Caron, Pierre

(August 15, 1901, Paris, France - February 14, 1971, Caracas, Venezuela)

   He was only twenty years old when he directed his first film starring the great stage director and actor Charles Dullin. Parallel to shooting his own mov­ies, he served as a collaborator with the director (1923 La Roue / La Rose du Rail, six parts; shortened version: four parts, Marcel L'Herbier) and assistant director (1931 Après l'Amour, Léonce Perret). During the occupation of France, he bought and sold on the black market, acting in complicity with collaborators and Nazis. In 1946, he was sentenced by default to five years in jail, was fined 120, 000 francs, and was banned from France for five years. He died in Ven­ezuela at age seventy-nine.

 Filmography

1921 ◘ L'Homme qui vendit son Âme au Diable (also producer)

1923 ◘ La Mare au Diable (also producer)

1931 ◘ Grains de Beauté

        ◘ Votre Sourire (co-director with Monty Banks)

        ◘ Juanita

        ◘ Les Demi-Vierges (also co-screenwriter)

        ◘ Marinella

        ◘ La Tentation

        ◘ Notre Dame d'Amour

1937 ◘ Blanchette

        ◘ Cinderella / Séduction

        ◘ La Fessée (also co-screenwriter)

1938 ◘ Les Femmes collantes

        ◘ L'Accroche-Cœur / Riviera Express

        ◘ Le Monsieur de 5 Heures

        ◘ La Route enchantée

        ◘ Mon Oncle et mon Curé (also producer)

        ◘ Bécassine (also producer)

        ◘ Chantons quand même (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist, lyricist)

        ◘ Ne bougez plus! (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)

        ◘ Pension Jonas

        ◘ Ils étaient Cinq Permissionnaires (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist; shot in 1940)

        ◘ Por el gran premio (Spain)

1956 ◘ Eva no Brasil (also screenwriter, producer, dialogist; Brazil)