Gilles Grangier

Gilles Grangier

Nacimiento : 1911-05-05, Paris, France

Muerte : 1996-04-27

Historia

Gilles Grangier (5 May 1911 – 27 April 1996) was a French film director and screenwriter. He directed more than 50 films and several TV series between 1943 and 1985. His film Archimède le clochard was entered into the 9th Berlin International Film Festival, where Jean Gabin won the Silver Bear for Best Actor. He had the most number of successful films at the French box office between 1945 and 2001 with 42 of his films having admissions of 500,000 or more, more than any other. Source: Article "Gilles Grangier" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Gilles Grangier

Películas

William the Conqueror
Director
William's government blended elements of the English and Norman systems into a new one that laid the foundations of the later medieval English kingdom. How abrupt and far-reaching the changes were is still a matter of debate among historians, with some such as Richard Southern claiming that the Conquest was the single most radical change in European history between the Fall of Rome and the 20th century. Written by jeff davis, III
Jean-Sans-Terre
Adaptation
Jean-Sans-Terre
Director
Les insulaires
Writer
TV movie adaptation of a novel by Jacques Perret.
Les insulaires
Director
TV movie adaptation of a novel by Jacques Perret.
Gross Paris
Screenplay
Bernard, a journalist, and his friend Jules, a butcher by trade, are both passionate about horse racing.
Gross Paris
Director
Bernard, a journalist, and his friend Jules, a butcher by trade, are both passionate about horse racing.
A Loser
Adaptation
Granier, a former accountant imprisoned for financial embezzlement, is released from prison and decides to help his cellmate to escape...
A Loser
Director
Granier, a former accountant imprisoned for financial embezzlement, is released from prison and decides to help his cellmate to escape...
A Loser
Dialogue
Granier, a former accountant imprisoned for financial embezzlement, is released from prison and decides to help his cellmate to escape...
Under the Sign of the Bull
Writer
Gracias a la financiación de Jérôme, su cuñado, el inventor Albert Raynal logra desarrollar un revolucionario cohete espacial. Desafortunadamente el cohete estalla en su primer vuelo de prueba, lo que hace que Jérôme le retire el soporte. Dispuesto a no abandonar su idea, Raynal buscará desesperadamente los fondos que le permitan completar su proyecto. (FILMAFFINITY)
Under the Sign of the Bull
Director
Gracias a la financiación de Jérôme, su cuñado, el inventor Albert Raynal logra desarrollar un revolucionario cohete espacial. Desafortunadamente el cohete estalla en su primer vuelo de prueba, lo que hace que Jérôme le retire el soporte. Dispuesto a no abandonar su idea, Raynal buscará desesperadamente los fondos que le permitan completar su proyecto. (FILMAFFINITY)
The Man in the Buick
Director
Mr Jo, nicknamed "the man with the Buick", is the darling of the small town of Honfleur. But he is in fact a trafficker with a bad reputation who would like to forget about his past, now limiting himself to smuggling rubies under the cover of a charitable organization which offers underprivileged children holidays in Switzerland. However, Mr. Jo is in love with a pretty widow and, in order to marry her, he is willing to get involved in a hold-up again. And "the man with the Buick", who seemed so honorable, will surprise the inhabitants of Honfleur when Inspector Menard reveals his secret activities.
Trampa bajo el sol
Screenplay
Antoine Donadieu es un agente secreto encargado de investigar la misteriosa muerte de un colega suyo que ha sido encontrado ahogado en la Costa Azul. La investigación lo lleva hasta una villa en la que viven unos terroristas. Donadieu logrará infiltrarse en sus filas para destruir sus malvados planes.
Trampa bajo el sol
Director
Antoine Donadieu es un agente secreto encargado de investigar la misteriosa muerte de un colega suyo que ha sido encontrado ahogado en la Costa Azul. La investigación lo lleva hasta una villa en la que viven unos terroristas. Donadieu logrará infiltrarse en sus filas para destruir sus malvados planes.
How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning
Director
The film consists of three novels. The film begins with the fact that the Bernard Blier hero removes a lantern from the entrance to a brothel. The second part is about how the lantern and jewelery were stolen from a young baroness. And in the third part the hero of Louis de Funes hangs a lantern at the entrance to his house.
That Tender Age
Director
Antoine and Marie decided to introduce their parents before the wedding. Summer vacation looks like a good time, so the Lartigue family prepares to host Malhouin family. But it turns out that the harsh Emil Malhouin is not too happy to get acquainted with his future relatives...
My Wife's Husband
Teacher (uncredited)
After thirteen years in Germany, Fernand is coming back to his wife and his restaurant. But since his disparition, his wife as made her life with a norman chef, sympathetic but a specialist of butter's cooking when Fernand cook only with oil!
My Wife's Husband
Director
After thirteen years in Germany, Fernand is coming back to his wife and his restaurant. But since his disparition, his wife as made her life with a norman chef, sympathetic but a specialist of butter's cooking when Fernand cook only with oil!
Maigret, terror del hampa
Adaptation
Tres americanos disparan sobre un transeúnte. El inspector Quevedos asiste al homicidio y alerta a la policía, pero cuando llegan, el cuerpo desaparece. Poco después, Quevedos es raptado por los gángsters que quieren saber qué se hizo con el cuerpo. Maigret (interpretado por tercera y última vez por Jean Gabin) lleva la investigación. (FILMAFFINITY)
Maigret, terror del hampa
Director
Tres americanos disparan sobre un transeúnte. El inspector Quevedos asiste al homicidio y alerta a la policía, pero cuando llegan, el cuerpo desaparece. Poco después, Quevedos es raptado por los gángsters que quieren saber qué se hizo con el cuerpo. Maigret (interpretado por tercera y última vez por Jean Gabin) lleva la investigación. (FILMAFFINITY)
The Trip to Biarritz
Director
Los grandes señores
Writer
Gracias a sus contactos y su gran personalidad, Richard, un militar retirado, arruinado y aficionado a las carreras de caballos, trata de ganarse la vida vendiendo información sobre éstas para las apuestas en el hipódromo de Epsom. Un día, la casualidad le vuelve a reunir con Maud, la mujer a la que amó y abandonó años atrás en el mismo hipódromo. (FILMAFFINITY)
Los grandes señores
Director
Gracias a sus contactos y su gran personalidad, Richard, un militar retirado, arruinado y aficionado a las carreras de caballos, trata de ganarse la vida vendiendo información sobre éstas para las apuestas en el hipódromo de Epsom. Un día, la casualidad le vuelve a reunir con Maud, la mujer a la que amó y abandonó años atrás en el mismo hipódromo. (FILMAFFINITY)
The Counterfeiters of Paris
Writer
Charles Lepicard, Lucas Malvoisin y Éric Masson pretenden falsificar billetes. Éric cree tener bajo manga a un grabador sin igual, el de un tal Mandarès (ahora preso), Robert Mideau, le "Cave", es decir, en el argot de los truhanes, un ser ordinario, crédulo e ignorante. Pero el fraude no se puede hacer sin Ferdinand Maréchal alias "Le Dabe", antiguo falsificador de élite. Retirado en Venezuela tras un golpe frustrado, recibe la visita de Charles que le propone un último negocio con los florines, la misma moneda del golpe frustrado. Le Dabe acepta y viaja a París. El equipo se pone a trabajar.
The Counterfeiters of Paris
Director
Charles Lepicard, Lucas Malvoisin y Éric Masson pretenden falsificar billetes. Éric cree tener bajo manga a un grabador sin igual, el de un tal Mandarès (ahora preso), Robert Mideau, le "Cave", es decir, en el argot de los truhanes, un ser ordinario, crédulo e ignorante. Pero el fraude no se puede hacer sin Ferdinand Maréchal alias "Le Dabe", antiguo falsificador de élite. Retirado en Venezuela tras un golpe frustrado, recibe la visita de Charles que le propone un último negocio con los florines, la misma moneda del golpe frustrado. Le Dabe acepta y viaja a París. El equipo se pone a trabajar.
The Old Guard
Adaptation
The Old Guard
Director
125, rue Montmartre
Writer
Didier está desesperado y se lanza al Sena. Pascal, un vendedor de periódicos de carácter severo, cáustico, y carente de compasión, se arroja al río y le salva. Entre los dos hombres nace una amistad. Pero Pascal, sin darse cuenta, al evitar la tentativa de suicido de Didier, se verá inmerso en una trama de engaños y apariencias y pronto será acusado de un asesinato.
125, rue Montmartre
Director
Didier está desesperado y se lanza al Sena. Pascal, un vendedor de periódicos de carácter severo, cáustico, y carente de compasión, se arroja al río y le salva. Entre los dos hombres nace una amistad. Pero Pascal, sin darse cuenta, al evitar la tentativa de suicido de Didier, se verá inmerso en una trama de engaños y apariencias y pronto será acusado de un asesinato.
Arquímedes, el vagabundo
Director
El vagabundo Arquímedes quiere pasar el invierno en la cárcel, pero su propósito resulta no ser tan fácil como parece.
El desorden y la noche
Adaptation
En el curso de una investigación un inspector de policía se queda prendado de una joven drogadicta, relacionada con la víctima del caso que él investiga. Se plantea entonces renunciar a sus pesquisas, pero entonces descubre al responsable del crimen.
El desorden y la noche
Director
En el curso de una investigación un inspector de policía se queda prendado de una joven drogadicta, relacionada con la víctima del caso que él investiga. Se plantea entonces renunciar a sus pesquisas, pero entonces descubre al responsable del crimen.
Three Days to Live
Screenplay
Trois jour à vivre (Three Days to Live) takes off with a bang when two-bit actor Daniel Gelin witnesses a murder. He didn't see the killer, but that doesn't stop him from claiming that he did in order to get his name into the papers. Sure enough, the murderer targets Gelin as his next victim. Our hero is temporarily rescued by Jeanne Moreau, an aspiring actress who has always had a crush on him.
Three Days to Live
Director
Trois jour à vivre (Three Days to Live) takes off with a bang when two-bit actor Daniel Gelin witnesses a murder. He didn't see the killer, but that doesn't stop him from claiming that he did in order to get his name into the papers. Sure enough, the murderer targets Gelin as his next victim. Our hero is temporarily rescued by Jeanne Moreau, an aspiring actress who has always had a crush on him.
Not Delivered
Director
After resolving to start a new life with his girlfriend Jacqueline, Bastien Sassey decides to give up working as a courier for drugs traffickers. So that he and Jacqueline can make a fresh start he agrees to take on one more job for a large sum of cash, but he betrays his employer.
Le rouge est mis
Writer
Louis Bertain, propietario de un garaje respetable por el día, es el jefe de una banda de delincuentes conocidos por la noche. Cuando un atraco sale mal, el hermano más joven de Bertain, Pierre, es el principal sospechoso de haberlos vendido a la policía. Después de todo, él había sido interrogado por la policía y, posteriormente, había sido puesto en libertad. Cuando finalmente es capturado por el comisario Pluvier, Louis descubre que ha sido traicionado, no por Pierre, sino por otro miembro de su banda... (FILMAFFINITY)
Le rouge est mis
Director
Louis Bertain, propietario de un garaje respetable por el día, es el jefe de una banda de delincuentes conocidos por la noche. Cuando un atraco sale mal, el hermano más joven de Bertain, Pierre, es el principal sospechoso de haberlos vendido a la policía. Después de todo, él había sido interrogado por la policía y, posteriormente, había sido puesto en libertad. Cuando finalmente es capturado por el comisario Pluvier, Louis descubre que ha sido traicionado, no por Pierre, sino por otro miembro de su banda... (FILMAFFINITY)
Reproduction interdite
Director
An art dealer in dire straits, after being ripped off by two crooks, one of whom owns a genuine painting by Gauguin while the other is an expert copyist, finds them again and, instead of killing them as he originally intended, joins in their game – with ultimately disastrous results.
Blood to the Head
Screenplay
François Cardinaud is one of the richest shipowners in the region. But this success arouses resentment and jealousy. When Marthe, his wife, leaves the home without warning, Cardinaud sees her life cracking little by little.
Blood to the Head
Director
François Cardinaud is one of the richest shipowners in the region. But this success arouses resentment and jealousy. When Marthe, his wife, leaves the home without warning, Cardinaud sees her life cracking little by little.
Hi-Jack Highway
Writer
A trucker encounters a dead body on the road home. He reports the incident to the police, who suspect that Jean was responsible for the death, and his new truck is impounded. To make matters worse, the man's widow accuses him of having robbed her husband, and a gang of sinister crooks are also harassing him.
Hi-Jack Highway
Director
A trucker encounters a dead body on the road home. He reports the incident to the police, who suspect that Jean was responsible for the death, and his new truck is impounded. To make matters worse, the man's widow accuses him of having robbed her husband, and a gang of sinister crooks are also harassing him.
Le printemps, l'automne et l'amour
Dialogue
Le printemps, l'automne et l'amour
Adaptation
Le printemps, l'automne et l'amour
Director
April Fools' Day
Adaptation
Emile is a good mechanic whose clientele is very loyal. A bit naive, he is bamboozled by a seller who manages to sell him the full trappings of the perfect fisherman. No sooner did he regret that he bought, frightened by his wife's reaction to such expenditure. But he plans to try it ...
April Fools' Day
Director
Emile is a good mechanic whose clientele is very loyal. A bit naive, he is bamboozled by a seller who manages to sell him the full trappings of the perfect fisherman. No sooner did he regret that he bought, frightened by his wife's reaction to such expenditure. But he plans to try it ...
Faites-moi confiance
Director
Rhine Virgin
Director
Reported missing in 1940, Jacques Ledru comes back to Strasbourg as Martin Schmidt. He tracks down his wife Genevieve, but she's remarried and has taken the head of his shipping company. She and her husband will do anything to get rid of Jacques and keep his company.
Jeunes mariés
Director
Jacques and Gisèle, who are just married, are starting their honeymoon. But at nightfall, on their way to marital bliss, their car chooses to break down and the lovebirds find themselves stranded in the village of Montigny. And instead of bathing in ecstasy as expected, Jacques and Gisèle become unwillingly entangled in the conflict that tears the villagers apart : should they continue to tolerate the presence of an American Army unit on municipal territory ?
Jupiter
Director
A provincial chemist's daughter is to marry her cousin Gilbert.The day before he arrives, a stranger, who has just escaped from an insane asylum, claims he is the famous cousin.
Love, Madame
Director
Madame Célerier is determined to marry off her son François to a rich and haughty woman but François has other plans.
The Prettiest Sin in the World
Director
Zoé, a pretty penniless girl, decides on the advice of her neighbor to embark on gallantry. After a brief failure, she meets a young boy, Jacques Lebreton who is about to get married. After causing the failure of this arranged marriage, she will have to play the role of wife of Jacques with his family, until the arrival of the uncle from America.
Les petites Cardinal
Director
Napoleon III, the Commune, the third Republic in the background. In the foreground, two pretty, talented sisters, Virginie and Pauline Cardinal. They are ballerinas at the Opera de Paris and very much courted by wealthy, elegant men. They will manage to climb in the society of their time, despite parents set on respectability but also attracted by money.
The Straw Lover
Director
The wife of gunsmith Gaston Sarazin cheats on him with his salesman. The husband, informed, wants revenge. The culprits try to divert suspicion on the dashing Stanislas. The husband forces the straw lover to live with him. Stanislas then brings the spouses together and makes the business of the gunsmith prosper.
L'homme de joie
Director
A boudoir adventure during which the seductive Madame Jolivet, shocked by the behavior of her husband who appears with an actress, calls on the services of a young man, known as "the man of joy".
Les femmes sont folles
Writer
Marguerite secretly loves a novelist whose face no one knows. The jealous husband sets up a scheme by asking an actor friend to play the novelist and behave in an execrable way in order to disgust his wife. But things never turn out the way you think they will.
Les femmes sont folles
Director
Marguerite secretly loves a novelist whose face no one knows. The jealous husband sets up a scheme by asking an actor friend to play the novelist and behave in an execrable way in order to disgust his wife. But things never turn out the way you think they will.
Au p'tit zouave
Director
Au p'tit Zouave, a café, sees a colorful clientele from working-class Paris. An assassin will shake up the daily life of the regulars.
Amédée
Director
Employed in a beauty salon, Amédée must undergo a pentothal injection. The dose is too strong; suddenly Amédée reveals the truth to everyone; to clients of the institute; to his cheating wife; to his boss that he robs; to the tax collector; etc. When the effects of the truth serum wear off, everyone returns contentedly to their little swamp.
Love and Companionship
Director
The accountant of an insurance company, rather eccentric and quick to push the song, is responsible for monitoring the actions of an alluring South American whose suicide would mean the collapse of the company. Finally, the accountant discovers an attempted insurance scam and marries the surly and charming interpreter who was the liaison between the South American and himself.
Jo la Romance
Director
For love, the singer Georges Hyverlin gives up his profession to work with his father-in-law in his car factory. When the passion for song takes him back, he manages to resume his career thanks to the support of his wife Martine.
Femme sans passé
Director
Caroline feels neglected by her husband, the businessman Lorin. She plans to have fun with an inventor but finds herself, following a combination of circumstances, locked up in a psychiatric clinic. To get out of it, she is forced to take on the identity of the wife of a third man, whom she resembles.
By the Window
Director
Gaston, nicknamed Pilou, has left his native village and Yvette, the girl of his heart, to go to Paris where he has found work as a painter. He is a naive good-natured man who, like most of his fellow-workers, favors a little song or two while he works. For the time being he is busy repainting the exterior of a block of flats and, when he does not sing to pass the time, he looks through the windows, observing the tenants in their daily lives. As time goes by, he goes as far as intervening and changing the course of their lives. In the end, despite having found a lookalike of his fiancée, he returns to her.
Danger of Death
Director
Loiseau the pharmacist mistakenly mixes potassium cyanide into a batch of cough syrup and sells five bottles. With horror he discovers his mistake and sets out to find the buyers. He finds only four. The fifth, not a regular customer, comes back to the pharmacy...
Rendezvous in Paris
Director
When she sets sail for Lisbon, Catherine Laurence, a famous classical singer has but one wish: to be left alone. Unfortunately she soon gets bothered by a rude, invading man. Later she gets to know him better and becomes susceptible to his charm. She realizes that Michel is in love with her and it is not long before she goes beyond her disastrous first impression. Although not quite sure he is a perfectly honest man she entrusts him with a delicate assignment: keep her precious pearl necklace coveted by Van Coolart, a fake Dutch diamond-merchant, and give it back to her in Paris. If he is a robber himself, so much the worse for her. But if Michel keeps the Paris rendezvous love is in store for both of them. Nevertheless there is a crucial factor she regrettably disregards, composer Raymond Aubour, a faithful friend who has been her suitor for ten years.
History of Singing
Director
Gino Fabretti is a famous Italian tenor. During a tour in Nice, he begins a relationship with the wife of a renowned doctor. The doctor traps and drugs him and replaces his vocal cords with those of Robert, a delivery boy in a grocery store. Robert wakes up with the voice of Gino and Gino with that of Robert (including accents and mannerisms!). The unfaithful wife despises the tenor without his voice and becomes more interested in the grocer.
Thirty and Forty
Director
The scene is set during the Second Empire. Captain Bitterlin watches jealously over his lovely daughter Madeleine but he cannot prevent nature from demanding its rights and Madeleine soon finds herself a suitor in the person of Mario, a dashing young songwriter. Bitterlin, who wishes his daughter to "evade the grip" of the young man, takes her away to Monte Carlo. There, the captain does what he had sworn he would never do, he gambles in a casino. And even more upsetting: Mario might well be hereabouts...
Driving Lesson
Director
Micheline is a pretty girl but rich, spoiled and whimsical as well. Jacques, the brother of her friend Danielle, is so exasperated by her behavior that he decides to give her a chance to learn about good manners. To that effect, he kidnaps her and detains her in a hut on the edge of a wood. He starts "taming the shrew" but the situation soon gets out of control when criminals - real ones this time - abduct Micheline in earnest... and for ransom!
L'aventure de Cabassou
Director
An architect whose wife has cheated on him withdraws to a solitary life in a cave, but somehow manages to keep au courant with what is going on.
The Black Rider
Director
In Flanders in the eighteenth century, Ramon de Ortila, a young lord who has been dispossessed of property has turned into a gentleman brigand. His main target is Monsieur de Saint-Brissac, the salt tax farmer. But Solange, his daughter, sets a trap and lures the young man to her father's manor. Little does she know that love is at the rendezvous.
Adémaï bandit d'honneur
Director
Ademaï is very happy to spend a vacation month in Corsica, invited by his family; when he arrives, much to his surprise, all the male relatives have just been shot.
Sur le plancher des vaches
L'instructeur de vol (uncredited)
A little bank employee wins a plane in the lottery and amazes his companions with his audacity.
Sur le plancher des vaches
Assistant Director
A little bank employee wins a plane in the lottery and amazes his companions with his audacity.
Le coeur dispose
An aristocratic family wants to marry off their young Helene. The mother and grandmother each pick not so bright prospects.Helene herself is drawn to an elderly baron.But what about Robert, the family secretary?