Julien Duvivier

Julien Duvivier was born in Lille on 8 October 1896. He began as an actor at the Théâtre de l'Odéon in 1916, then came to cinema, where he was assistant to André Antoine, Louis Feuillade and Marcel L'Herbier, before directing his first film in 1919. He made nearly seventy in half a century, several of them in Hollywood during the Second World War. The young critics of the New Wave ranked him among the filmmakers of the past. He died in Paris on 29 October 1967.

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• CinemaPépé le MokoJulien Duvivier · 1937Cinema