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Jacques Tourneur (French:; November 12, 1904 – December 19, 1977) was a French-American filmmaker, active during the Golden Age of Hollywood. He was known as an auteur of stylish and atmospheric genre films, many of them for RKO Pictures , including the horror films Cat People , I Walked with a Zombie , and The Leopard Man , and the classic ...
Jacques Tourneur (1904-1977) was a French-American director known for his moody and atmospheric films in various genres. He worked with Val Lewton on RKO's horror classics and directed Out of the Past, Cat People, and I Walked with a Zombie.
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Jacques Tourneur was a French American filmmaker of broad range known for horror, film noirs, and westerns. Tourneur was the son of one of French cinema’s preeminent directors, Maurice Tourneur, who made more than 90 pictures, more than half of them in the United States between 1914 and 1926.
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- Out of the Past (1947) “Out of the Past” is a 1947 film noir directed by Jacques Tourneur and starring Robert Mitchum, Jane Greer, and Kirk Douglas. The film tells the story of Jeff Bailey (Mitchum), a former private investigator who is drawn back into his dark past when he is hired by a powerful gangster to track down his mistress, Kathie Moffat (Greer).
- I Walked with a Zombie (1943) “I Walked with a Zombie” is a horror film directed by Jacques Tourneur and released in 1943. The film tells the story of a young nurse named Betsy Connell (played by Frances Dee), who is hired to care for the wife of a wealthy plantation owner on the Caribbean island of Saint Sebastian.
- Cat People (1942) “Cat People” is a 1942 horror film directed by Jacques Tourneur, with a screenplay by DeWitt Bodeen. The film follows the story of a Serbian immigrant woman, Irena Dubrovna (played by Simone Simon), who fears that she is a descendant of a race of people who can turn into panthers when emotionally aroused.
- Curse of the Demon (1957) “Curse of the Demon” is a British horror film directed by Jacques Tourneur and released in 1957. The film tells the story of an American psychologist, Dr. John Holden (Dana Andrews), who travels to England to attend a conference on the paranormal.
Learn about the life and career of Jacques Tourneur, a French-American director who made masterpieces in horror, film noir and western genres. Find out his family background, filmography, awards, trivia and quotes.
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Nov 14, 2018 · A wide-ranging retrospective of Jacques Tourneur's body of work, one of the most fascinating yet elusive filmmakers of his time, begins on December 14 at the Film Society of Lincoln Center. The program includes his horror, noir, Western, and adventure films, as well as his earliest shorts and his co-directed Italian feature with Mario Bava.
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A comprehensive biography and filmography of Jacques Tourneur, a French film director who made classic noir and horror films. See his birth and death dates, known for credits, directing and editing roles, and acting appearances.
