Jean Girault Explained

Jean Girault
Birth Date:	9 May 1924
Birth Place:	Villenauxe-la-Grande, Grand Est, France
Death Place:	Paris, France
Spouse:	Françoise Jourdanet (1946-2019)
Yearsactive:	1952 – 1982

Jean Girault (pronounced as /fr/; 9 May 1924 – 24 July 1982) was a French film director and screenwriter. From 1951 to 1960 he worked as a screenwriter, mainly for comedy films. He made his film debut as a director in 1960. He directed more than thirty films between 1960 and 1982.^[1] In 1982, he died of tuberculosis at the age of 58.

Filmography

Director

• Les pique-assiette (1960)
• Les Moutons de Panurge (1960)
• Les Livreurs (1961)
• People in Luck (1963)
• Les Bricoleurs (1963)
• Pouic-Pouic (1963)
• Let's Rob the Bank (1964)
• The Troops of St. Tropez (1964)
• The Gorillas (1964)
• Gendarme in New York (1965)
• Monsieur le président-directeur général (1966)
• Les grandes vacances (1967)
• A Strange Kind of Colonel (1968)
• Le gendarme se marie (1968)
• La maison de campagne (1969)
• Le gendarme en balade (1970)
• Le Juge (1971)
• Jo (1971)
• Les charlots font l'Espagne (1972)
• Le concierge (1973)
• Le permis de conduire (1974)
• Deux grandes filles dans un pyjama (1974)
• Les murs ont des oreilles (1974)
• L'intrépide (1975)
• L'Année sainte (1976)
• Le mille-pattes fait des claquettes (1977)
• L'horoscope (1978)
• The Gendarme and the Extra-Terrestrials (1979)
• L'Avare (1980)
• Ach du lieber Harry (1981)
• La Soupe aux choux (1981)
• Le gendarme et les gendarmettes (1982; released posthumously)

Writer

• Un jour avec vous (1952)

References

1. Web site: BFI | Film & TV Database | GIRAULT, Jean . 2009-09-13 . https://web.archive.org/web/20110903042634/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/15242 . 2011-09-03 . dead .