1906-09-15 ( 118 years old ) in Paris, France
Jacques Becker (French: [bɛkɛʁ]; 15 September 1906 – 21 February 1960) was a French screenwriter and film director.
Becker first worked in the 1930s as an assistant to director Jean Renoir during what is considered the latter's peak period, including such works as Partie de campagne (1936) and La Grande Illusion (1937). In the early part of World War II, Becker was held in a German prisoner-of-war camp for a year. During the Nazi occupation of France, he became a film director in his own right and he also joined the Comité de libération du cinéma français. He would go on to direct the period romance Casque d'or (1952), the influential gangster film Touchez pas au grisbi (1954), and the prison escape drama Le Trou (1959). While he remains lesser-known internationally than peers such as Marcel Carné and Renoir, Becker is nonetheless regarded as a major French filmmaker, with Casque d'or held in high esteem among film critics.
Becker died at the age of 53 in 1960 and was interred in the Cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris.
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Movies
Cinéastes de notre temps : Jacques Becker
1967-11-18
The Adventures of Arsène Lupin
1957-03-22
On the Set of 'Casque D'Or'
1951-01-01
A Day in the Country
1946-05-21
Grand Illusion
1937-06-04
Life Is Ours
1936-04-07
Pitiless Gendarme
1935-01-01
Chotard and Co.
1933-06-22
Boudu Saved from Drowning
1932-11-11
Le Bled
1929-05-17
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