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Claude Renoir is a Actor, Director of Photography and Cinematography French born on 4 december 1913 at Paris (France)
Claude Renoir (December 4, 1913 – September 5, 1993) was a French cinematographer. He was the son of actor Pierre Renoir and nephew of director Jean Renoir and also the grandson of painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
He was born in Paris, his mother being actress Véra Sergine. He was apprenticed to Boris Kaufman, a brother of Dziga Vertov, who much later worked in the United States on such films as On the Waterfront (1954). Renoir was the lighting cameraman on numerous pictures such as Monsieur Vincent (1947), Jean Renoir's The River (1951), Cleopatra (1963), Roger Vadim's Barbarella (1968), and the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me (1977). At the time of Claude Renoir's death, The Times of London wrote of The River that "its exquisite evocation of the Indian scene, helped to inaugurate a new era in the cinema, one in which color was finally accepted as a medium fit for great film makers to work in."
He also participated in the making of The Mystery of Picasso (1956), the documentary on painter Pablo Picasso directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot. He was the cinematographer for The Crucible (1957) and lived in East Germany during filming. Renoir's career came to a close in the late 1970s, as he was rapidly losing sight. In his final years he was largely blind.
He married twice and had two children, a son and a daughter, actress Sophie Renoir. Claude Renoir died at age 79 in Troyes, 55 miles east of Paris, near the village of Essoyes, where he had a home.
Renoir sometimes worked on the same films as his uncle and namesake Claude Renoir ainé (senior), nicknamed 'Coco', (1901-69), and many reference sources (including IMDB) combine the career credits of the two men as if they were the same person.
(1977)
(Director of Photography)
(1976)
(Director of Photography)
(1971)
(Director of Photography)
(1977)
(Director of Photography)
(1964)
(Second Unit Director of Photography)
(1937)
(Camera Operator)
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Nationality France
Birth 4 december 1913 at Paris (France)
Death 5 september 1993 (at 79 years) at Troyes (France)
Birth 4 december 1913 at Paris (France)
Death 5 september 1993 (at 79 years) at Troyes (France)
Claude Renoir (December 4, 1913 – September 5, 1993) was a French cinematographer. He was the son of actor Pierre Renoir and nephew of director Jean Renoir and also the grandson of painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir.
He was born in Paris, his mother being actress Véra Sergine. He was apprenticed to Boris Kaufman, a brother of Dziga Vertov, who much later worked in the United States on such films as On the Waterfront (1954). Renoir was the lighting cameraman on numerous pictures such as Monsieur Vincent (1947), Jean Renoir's The River (1951), Cleopatra (1963), Roger Vadim's Barbarella (1968), and the James Bond film The Spy Who Loved Me (1977). At the time of Claude Renoir's death, The Times of London wrote of The River that "its exquisite evocation of the Indian scene, helped to inaugurate a new era in the cinema, one in which color was finally accepted as a medium fit for great film makers to work in."
He also participated in the making of The Mystery of Picasso (1956), the documentary on painter Pablo Picasso directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot. He was the cinematographer for The Crucible (1957) and lived in East Germany during filming. Renoir's career came to a close in the late 1970s, as he was rapidly losing sight. In his final years he was largely blind.
He married twice and had two children, a son and a daughter, actress Sophie Renoir. Claude Renoir died at age 79 in Troyes, 55 miles east of Paris, near the village of Essoyes, where he had a home.
Renoir sometimes worked on the same films as his uncle and namesake Claude Renoir ainé (senior), nicknamed 'Coco', (1901-69), and many reference sources (including IMDB) combine the career credits of the two men as if they were the same person.
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The Mystery of Picasso (1956)
, 1h18Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot
Origin France
Genres Documentary, Historical, Animation
Themes Peinture, Documentary films about the visual arts, Documentaire sur une personnalité
Actors Claude Renoir, Henri-Georges Clouzot
Roles Self (uncredited)
Rating75%
Cherchant à percer le mystère de la création, le cinéaste se dit : «Pour savoir ce qui se passe dans la tête d'un peintre, il suffit de suivre sa main». Un habile stratagème lui permet de réaliser son projet insensé : par transparence, chaque trait tracé par la main du célèbre artiste apparaît dans l'espace. Mais l'exécution, par Pablo Picasso, de dessins et de tableaux, ne fait que gonfler davantage le mystère qui plane autour de lui : en effet, chacun des traits qu'il effectue étonne et déconcerte. Des toreros blessés et des nus sont ainsi créés, comme par magie, fruits d'un travail acharné qui connaît parfois quelques échecs.
Those of Our Land (1915)
Directed by Sacha Guitry
Genres Documentary
Actors André Antoine, Sarah Bernhardt, Claude Renoir, Jean Renoir, Ferdinand Zecca
Roles Himself
Rating75%
« Je rêvais d'une encyclopédie nouvelle... ». Sacha Guitry a réuni, « selon ses goûts » les plus grandes personnalités de son temps. Il les filme « dans leurs attitudes les plus familières, c'est-à-dire au travail, chaque fois que cela fut possible ». On y voit André Antoine, Sarah Bernhardt, Edgar Degas, Henri Desfontaines, Jane Faber, Anatole France, Lucien Guitry, Octave Mirbeau, Claude Monet, Auguste Renoir avec à ses côtés son jeune fils Claude Renoir, Henri-Robert, Auguste Rodin, Edmond Rostand, Camille Saint-Saëns. La version muette de 1915 durait 22 minutes. Elle était destinée à être projetée accompagnée d'une « causerie familiale faite par l'auteur, avec le concours de Charlotte Lysès ». En 1939, Guitry en fit une version sonorisée, avec commentaire, dans laquelle il ajouta les plans de son père Lucien Guitry qui ne figuraient pas dans la version de 1915. La version finale remaniée, en 1952, dure 44 minutes, avec des plans de Guitry dans son bureau, qui présente et qui commente, tournés par Frédéric Rossif.
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The Discord (1978)
, 1h37Directed by Claude Zidi
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes Films about the labor movement
Actors Louis de Funès, Annie Girardot, Maurice Risch, Julien Guiomar, Geneviève Fontanel, Jean-Jacques Moreau
Roles Director of Photography
Rating64%
Guillaume Daubray-Lacaze, maire libéral-conservateur d'une ville de province, est un industriel au bord de la faillite quand son usine, spécialisée dans la lutte anti-pollution, obtient d'un groupe japonais une commande énorme qui peut sauver son entreprise : 3 000 appareils de dépollution de l'air, les CX‑22, à livrer sous 90 jours. Mais il manque d'espace pour produire et stocker ces appareils car l'usine est sous-dimensionnée.
, 1h43Directed by Serge Leroy, Jean-Pierre Vergne
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Films about children
Actors Alain Delon, Sophie Renoir, Richard Constantini, Henri Vilbert, Françoise Brion, Louis Navarre
Roles Director of Photography
Rating64%
Dans une somptueuse villa de la Côte d'Azur, habitent deux frères et deux sœurs; Marlène, l'aînée, ses frères Dimitri et Boule, et Laetitia la petite dernière. Leurs parents, souvent en déplacement de longue durée pour raisons professionnelles, les ont confié à leur gouvernante espagnole Avocados. Un après-midi, alors que les enfants se trouvent à la plage avec Avocados, ils provoquent accidentellement sa noyade. Malgré cet accident, ils gardent leur sang froid, retournent calmement à la villa et profitent allégrement de l'absence de la gouvernante. Cependant, un inconnu (Alain Delon) qui a observé de loin toute la scène, menace de chantage le petit groupe et s'installe dans la villa. Petit à petit, il prend l'ascendant sur le groupe et surtout sur les armes de chasse présentes dans la maison, ce que n'apprécie guère Marlène devenue malgré elle le chef de famille.
The Spy Who Loved Me (1977)
, 2h6Directed by Lewis Gilbert, John Glen, Ernest Day
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Thriller, Action, Adventure, Spy
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about children, Spy films, Seafaring films, Politique, Sports films, Films about terrorism, Transport films, Underwater action films, Submarine films, Political films, Arme nucléaire
Actors Roger Moore, Barbara Bach, Curd Jürgens, Richard Kiel, Lois Maxwell, Desmond Llewelyn
Roles Director of Photography
Rating69%
British and Soviet ballistic-missile submarines mysteriously disappear. James Bond—MI6 agent 007—is summoned to investigate. On the way he escapes an ambush by Soviet agents in Austria, killing one during a downhill ski chase, and escaping via a Union Flag parachute. Bond learns that the plans for a highly advanced submarine tracking system are on the market in Egypt. There, he encounters Major Anya Amasova—KGB agent Triple X—his rival for the plans. They travel across Egypt together, tracking the microfilm plans, meeting Jaws—a tall assassin with steel teeth—along the way. Bond and Amasova later team up through a truce agreed by their respective superiors and identify the person responsible for the thefts as the shipping tycoon, scientist, and anarchist Karl Stromberg.
Animal (1977)
, 1h40Directed by Claude Zidi
Origin France
Genres Comedy, Action
Themes Films about films
Actors Jean-Paul Belmondo, Raquel Welch, Jane Birkin, Raymond Gérôme, Dany Saval, Charles Gérard
Roles Director of Photography
Rating64%
Mike (Jean-Paul Belmondo) is a stuntman who works with his girlfriend Jane (Raquel Welch). On their wedding day Mike and Jane are forced by producers to do a stunt for a film they are working on. Mike, annoyed doesn't look on the road and crashes the car causing them to end up in a hospital. After they come out Jane doesn't want to talk to Mike so he decides to get her a job in a film in which he is a stunt double for his double who is a star in action pictures but is in fact a wimp.
The Wing or the Thigh? (1976)
, 1h50Directed by Claude Zidi, Jean-Jacques Beineix
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes Circus films, Cooking films
Actors Louis de Funès, Coluche, Julien Guiomar, Claude Gensac, Ann Zacharias, Martin Lamotte
Roles Director of Photography
Rating71%
Charles Duchemin (Louis de Funès) is the editor of an internationally known restaurant guide. After being appointed to the Académie française, Duchemin decides to retire as a restaurant critic and trains his son Gérard (Coluche) to continue the family business. However, Gérard Duchemin is more interested in his true passion—the circus—than high cuisine. Soon, however, Charles' plans to retire are complicated by the arrival of Jacques Tricatel (Julien Guiomar), the owner of a company of mass-produced food. Fearing for the future of high cuisine, Charles and his son strive to ruin Tricatel's company in any way they can. This movie is an allegory of the antagonism between USA culture and French culture as it was seen by French people in the 70s.
Game of Seduction (1976)
, 1h33Directed by Roger Vadim
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy
Actors Sylvia Kristel, Nathalie Delon, Jon Finch, Gisèle Casadesus, Serge Marquand, Jacques Berthier
Roles Director of Photography
Rating51%
Printemps 1826. Le Comte Charles de Lapalmmes, 34 ans, est séduisant, brillant, cultivé, mais cynique et débauché. Après trois changements de régime consécutifs, cet aristocrate a pris du recul et ses idées, pour l'époque, passent pour scandaleuses, voire anarchisantes. Charles ne croit plus ni à la politique ni à la morale. Égoïste, sa seule préoccupation dans la vie se concentre sur son plaisir personnel.
Femmes Fatales (1976)
, 1h47Directed by Bertrand Blier, Michel Leroy
Origin France
Genres Comedy
Themes Cooking films, Films about sexuality, Transport films, Erotic films, Rail transport films, Film se déroulant dans un train
Actors Jean-Pierre Marielle, Jean Rochefort, Bernard Blier, Brigitte Fossey, Claude Piéplu, Gérard Jugnot
Roles Director of Photography
Rating63%
Two men, fortyish, worn out by their wives, abandon everything to go and live in the back of beyond. There they meet a truculent priest, a boozer, Émile (Bernard Blier) who recalls them to life's simple pleasures. Calm is what they want. But soon their example inspires thousands of disorientated males, fleeing the feminist 1970s. Soon, too, there arrives a squadron of nymphomaniac Amazons.
Doctor Francoise Gailland (1976)
, 1h40Directed by Jean-Louis Bertuccelli
Origin France
Genres Drama, Romance
Themes Medical-themed films, Films about cancer
Actors Annie Girardot, Jean-Pierre Cassel, François Périer, Isabelle Huppert, William Coryn, Suzanne Flon
Roles Director of Photography
Rating60%
Dr. Françoise Gailland has a hectic schedule, which causes her to have little time to spend with her family, which consists of her husband Gérard, her pregnant teenaged daughter Elisabeth, and her sullen son Julien. However, she does manage to find the time to spend with her lover, Daniel Letessier. While her life in such disarray, she learns that she has cancer. Françoise tries to put a brave face on it, and is determined to face the life-threatening disease with courage.
French Connection II (1975)
, 1h59Directed by John Frankenheimer
Origin USA
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Crime
Themes Mafia films, Medical-themed films, La provence, Films about drugs, Children's films, Gangster films
Actors Gene Hackman, Fernando Rey, Bernard Fresson, Philippe Léotard, Ed Lauter, Jean-Pierre Castaldi
Roles Director of Photography
Rating67%
Picking up two or three years after where the original left off, narcotics officer Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle (Gene Hackman) is still searching for elusive drug kingpin Alain Charnier (Fernando Rey). Orders from his superiors send Doyle to Marseilles, France, to track down the criminal mastermind and bust his drug ring. Once in France, Doyle is met by Inspector Henri Barthélémy (Bernard Fresson), who resents his rude and crude crimefighting demeanor. Doyle then begins to find himself as a fish out of water in France, where he is matched with a language he cannot understand. Doyle is shown round the police station where he finds his desk is situated directly outside the toilets. He tells Barthélémy that he is not satisfied with this positioning and hopes it is not a joke at his expense. Barthélémy informs Doyle that he has read his personnel file and is aware of his reputation and especially hopes he has not brought a gun with him as it is strictly forbidden in France for visiting police officers from other countries to carry firearms.
The Track (1975)
, 1h35Directed by Serge Leroy, Jean-Pierre Vergne
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller
Themes Films about sexuality, Rape in fiction
Actors Mimsy Farmer, Jean-Pierre Marielle, Jean-Luc Bideau, Michael Lonsdale, Michel Constantin, Philippe Léotard
Roles Director of Photography
Rating71%
Helen Wells (Mimsy Farmer), une jeune Anglaise venue en Normandie pour louer une maison isolée en forêt, rencontre un groupe de chasseurs qui s'apprêtent à une battue au sanglier. Ces sept hommes issus de la bonne société locale sont liés par des relations d'intérêts croisées. Lors de la chasse, les grossiers frères Danville, Albert et Paul (Jean-Pierre Marielle et Philippe Léotard), croisent à nouveau par hasard la jeune femme, et subitement la violent, en présence du timide Chamond (Michel Robin). Helen parvient à blesser gravement Paul avant de prendre la fuite dans les bois, poursuivie par Albert qui lui propose un mutuel silence, puis lui tire dessus. Les autres acceptent non sans réticence d'étouffer cette sale affaire, tandis que la jeune femme cherche à s'enfuir à tout prix.
Paul and Michelle (1974)
, 1h45Directed by Denis Amar, Lewis Gilbert
Origin United-kingdom
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Anicée Alvina, Keir Dullea, Georges Beller, Catherine Allégret, Ronald Lewis, Peter Graves
Roles Director of Photography
Rating57%
Taking place approximately three years after the events in Friends, Paul and Michelle follows the family of Paul Harrison (Sean Bury) and Michelle Latour (Anicée Alvina) after they have been reunited. At the begining of the film Paul finishes prep school and he informs his father (Who he still hasn't forgiven for separating him from Michelle and their child.) that he plans to look for Michelle and now because he is a legal adult he can no longer stop him. Paul has to cope with the difficulties he faces balancing work, college, and trying to maintain their family as well as a new love interest for Michelle.
The Serpent (1973)
, 2h4Directed by Henri Verneuil
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Spy
Themes Spy films, Radio, Political films
Actors Yul Brynner, Henry Fonda, Jean Desailly, Dirk Bogarde, Philippe Noiret, Michel Bouquet
Roles Director of Photography
Rating61%
Aleksey Teodorovic Vlassov (Yul Brynner) is a high ranking KGB official who defects while in France. He has with him highly-classified information as part of a deal with Western intelligence for his arrival in the United States. The debriefing is held at Langley by DCI Allan Davies (Henry Fonda) and MI6 representative Philip Boyle (Dirk Bogarde). Vlassov hands off a list of enemy agents in Western Europe including a deep penetration into NATO. Davies wants to begin operations to arrest the agents; however, those on the list suddenly begin to die off. The CIA also has suspicions over the authenticity of Vlassov's claims. The CIA discovers that a defection photo of Vlassov was taken in the Soviet Union, not in Turkey, judging from the contours of Mt. Ararat in the background. Vlassov also fails a lie detector test after he angrily protests about sexual related questions asked by the CIA during the test.
Story of a Love Story (1973)
, 1h50Directed by John Frankenheimer
Origin France
Genres Drama
Actors Alan Bates, Dominique Sanda, Michel Auclair, Paul Crauchet, Lea Massari, Henri Czarniak
Roles Director of Photography
Rating55%
Un écrivain anglais, Harry, réalise un jour que sa maison confortable, ses trois fils et la riche héritière américaine qu'il a épousée, ne lui apportent plus le bonheur. Il part alors en quête de l'Impossible Objet, qu'il ne tarde pas à rencontrer au Louvre...