Curtelin, Jean

(December 25, 1932, France - May 28, 2000, Paris, France)

   The son of a postman, he was raised in Lyon. Af­ter winning money selling waffles in Saint-Malo, he founded a film review, Présence du Cinéma, in the late 1950s. He made his professional debut as an uncred-ited screenwriter and dialogist. From 1965 (Mission spéciale à Caracas / Missione Caracas / Mision especial en Caracas / US video: Mission to Caracas, Raoul André, France / Italy / Spain) to 1998 (L'Enfant et les Loups, TV movie, Pierre-Antoine Hiroz), he authored or co-authored more than thirty screenplays and dialogue for films and TV He was also a novelist (1982 La Mar­seillaise, ou Le Journal d'un Culturé, Editions de la Table Ronde) and playwright (1983 Les Mains d'Hippolyte).

 Filmography

1986 ◘ Suivez mon Regard (also screenwriter, dialogist)