Pierre Granier-Deferre

Birthday: 1927-07-22
Deathday: 2007-11-16
Birthplace: Paris, France
Gender: Male

Pierre Granier-Deferre (27 July 1927 – 16 November 2007) was a French film director and screenwriter. His 1971 film Le Chat (The Cat) won the Best Actor and Best Actress awards at the 21st Berlin International Film Festival. His 1964 film The Adventures of Salavin won the Silver Shell for Best Actor at the 12th San Sebastian International Film Festival.

Granier-Deferre married Annie Fratellini, who starred in his film La Métamorphose des cloportes. They had one daughter, Valerie.

He had two children with his second wife, Susan Hampshire, an English actress: a son, Christopher, a producer/director, and a daughter, Victoria, who died shortly after birth. Granier-Deferre is also the father of Denys Granier-Deferre, a director/actor, whose mother is Denise Leve.

He is also the father of Célia (an actress) and Marie (a stuntwoman) by Isabel Garcia de Herreros (a film editor).

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Credits

Year Title
1996-12-21 La dernière fête
1995-01-11 The Little Boy
1993-03-17 Archipel
1992-09-14 The Voice
1990-09-19 The Austrian
1988-11-02 The Color of the Wind
1987-12-02 Widow's Walk
1986-11-12 Private Tuition
1985-11-13 L'Homme aux yeux d'argent
1983-09-28 A Friend of Vincent
1982-03-31 The North Star
1981-12-23 Strange Affair
1979-10-26 The Medic
1976-11-10 A Woman at Her Window
1975-12-10 The French Detective
1975-06-10 The Cage
1974-04-10 Creezy
1973-10-31 The Last Train
1973-03-30 The Son
1971-09-15 The Widow Couderc
1971-04-24 The Cat
1970-02-22 The Horse
1967-08-30 The Big Softie
1966-01-07 Paris in August
1965-10-01 Cloportes
1964-11-04 The Adventures of Salavin
1962-04-05 The Little Boy from the Lift