| Jacques Viot | |
| Birth Date: | 20 November 1898 |
| Birth Place: | Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, France |
| Death Date: | 29 January 1973 (aged 74) |
| Death Place: | Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, France |
| Alma Mater: | HEC Paris |
| Occupation: | Writer |
| Yearsactive: | 1935–1964 (film) |
Jacques Viot (1898–1973) was a French novelist and screenwriter.[1] [2]
After service in the artillery during the First World War he became involved with the Surrealist movement. From the mid-1930s he began working on screenplays, collaborating with directors such as Marcel Carne, Jacques Feyder and Marcel Camus.
After the war, he enrolled at HEC Paris where he obtained a diploma, then worked in an insurance firm in Nantes.[3]