Lepage, Henry

(February 12, 1898, Paris, France - February 4, 1970, Clichy-La-Garenne, Hauts-de-Seine, France)

   A former film journalist (Comoedia, La Griffe ciné­matographique, Ciné déchaîné), he became an assistant to the chief editor of the Pathé Journal in 1929. He already had directed silent shorts and began working as an assistant director (1925 Poil de Carotte, Julien Duvivier; 1929 Figaro, Gaston Ravel; 1932 Les Gaietés de l'Escadron, Maurice Tourneur; 1945 Marie la Misère, Jacques de Baroncelli; Monsieur Badin, short, Georges Régnier; 1948 Bichon, René Jayet; 1950 Nous avons tous fait la même Chose, René Sti), unit manager (1938 La Marseil­laise / UK: The Marseillaise, Jean Renoir), and production manager (1947 Le Silence est d'Or / UK: Silence Is Golden / USA: Man About Town, René Clair; 1948 Si ça peut vous faire Plaisir, Jacques Daniel-Norman).

 Filmography

1922 ◘ Les Ruses de Line (short)

1925 ◘ Une Aventure dans la Rue (also screenwriter)

1929 ◘ C'est par Amour pour vous Madame (short)

        ◘ La Machine à refaire la Vie (documentary; short; co-director with Julien Duvivier; shot in 1924)

        ◘ Science et Police (short)

        ◘ Bolides (short)

1948 ◘ Une Journée chargée (short)

1950 ◘ L'Extravagante Théodora

        ◘ Les Maître-Nageurs (also adapter)

        ◘ Mon Ami le Cambrioleur

        ◘ Et ta Sœur (also screenwriter, adapter)

        ◘ Dupont-Barbès / Malou de Montmartre (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)

        ◘ Fortuné de Marseille (co-director with Pierre Méré; also co-screenwriter, co-adapter)

        ◘ Rires de Paris / USA: Sins of Paris

        ◘ Ille aux Femmes nues / USA: Naked in the Wind (also co-adapter)

        ◘ Le Collège en Folie

        ◘ Pas de Souris dans le Bizness (also co-adapter)

        ◘ Las de Pitié pour les Caves (also adapter)

        ◘ A la Manière de Sherlock Holmes (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist)

        ◘ Pas de Grisbi pour Ricardo (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)

        ◘ C'est une Fille de Paname

1958 ◘ Le Souffle du Désir (also adapter, co-dialogist)