Jean Dréville
Profile info
Known forDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday20 September 1906
Died5 March 1997 (age 90)
Place of birthVitry-sur-Seine, Val-de-Marne, France
Known credits50
Biography
Jean Dréville was a prolific French film director whose career spanned from the late 1920s to the late 1960s. Initially trained in advertising design and photography, he began his cinematic journey by publishing articles in film sections of newspapers like L'Intransigeant and Comœdia. Dréville directed his first film, Autour de L'Argent (1928), a documentary on the making of Marcel L'Herbier's L'Argent. His notable works include A Cage of Nightingales (1945), which inspired the 2004 film The Chorus, and The Battle of the Rails (1946), a realistic portrayal of French railway workers' resistance…
1940: Taking over French Cinema
2019 · Self (archive footage)
Jean Dréville, l'aimant du cinéma
2017 · Lui-même
Cinématon XVI
1982 · N°155
Le Voyageur des siècles
1971 · Director
The Leatherstocking Tales
1969 · Director
The Sleeping Sentinel
1966 · Director
Nights of Farewell
1965 · Director
Lafayette
1962 · Director
Lafayette
1962 · Producer
Normandy - Neman
1960 · Director
A Dog, A Mouse and a Sputnik
1958 · Director
The Lady and the Gipsy
1958 · Director
The Suspects
1957 · Commentator (uncredited)
The Suspects
1957 · Director
Intermediate Landing in Paris
1955
Intermediate Landing in Paris
1955 · Director
Queen Margot
1954 · Director
Endless Horizons
1953 · Director
Das Geheimnis vom Bergsee
1952 · Director
The Girl with the Whip
1952 · Director
The Seven Deadly Sins
1952 · Director
The Big Meeting
1950 · Director
Return to Life
1949 · Director
The Spice of Life
1948 · Director
Operation Swallow: The Battle for Heavy Water
1948 · Director
Carbon Copy
1947 · Director
Tainted
1946 · Director
Hanged Man's Farm
1945 · Director
Les Cadets de l'océan
1945 · Director
A Cage of Nightingales
1945 · Director
Tornavara
1943 · Director
The Roquevillards
1943 · Screenplay
The Roquevillards
1943 · Director
Business Is Business
1942 · Director
Annette and the Blonde Woman
1942 · Screenplay
Annette and the Blonde Woman
1942 · Director
President Haudecoeur
1940 · Director
His Uncle from Normandy
1939 · Director
Savage Brigade
1939 · Assistant Director
The Chess Player
1938 · Director
The Chess Player
1938 · Writer
White Nights in Saint Petersburg
1938 · Director
Mama Hummingbird
1937 · Director
Troïka sur la piste blanche
1937 · Director
Les Petites Alliées
1936 · Director
Coup de vent
1936 · Director
Touche-à-tout
1935 · Director
A Man and His Woman
1934 · Director
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