Borderie, Bernard

(June 10, 1924, Paris, France - May 28, 1978, Paris, France)

   The son of producer of Raymond Borderie (1897­1982), he studied at the Beaux-Arts and was briefly a painter and illustrator before entering films as a trainee director (1944 Premier de Cordée, Louis Daquin; 1945 Les Enfants du Paradis / USA: Children of Paradise, two episodes",Le Boulevard du Crime", "L'Homme blanc", shot in 1943-1944). He succes­sively was an assistant director (1946 Le Visiteur / USA: Tainted, Jean Dréville; 1947 Le Bataillon du Ciel / USA: They Are No Angels, two parts",Ce ne sont pas des Anges", "Terre de France", Alexandre Esway), adapter (1947 Bethsabée, Léonide Moguy), and co-dialogist (1956 Section des Disparus / Seccion despare-cidos, Pierre Chenal, France / Argentina). He directed many box office hits of the 1950s and 1960s (the Lemmy Caution series with Eddie Constantine and the Angélique starring Michèle Mercier). He died of cancer at age fifty-three.

 Filmography

        ◘ La Fabrication du Savon (short; also screenwriter)

        ◘ Bon Voyage Mademoiselle (short; also screenwriter, dialogist)

        ◘ Transit à Saigon (short; also screenwriter)

1952 ◘ Les Loups chassent la Nuit / La ragazza di Trieste (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist; France / Italy)

        ◘ Rendez-vous à Paris (short; also screenwriter)

        ◘ La Môme Vert-de-Gris / USA: Poison Ivy (also screenwriter, adapter)

        ◘ Les Femmes s'en balancent / US video: Dames Don't Care (also screenwriter, adapter, co-dialogist)

        ◘ Fortune carrée / Shaitan, il diavolo avventuroso / US TV: Conqueror of the Orient (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter; France / Italy)

        ◘ Tahiti ou La Joie de vivre

        ◘ Ces Dames préfèrent le Mambo / Le signore preferiscono il mambo / USA: Dishonorable Discharge (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist; France / Italy)

        ◘ Le Gorille vous salue bien / USA: The Mask of the Gorilla (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)

1959 ◘ Délit de Fuite / Sangue sull'asfalto / Prestup u bekstvu (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, dialogist; France / Italy / Yugoslavia)

        ◘ La Valse du Gorille / US TV: Operation Top Secret (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist)

1960 ◘ Sergent X / USA: Sergeant X of the Foreign Legion

        ◘ Comment qu'elle est / USA: Women Are Like That (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter)

        ◘ Le Caïd

1961 ◘ Les Trois Mousquetaires / I tre moschettieri (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter; two parts: "Les Ferrets de la Reine" / USA: "The Fighting Musketeers", "La Vengeance de Milady" / "Vengeance of the Three Musketeers"; France / Italy)

1962 ◘ Lemmy pour les Dames / USA: Ladies' Man (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter)

        ◘ Le Chevalier de Pardaillan / Il Guascone / USA: Clash of Steel (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist; France / Italy)

        ◘ Une Escale au Caire (short)

1963 ◘ Rocambole (France / Italy)

        ◘ A toi de faire, Mignonne / Agente federale Lemmy Caution / USA: Your Turn, Darling (also co-dialogist, producer; France / Italy)

1964 ◘ Hardi Pardaillan / Le armi della vendetta / US TV:

        ◘ The Gallant Musketeer (also adapter, dialogist; France / Italy)

        ◘ Angélique, Marquise des Anges / Angelica / Angel­ique (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter; France / Italy / West Germany)

        ◘ Merveilleuse Angélique / La meravigliosa Angelica / Angelique, 2. Teil / UK: Angelique: The Road to Versailles (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter; France / Italy / West Germany)

        ◘ Angélique et le Roy / Angelica alla corte del re / Angélique und der Kônig / USA: Angelique and the King (France / Italy / West Germany)

        ◘ Brigade Anti-Gangs / Pattuglia anti gang / US TV: The Friday Gang (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter; France / Italy)

        ◘ Sept Hommes pour une Garce / La primula rosa / Sapte baleti si o strengarita / USA: Seven Guys and a Gal (also co-adapter; France / Italy / Romania)

        ◘ Indomptable Angélique / L'indomabile Angelica / Unbezahmbare Angélique (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter; France / Italy / West Germany)

        ◘ Angélique et le Sultan / Angelica e il gran sultano / Angélique und der Sultan / USA: Angelique and the Sultan (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter; France / Italy / West Germany)

        ◘ Catherine, il suffit d'un Amour / Catherine-Aben-teuer und Leidenschaft im Sinnesfrohen Paris (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist; France / Italy / West Germany)

1972 ◘ A la Guerre comme à la Guerre / Le eccitanti guerre di Adeline / Wie bitte werde ich ein Held? / USA: War Is Hell (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist; France / Italy / West Germany)

 Television Filmography

1975 ◘ Salvator et les Mohicans de Paris (8 x 55')

        ◘ Lo Gaillard (13 x 52'; co-director only; France / Italy / Canada)

1976 ◘ Les Douze Légionnaires (13 x 26')

        ◘ Ces Beaux Messieurs de Bois-Doré (5 x 90'; also co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist)

1978 ◘ Gaston Phébus / USA: Gaston Phoebus (six episodes)