- Zimmer, Pierre
- (December 15, 1927, Paris, France-)The son of screenwriter Bernard Zimmer (1893-1964), he entered films as an assistant director to Jean Delannoy (1949 Le Secret de Mayerling / USA: The Secret of Mayerling; 1950 Dieu a besoin des Hommes / UK: God Needs Men / USA: Isle of Sinners; 1951 Le Garçon sauvage / USA: Savage Triangle; 1953 La Route Napoléon; 1954 Secrets d'Alcôve / Il letto / USA: The Bed, segment "Le Lit de la Pompadour", France / Italy; 1955 Chiens perdus sans Collier / Cani perduti senza collare / USA: The Little Rebels, France / Italy; 1956 Marie-Antoinette, Reine de France / Maria-Antonietta, regina di Francia / UK: Marie-Antoinette, Queen of France / USA: The Hunchback of Notre Dame, France / Italy; 1959 Maigret et l'Affaire Saint-Fiacre / Maigret e il caso Saint Fiacre, France / Italy). After a final film as an assistant (1960 Plein Soleil / Delitto in pieno sole / UK: Blazing Sun / UK and USA: Purple Noon / USA: Lust for Evil, René Clément, France / Italy), he directed his first feature film (he already had shot several shorts). In 1966, he switched to acting (1966 Le Deuxième Souffle / UK and USA: Second Breath, Jean-Pierre Melville), notably playing supporting roles in a couple of Claude Lelouch's films (1969 La Vie, l'Amour, la Mort / La vita, l'amore, la morte / UK and USA: Life, Love, Death, France / Italy; 1970 Le Voyou / Voyou—La canaglia / UK: Simon the Swiss / USA: The Crook, France / Italy; 1974 Toute une Vie / Tutta una vita / UK and USA: And Now My Love, France / Italy) and in two of Alain Robbe-Grillet's movies (1970 L'Eden et après / Eden a potom / USA: Eden and After, France / Czechoslovakia; 1971 N. a pris les Dés).Filmography◘ Montréal en Bourgogne (short)◘ Vézelay (short)◘ Allô! Allô! (short)◘ Bernard de Clairvaux (short)◘ La Châtelaine de Vergi (short)◘ Le Chemin des Français (short)◘ Clarté dans la Nuit (short)◘ Il camino de santiago de los Franceses (short; co-director with Eduardo Ducay; Spain)◘ Orly sur Seine (short)◘ Donnez-moi Dix Hommes désespérés (also co-screenwriter; France / Israel; shot in 1961)1967 ◘ Le Judoka, Agent secret / Carnet per un morto (also co-adapter, dialogist; France / Italy)
Encyclopedia of French film directors . Philippe Rège. 2011.