Out of the Past
1947
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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. Director: Cat People. Born in Paris in 1904, Tourneur went to Hollywood with his father, director Maurice Tourneur around 1913. He started out as a script clerk and editor for his father, then graduated to such jobs as directing shorts (often with the pseudonym Jack Turner), both in France and America.
May 8, 2024 · 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.
Mini Bio. Born in Paris in 1904, Tourneur went to Hollywood with his father, director Maurice Tourneur around 1913. He started out as a script clerk and editor for his father, then graduated to such jobs as directing shorts (often with the pseudonym Jack Turner), both in France and America.
Nov 14, 2018 · Saturday, December 22, 1:30pm. Thursday, December 27, 8:45pm. The Film Society of Lincoln Center announces Jacques Tourneur, Fearmaker, a wide-ranging retrospective of Tourneur’s body of work and the largest in New York City since FSLC’s 2002 exhibition.
Sep 22, 2016 · Below, Tourneur explains his view of cinema as escapism and his disdain for films that depict mundane reality. In this 1979 French television interview, the Cat People director discusses Lewton’s creative idealism and the impact it had on his own pragmatic sensibility.
Jacques Tourneur (also known as Jack Turner; November 12, 1904 – December 19, 1977) was a French film director known for the classic film noir Out of the Past and a series of low-budget horror films he made for RKO Studios, including Cat People, I Walked with a Zombie and The Leopard Man.
Everett. Born in France in 1904, Jacques Tourneur moved to Hollywood in 1934 and, as a director of low-budget genre films in the forties and fifties, became one of the era’s most defiantly...
The son of Maurice Tourneur, one of early French cinema’s preeminent directors, Jacques Tourneur ranks among the most fascinating yet most elusive filmmakers of his time. After working as an editor for his father and a director of shorts and B-features at MGM in his adoptive America, Tourneur eventually found a home in Hollywood with the ...
Overview. Filmography. Other Appearances. Share on. facebook. twitter. Biography by AllMovie [+] A resident of the United States from the age of ten, Jacques Tourneur became one of America's leading directors of horror and film noir, after a long apprenticeship.
