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Jacques Becker
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Jacques Becker (September 15, 1906 - February 21, 1960) was a French screenwriter and film director.
Becker was born in Paris. During the 1930s he worked as an assistant to director Jean Renoir. Part of the Comité de libération du cinéma français, during the German occupation of France in World War II, the Nazis held him in prison for a year.
He married actress Françoise Fabian. Their son Jean Becker also became a film director.
Jacques Becker died at the age of fifty-three in 1960 and was interred in the Cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris.
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- Le Trou (1960)
- Les Amants de Montparnasse (Montparnasse 19) (1958)
- The Adventures of Arsène Lupin (1957)
- Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1954)
- Touchez pas au Grisbi (1954)
- Rue de l'Estrapade (1953)
- Casque d'or (1952)
- Édouard et Caroline (1951)
- Rendez-vous in July (1949)
- Antoine et Antoinette (1947)
- Paris Frills (1945)
- It Happened at the Inn (1943)
- Dernier atout (1942)
- Cristobal's Gold (1940) (some scenes)
- Le Commissaire est bon enfant, le gendarme est sans pitié (1935 short) (co-director)
- Tête de turc (1935)
- The Mondesir Heir (1940)
- La Marseillaise (1938)
- La Grande illusion (1937)
- Les bas-fonds (1936)
- La vie est à nous (1936)
- Partie de campagne (1936 short)
- Madame Bovary (1933) (uncredited)
- Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932)
- Night at the Crossroads (1932)
- Allô... Allô... (1931 short)
- Y'en a pas deux comme Angélique (1931)
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