
Richard Pottier
Biography
Richard Pottier (6 June 1906, in Graz – 2 November 1994, in Le Plessis-Bouchard) was an Austrian-born French film director.He was born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire as Ernst Deutsch.
Pottier, born in 1906 in Budapest, began his career as Sternberg's assistant. His debut as a director coincided with the coming of the talkies. He broached many genres along his long career: plenty of comedies ("Si J'Etais Le Patron" ), adventures ("Les Secrets De La Mer rouge"), sci -fi ("Le Monde Tremblera", with its machine which could predict the date of your death), detective films ("Picpus" ) musicals ("Violettes Imperiales"), melodramas ("Defense D'Aimer" ), you name it. He was a solid craftsman and certainly did not deserve the critics' contempt. Without him, "Some like it hot" would never have happened for Billy Wilder used the German remake of "fanfare D'Amour" as a model. He was the first to talk about euthanasia in "Meurtres" (1950) at a time when the subject was thoroughly taboo; his buoyant "Caroline Chérie" predated the "Angélique Marquise Des Anges" saga by ten years. His rural thriller "La Ferme Aux Loups" renewed the story of twins. His career neatly declined after 1950,and his last works were cheap sword and sandals flicks such as "David Et Goliath" (starring Orson Welles) and "L'Enlèvement Des Sabines" (starring Roger Moore). He retired in the mid-sixties. He was to live thirty more years.(d.1994)
Directing (38 movies)

Fanfare of Love
1935

The Singer from Mexico
1957

Si j'étais le patron
1934

Eight Men in a Castle
1942

Three Feet in a Bed
1950

Three Sinners
1950

Dear Caroline
1951

The World Will Shake
1939

Picpus
1943

Barry
1949

Romulus and the Sabines
1961

Serenade of Texas
1958

27, rue de la Paix
1936

The Wolf Farm
1943

Majestic Hotel Cellars
1945
Guilty Melody
1936

The Rebels of Lomanach
1954

Imperial Violets
1952

Rendezvous in Grenada
1951

My Love is Near You
1943

A Rare Bird
1935

The Lebanese Mission
1956

The Beautiful Otero
1954

David and Goliath
1960

Adventure Starts Tomorrow
1948

Vertiges
1947

Two Loves
1949

The Case Against X
1952

The Secrets of the Red Sea
1937

Disk 413
1936

Lights of Paris
1938

Mademoiselle Swing
1942

Forbidden to Love
1942

The Uncatchable Mr. Frederic
1946

Destiny
1946

La Nuit blanche
1948

Tabarin
1958

Dernier tiercé
1965
| Title | Year | Job | 
|---|---|---|
| Mademoiselle Swing | 1942 | Writer | 
| Tabarin | 1958 | Writer | 
| Serenade of Texas | 1958 | Writer |