Jean Manoussi

Jean Manoussi (14 November 1868 - 21 December 1929) was a French dramatist, film director and screenwriter. Jean Manoussi has written several theatre plays in collaboration with playwrights such as Paul Armont, Marcel Gerbidon or Gabriel Timmory.

Jean Manoussi
Born	14 November 1868 Marseille, France
Died	21 December 1929(1929-12-21) (aged 61) Paris, France
Occupation(s)	Dramatist, film director and screenwriter

Theatre

• 1902 : Un beau mariage, cowritten with Gabriel Timmory
• 1903 : Petite bonne sérieuse, cowritten with Gabriel Timmory
• 1904 : Pomme de terre, cowritten with Gabriel Timmory
• 1909 : Un cambrioleur ingénieux, cowritten with Gabriel Timmory
• 1913 : Le Chevalier au masque, cowritten with Paul Armont
• 1916 : La Ventouse, cowritten with Marcel Nancey
• 1923 : Dicky, cowritten with Paul Armont and Marcel Gerbidon

Filmography

as director

• 1919 : Fanny Lear, cowritten with Robert Boudrioz, after Ludovic Halévy and Henri Meilhac,
• 1919 : L'Homme bleu after the novel by Georges Le Faure
• 1920 : Illusions
• 1922 : Le Grillon du foyer
• 1923 : Le Dernier des Capendu
• 1925 : The Painter and His Model, German film of the Maxim-Film Ges. Ebner & Co in Berlin
• 1926 : Fedora, also screenwriter, after the play by Victorien Sardou
• 1926 : Ma maison de Saint-Cloud after the novel by Paul Bourget

As screenwriter

• 1909 : Un cambrioleur ingénieux
• 1925: Knock
• 1927 : Le Secret de Délia or L'Évadée by Henri Ménessier after a play by Victorien Sardou

Cinema adaptations

• 1936 : The Mysterious Mister X by Johann Alexander Hübler-Kahla after Dicky (1923)
• 1938 : Monsieur Breloque a disparu [fr] by Robert Péguy after Dicky (1923)
• 1940 : Trappola d'amore [it] by Raffaello Matarazzo after Dicky (1923)
• 1955 : The Purple Mask by H. Bruce Humberstone after Le Chevalier au masque (1913)

External links

• Jean Manoussi at IMDb
• lesgensducinema.com