Yves Allégret

Yves Allégret (13 October 1905 – 31 January 1987)^[2] was a French film director, often working in the film noir genre.^[1] He was born in Asnières-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine and died in Paris.^[3]

Yves Allégret
Allégret (1955)
Born	(1905-10-13)13 October 1905 Asnières-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Died	31 January 1987(1987-01-31) (aged 81) Jouars-Pontchartrain, France
Occupation	Film director
Spouse	Simone Signoret ​ ​ (m. 1944; div. 1949)​
Father	Élie Allégret
Family	Marc Allégret (brother) Catherine Allégret (daughter)[1]

He was an assistant to film directors such as his brother Marc Allégret, Augusto Genina, and Jean Renoir.^[4]

Filmography

Feature films

• The Tamer (1938)
• Tobias Is an Angel (1940)
• The Emigrant (dir. Léo Joannon, 1940)
• Box of Dreams (1945)
• Dawn Devils (1946)
• Dédée d'Anvers (1948)
• Une si jolie petite plage (1949)
• Manèges (1950)
• Miracles Only Happen Once (1951)
• Leathernose (1952)
• Desperate Decision (1952)
• The Proud and the Beautiful (1953)
• Oh No, Mam'zelle (1954)
• Oasis (1955)
• The Best Part (1956)
• Young Girls Beware (1957)
• Send a Woman When the Devil Fails (1957)
• The Daughter of Hamburg (1958)
• The Restless and the Damned (1959)
• Jack of Spades (1960)
• Konga Yo (1962)
• Germinal (1963)
• Johnny Banco (1967)
• L'Invasion (1970)
• Mords pas, on t'aime (1976)

TV series

• Orzowei [it] (1977)

References

1. "Yves Allegret; French Film Noir Director". Los Angeles Times. 7 February 1987. Retrieved 18 August 2019.
2. "Yves Allégret". AlloCiné. Retrieved 18 August 2019.
3. "Yves Allégret". Premiere. Retrieved 18 August 2019.
4. "Yves Allegret Is Dead; Eminent Film Director". The New York Times. 2 February 1987. Retrieved 18 August 2019.

External links

• Yves Allégret at IMDb