Moussy, Marcel

(May 7, 1924, Algiers, Alge­ria-August 10, 1995, Caen, Calvados, France)

   He discovered his interest for writing when still a teenager and was only eighteen years old when one of his plays was performed at the Opera of Algiers. An English teacher, he decided to quit his job to dedicate himself to authoring novels (1952 Le Sang chaud, Gallimard; 1953 Arcole ou La Terre promise, La Table Ronde; 1955 Les Mauvais Sentiments, Méditer­ranée France; 1960 Babylonia, Editions du Seuil). In 1957, he started writing for films (1959 Les Quatre Cents Coups / UK and USA: The Four Hundred Blows / USA: The 400 Blows, as co-adapter, dialogist, François Truffaut; La Sentence, as co-screenwriter, co-adapter, dialogist, Jean Valère; 1960 Tirez sur le Pianiste / UK: Shoot the Pianist / USA and Canada: Shoot the Piano Player, as co-screenwriter, co-adapter, François Truf-faut; 1962 Liberté 1, as dialogist, Yves Ciampi, France / Senegal; 1963 Ballade pour un Voyou / USA: Ballad for a Hoodlum, as dialogist, Claude-Jean Bonnardot; Le Journal d'un Fou, Roger Coggio; 1966 Paris brûle-t-il? / Is Paris Burning?, as co-adapter, co-dialogist, René Clément, France / USA; 1968 La Prisonnière / La prigioniera / UK: Female Prisoner / USA: Woman in Chains, as co-screenwriter, Henri-Georges Clouzot, France / Italy) and TV (1957 L'Alchimiste, as screenwriter, adapter, dialogist, Jean Prat; 1962 L'Inspecteur Leclerc enquête / L'Inspecteur enquête, as screenwriter, TV series; 1964 Le Théâtre de la Jeunesse, as screenwriter, adapter, dialogist, episode "Les Indes noires", Marcel Bluwal; 1966 Beaumarchais ou 60000 Fusils, as screenwriter, adapter, dialogist, Marcel Bluwal; 1970 Le Service des Affaires classées, France / Canada; 1977 Le Confessional des Pénitents noirs, as screenwriter, adapter, dialogist, Alain Boudet).

 Filmography

1961 ◘ Les Grandes Pelouses (short)

        ◘ Saint-Tropez Blues / Saint Tropez Blue (also screenwriter, dialogist, France / Italy)

1969 ◘ Trois Hommes sur un Cheval (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist)

 Television Filmography

        ◘ Les Frères McDonald L'ai les Peintres

        ◘ 22 Avenue de la Victoire (13 X 13'; also co-screenwriter, dialogist)

        ◘ Palpitations (also co-adapter)

        ◘ Quand la Liberté venait du Ciel (13 X 26'; two episodes)

1969 ◘ Agence Intérim (13 X 30'; co-director with Pierre Neurrisse)

1973 ◘ Le Maître de Pension (also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist)

        ◘ Un Roi de Théâtre 1975 Trente Ans ou La Vie d'un Joueur

1978 ◘ La Corde au Cou

        ◘ Les Héritiers (episode "L'Oncle Paul")

1979 ◘ Orient-Express (episodes "Hélène", "Jane")

        ◘ Arcole ou La Terre promise (6 X 52'; also origi­nal novel)

        ◘ Saison violente

1986 ◘ Le Rire de Caïn (6 X 52'; also co-screenwriter, co-adapter)