René Clément March 18 1913 Bordeaux March 17 1996 Monte Carlo Monaco was a French film director and screenwriter Clément studied architecture at the Ecole des BeauxArts where he developed an interest in filmmaking In 1936 he directed his first film a 20 minute short written and featuring Jacques Tati Clément spent the latter part of the 1930s making documentaries in parts of the Middle East and Africa In 1937 he and archaeologist Jules Barthou were in Yemen making preparations to film a documentary the first ever of that country and one that includes the only known film image of Imam Yahya Almost ten years passed before Clément directed a feature but his French Resistance film La Bataille du rail 1945 gained much critical and commercial success From there René Clément became one of his countrys most successful and respected directors garnering numerous awards including two films that won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film the first in 1950 for The Walls of Malapaga Audelà des grilles and the second time two years later for Forbidden Games Jeux interdits Clément had international success with several films but his starstudded 1966 epic Is Paris Burning written by Gore Vidal and Francis Ford Coppola and produced by Paul Graetz was a costly box office failure Clément continued to make a few films until his retirement in 1975 including an international success with Rider On The Rain that starred Charles Bronson and Marlène Jobert In 1984 the French motion picture industry honored his lifetime contribution to film with a special César Award René Clément died in 1996 and was buried in the local cemetery in Menton on the French Riviera where he had spent his years in retirement Description above from the Wikipedia article René Clément licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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