Haguet, André

(November 9, 1900, Suresnes, Hauts-de-Seine, France - August 20, 1973, Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, France)

   He studied at the National School of Decorative Arts. After beginning a film career in the Paramount administration in 1924, he wrote several plays (Une Jeune Fille savait; Si Jeunesse savait; La Bride est sur le Cou; Tout est parfait; Mon Ami le Cambrioleur; L'Ecole des Parents). He occasionally co-produced films (1933 Le Sexe faible, Robert Siodmak; 1955 Lola Montès / Lola Montez / UK: The Fall of Lola Montes / USA: The Sins of Lola Montes, Max Ophuls, France / West Germany) and collaborated on screenplays and dialogue of several movies (1938 Trois Artilleurs à l'Opéra, as screenwriter, André Chotin; 1947 Le Destin s'amuse, as co-dialogist, Emile-Edwin Reinert; 1948 Mandrin, as co-screenwriter, two parts: "Le Libérateur", "La Tragédie d'un Siècle", René Jayet; Une Jeune Fille savait, as author of original play, Maurice Lehmann; Sombre Dimanche, as co-adapter, Jacqueline Audry; 1949 Piège à Hommes, as dialogist, Jean Loubignac; Le Droit de l'Enfant, as co-screenwriter, Jacques Daroy; L'Echafaud peut attendre, as co-dialogist, Albert Valentin; Le Paradis des Pilotes perdus / USA: The Hell of Lost Pilots, as co-screenwriter, co-dialogist, Georges Lampin; La Passagère, as dialogist, Jacques Daroy; Mon Ami le Cambioleur, as author of original play, screenwriter, adapter, dialogist, Henry Lepage; 1951 L'Aiguille rouge, as co-screenwriter, co-adapter, Emile-Edwin Reinert; 1952 Foyer perdu, as author of original play, screenwriter, adapter, dialogist, Jean Loubignac; 1955 Noche de tormenta / Nuit d'Orage, as co-screenwriter, Jaime de Mayora, Marcel Jauniaux, Spain / Belgium; 1958 Les Violents, as co-screenwriter, Henri Calef; 1962 Le Chevalier de Pardaillan / Il Guascone / USA: Clash of Steel, Bernard Borderie, France / Italy; 1964 Nick Carter va tout casser / USA: License to Kill, as co-adapter, co-dialogist, Henri Decoin; Hardi Pardaillan! / Le armi della vendetta / US TV: The Gallant Musketeer, as co-screenwriter, Bernard Borderie, France / Italy; 1966 Le Solitaire passe à l'Attaque / El Solitario pasa al ataque, as screenwriter, Ralph Habib, France / Spain).

 Filmography

1950 ◘ Fusillé à l'Aube / USA: Secret Document: Vienna (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist)

1952 ◘ Procès au Vatican / UK and USA: Trial on Vatican (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)

        ◘ L est Minuit Docteur Schweitzer / USA: Dr Schweitzer (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist)

1954 ◘ Par Ordre du Tsar / Les Cloches n'ont pas sonné / Ungarisches Rhapsodie / Franz Liszts grosse Liebe (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist; German version directed by Peter Berneis; France / West Germany)

        ◘ Milord lArsouille (also adapter, dialogist, producer)

        ◘ La Roue (also producer)

1960 ◘ Colère froide / USA: Thunder in the Blood (also screenwriter, dialogist, producer)