Georges Combret
{{short description|French film director}}
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| birth_date = 11 November 1906
| birth_place = Paris, France
| death_date = 31 January 1998
| death_place = Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, France
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| occupation = Director, Producer, Writer
| yearsactive = 1950-1982 (film)
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Georges Combret (1906–1998) was a French film director, producer and screenwriter.Hayward p.423
Biography
Born as Maurice Antonin Georges Combret{{Cite web |title=matchID - Moteur de recherche des décès |url=https://deces.matchid.io/id/VcWi0dLE5ePH |access-date=2024-02-02 |website=deces.matchid.io}} in 1906, he would start work in the automobile industry. After the Second World War, he would find work in the film industry (starting as a production manager for the 1949 film La Ronde des Heures). During the 1970s, he would finance pornographic films and operated several theatres. He died after succumbing to injuries caused by a car in 1998.{{Cite book |last=Rège |first=Philippe |title=Encyclopedia of French Film Directors, Vol. 1 |publisher=Scarecrow Press, Inc. |year=2010 |isbn=978-0-8108-6939-4 |pages=245}}
Selected filmography
- Duel in Dakar (1951)
- Music in the Head (1951)
- The Fighting Drummer (1953)
- Rasputin (1954)
- The Contessa's Secret (1954)
- The Whole Town Accuses (1956)
- Marie of the Isles (1959)
- Hot Frustrations (1965)
- Ring Around the World (1966)
- Fire of Love (1967)
- The Curse of Belphegor (1967)
- Hot and Naked (1974)
- Le plumard en folie (1974)
References
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Bibliography
- Hayward, Susan. French Costume Drama of the 1950s: Fashioning Politics in Film. Intellect Books, 2010.
External links
- {{IMDb name|0173625}}
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Category:20th-century French screenwriters
Category:French film producers
Category:Film directors from Paris
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