Pierre Chevalier (born in

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on 23 March 1915; died on 10 February 2005) was a French film director and screenwriter. His films included mainstream, erotic and

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and others. Chevalier directed four films with French actress

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. He served as art director on Jesus Franco's ''Man Hunter'' (1980), and filmed some additional footage that was added to the adult film ''Cecilia'' (the retitled 1983 re-release version of Jesus Franco's ''Sexual Aberrations of a Married Woman''). Jesus Franco co-directed ''Convoy of Women'' with Chevalier (uncredited) in 1974. The film was re-released in 1978 as ''East of Berlin''.

Filmography

Film director

*1955: ''Les Impures'' *1956: '' Vous pigez?'' *1957: ''L'Auberge en folie'' *1957: ''Fernand clochard'' *1958: ''En bordée'' *1958: ''

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'' *1959: ''Soupe au lait'' *1959: ''La Marraine de Charley'' *1960: ''Le Mouton'' *1961: ''Auguste'' *1962: ''Peur panique (Règlements de comptes)'' *1963: ''Clémentine chérie'' *1963: ''Le Bon Roi Dagobert'' *1968: ''Nathalie, l'amour s'éveille'' *1968: ''Huyendo de sí mismo'' *1971: ''Orloff et l'homme invisible'' / ''Orloff and the Invisible Man'' (a.k.a. ''La Vie amoureuse de l'homme invisible'', a.k.a. ''The Invisible Dead'') *1973: ''Pigalle carrefour des illusions'' *1973: ''Avortement clandestin!'' *1974: ''Des hommes de joie'' (or ''Hommes de joie pour femmes vicieuses'') a.k.a. ''Men for Sale'', a.k.a. ''Ladies House of Pleasure'' *1974: ''Convoi de filles'' / ''Convoy of Women'' (re-released in 1978 as ''East of Berlin'')IMDb *1974: ''La Maison des filles perdues'' / ''The House of Lost Women'' *1976: ''Vergewaltigt'' *1978: ''Viol, la grande peur'' *1980: ''La Pension des surdoués'' *1981: ''La Maison Tellier'' *1983: ''Cecilia'' (this re-release version of Jesus Franco's ''Sexual Aberrations of a Married Woman'' contained additional footage shot by Chevalier) *1984: ''Panther Squad'' *1984: ''Foutez-moi par tous les trous''

Assistant film director

Chevalier assisted in the making of the following films:

Screenwriter

*1955: ''Les Impures'' *1959: ''La Marraine de Charley'' *1960: ''Le Mouton'' *1961: ''Auguste'' *1971: ''Orloff et l'homme invisible'' (a.k.a. ''La Vie amoureuse de l'homme invisible'') *1974: ''La Maison des filles perdues''

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* {{DEFAULTSORT:Chevalier, Pierre French film directors French pornographic film directors French male screenwriters 20th-century French screenwriters 1915 births 2005 deaths 20th-century French male writers