Bluwal, Marcel

(May 25, 1925, Paris, France - )

   The son of Polish immigrants (his mother was a musician), he enrolled at the Vaugirard Photography and Cinema Technical School. He founded with some friends the university cine club. In 1949, he landed a job in a company producing trailers before mak­ing his directing debut on freshly created French TV. From 1949 to 1953, he filmed children's programs. Known mostly as one of the finest French TV direc­tors, he sporadically shot feature films. Also a stage director and a drama teacher at the Conservatoire d'Art Dramatique de Paris, he played in movies (1988 Frantic, Roman Polanski, USA / France; 1993 L'Argent fait le Bonheur / USA: Money Makes Happiness, Rob­ert Guédiguian; 2006 Le Voyage en Arménie / Canada: A Journey to Armenia, Robert Guédiguian) and a TV production (1993 Nestor Burma / Une Aventure de Nestor Burma, episode "Du Rebecca Rue des Rosiers", Maurice Frydland). His wife is actress Danièle Lebrun (b. 1937). Autobiography: 1974 Un Aller (with the col­laboration of Marie-Thérèse Quinchara, Stock).

 Filmography

        ◘ Le Monte-Charge / La morte sale in ascensore / UK and USA: Paris Pick-Up (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist)

        ◘ Carambolages (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter)

1999 ◘ Le plus beau Pays du Monde (also co-screenwriter; France / Germany / Switzerland)

 Television Filmography

        ◘ Les Aventures de Jacky (TV series)

        ◘ Le Pèlerin Sixième Etage

        ◘ Le Barbier de Séville Notre Petite Ville Le Briquet

        ◘ Une Enquête de l'Inspecteur Grégoire: La Dame du Pont St-Maxence

1955 ◘ Une Enquête de l'Inspecteur Grégoire: La Partie de Cartes

        ◘ Boubouroche

        ◘ Tu ne m'échapperas jamais Le Réveillon

1956 ◘ La Famille Arlequin

        ◘ Liebelei

        ◘ Le Revizor ou L'Inspecteur général

1957 ◘ Le plus heureux des Trois

        ◘ L'Honorable Monsieur Pepys

        ◘ Le Baladin du Monde occidental

1959 ◘ L'Alcade de Zalamea

        ◘ Misère et Noblesse

        ◘ Une Nuit orageuse

        ◘ Les Loups

        ◘ La Surprise

        ◘ Arden de Faversham Grabuge à Chioggia Les Joueurs

        ◘ On purge Bébé

        ◘ Le Mariage de Figaro

1962 ◘ Le Dossier de Chelsea Street

        ◘ L'Inspecteur Leclerc enquête / L'Inspecteur Leclerc (episodes "Le Prix du Silence", "Des Huîtres pour l'Inspecteur", "Les Blousons gris", "Ven­geance", "L'Inspecteur Leclerc enquête", "La Trahison de Leclerc", "Signé Santini", "L'Affaire Larive", "Les Bons Enfants", "Face à Face")

1963 ◘ L'Inspecteur Leclerc enquête / L'Inspecteur Leclerc (episodes "L'Homme Couleur de Muraille",Ultra-Confidentiel")

        ◘ Le Scieur de Long

1964 ◘ Assurance de mes Sentiments les meilleurs

        ◘ Woyzeck

        ◘ Le Théâtre de la Jeunesse: Les Indes noires

        ◘ Dom Juan ou Le Festin de Pierre / Dom Juan

        ◘ Beaumarchais ou 60000 Fusils Le Jeu de l'Amour et du Hasard

        ◘ Vidocq (episodes "Le Mort Vivant", "La Bijoute­rie Jacquelin", "L'Eternel Evadé", "L'Armée roulante", "Les Olympiens", "L'Auberge de la Mère tranquille"; also actor)

        ◘ L'Affaire Lourdes

        ◘ La Double Inconstance

        ◘ Les Frères Karamazov

        ◘ Mesure pour Mesure

        ◘ Les Nouvelles Aventures de Vidocq / Die Aben-teuer des Monsieur Vidocq (episodes "La Caisse de Fer", "Les Trois Crimes de Vidocq", "Les Chevaliers de la Nuit", "Echec à Vidocq", "Les Chauffeurs du Nord", "Les Banquiers du Crime"; France / West Germany)

1972 ◘ Histoire du Soldat

        ◘ Les Misérables (2 X 110'; also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist)

        ◘ Les Nouvelles Aventures de Vidocq / Die Aben-teuer des Monsieur Vidocq (episodes "La Bande à Vidocq", "Les Assassins de l'Empereur", "Les Bijoux du Roi", "Vidocq et l'Archange", "Les Deux Colonels", "L'Epingle noire", "Vidocq et Compagnie"; France / West Germany)

        ◘ Antoine Bloyé

        ◘ Sara (also screenwriter, adapter)

1978 ◘ Mitzi

        ◘ Lulu

        ◘ La Dernière Bande

        ◘ Le Misanthrope

        ◘ Exercice de Style

        ◘ Mozart (6 X 52'; also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist; France / Belgium / Can­ada / Italy / Switzerland)

        ◘ Thérèse Humbert

1985 ◘ Music-Hall (also co-screenwriter)

        ◘ Sarah et le Cri de la Langouste 1987 Série Noire (episode "1996"; also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist, actor)

1989 ◘ L'Ami Giono: Solitude de la Pitié

        ◘ La Cévenne (two-part documentary)

1990 ◘ L'Ami Giono:Joffroi de la Maussan (also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist; shot in 1988)

        ◘ L'Ami Giono: Onorato Clérambard

        ◘ La Goutte d'Or (also screenwriter, adapter, di­alogist; France / Tunisia)

1991 ◘ Les Ritals (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist)

        ◘ Billy (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist)

1995 ◘ Lisa ou L'Affabulatrice (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)

2008 ◘ A Droite toute (4 X 52'; also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)