Claude Desailly (14 April 1922 – 26 April 2009) was a French

screenwriter A screenwriter (also called scriptwriter, scribe, or scenarist) is a person who practices the craft of writing for visual mass media, known as screenwriting. These can include short films, feature-length films, television programs, television ...

. He collaborated on a number of films with the director

Robert Hossein Robert Hossein (30 December 1927 – 31 December 2020) was a French film actor, director, and writer. He directed Les Misérables (1982 film), the 1982 adaptation of ''Les Misérables'' and appeared in ''Vice and Virtue'', ''Le Casse'', ''Les U ...

. He is best known for his creation and writing of the period crime television series ''

Les Brigades du Tigre ''The Tiger Brigades'' () is a 2006 French crime film. Based on a very successful 1970s-'80s French television series of the same name the film depicts an Untouchables-type crack "Flying Squad" once formed by then PM Georges Clemenceau to tackle ...

'' which ran from 1974 to 1983.Bosseno p.30

Selected filmography

Film

* ''

The Hotshot ''The Hotshot'' or ''The Show-Off'' (French: ''Le crâneur'') is a 1955 French crime film, crime drama film directed by Dimitri Kirsanoff and starring Marina Vlady, Raymond Pellegrin and Dora Doll. Bessy & Chirat p.288 It was shot at the Billanco ...

'' (1955) * '' Mandrin'' (1962) * '' Les Yeux cernés'' (1964) * ''

The Vampire of Düsseldorf ''The Vampire of Düsseldorf'' () is a 1965 thriller film directed by Robert Hossein. It was joint production between Spain, France and Italy Italy, officially the Italian Republic, is a country in Southern Europe, Southern and Western Eu ...

'' (1965) * ''

I Killed Rasputin ''I Killed Rasputin'' () is a 1967 Cinema of Italy, Italo-Cinema of France, Franco biographical film directed by Robert Hossein. Gert Fröbe stars as the main subject, Grigori Rasputin. It is based on the work ''Lost Splendor'' by Felix Yusupov, a ...

'' (1967) * '' Cemetery Without Crosses'' (1969) * '' Point de chute'' (1970)

Television

* ''

'' (1974-1983) * ''

Mathias Sandorf ''Mathias Sandorf'' is an 1885 adventure book by the French writer Jules Verne first serialized in ''Le Temps'' in 1885. It employs many of the devices that had served well in his earlier novels: islands, cryptograms, surprise revelations of ide ...

'' (1979)

References

Bibliography

* Christian Bosseno. ''Télévision française La saison 2010: Une analyse des programmes du 1er septembre 2008 au 31 août 2009''. Editions L'Harmattan, 2010.

External links

* 1922 births 2009 deaths People from Cambrai 20th-century French screenwriters {{France-film-bio-stub