Deray, Jacques

(Jacques Desrayaud / Febru­ary 19, 1929, Lyon, Rhône, France - August 9, 2003, Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France)

   Born into a family of shoe industrialists, he settled in Paris at age twelve. In the late 1940s, he studied drama with René Simon and made his film debut as a stage actor playing the leading role in Sutton Vane's Outward Bond and small parts in films (1952 Le Trou normand / USA: Crazy for Love, Jean Boyer; 1953 Cent Francs par Seconde, Jean Boyer; 1956 Le Sang à la Tête, uncredited, Gilles Grangier). Then he was an assistant director for six years (1954 Sang et Lumières / Sangre y luces / USA: Love in a Hot Climate, Georges Rouquier, Ricardo Munoz Suay, France / Spain; Poisson d'Avril, Gilles Grang-ier; 1955 Le Printemps, l'Automne et l'Amour / La corrida dei mariti, Gilles Grangier; Gas-Oil / USA: Gas-Oil / Hi-Jack Highway, Gilles Grangier; 1956 Cela s'appelle l'Aurore / Gli amanti di domani / Amanti senza domani, Luis Bunuel, France / Italy; 1957 Courte-Tête / US TV: Photo Finish, Norbert Carbonnaux; Jusqu'au dernier / Fino all'ultimo, Pierre Billon, France / Italy; Reproduction interdite / US TV: The Schemer, Gilles Grangier; Le Rouge est mis / UK and USA: Speaking of Murder, Gilles Grangier; Trois Jours à vivre, Gilles Grangier; 1958 Thérèse Etienne / Teresa Etienne, France / Italy, Le Désordre et la Nuit / USA: The Night Affair, Gilles Grangier; 1959 Archimède, le Clochard / UK and USA: The Magnificent Tramp, Gilles Grangier, France / Italy; La Loi / La legge / UK: The Law / USA: Where the Hot Wind Blows, Jules Dassin, France / Italy; 125, Rue Montmartre, Gilles Grangier). He also pro­duced two TV movies (1989 Une Femme tranquille, Joyce Bunuel; 1991 Poisson d'Amour, Hugues de Laugardière) and appeared as himself in several documentaries (1982 Portrait de Jean-Louis Trintignant, Pierre Laforêt; 1990 Gilles Grangier: 50 Ans de Cinéma, Maurice Delbez). Autobiography: 2003 J'ai connu une belle Epoque (Edi­tions Christian Pirot).

 Filmography

1960 ◘ Le Gigolo (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist)

1963 ◘ Rififi à Tokyo / Rififi a Tokyo / USA: Rififi in To­kyo (also co-adapter; France / Italy; shot in 1961-1962)

        ◘ Symphonie pour un Massacre / Sinfonia per un massacro / UK: The Corrupt / USA: Symphony for a Massacre / The Mystifiers (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist; France / Italy)

        ◘ Par un beau Matin d'Eté / Rapina al sole / Se-cuestro bajo el sol / USA: Crime on a Summer Morning (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter; France / Italy / Spain)

        ◘ L'Homme de Marrakech / L'uomo di Casablanca / El hombre de Marrakech / UK and USA: That

        ◘ Man George (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter; France / Italy / Spain)

        ◘ Avec la Peau des Autres / Sciarada per quattro spie / UK: To Skin a Spy (shot in 1966)

        ◘ La Piscine / La piscina / UK: The Sinners / USA: The Swimming Pool (also co-adapter, co-dialogist; France / Italy)

        ◘ Borsalino / USA: Borsalino (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist; France / Italy)

1971 ◘ Doucement les Basses! / L'uomo di Saint-Michael / UK: Take It Easy / USA: Easy Down There (France / Italy)

        ◘ Un peu de Soleil dans l'Eau froide / Un po' di sole nell'acqua gelida / Un attimo d'amore / UK: Sunlight on Cold Water / USA: A Few Hours of Sunlight (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter; France / Italy)

        ◘ Un Homme est mort / Funerale a los Angeles / USA: The Outside Man (also co-screenwriter; France / Italy)

        ◘ Borsalino and Co / UK: Blood on the Streets (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter; France / Italy / West Germany)

        ◘ Flic Story / USA: Cop Story (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter; France / Italy)

        ◘ Le Gang / La gang del Parigino / US video: The Gang (France / Italy)

        ◘ Un Papillon sur l'Epaule (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist)

1980 ◘ Trois Hommes à abattre / US video: Three Men to Kill / Three Men to Destroy (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter)

1983 ◘ Le Marginal (also co-screenwriter)

1985 ◘ On ne meurt que Deux Fois / UK and USA: He Died with His Eyes Open (also co-screenwriter)

1987 ◘ Le Solitaire (also co-screenwriter)

        ◘ Maladie d'Amour 1989 Les Bois noirs (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter)

1991 ◘ Contre l'Oubli / Ecrire contre l'Oubli / Against oblivion / Lest We Forget (documentary; segment "Pour Stanza Bopape, Afrique du Sud")

        ◘ Netchaïev est de Retour / Netchaiev è tornato (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter; France / Italy)

        ◘ Un Crime (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter)

        ◘ 3000 Scénarios contre un Virus (segment "Arn­aud et ses Copains")

        ◘ L'Ours en Peluche / L'orso di peluche (France / Italy)

 Television Filmography

1967 ◘ Max le Débonnaire (episode "Le Point d'Honneur")

        ◘ Les Secrets de la Princesse de Cadignan

        ◘ Credo

1996 ◘ Une Femme explosive

1998 ◘ Clarissa / Clarissa—Tranen der Zartlichkeit (France / West Germany)

        ◘ On n'a qu'une Vie / Je t'aime (also co-screenwriter; France / Italy / Malta)

        ◘ Lettre d'une Inconnue / Brief einer Unbekannten (France / Germany)