Fabre, Pierre

(October 14, 1933, Boulogne-sur-Mer, Pas-de-Calais, France - March 23, 2006, Paris, France)

   A self-taught man, he carried on various jobs in theater and cinema since he was fourteen years old. He played in about twenty movies, including several François Truffaut films (1962 Jules et Jim / USA: Jules and Jim; 1970 L'Enfant sauvage / UK: The Wild Boy / USA: The Wild Child; Domicile conjugal / Non drama-tizziamo . . . è solo questione di corna / UK: Bed and Board / USA: Bed & Board, France / Italy) and Pierre Schoendoerffer's La 317e Section / Sangre en Indochina / UK and USA: The 317th Platoon / 317th Section (France / Spain). He also worked as a production manager (1960 La Famille Fenouillard, Yves Robert; 1972 Mandrin, 6 X 52' TV series, also actor, Philippe Fourastié, France / Italy / Switzerland / West Germany / Yugoslavia, shot in 1970; 1979 Madame Sourdis, TV, Caroline Huppert), second assistant director (1967 La Religieuse / Suzanne Simonin, la Religieuse de Di­derot / USA: The Nun, shot in 1965), co-screenwriter (1969 La Bande à Bonnot, Philippe Fourastié, France / Italy; 1984 La Garce, Christine Pascal), dialogist (1976 Deux Imbéciles heureux, Edmond Freess, shot in 1973; 1977 La Nuit de Saint-Germain-des-Prés, Bob Swaim), co-screenwriter and co-dialogist (1979 Le Mors aux Dents, Laurent Heynemann; 1981 Il faut tuer Birgit Haas / USA: Birgit Haas Must Be Killed, Laurent Hey-nemann, France / West Germany; 1982 Nestor Burma, Détective de Choc / UK: Nestor Burma, Shock Detective, Jean-Luc Miesch; 1983 Stella, Laurent Heynemann; 1988 Jaune Revolver, Olivier Langlois), and co-adapter (1982 Légitime Violence, Serge Leroy).

 Filmography

1980 ◘ Tout dépend des Filles (also screenwriter, dialogist)