
Known for
Directing
Born
July 23, 1903
Birthplace
Montpellier, Hérault, France
Died
December 4, 1985 (aged 82)
Roger Leenhardt (23 July 1903 – 4 December 1985) was a French writer and filmmaker.
Born in a bourgeois Protestant family, this brilliant student of philosophy was very soon fascinated by cinema. Through a cousin, he started working for the newsreel program Éclair Journal and in 1934 set up his own production company with René Zuber, "Les Films du Compas," later known as, "Roger Leenhardt Films.”
As a critic in the journal Esprit, he was considered one of the most perceptive observers of pre-war France and strongly influenced André Bazin and the entire "Nouvelle Vague.”
Thanks to his series of articles known as "La petite école du spectateur," cinema became considered as an art and a lang...
1977
as M. Betany, le directeur des éditions
1967
Director
1967
Director, Writer
1964
as Self
1963
1962
Director, Writer
1958
Director, Writer
1957
1955
Director
1951
Producer
1950
Director
1948
Director, Writer
1947
Writer
1946
Director
1946
Screenplay
1946
Writer, Director, Producer
1946