Jacques Becker

Jacques Becker French bɛkɛʁ 15 September 1906 21 February 1960 was a French screenwriter and film director Becker first worked in the 1930s as an assistant to director Jean Renoir during what is considered the latters peak period including such works as Partie de campagne 1936 and La Grande Illusion 1937 In the early part of World War II Becker was held in a German prisonerofwar camp for a year During the Nazi occupation of France he became a film director in his own right and he also joined the Comité de libération du cinéma français He would go on to direct the period romance Casque dor 1952 the influential gangster film Touchez pas au grisbi 1954 and the prison escape drama Le Trou 1959 While he remains lesserknown internationally than peers such as Marcel Carné and Renoir Becker is nonetheless regarded as a major French filmmaker with Casque dor held in high esteem among film critics Becker died at the age of 53 in 1960 and was interred in the Cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris Description above from the Wikipedia article Jacques Becker licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia