Out of the Past
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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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- Paris, France
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- Bergerac, Dordogne, France
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.
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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.
- November 12, 1904
- December 19, 1977
Birthday: Nov 12, 1904. Birthplace: Paris, France. Master of macabre suspense who hit his peak in the 1940s with such atmospheric gems as the Val Lewton-produced horror classic "Cat People" (1942),...
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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.
Sep 22, 2016 · A 1979 interview with the director of Cat People, Jacques Tourneur, who reflects on his partnership with Val Lewton and their influential style of horror. He praises Lewton's idealism and contrasts it with his own pragmatic approach to filmmaking.
