Michel Deville

Michel Deville

Actor · Director · Producer · Writer

Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France
April 13, 1931

Biography

Deville started his filmmaking career in the late 1950s, paralleling the emergence of the French New Wave directors. He never achieved the level of critical and international recognition of some of his contemporaries such as François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard and Claude Chabrol, possibly because of his more conventional filmmaking style. Nevertheless, his films, especially his comedies from the 1970s and 1980s, were popular in his native France.

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Michel Deville 1

Representative Works

Love at the Top
Love at the Top
6.1
/ French
Les Capricieux
Les Capricieux
8.3
/ French
Dossier 51
Dossier 51
6.4
/ French
Razzia
Razzia
6.7
/ French
Lucky Jo
Lucky Jo
6.7
/ French
Tender Sharks
Tender Sharks
9.0
/ French
Deep Water
Deep Water
6.1
/ French
The Woman in Blue
The Woman in Blue
5.4
/ French

Awards and Honors

Critical Favorites

Love at the Top
1974Nominee

Best Director

Love at the Top

Les Capricieux
1984Winner

Best Director

Les Capricieux

Dossier 51
1978Nominee

Best Director

Dossier 51

Career Highlights

Razzia
1955Highlight

Best Director

Razzia

The Diary of an Innocent Boy
1968Highlight

Best Director

The Diary of an Innocent Boy