Marc Simenon

Marc Simenon

Birth : 1939-04-19, Brussels, Belgium

Death : 1999-10-24

History

Marc Jean Chrétien Simenon, (19 April 1939 in Brussels – 24 October 1999 in Paris) was a Belgian born French director and screenwriter. He was the son of writer Georges Simenon (1903-1989) and the husband of Mylène Demongeot from 16 September 1968. He died falling down the stairs at his home in Paris.

Profile

Marc Simenon

Movies

Vacances au purgatoire
Director
Victim of a traffic accident that costs her life, Laura, a call girl, resurfaces on Earth as an overwhelmed mother, Lucie.
Signé Furax
Writer
The notorious and mysterious criminal Furax steals France's famous monuments, replacing them with replicas.
Signé Furax
Director
The notorious and mysterious criminal Furax steals France's famous monuments, replacing them with replicas.
Par le sang des autres
Director
In a little French town everything goes on as usual and people seem friendly and good-natured, until the day two women arrive from Paris. A man gets off the same bus, and that very night he seizes the two women and asks for the most beautiful woman in town as their ransom. After the initial shock, the mayor, his brother, the prefect, the police, and the gendarmerie gather around the house where the two woman are imprisoned. It will be a test for everyone and each of them will show his/her real stuff: hypocrisy, meanness, or humanity concealed under their provincial respectability.
The Hideout
Director
The Killer Strikes at Dawn
Director
A young physician becomes lonely when his workaholic wife ignores him to concentrate on her professional career. He is befriended by an older female artist who is fond of hallucinogenic mushrooms. When his wife is late for their anniversary celebration, he drinks and takes mushrooms with the artist. He wakes up to find she has died and is fearful he may have accidentally killed her.
The Gendarme in New York
Assistant Director
The second installment of Gendarmes series, tells the story of Sergeant Cruchot, who, together with his faithful comrades, has been sent to the International Congress of Gendarmerie in N.Y.
Le Gendarme de Saint-Tropez
Assistant Director
The ambitious police officer Cruchot is transferred to St. Tropez. He's struggling with crimes such as persistent nude swimming, but even more with his teenage daughter, who's trying to impress her rich friends by telling them her father was a millionaire and owned a yacht in the harbor.
Le Coup de bambou
Assistant Director