Dumont, Bernard

(March 17, 1942, Argenteuil, Val-d'Oise, France - )

   A former jazz pianist and then camera operator on several documentaries, he became cinematographer for TV working with such directors as Claude San-telli, Jean Prat, and Jacques Doillon. By 1981, he began writing and directing documentaries, TV movies, and films.

 Filmography

1977 ◘ Blues, Blanc, Rouge (documentary; co-director with Jean-Claude Brisson, Jean-Louis Cavalier, Robert Réa)

2001 ◘ Ligne 208 (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist; shot in 1999)

 Television Filmography

1982 ◘ Le Professeur jouait du Saxophone (also screenwriter, dialogist)

        ◘ Maguy (333 X 26'; co-director only: one epi­sode)

        ◘ Les Conquérants de l'Impossible (3 X 52' documentary: "Portrait de René Desmaison", "Por­trait de Walter Bonatti", "Portrait de Groupe (Edlinger, Profit, Berault)")

1988 ◘ Tel Père, tel Fils (42 X 26'; co-director only: twenty-five episodes)

        ◘ Vivement Lundi (104 X 26'; co-director only: forty episodes)

        ◘ Salut les Homards (96 X 26'; co-director only: six episodes)

        ◘ Bordertown / Les Deux font la Loi (co-director only: two episodes; Canada / USA / France)

        ◘ Mamie by Night Counterstrike / Force de Frappe (TV series; epi­sode 13; USA / Canada / France)

        ◘ Le Lyonnais (episode "Cérémonie religieuse"; also co-screenwriter, co-adapter)

        ◘ Tribunal (episode "Question d'Education")

        ◘ Rocca (episode "Les Dératiseurs")

        ◘ Le Passage du Nord-Ouest (France / Canada)

        ◘ Extrême Limite (ten episodes)

        ◘ Les Cinq dernières Minutes (episode "Meurtres à Ciel ouvert")

1998 ◘ Ma Voyante préférée (twenty-five episodes)

        ◘ Le Legs

        ◘ Cap des Pins / USA: The Tide of Life (TV series; co-director only: six episodes)

2005 ◘ Plus Belle la Vie (twenty-five episodes)

        ◘ Plus Belle la Vie (twenty-five episodes)

        ◘ Plus Belle la Vie (thirty episodes)

        ◘ Plus Belle la Vie (thirty episodes)