Duval, Daniel

(November 28, 1944, Vitry-sur-Seine, Val-de-Marne, France - )

   A child in care, he worked in a roller-skate factory. At age fifteen, he fell ill and had to remain bedridden. His room companion, Father Dagonet, who produced a religious TV program, Le Jour du Seigneur, encouraged him to opt for a new career. He entered films as a trainee editor and shot TV documentaries (including one on his foster father, Le Braconnier) and reports before switching to filmmaking and acting (more than fifty movies from 1970 La Ville-Bidon / La Décharge, also co-screenwriter, Jacques Baratier, to 2008 Plus Tard / Canada and USA: One Day You'll Understand, Amos Gitai, France / Germany / Israel). He was for­merly married to actress Anna Karina (b. 1940).

 Filmography

1969 ◘ Le Mariage de Clovis (short; also screenwriter)

1974 ◘ Le Voyage d'Amélie (also screenwriter, dialogist, actor)

1977 ◘ L'Ombre des Châteaux (also screenwriter, dialogist, actor)

1979 ◘ La Dérobade / UK: The Getaway / The Life / USA: Memoirs of a French Whore (also co-adapter, actor)

1981 ◘ L'Amour trop fort (also screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist, actor)

1983 ◘ L'Effraction (also co-adapter, co-dialogist)

2006 ◘ Le Temps des Porte-Plumes / UK: A Year in My Life / USA: The Time of the Pen-Holder (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist, actor)

 Television Filmography

1984 ◘ Série noire (episode "Un Chien écrasé"; also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist; France / Switzerland / Italy / Luxembourg / Hungary)

1987 ◘ Série noire (episode "Lorfou"; France / Swit­zerland / Italy / Luxembourg / Hungary)

1990 ◘ Mais qui arrêtera la pluie? / Sale Temps pour l'Assassin (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist, actor)

        ◘ Les lendemains qui tuent (also actor)