘ L'Autre Femme / Quella terribile notte / La otra mujer (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist; France / Italy / Spain)

1989 ◘ Manika, une Vie plus tard / US video: Manika, the Girl Who Lived Twice (also screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist; France / Switzerland)

 Television Filmography

        ◘ Un Beau Dimanche

        ◘ Les Chevaliers du Ciel / Les Aventures de Tanguy et Laverdure / USA: The Aeronauts (thirty-nine episodes; also co-screenwriter)

1969 ◘ Les Enquêtes du Commissaire Maigret (episode "Maigret se fâche")

        ◘ Le Miroir 2000 (13 X 26'; co-director with Jean Couturier)

        ◘ Les Enquêtes du Commissaire Maigret (episode "La Nuit du Carrefour")

        ◘ Les Aventures du Capitaine Luckner / Cap sur l'Aventure / Trois Mâts pour l'Aventure / Graf Luckner (13 X 26'; co-director with Yannick Andréi, Jean Couturier, Jean-Pierre Decourt; France / West Germany)

        ◘ Le Soleil se lève à l'Est (6 X 55'; also screenwriter)

        ◘ L'Idiote

        ◘ C'est arrivé à Paris

        ◘ Jean-Christophe (9 X 52'; also adapter; shot in 1976)

1980 ◘ Les Chevaux du Soleil (13 X 52'; France / West Germany)

1983 ◘ Quelques Hommes de Bonne Volonté (6 X 52'; also co-adapter)