Marc Jean Chrétien Simenon, (19 April 1939 – 24 October 1999) was a French director and screenwriter. Born in

Brussels Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...

, Belgium, he was the son of writer

Georges Simenon Georges Joseph Christian Simenon (; 13 February 1903 – 4 September 1989) was a Belgian writer. He published nearly 500 novels and numerous short works, and was the creator of the fictional detective Jules Maigret. Early life and education ...

(1903–1989) and the husband of

Mylène Demongeot Mylène Demongeot (born Marie-Hélène Demongeot; 29 September 1935 – 1 December 2022) was a French film, television and theatre actress and author with a career spanning seven decades and more than 100 credits in French, Italian, English a ...

from 16 September 1968. He died falling down the stairs at his home in Paris.

Filmography

Film

* 1959: '' Le Déjeuner sur l'herbe'' by Jean Renoir * 1964: ''

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Jean Girault Jean Girault (; 9 May 1924 – 24 July 1982) was a French film director and screenwriter. From 1951 to 1960 he worked as a screenwriter, mainly for comedy films. He made his film debut as a director in 1960. He directed more than thirty films bet ...

* 1964: ''

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'' de

* 1965: '' Le Gendarme à New York'' by

* 1970: ''

Le Champignon ''The Mushroom'' (french: Le champignon, it, L'assassino colpisce all'alba, also known as ''The Murderer Strikes at Dawn'', ''The Killer Strikes at Dawn'' and ''L’assassin frappe à l’aube'') is a 1970 French-Italian crime film written and dir ...

'' * 1971: ' * 1972: ''

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'' * 1974: ' * 1977: '' La Moto qui tue (L’Échappatoire)'' by

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* 1981: '' Signé Furax''

Television

* 1968: '' Les Dossiers de l'agence O'' * 1980: ''

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'' * 1986: ''Le Petit docteur'' * 1992: ''

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'' * 1994–1995: ''Chien et chat'' * 1996: ''Chercheurs d'or'' * 1998: ''Micro climat''

References

External links

* French film directors French television directors French male screenwriters 20th-century French screenwriters 1939 births 1999 deaths Mass media people from Brussels 20th-century French male writers {{France-film-director-stub