
René Clément
Biography
René Clément (March 18, 1913, Bordeaux – March 17, 1996, Monte Carlo, Monaco) was a French film director and screenwriter. Clément studied architecture at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts where he developed an interest in filmmaking. In 1936, he directed his first film, a 20 minute short written and featuring Jacques Tati. Clément spent the latter part of the 1930s making documentaries in parts of the Middle East and Africa. In 1937, he and archaeologist Jules Barthou were in Yemen making preparations to film a documentary, the first ever of that country and one that includes the only known film image of Imam Yahya. Almost ten years passed before Clément directed a feature but his French Resistance film, La Bataille du rail (1945), gained much critical and commercial success. From there René Clément became one of his country's most successful and respected directors, garnering numerous awards including two films that won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film, the first in 1950 for The Walls of Malapaga (Au-delà des grilles) and the second time two years later for Forbidden Games (Jeux interdits). Clément had international success with several films but his star-studded 1966 epic Is Paris Burning?, written by Gore Vidal and Francis Ford Coppola and produced by Paul Graetz was a costly box office failure. Clément continued to make a few films until his retirement in 1975, including an international success with Rider On The Rain that starred Charles Bronson and Marlène Jobert. In 1984 the French motion picture industry honored his lifetime contribution to film with a special César Award. René Clément died in 1996 and was buried in the local cemetery in Menton on the French Riviera where he had spent his years in retirement.
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Acting (4 movies)
Directing (24 movies)

Purple Noon
1960

Is Paris Burning?
1966

The Glass Castle
1950

Forbidden Games
1952

Rider on the Rain
1970

Mr. Orchid
1946

Aude, belle inconnue
1937

Joy House
1964

The Battle of the Rails
1946

The Walls of Malapaga
1949

Gervaise
1956

And Hope to Die
1972

The Baby Sitter
1975

The Damned
1947

The Day and the Hour
1963

The Deadly Trap
1971

The Joy of Living
1961

Watch Your Left
1936

Monsieur Ripois
1954

This Angry Age
1957

L'Arabie interdite
1937

Caesar among the Gauls
1931
Ceux du rail
1943
Évasion
1935
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| The Battle of the Rails | 1946 | Screenplay |
| The Damned | 1947 | Writer |
| The Glass Castle | 1950 | Screenplay |
| Forbidden Games | 1952 | Screenplay |
| This Angry Age | 1957 | Screenplay |
| Purple Noon | 1960 | Screenplay |
| The Joy of Living | 1961 | Screenplay |
| Joy House | 1964 | Screenplay |
| The Baby Sitter | 1975 | Screenplay |


