Marcel Duhamel (16 July 1900 in
Paris
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– 6 March 1977 in
Saint-Laurent-du-Var) was a French
actor
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and
screenwriter
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...
, founder of the
Série noire publishing imprint.
He played The Foreman in
Jean Renoir's 1936 ''
The Crime of Monsieur Lange''.
In 1953 he was credited as
screenplay writer for ''
This Man Is Dangerous'', a French
film adaptation of
Peter Cheyney's novel of the same name.
He translated and published
Jim Thompson's 1964 pulp novel ''
Pop. 1280
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Set in the fictional town of Pottsville, Texas during the early 1900s, the novel follows Nick Corey, a seemingly dim-witted sheriff whose pleasant exterior hides a scheming, psy ...
'' as ''1275 Âmes'' ("souls") in French in 1966. Thereafter, the book was transposed to French colonial Africa in
Bertrand Tavernier's film ''
Coup de Torchon'' (''Clean Slate'') in 1981. He also translated (with
Maurice-Edgar Coindreau)
John Steinbeck's ''
The Grapes of Wrath.'' Coindreau in an interview credited Duhamel with the bulk of the translation, noting that he himself had translated only about sixty pages of it.
Selected filmography
* ''
Ciboulette'' (1933)
* ''
Moutonnet'' (1936)
* ''
Crossroads'' (1938)
* ''
The Emigrant'' (1940)
* ''
Tobias Is an Angel'' (1940)
* ''
Remorques'' (1941)
* ''
Strange Inheritance
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J ...
'' (1943)
* ''
This Man Is Dangerous'' (1953)
* ''
Interpol Against X'' (1960)
References
External links
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1900 births
1977 deaths
Male actors from Paris
French male film actors
20th-century French male actors
20th-century French screenwriters
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