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Clément Duhour was born in Saint-Jean d’Anglet, in the
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on 11 December 1912. He died on 3 January 1983 in
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. He was a French athlete, singer, actor, film director and producer.


Biography

A French
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, Clément Duhour was the son of a baker. He was also the younger brother of Édouard Duhour.Édouard Duhour
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At age 16, he won his first French national championships in both the
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and discus. Almost simultaneously, he was expelled from the public high school in
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for "indiscipline". Subsequently, his father sent him to Paris to become an apprentice salesman at the Félix Potin grocery store. Three days later, he quit the apprenticeship to become an entertainer at the
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club under the stage name Guy Lormont. In 1932, he took part in the Summer Olympic Games in Los Angeles shot put competition, where he tossed well beyond the 45-foot mark without much training. His brother, Édouard, was also a French shot putter, who competed in the event at the Olympics the previous year. The following year, Clément was again crowned French national shot put champion. During the
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, Duhour opens his own
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, Le Cavalier, on the Rue de Ponthieu, in the
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. He also starts his movie career as "Boris Ivanovitch" in L'Âge d'or directed by
Jean de Limur Jean de Limur (13 November 1887, Vouhé, Charente-Maritime – 5 June 1976, Paris) was a French film director, actor and screenwriter. His works include ''La Garçonne (1936 film), La Garçonne'' (1936) and ''The Letter (1929 film), The Letter' ...
. According to
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, Duhour's cafe-inn was a cover for Resistance activities, thus hiding resisters behind a cloak of superficial compliance with the Germans. In 1942, Duhour met Viviane Romance and they married in 1943. Together they created the production company Izarra Films, "izarra" meaning "star" in
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. After the end of the Second World War, Clément Duhour becomes
Sacha Guitry Alexandre-Pierre Georges "Sacha" Guitry (; 21 February 188524 July 1957) was a French stage actor, film actor, director, screenwriter, and playwright of the boulevard theatre (aesthetic), boulevard theatre. He was the son of a leading French ac ...
's regular producer and collaborator through his production company "CLM" (Courts et Longs Métrages), whose name is meant as a quasi-acronym of his first name, Clément ("Clem"). This association would prove fruitful in the 1950s with the production of a series of cinematographic masterpieces, like the cult classics Three Make a Pair, Lovers And Thieves or If Paris Were Told To Us. Clément Duhour also paid tribute to Sacha Guitry's memory after his death in 1957 by directing and producing Life Together (La Vie à deux) in 1958. He died "of natural causes" on January 3, 1983, in
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. He was 71 years old.


Filmography


As actor


As director


Only as producer


References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Duhour, Clement 1912 births 1983 deaths Athletes (track and field) at the 1932 Summer Olympics French male film actors French male discus throwers French male shot putters French film directors Sportspeople from Pyrénées-Atlantiques 20th-century French male actors Place of birth missing 20th-century French male singers Olympic athletes for France 20th-century French sportsmen