About

Known credits:
42
Birthday:
1906-06-06
Place of birth:
Graz, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
Website:
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Richard Pottier

Overview

Richard Pottier (6 June 1906, in Graz – 2 November 1994, in Le Plessis-Bouchard) was an Austrian-born French film director.He was born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire as Ernst Deutsch.

Pottier, born in 1906 in Budapest, began his career as Sternberg's assistant. His debut as a director coincided with the coming of the talkies. He broached many genres along his long career: plenty of comedies ("Si J'Etais Le Patron" ), adventures ("Les Secrets De La Mer rouge"), sci -fi ("Le Monde Tremblera", with its machine which could predict the date of your death), detective films ("Picpus" ) musicals ("Violettes Imperiales"), melodramas ("Defense D'Aimer" ), you name it. He was a solid craftsman and certainly did not deserve the critics' contempt. Without him, "Some like it hot" would never have happened for Billy Wilder used the German remake of "fanfare D'Amour" as a model. He was the first to talk about euthanasia in "Meurtres" (1950) at a time when the subject was thoroughly taboo; his buoyant "Caroline Chérie" predated the "Angélique Marquise Des Anges" saga by ten years. His rural thriller "La Ferme Aux Loups" renewed the story of twins. His career neatly declined after 1950,and his last works were cheap sword and sandals flicks such as "David Et Goliath" (starring Orson Welles) and "L'Enlèvement Des Sabines" (starring Roger Moore). He retired in the mid-sixties. He was to live thirty more years.(d.1994)

Known for

Directing
1965 Dernier tiercé Directing Director N/A
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1961 Romulus and the Sabines Directing Director 58
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1960 David and Goliath Directing Director 58
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1958 Serenade of Texas Directing Director 58
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1958 Tabarin Directing Director 59
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1957 The Singer from Mexico Directing Director 58
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1956 The Lebanese Mission Directing Director 58
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1954 The Beautiful Otero Directing Director 58
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1954 Il prigioniero del re Directing Assistant Director N/A
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1954 The Rebels of Lomanach Directing Director 59
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1952 Imperial Violets Directing Director 58
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1952 The Case Against X Directing Director 58
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1951 Rendezvous in Grenada Directing Director 58
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1951 Dear Caroline Directing Director 58
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1950 Three Sinners Directing Director 59
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1950 Three Feet in a Bed Directing Director 59
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1949 Barry Directing Director N/A
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1949 Two Loves Directing Director 59
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1948 La Nuit blanche Directing Director N/A
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1948 Adventure Starts Tomorrow Directing Director 58
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1947 Vertiges Directing Director N/A
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1946 Destiny Directing Director N/A
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1946 The Uncatchable Mr. Frederic Directing Director N/A
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1945 Majestic Hotel Cellars Directing Director 58
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1943 The Wolf Farm Directing Director 58
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1943 My Love is Near You Directing Director N/A
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1943 Picpus Directing Director 58
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1942 Eight Men in a Castle Directing Director N/A
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1942 Forbidden to Love Directing Director 59
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1942 Mademoiselle Swing Directing Director 59
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1939 The World Will Shake Directing Director 59
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1938 Lights of Paris Directing Director 59
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1937 The Secrets of the Red Sea Directing Director N/A
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1936 27, rue de la Paix Directing Director 59
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1936 Disk 413 Directing Director N/A
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1936 Guilty Melody Directing Director N/A
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1935 Fanfare of Love Directing Director 58
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1935 A Rare Bird Directing Director 60
Fair
1934 Si j'étais le patron Directing Director 59
Average

Writing
1958 Serenade of Texas Writing Writer 58
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1958 Tabarin Writing Writer 59
Average
1942 Mademoiselle Swing Writing Writer 59
Average