Director
Edmond T. Gréville
120 years · Nice, France · 29 films
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Edmond T. Gréville (real name Edmond Gréville Thonger, 20 June 1906 Nice – 26 May 1966, Nice) was a French film director. The son of Franco-British parents, his father a Protestant pastor, Gréville began his career as a film journalist and critic. In parallel with a few acting performances in some silent films and in the first talkie of René Clair, Sous les toits de Paris (1930), he directed his first short films. His first experience of directing had been on the shooting of Abel Gance's Napoléon in 1927. He had then worked as an assistant director, notably on the English film Piccadilly, L'Arlésienne (directed by Jacques de Baroncelli), Augusto Genina's Prix de beauté ( with Louise Brooks) and Abel Gance's La Fin du Monde. Between 1930 and 1940 he directed several French films - Le Train des suicidés (1931), Remous (1934) with Françoise Rosay (a social-realist film on the sensitive sexual issue of impotence), and two comedy musical films Princesse Tam Tam (1935) with Josephine Baker, and Gypsy Melody (1936), with Lupe Velez. In Britain again, he filmed Mademoiselle Docteur with Dita Parlo and John Loder, and Menaces (1938) with Mireille Balin and Erich von Stroheim, playing an Austrian refugee who commits suicide following the Anschluss. With a heavy atmosphere charged with eroticism which characterises his films, Gréville imposed his independence and original style on the cinema of the time. He stopped directing films during the Second World War and the Occupation - xenophobia and anti-Semitism ruined or put a stop to some careers, among film-makers those of Léonide Moguy and Pierre Chenal for example, both French Jews, and the half-British Gréville, and took away production and distribution companies belonging to Jews like the father and son distributors Siriztky. In 1948 he made a film on the subject of resistance and collaboration in the Dutch film Niet tevergeefs. The same year he made a film with Carole Landis, Noose. In Le Port du désir (1954) he directed Jean Gabin as a captain confronted by an unscrupulous smuggler and torn by his love for a young woman who is also loved by a younger man. In Gréville's last years he made Beat Girl (1959) with Adam Faith and a horror film The Hands of Orlac (1960) with Mel Ferrer. His last film was L'Accident (1963) with Magali Noël based on a Frédéric David novel. In May 1966, Edmond Greville died in hospital in Nice, thought to be the result of complications following a car accident. Description above from the Wikipedia article Edmond T. Gréville, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Best known for
Filmography 29
Horror Castle
1963 · Screenplay
On Plex
The Accident
1963 · Director
The Hands of Orlac
1960 · Director, Writer
On Philo
Beat Girl
1960 · Director
On Plex
Temptation
1959 · Producer, Director
When Will It Strike Noon
1958 · Director
Guilty?
1956 · Director
On Plex
Tant qu'il y aura des femmes
1955 · Director
House on the Waterfront
1955 · Director
Other Side of Paradise
1953 · Director, Screenplay
The Romantic Age
1949 · Director
But Not in Vain
1948 · Director, Writer
Noose
1948 · Director
Woman of Evil
1947 · Director, Writer
Passionnelle
1947 · Screenplay, Director
Dorothy Looks for Love
1945 · Director
A Woman in the Night
1943 · Director
Threats
1940 · Screenplay, Director
Forty Years
1938 · Director
Under Secret Orders
1937 · Director
Brief Ecstasy
1937 · Director
Secret Lives
1937 · Screenplay, Director
Gypsy Melody
1936 · Director
Princess Tam Tam
1935 · Director
On Hoopla