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He is best known for his comedies with Louis de Funès ( Oscar, Hibernatus ), My Uncle Benjamin (with Jacques Brel and Claude Jade ), Dracula and Son (with Christopher Lee ), and the Academy Award-nominated La Cage aux Folles (with Michel Serrault and Ugo Tognazzi ).
Director. Writer. Actor. IMDbPro Starmeter See rank. Édouard Molinaro was born on 13 May 1928 in Bordeaux, Gironde, France. He was a director and writer, known for The Birdcage (1996), La Cage aux Folles (1978) and A Mistress for the Summer (1960).
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Director and Screenwriter. 12 May 1928 to 7 December 2013. A French director and screenwriter best known for La Cage aux Folles (1978), for which his writing and direction was Oscar-nominated. The film was pioneering in its depiction of gay characters, inspiring a Broadway musical and an American remake, Mike Nichols’ The Birdcage (1996).
Édouard Molinaro Active - 1951 - 1996 | Born - May 13, 1928 | Died - Dec 7, 2013 | Genres - Comedy , Drama , Crime Overview ↓
May 24, 2016 · Two time Academy Award-nominee film director and screenwriter Édouard Molinaro (1928-2013), the man behind the internationally acclaimed French-language film classic “La cage aux folles” (1978), remade in the U.S. by Mike Nichols as “The Birdcage” (1996) with Robin Williams and Gene Hackman, was one of France’s leading film directors ...
Apr 30, 2024 · Édouard Molinaro, best known internationally for the late 1970s box office comedy hit La Cage aux Folles, which earned him a Best Director Academy Award nomination, died on Dec. 7 at a Paris hospital. Molinaro was 85.
French director of the New Wave movement, best known for commercially successful comedies. Started making short films and won several amateur film awards before working on feature films as an assistant director in 1949.
