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Jacques Becker
Highest Rated: 100% Grisbi (1954)
Lowest Rated: 75% Antoine and Antoinette (1947)
Birthday: Sep 15, 1906
Birthplace: Paris, France
Former assistant to Jean Renoir who began directing his own features in the early 1940s. Becker directed only 13 films and has been largely neglected by critics, though he was celebrated by the auteurs of the New Wave for "Casque d'Or" (1952), a spirited, atmospheric tour of France's turn-of-the-century underworld, and "Touchez pas au Grisbi" (1954), an intriguing gangster melodrama starring Jean Gabin and Jeanne Moreau. Becker was married to actress Francoise Fabian and his son Jean Becker is also a director.
Filmography
Movies
| Credit | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 100% | 60% | My Journey Through French Cinema | Himself (Voice) | $52.1K | 2016 |
| 94% | 96% | Le trou | Director | $29.8K | 1960 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Modigliani of Montparnasse |
Director, Writer |
- | 1958 |
| 83% | 89% | Hero of Montmartre | Director | - | 1958 |
| No Score Yet | 80% | Adventures of Arsene Lupin | Director | - | 1957 |
| 100% | 86% | Grisbi | Director | $95.8K | 1954 |
| No Score Yet | 50% | Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves | Director | - | 1954 |
| 100% | 84% | Casque d'Or |
Director, Writer, Writer |
- | 1952 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Rue de l'Estrapade | Director | - | 1952 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Edward and Caroline | Director | - | 1951 |
| 83% | No Score Yet | Rendezvous in July | Director | $11.3K | 1949 |
| 75% | 100% | Antoine and Antoinette |
Director, Writer |
$230 | 1947 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Paris Frills | Director | - | 1945 |
| No Score Yet | 86% | It Happened at the Inn | Director | - | 1943 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Dernier atout | Director | - | 1942 |
| 97% | 92% | Grand Illusion | English officer (uncredited) (Character) | $516.5K | 1937 |
| No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Life Is Ours | Director | - | 1936 |