Claude Autant-Lara

ActorDirectorWriterProducerCostume & Make-Up Aug 5 (died age 98) Luzarches, Val-d'Oise, France 1920–1980 (60 year career)

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Biography

Claude Autant-Lara (August 5, 1901–February 5, 2000) was a French film director and later Member of the European Parliament (MEP). Born at Luzarches in Val-d'Oise, Autant-Lara was educated in France and at London's Mill Hill School during his mother's exile as a pacifist. Early in his career, he worked as an art director and costume designer, his best-known work in this vein was possibly for Nana (1926), a silent film directed by Jean Renoir. Autant-Lara also acted in the film. As a director, …

Known For

Film

La Traversée de Paris

Director

Film

The Red Inn

Director

Film

The Crazy Ray

Assistant Director

Film

Love Is My Profession

Director

Film

The Count of Monte Cristo

Director

Film

The Inhuman Woman

Art Direction

Film

Nana

Fauchery

Film

Thou Shalt Not Kill

Director

Filmography

Acting (7)

Movies (4)

My Name Is Anna Magnani

as Self

Backbiters

Nana

as Fauchery

The Man of the Sea

as Un des copains (uncredited)

5.9

Television (3)

Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

1975

as Self

6.0

Spécial cinéma

1974

as Self

Cinépanorama

1956

as Self

8.0

Crew (68)

Movies (68)

Gloria

Director

Gloria

Writer

Lucien Leuwen

Director

Potatoes

Director

Potatoes

Writer

Franciscan of Bourges

1968

Director

6.3

The Oldest Profession

1967

Director

4.9

A Woman in White Revolts

1966

Director

6.0

A Woman in White Revolts

Producer

A Woman in White

Director

Black Humor

Director

Enough Rope

Director

Josefa's Loot

Director

The Count of Monte Cristo

Director

Thou Shalt Not Kill

Director

Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love!

1961

Director

5.2

The Regattas of San Francisco

1960

Director

Lovers Woods

Director

The Green Mare

Director

The Gambler

Director

Love Is My Profession

1958

Director

6.3

La Traversée de Paris

1956

Director

7.3

Marguerite of the Night

Director

The Game of Love

Adaptation

The Game of Love

Dialogue

The Game of Love

Director

Le Rouge et le Noir

Director

Le Rouge et le Noir

Writer

Good Lord Without Confession

1953

Director

5.5

Good Lord Without Confession

1953

Screenplay

5.5

The Seven Deadly Sins

Director

The Red Inn

Director

The Red Inn

Screenplay

Keep an Eye on Amelia

Director

Devil in the Flesh

Costume Design

Devil in the Flesh

Director

Devil in the Flesh

Writer

Sylvia and the Ghost

Director

Douce

Costume Design

Douce

Director

Love Letters

Director

The Marriage of Chiffon

1942

Costume Design

6.0

The Marriage of Chiffon

Director

Fric-Frac

Director

The Mysterious Mr. Davis

1939

Director

5.0

The Mysterious Mr. Davis

Producer

The Stream

Assistant Director

Courier of Lyons

Director

Ciboulette

Director

Plumber in love

1932

Director

The Incomplete Athlete

1932

Director

Buster se marie

1931

Director

Boul se met au vert

1929

Director

Little Devil May Care

1928

Assistant Director

6.3

To Build a Fire

1928

Director

Nana

Production Design

The Imaginary Voyage

Assistant Director

Vittel

Director

The Crazy Ray

Assistant Director

The Inhuman Woman

Art Direction

The Inhuman Woman

Costume Design

News Item

Director

News Item

Editor

News Item

Writer

Don Juan et Faust

Art Direction

Le Carnaval des vérités

1920

Art Direction

The Man of the Sea

Art Direction

The Man of the Sea

Production Design