Adolphe Borchard

Adolphe Borchard (1882–1967) was a French pianist and composer who worked on a number of film scores during the 1930s and 1940s including large-budget films such as Ultimatum (1938).^[1] IMDb credits at least 19 films. He has several music students. The Vietnamese composer Nguyễn Văn Quỳ is one of them and studied through distance education between 1953 and 1954.^[2]

Adolphe Borchard
Born	30 June 1882 Le Havre, France
Died	13 December 1967 Paris, France
Occupation(s)	Composer, Pianist
Years active	1931 - 1943 (film scores)
Family	unmarried

Borchard can be seen playing the piano in the first scene of Sacha Guitry's Confessions of a Cheat (1936) (French title: Le Roman d'un Tricheur), where he is introduced by the narrator. He also appeared in the same director's Quadrille two years later.

Selected filmography

• A Dog That Pays Off (1932)
• A Telephone Call (1932)
• The Red Robe (1933)
• The Invisible Woman (1933)
• Prince Jean (1934)
• Confessions of a Cheat (1936)
• Désiré (1937)
• Quadrille (1938)
• Ultimatum (1938)
• White Nights in Saint Petersburg (1938)
• Nine Bachelors (1939)
• Tornavara (1943)
• Jeannou (1943)