Claude André Lalande

Biography

Claude André Lalande (aka Claude Lalande) is a French director born December 13, 1925 in Montrouge and died July 12, 2020 in Montereau-Fault-Yonne. Claude Lalande spent almost twenty years entirely dedicated to cinema, assuming different functions from 1942. Assistant to Henri Decoin and Marcel Carné during the War, he was also a poster designer (his main activity), cinematographer, producer and director of short, medium and feature films. As a director, he called on Louis de Funès three times, for two medium-length films and a feature film from 1949 to 1952. Thus, like André Hunebelle, Claud…