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Alain Corneau profile
Director

Alain Corneau

Directing

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Directed credits

20

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Strong directing catalog.

TMDB popularity

0.4

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Directed movies: 20Directed series: 0All crew credits: 29

TMDB ID: 35927

IMDb ID: nm0006734

Known for: Directing

Born: August 7, 1943

Died: August 30, 2010

Age: 67

Place of birth: Meung-sur-Loire, Loiret, France

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1969 - 2022

Years active: 54

Average TMDB rating: 6.18

Wikidata: Q312280

Also known as

Alain Cornaud

Frequent jobs

Director (15)Assistant Director (5)Writer (4)Associate Producer (1)Boom Operator (1)Original Story (1)Screenplay (1)Second Unit (1)

Biography

Alain Corneau (7 August 1943 – 30 August 2010) was a French film director and writer. Corneau was born in Meung-sur-Loire, Loiret. Originally a musician, he worked with Costa-Gavras as an assistant, which was also his first opportunity to work with the actor Yves Montand, with whom he would collaborate three times later in his career, including Police Python 357 (1976) and La Menace (1977). He directed Gérard Depardieu in the screen adaptation of Tous les matins du monde in 1991. Corneau died on 30 August 2010 from cancer,  and was interred at Pere-Lachaise cemetery. Description above from the Wikipedia article Alain Corneau, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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