Christopher Frank
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Christopher Frank (5 December 1942, Beaconsfield, Buckinghamshire, UK – 20 November 1993, Paris, France) was a British-born French writer, screenwriter, and film director.{{cite web |url=http://livres.fluctuat.net/christopher-frank.html |title=Christopher Frank |accessdate=2014-07-16 |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20090624020650/http://livres.fluctuat.net/christopher-frank.html |archivedate=2009-06-24 }} He won the 1972 Prix Renaudot for his novel La Nuit américaine that served the basis for Andrzej Zulawski's film That Most Important Thing: Love.
Awards
- 1967: Prix Hermès de Littérature for Mortelle
- 1972: Prix Renaudot for La Nuit américaine
Works
=Screenwriter=
- 1974 Le Mouton enragé Michel Deville
- 1975 That Most Important Thing: Love Andrzej Zulawski
- 1977 Les Passagers Serge Leroy
- 1977 Attention, les enfants regardent Serge Leroy
- 1977 L'Homme pressé Édouard Molinaro
- 1979 Memoirs of a French Whore Daniel Duval
- 1979 Clair de femme Costa-Gavras
- 1980 Trois hommes à abattre Jacques Deray
- 1981 Eaux profondes Michel Deville
- 1981 Josepha Christopher Frank
- 1981 Pour la peau d'un flic Alain Delon
- 1981 Une étrange affaire Pierre Granier-Deferre
- 1983 Le Battant Alain Delon
- 1983 Femmes de personnes Christopher Frank
- 1983 L'Année des méduses (Year of the Jellyfish) Christopher Frank
- 1983 L'Ami de Vincent Pierre Granier-Deferre
- 1986 Cours privé Pierre Granier-Deferre
- 1987 Malone, un tueur en enfer Harley Cokeliss
- 1987 Spirales Christopher Frank
- 1993 Elles n'oublient jamais Christopher Frank
=Dialogue=
- 1980 Trois hommes à abattre by Jacques Deray
- 1981 Pour la peau d'un flic by Alain Delon
=Film director=
- 1982: Josepha
- 1984: Femmes de personne
- 1984: L'Année des méduses
- 1987: Spirale
- 1994: Elles n'oublient jamais
References
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Category:20th-century French non-fiction writers
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Category:French film directors
Category:French male screenwriters
Category:20th-century French screenwriters
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Category:Prix Renaudot winners
Category:20th-century French male writers
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