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Henri Verneuil ( French: [ɑ̃ʁi vɛʁnœj]; born Ashot Malakian; 15 October 1920 – 11 January 2002) was a French-Armenian playwright and filmmaker, who made a successful career in France. He was nominated for Oscar and Palme d'Or awards, and won Locarno International Film Festival, Edgar Allan Poe Awards, French Legion of Honor, Golden ...
Achod Malakian (en arménien : Աշոտ Մալաքյան), dit Henri Verneuil, est un réalisateur et scénariste de cinéma français d'origine arménienne, né le 15 octobre 1920 à Rodosto (actuelle Tekirdağ, en Turquie) et mort le 11 janvier 2002 à Bagnolet en France [1].
- 15 octobre 1920Rodosto, Empire ottoman
- Achod Malakian
- FrançaiseArménienne
Achod Malakian arrived with his family in Marseille at the age of four, joining thousands of Armenians in fleeing the Turkish government's massacres of their people. As Henri Verneuil, at the end of his life, he devoted his two final full-length features to this part of his childhood and heritage.
- January 1, 1
- Bagnolet, Seine-Saint-Denis, France
- January 1, 1
- Director, Writer, Actor
Jan 12, 2002 · Henri Verneuil, 81, a prolific filmmaker who directed some of France’s greatest movie stars, died Friday, according to the French Fine Arts Academy. The cause of death was not announced....
Perhaps to hedge his bets in the 1960s, Verneuil made several films co-starring Gabin, the biggest star of the 1930s, with rising stars of the new generation: Belmondo in Un Singe En Hiver (A ...
Director Henri Verneuil was born Achod Malakian of Armenian parentage on October 15, 1920, in Rodosto, Turkey, and his family fled to France and settled in Marseilles when he was a young child.
Born into an Armenian family from Turkey, Achod Malakian, alias Henri Verneuil, became interested in the cinema early on. This is his intimate portrait, with contributions from friends and a number of his cult films: "La Vache et le Prisonnier", "Un singe en hiver" and "Le Clan des Siciliens".
