About

Known credits:
84
Birthday:
1896-03-19
Place of birth:
Paris, France
Website:
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Jean Wiener

Overview

Jean Wiener (or Wiéner) (19 March 1896, 14th arrondissement of Paris – 8 June 1982, Paris) was a French pianist and composer.

Wiener was trained at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he studied alongside Darius Milhaud, and worked with Erik Satie. He then embarked on a career as concert impresario, composer and pianist. He was the house pianist at the Gaya bar, and later at Le Boeuf sur le Toit. In 1924, a chance encounter with Clement Doucet (who succeeded him at Le Boeuf) brought him into the world of popular music. Already a jazz enthusiast, Wiener found fame with Doucet in the music hall s of Europe as a piano duo, under the name "Wiener et Doucet" in which they performed classical music, hot dance and jazz. The two friends recorded many duos between 1925 and 1937. After the end of the war in 1945, Wiener devoted himself fully to composition, notably film music (working on more than 300), as well as the opening theme music for ORTF's film history program "History speechless" (History without words).

He was of some significance in the promotion of new music, both by his friends in the Les Six (Milhaud, Poulenc, etc.), and by composers such as Schoenberg, Berg and Webern. His compositions involve the use of jazz informed by French wit and elegance.

His daughter, Elizabeth Wiener, is an actress, singer and singer-songwriter.

Jean Wiener published his memoirs in 1978 as Allegro Appassionato.

Source: Article "Jean Wiener" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Known for

Acting
1976 Duelle Actor Au piano 59
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1965 Lady L Actor Krajewski 58
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1959 Stop the Massacre Actor Pianist N/A
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1955 School for Love Actor Le professeur de piano 58
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1943 Immortal France Actor (uncredited) 58
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1939 Behind the Facade Actor Pianist of the “Perroquet” (uncredited) 59
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1922 The Woman from Nowhere Actor Le pianiste 58
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Sound
1987 L'âge de Monsieur est avancé Sound Original Music Composer 59
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1982 Le Crime d'amour Sound Original Music Composer 58
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1982 Love Letters in Somalia Sound Original Music Composer 58
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1974 The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir Sound Original Music Composer 58
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1971 On the Lam Sound Original Music Composer 59
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1970 The Demise of Father Mouret Sound Original Music Composer 58
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1970 Les Ajoncs Sound Music 59
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1969 God Chose Paris Sound Original Music Composer N/A
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1969 A Gentle Woman Sound Original Music Composer 60
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1969 Les deux coquines Sound Sound N/A
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1968 The Diary of an Innocent Boy Sound Original Music Composer 58
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1967 Mouchette Sound Original Music Composer 64
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1967 The Golem Sound Original Music Composer 58
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1967 Les filous Sound Original Music Composer 59
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1966 Au Hasard Balthazar Sound Original Music Composer 67
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1965 Merlusse Sound Music N/A
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1965 Our Agent Tiger Sound Original Music Composer 58
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1962 Quatrevingt-treize Sound Sound Director N/A
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1960 Pantalaskas Sound Original Music Composer N/A
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1958 A Woman Like Satan Sound Original Music Composer 58
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1958 Be Beautiful and Shut Up Sound Original Music Composer 58
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1958 Neither Seen Nor Recognized Sound Original Music Composer 60
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1958 Seventh Heaven Sound Original Music Composer 58
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1957 Lovers of Paris Sound Original Music Composer 58
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1957 Notre Dame - cathédrale de Paris Sound Original Music Composer N/A
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1957 La Garçonne Sound Original Music Composer 58
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1956 Les Lumières du soir Sound Music N/A
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1956 Deadlier Than the Male Sound Music 60
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1956 Rencontre à Varsovie Sound Music N/A
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1955 School for Love Sound Music 58
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1955 Station 307 Sound Original Music Composer N/A
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1954 Touchez Pas au Grisbi Sound Original Music Composer 62
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1954 The Count of Monte Cristo Sound Original Music Composer 59
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1953 Dust of Life Sound Original Music Composer 58
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1953 Je suis un mouchard Sound Music N/A
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1952 Forgotten Stones Sound Original Music Composer N/A
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1951 Under the Paris Sky Sound Original Music Composer 59
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1950 The Century Is Fifty Sound Original Music Composer N/A
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1949 Rendezvous in July Sound Original Music Composer 58
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1949 The Perfume of the Lady in Black Sound Original Music Composer 59
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1949 L'Escadron blanc Sound Original Music Composer 59
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1949 The Mark Of The Day Sound Original Music Composer 59
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1949 The Mark Of The Day Sound Music 59
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1949 Zanzabelle in Paris Sound Music N/A
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1947 Panic Sound Original Music Composer 60
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1946 Back Streets of Paris Sound Music 58
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1944 The Lightning Rod Thief Sound Original Music Composer 59
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1943 The Passengers of Ursa Major Sound Original Music Composer 59
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1943 The Scarecrow Sound Original Music Composer 58
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1943 Le Voyageur de la Toussaint Sound Original Music Composer 59
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1943 Immortal France Sound Music 58
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1940 Cristobal's Gold Sound Original Music Composer N/A
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1939 The Last Turning Sound Music 59
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1939 Behind the Facade Sound Music 59
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1938 The Woman at the End of the World Sound Original Music Composer 58
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1938 Le Messager de la lumière Sound Original Music Composer 58
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1937 De Man Zonder Hart Sound Music N/A
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1937 Nights of Fire Sound Original Music Composer N/A
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1937 L'Homme sans cœur Sound Original Music Composer N/A
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1937 The Man of the Day Sound Music 59
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1936 The Lower Depths Sound Music 60
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1936 Quand minuit sonnera Sound Original Music Composer N/A
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1936 Klokslag twaalf Sound Music 58
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1936 The Tomboy Sound Music 58
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1936 The Crime of Monsieur Lange Sound Original Music Composer 60
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1935 Le Voyage imprévu Sound Music N/A
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1935 La Bandera Sound Original Music Composer 58
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1935 Phénomènes électriques Sound Original Music Composer 59
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1934 The Adventurer Sound Music 58
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1934 Maria Chapdelaine Sound Original Music Composer 59
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1934 S. S. Tenacity Sound Music 59
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1933 Knock, ou le triomphe de la médecine Sound Sound Director 59
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1933 Une vie perdue Sound Music N/A
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1933 The Man with the Hispano Sound Music N/A
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1933 The Man with the Hispano Sound Sound N/A
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1925 The Crazy Ray Sound Original Music Composer 59
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1922 The Woman from Nowhere Sound Music 58
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