Boussinot, Roger

(May 2, 1921, Tunis, Tuni­sia-May 12, 2001, Bassane, Gironde, France)

   The son of a schoolteacher, in 1940 he settled in Paris, where he graduated with a bachelor's degree in philosophy. In 1946, he founded a film review, L'Ecran Français. He authored about fifteen novels, including Les Guichets du Louvre (Denoël Montrouge, 1960), Le Treizième Caprice (Denoël, 1962), Marie Jeanne des Bernies (Robert Laffont, 1978), Des Enfants dans les Arbres (Robert Laffont, 1985), and Les Doigts (Edi­tions Gaia, 2001), and an Encyclopédie du Cinéma (Editions Bordas, 1967), regularly reedited until today. He brought to the screen one of his novels and collaborated as screenwriter on several films (1961 Cause toujours, mon Lapin / USA: Keep Talking, Baby, as co-screenwriter, co-adapter, Guy Lefranc; 1974 Les Guichets du Louvre / USA: Black Thursday, as author of original novel, screenwriter, adapter, Michel Mitrani; 1979 Un Balcon en Forêt, as co-screenwriter, co-adapter, Michel Mitrani), TV miniseries (1970 Le Sixième Sens, 10 X 26', as screenwriter, Louis Grospi-erre; 1973 L'Etang de la Breure, 30 X 13', Claude Grinberg; 1980 Jean Chalosse, 9 X 52', as co-screenwriter, co-adapter, Gérard Vergez), and TV movies (1971 Les Coups, as screenwriter, Jacques Lefebvre; 1978 Le Temps d'une République: Le Chien de Munich, as co-screenwriter, Michel Mitrani; 1979 Le Mal bleu, as screenwriter, Jacques Drimal; 1987 Tout est dans la Fin / L'Enigmatique Monsieur S., as co-screenwriter, Jean Delannoy; 1990 Le Gorille / Il Gorilla, episode "Le Gorille compte ses Abattis", Jean Delannoy, France / Italy / Germany; 1994 Des Enfants dans les Arbres, as author of original novel, Pierre Boutron).

 Filmography

1967 ◘ Le Treizième Caprice (also original novel, screenwriter, adapter, dialogist)

 Television Filmography

1973 ◘ Fin de Saison 1982 Le Bourrier