From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Edmond T Gréville real name Edmond Gréville Thonger 20 June 1906 Nice 26 May 1966 Nice was a French film director The son of FrancoBritish parents his father a Protestant pastor Gréville began his career as a film journalist and critic In parallel with a few acting performances in some silent films and in the first talkie of René Clair Sous les toits de Paris 1930 he directed his first short films His first experience of directing had been on the shooting of Abel Gances Napoléon in 1927 He had then worked as an assistant director notably on the English film Piccadilly LArlésienne directed by Jacques de Baroncelli Augusto Geninas Prix de beauté with Louise Brooks and Abel Gances La Fin du Monde Between 1930 and 1940 he directed several French films Le Train des suicidés 1931 Remous 1934 with Françoise Rosay a socialrealist film on the sensitive sexual issue of impotence and two comedy musical films Princesse Tam Tam 1935 with Josephine Baker and Gypsy Melody 1936 with Lupe Velez In Britain again he filmed Mademoiselle Docteur with Dita Parlo and John Loder and Menaces 1938 with Mireille Balin and Erich von Stroheim playing an Austrian refugee who commits suicide following the Anschluss With a heavy atmosphere charged with eroticism which characterises his films Gréville imposed his independence and original style on the cinema of the time He stopped directing films during the Second World War and the Occupation xenophobia and antiSemitism ruined or put a stop to some careers among filmmakers those of Léonide Moguy and Pierre Chenal for example both French Jews and the halfBritish Gréville and took away production and distribution companies belonging to Jews like the father and son distributors Siriztky In 1948 he made a film on the subject of resistance and collaboration in the Dutch film Niet tevergeefs The same year he made a film with Carole Landis Noose In Le Port du désir 1954 he directed Jean Gabin as a captain confronted by an unscrupulous smuggler and torn by his love for a young woman who is also loved by a younger man In Grévilles last years he made Beat Girl 1959 with Adam Faith and a horror film The Hands of Orlac 1960 with Mel Ferrer His last film was LAccident 1963 with Magali Noël based on a Frédéric David novel In May 1966 Edmond Greville died in hospital in Nice thought to be the result of complications following a car accident Description above from the Wikipedia article Edmond T Gréville licensed under CCBYSAfull list of contributors on Wikipedia
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