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Paul Gégauff is a Actor, Director, Scriptwriter and Original Music Composer French born on 10 august 1922 at Blotzheim (France)

Paul Gégauff

Paul Gégauff
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Nationality France
Birth 10 august 1922 at Blotzheim (France)
Death 25 december 1983 (at 61 years) at Gjøvik (Norvege)

Paul Gégauff (1922–1983) was a French screenwriter, actor and director. He collaborated with director Claude Chabrol on 14 films. Among his films are Les Biches, Plein Soleil and the autobiographical Une Partie de Plaisir. In 1962, he and René Clement received an Edgar Award from the Mystery Writers of America as the screenwriters for Plein Soleil, which was named Best Foreign Language Film.

His first marriage to film producer and actress Danièle Gégauff ended in divorce. They had a daughter actress and singer, Clémence Gégauff. He died after being stabbed by his second wife on Christmas Eve 1983.

Chabrol once said of Gégauff: "When I want cruelty, I go off and look for Gégauff. Paul is very good at gingering things up...He can make a character look absolutely ridiculous and hateful in two seconds flat.

Biography

En juin 1940, Paul Gégauff publie à l'âge de 18 ans un roman intitulé Burlesque.

Il rencontre Éric Rohmer en 1948 et fréquente le ciné-club du quartier latin où il rencontre Jean-Luc Godard, Jean Douchet, François Truffaut, Claude Chabrol, Jacques Rivette et Jean Gruault. Gégauff, dandy et séducteur, fascine les futurs réalisateurs de la Nouvelle Vague. Il inspire ainsi plusieurs personnages de leurs films. Chez Rohmer par exemple, il inspire le dandy dans le Journal d'un scélérat, Pierre dans Le Signe du Lion, Guillaume dans La Carrière de Suzanne, Adrien dans La Collectionneuse, Jérôme dans Le Genou de Claire et Henri dans Pauline à la plage ; chez Godard, le personnage de Michel Poiccard dans À bout de souffle.

Les Mauvais Plaisants et Le Toit des autres, édités chez Minuit en 1951 et 1952, reçoivent un bon accueil, notamment de la part de Roger Nimier et de Georges Bataille.

Paul Gégauff a également réalisé un long-métrage, Le Reflux (1962) et fait plusieurs apparitions en tant qu'acteur, notamment dans Une partie de plaisir (1975), de Claude Chabrol dont il tient la vedette aux côtés de son épouse, Danièle Gégauff.


Il meurt en Norvège en 1983 dans la nuit de Noël, poignardé de trois coups par sa dernière conquête, une norvégienne de vingt cinq ans, après lui avoir déclaré :
« Tue-moi si tu veux mais arrête de m’emmerder. »



Vie privée
Paul Gégauff a d'abord été marié à une jeune femme prénommée Simone, infirmière, avec qui il aura d'abord un premier fils, Pierre, puis il épousera la comédienne et productrice Danièle Gégauff (née Rosencranz). Ils auront deux enfants, Frédéric (né en 1963) qui est écrivain puis Clémence, actrice et chanteuse. Dans les dernières années de sa vie, il est en couple avec l'actrice norvégienne Patricia Ducados, surnommée "Coco", avec qui il aura une fille, Élise.

Best films

Purple Noon
Purple Noon
(1960)
(Scriptwriter) Scoundrel in White
Scoundrel in White
(1972)
(Scriptwriter) This Man Must Die
This Man Must Die
(1969)
(Scriptwriter) The Novices
The Novices
(1970)
(Writer) More
More
(1969)
(Writer)

Usually with

Claude Chabrol
Claude Chabrol
(20 films)
Jean Rabier
Jean Rabier
(14 films)
Dominique Zardi
Dominique Zardi
(15 films)
Jacques Gaillard
Jacques Gaillard
(14 films)
Henri Attal
Henri Attal
(10 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Paul Gégauff (39 films)

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Actor

A Piece of Pleasure
A Piece of Pleasure (1975)
, 1h41
Directed by Claude Chabrol
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about sexuality
Actors Danièle Gégauff, Paul Gégauff, Cécile Vassort, Pierre Santini, Mario Santini, Henri Attal
Roles Philippe
Rating62% 3.146043.146043.146043.146043.14604
Philippe and Ester are happily married and living a middle class life with their young daughter. In order to add excitement and sophistication to the marriage, Philippe suggests they begin sleeping with other people then describing it to each other. But Philippe becomes filled with jealously and anger towards his wife until tragedy destroys the entire family.
Hellé
Hellé (1972)
, 1h30
Directed by Roger Vadim
Origin France
Genres Drama, Romance
Actors Gwen Welles, Jean-Claude Bouillon, Didier Haudepin, Bruno Pradal, Robert Hossein, Maria Schneider
Rating61% 3.082533.082533.082533.082533.08253
An angry and embittered army veteran returns from Vietnam to his village, high in the Savoy mountains of France, where he attempts to brutalize those around him.
Weekend
Weekend (1967)
, 1h35
Directed by Jean-Luc Godard
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama, Adventure, Crime
Themes Transport films, Political films, Road movies, Dystopian films
Actors Mireille Darc, Jean Yanne, Jean-Pierre Léaud, Paul Gégauff, Valérie Lagrange, Jean-Pierre Kalfon
Roles Le Pianiste (uncredited)
Rating69% 3.4503053.4503053.4503053.4503053.450305
Roland (Jean Yanne) and Corinne (Mireille Darc) are a bourgeois couple, although each has a secret lover and conspires to murder the other. They set out by car for Corinne's parents' home in the country to secure her inheritance from her dying father, resolving to resort to murder if necessary.
Line of Demarcation
Line of Demarcation (1966)
, 2h
Directed by Claude Chabrol
Origin France
Genres Drama, War, Comedy-drama, Historical
Themes Political films, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France
Actors Jean Seberg, Maurice Ronet, Daniel Gélin, Stéphane Audran, Reinhard Kolldehoff, Jacques Perrin
Roles Gestapo Agent
Rating70% 3.5272253.5272253.5272253.5272253.527225
A small village in the Jura is split by the river Loue which creates the line of demarcation between Nazi occupied France and freedom. A French officer, Pierre (Ronet), is released by the Nazi soldiers to find his chateau converted into a German command centre. Whilst he is obliged to co-operate with the enemy, his wife Mary (Seberg) supports the resistance movement and is willing to risk her life for it. The Nazis step up their activity against the resistance, insisting that any who attempt to cross the line of demarcation will be shot. When his wife is arrested, Pierre decides to switch his allegiance. The movement is hindered by an informer and another man who pretends to help the resistance fighters but leads them to the Nazis and steals all their possessions.
Vice and Virtue
Vice and Virtue (1963)
, 1h45
Directed by Roger Vadim
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy, Comedy-drama
Themes Medical-themed films, Prison films, Psychologie, Films about sexuality, Erotic films, Sexploitation films, Films about psychiatry, Political films, Women in prison films, Histoire de France, L'Occupation allemande en France
Actors Annie Girardot, Catherine Deneuve, Robert Hossein, O. E. Hasse, Philippe Lemaire, Serge Marquand
Roles S.S. Doctor
Rating59% 2.9974752.9974752.9974752.9974752.997475
1944 : Justine est arrêtée tandis que sa sœur Juliette devient la maîtresse du colonel S.S Erik Schorndorf. Justine est déportée à la "Commanderie", en compagnie d'autres jolies filles, pour être les instruments de plaisir des chefs S.S.
Journal d’un Scélérat
Journal d’un Scélérat (1950)
, 30minutes
Directed by Éric Rohmer
Origin France
Actors Paul Gégauff
Roles H...

Libre adaptation de Folies de femmes (Foolish Wives), film d'Erich von Stroheim, sorti en 1922.

Director

Le Reflux
Le Reflux (1965)
, 1h17
Directed by Paul Gégauff
Origin France
Genres Drama, Adventure
Actors Franco Fabrizi, Serge Marquand, Roger Vadim, Michel Subor, Jean Blancheur

Trois aventuriers cherchent à quitter Papeete où ils sont sans ressources. Profitant de l'expérience de marin de l'un d'eux, ils ont l'occasion de prendre la responsabilité du convoyage d'une cargaison sur un navire dont l'équipage a été décimé par la maladie. Leurs relations vont dès lors se dégrader.

Scriptwriter

Oriana
Oriana (1985)
, 1h28
Directed by Fina Torres
Origin Venezuela
Genres Drama, Thriller, Romance
Actors Philippe Rouleau
Roles Writer
Rating67% 3.373413.373413.373413.373413.37341
Maria, a Venezuelan woman returns to Venezuela from France when she learns that her aunt Oriana has died and willed her a crumbling and remote Venezuelan hacienda where Maria spent a short time as a girl just entering puberty. Maria goes to the hacienda, a fine, decaying old house in a tropical jungle at the edge of the sea, to prepare the place for sale; while visiting the house, Maria starts wandering through the halls and rooms and she begin to remember her visit years before. While going through her aunt's papers, she also start to find some clues to her aunt's behaviour. Maria is haunted by flashbacks to her childhood, when she spent several months at the hacienda in the company of only the beautiful and mysterious Oriana and Fidelia, a quarrelsome old retainer who constantly hints at terrible events that are best forgotten. In flashbacks, the film show the young Maria trying to understand the quiet but strange atmosphere that surrounds the place while sorting out why Oriana never leaves the hacienda and what secret may be in Oriana's past.
Ave Maria
Ave Maria (1984)
, 1h45
Directed by Jacques Richard, Jacques Richard
Origin France
Genres Drama
Themes Films about religion
Actors Anna Karina, Féodor Atkine, Pascale Ogier, Isabelle Pasco, Dora Doll, Bernard Freyd
Roles Writer
Rating56% 2.8367352.8367352.8367352.8367352.836735
Âgée de quinze ans, Ursula s’éveille à la sensualité avec Paul, un adolescent de son âge. Elle vit dans un petit village, dans un milieu assez fermé, fortement imprégné de religion.
A Piece of Pleasure
A Piece of Pleasure (1975)
, 1h41
Directed by Claude Chabrol
Origin France
Genres Drama, Comedy-drama
Themes Films about sexuality
Actors Danièle Gégauff, Paul Gégauff, Cécile Vassort, Pierre Santini, Mario Santini, Henri Attal
Rating62% 3.146043.146043.146043.146043.14604
Philippe and Ester are happily married and living a middle class life with their young daughter. In order to add excitement and sophistication to the marriage, Philippe suggests they begin sleeping with other people then describing it to each other. But Philippe becomes filled with jealously and anger towards his wife until tragedy destroys the entire family.
Death Rite
Death Rite (1975)
, 1h34
Directed by Claude Chabrol
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Noir
Themes Films set in Africa, Films about magic and magicians, Films about sexuality
Actors Franco Nero, Stefania Sandrelli, Jean Rochefort, Gert Fröbe
Roles Writer
Rating51% 2.576732.576732.576732.576732.57673
At a luxury hotel in Djerba, Tunisia, psychic magician Vestar (Fröbe) meets the dark Edouard (Rochefort). Heading to the hotel, Vestar has a vision of a woman being murdered in the desert. Edouard, a member of the leisure class, decides to use his influence to make the dream become a reality. Also staying at the resort are Sadry, returning (Nero) who has come home to visit his dying mother, and his annoying wife Sylvia (Sandrelli). Also there is Martine (von Weitershausen), an ex-lover of Sabry who would like to get back together with him. The marriage is further strained when Sylvia finds the two of them together. It appears that the prophesied murder has something to do with Sylvia. Specific details from Vestar's prediction about her death are used by Edouard to make it happen, although in fact his interference alters the results. Sadry comes to terms with her tensions and anger as events build toward the inevitable.