About

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Birthday:
1906-06-20
Place of birth:
Nice, France
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Edmond T. Gréville

Overview

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Edmond T. Gréville (real name Edmond Gréville Thonger, 20 June 1906 Nice – 26 May 1966, Nice) was a French film director.

The son of Franco-British parents, his father a Protestant pastor, Gréville began his career as a film journalist and critic. In parallel with a few acting performances in some silent films and in the first talkie of René Clair, Sous les toits de Paris (1930), he directed his first short films. His first experience of directing had been on the shooting of Abel Gance's Napoléon in 1927. He had then worked as an assistant director, notably on the English film Piccadilly, L'Arlésienne (directed by Jacques de Baroncelli), Augusto Genina's Prix de beauté ( with Louise Brooks) and Abel Gance's La Fin du Monde.

Between 1930 and 1940 he directed several French films - Le Train des suicidés (1931), Remous (1934) with Françoise Rosay (a social-realist film on the sensitive sexual issue of impotence),  and two comedy musical films Princesse Tam Tam (1935) with Josephine Baker, and Gypsy Melody (1936), with Lupe Velez. In Britain again, he filmed Mademoiselle Docteur with Dita Parlo and John Loder, and Menaces (1938) with Mireille Balin and Erich von Stroheim, playing an Austrian refugee who commits suicide following the Anschluss. With a heavy atmosphere charged with eroticism which characterises his films, Gréville imposed his independence and original style on the cinema of the time.

He stopped directing films during the Second World War and the Occupation - xenophobia and anti-Semitism ruined or put a stop to some careers, among film-makers those of Léonide Moguy and Pierre Chenal for example, both French Jews, and the half-British Gréville, and took away production and distribution companies belonging to Jews like the father and son distributors Siriztky. In 1948 he made a film on the subject of resistance and collaboration in the Dutch film Niet tevergeefs. The same year he made a film with Carole Landis, Noose. In Le Port du désir (1954) he directed Jean Gabin as a captain confronted by an unscrupulous smuggler and torn by his love for a young woman who is also loved by a younger man.

In Gréville's last years he made Beat Girl (1959) with Adam Faith and a horror film The Hands of Orlac (1960) with Mel Ferrer. His last film was L'Accident (1963) with Magali Noël based on a Frédéric David novel.

In May 1966, Edmond Greville died in hospital in Nice, thought to be the result of complications following a car accident.

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Known for

Acting
1930 Under the Roofs of Paris Actor Louis 59
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Directing
1963 The Accident Directing Director 58
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1961 House of Sin Directing Director 59
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1960 The Hands of Orlac Directing Director 58
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1960 Beat Girl Directing Director 58
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1959 Temptation Directing Director 58
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1958 When Will it Strike Noon Directing Director 58
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1956 Guilty? Directing Director 59
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1955 Tant qu'il y aura des femmes Directing Director 58
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1955 House on the Waterfront Directing Director 59
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1953 Other Side of Paradise Directing Director 58
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1949 Naughty Arlette Directing Director 58
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1948 But Not in Vain Directing Director 58
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1948 Noose Directing Director 58
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1947 Woman of Evil Directing Director 59
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1947 Passionnelle Directing Director 59
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1945 Dorothy Looks for Love Directing Director N/A
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1943 A Woman in the Night Directing Director N/A
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1940 Threats Directing Director 58
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1939 What a Man! Directing Director N/A
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1938 Forty Years Directing Director N/A
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1937 Under Secret Orders Directing Director N/A
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1937 Brief Ecstasy Directing Director 59
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1937 Secret Lives Directing Director 59
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1936 Gypsy Melody Directing Director 59
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1935 Princess Tam Tam Directing Director 58
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1935 Whirlpool Directing Director 58
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1935 Marchand d'amour Directing Director N/A
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1934 Pleasures of Paris Directing Director N/A
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1932 The Fire Triangle Directing Director N/A
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1931 The Train of Suicides Directing Director N/A
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1930 L'Arlésienne Directing Assistant Director N/A
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1930 Miss Europe Directing Assistant Director 59
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Writing
1963 Horror Castle Writing Screenplay 59
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1960 The Hands of Orlac Writing Dialogue 58
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1960 The Hands of Orlac Writing Writer 58
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1959 Temptation Writing Writer 58
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1953 Other Side of Paradise Writing Screenplay 58
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1949 Naughty Arlette Writing Adaptation 58
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1947 Woman of Evil Writing Writer 59
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1947 Passionnelle Writing Screenplay 59
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1940 Threats Writing Screenplay 58
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1937 Secret Lives Writing Screenplay 59
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1931 The Train of Suicides Writing Writer N/A
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Production
1959 Temptation Production Producer 58
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Editing
1935 Whirlpool Editing Editor 58
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