Cerf, André

(October 31, 1902, Paris, France - December 6, 1993, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France)

   Parallel to a modest acting career (1923 Le March­and de Plaisirs, Jaque Catelain; L'Inhumaine / UK: The Inhuman Woman / USA: The New Enchantment, Marcel L'Herbier; 1924 La Galerie des Monstres / La Baraque des Monstres / La baracca de los monstruos, Jaque Catelain, France / Spain; 1926 Feu Mathias Pascal / UK: The Living Dead Man, Marcel L'Herbier; Carmen, Jacques Feyder; 1927 Sur un Air de Charleston, Jean Renoir; Napoléon / Napoléon Bonaparte / Napoléon vu par Abel Gance / USA: Napoleon / Abel Gance's Napoleon, Abel Gance, shot in 1925; 1928 Tire au Flanc, also co-screenwriter, Jean Renoir; 1930 Le Petit Chaperon Rouge, Alberto Caval-canti; 1932 Bal d'Apaches, short, also screenwriter, Jean Mamy; 1933 Monsieur Cordon, short, Pierre Prévert; 1952 Le Huitième Art et la Manière, Maurice Régamey), he served as an assistant director (1926 Nana, also actor, Jean Renoir; Rien que les Heures, medium-length, Alberto Cavalcanti; 1928 Le Tournoi dans la Cité, also editor, Jean Renoir; En Rade / USA: Sea Fever, Pierre Batcheff; 1929 Le Bled, Jean Renoir; 1931 Le Parfum de la Dame en noir, Marcel L'Herbier; 1932 Le Chien jaune, Jean Tarride; 1934 Si j'étais le Patron, also screenwriter, dialogist, Richard Pottier; 1935 L'Equipage / USA: Flight into Darkness, Anatole Litvak; 1937 Nuits de Feu / UK and USA: The Living Corpse, Marcel L'Herbier; Forfaiture, Marcel L'Herbier; 1939 La Mode rêvée, short, Marcel L'Herbier; 1940 Les Surprises de la Radio, Marcel Aboul-ker) and collaborated as a screenwriter on several films (1935 Soirée de Gala, short, Victor De Fast; 1936 Le Mioche / USA: 40 Girls and a Baby / Forty Little Moth­ers, as co-adapter, Léonide Moguy; 1937 La Citadelle du Silence / USA: The Citadel of Silence, also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, Marcel L'Herbier; 1938 Métropolitain, as dialogist, Maurice Cam; 1940 La Comédie du Bonheur / Ecco la felicità, as co-screenwriter, Marcel L'Herbier, France / Italy; 1948 Les Frères Bouquinquant, as co-screenwriter, co-adapter, Louis Daquin; 1949 Le Signal rouge, as dialogist, Ernest Neubach; 1953 Tourbillon, as dialogist, Alfred Rode; 1956 Trois de la Canebière, as adapter, Maurice de Canonge; 1962 La Salamandre d'Or / Il paladino della corte di Francia, as co-screenwriter, Maurice Régamey; 1970 Les Libertines / L'intreccio / Las bellas del bosque / UK: Versatile Lovers, Dave Young = Pierre Chenal, France / Italy / Spain), a TV movie (1966 Trois Etoiles en Touraine, as co-screenwriter, Maurice Régamey), and TV series (1973 Les Mohicans de Paris, 26 X 15', as screenwriter, adapter, co-dialogist, Gilles Grangier; 1975 Salvator et les Mohicans de Paris, 8 X 55', as screenwriter, adapter, Bernard Borderie).

 Filmography

1930 ◘ La Joie d'une Heure (short; also screenwriter)

1933 ◘ Le Médecin de Service (short; also screenwriter)

1935 ◘ Une Belle Opération (short)

        ◘ Si Jeunesse savait (also screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist)

        ◘ La Veuve et l'Innocent (also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist)

        ◘ Fausse Monnaie (short)

        ◘ Le Portefeuille (short)

        ◘ Le Mariage de Mademoiselle Beulemans (also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist)

        ◘ Le Crime du Bouif (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist)

1956 ◘ Appartement à louer (short)

        ◘ Hatha-Yoga (short)