Casaril, Guy

(November l, l933, Miramont-de-Guyenne, Lot-et-Garonne, France - May 3, l996, Chapel Hill, Australia)

   He studied Oriental languages and then enrolled in the IDHEC (directing and production section, l952-l954). From l954 to l956, he worked as a cam­eraman on shorts and directed several shorts before serving as an assistant director at the RTF and ORTF (French TV from l957 to l973). A TV producer, he shot several documentaries before directing his first feature film in 1968. He co-wrote the screenplay of Philippe de Broca's Julie Pot-de-Colle (l977). By the mid-l970s, he gave up directing to translate (some­times in collaboration with his wife Françoise) from English, Italian, Spanish, and German about 200 books, including those of Carlos Castaneda, Ruth Rendell, and Jack Higgins and James Michener's best-sellers. He authored several books, including Rabbi Siméon, Bar Yochaï et la Cabale (Editions du Seuil, 1961). His daughter, Carolina, who studied environmental sci­ence, is an orchestra director and a composer (she wrote a requiem, an orchestra, and a choral for her late father).

 Filmography

        ◘ L'Astragale / West Germany and USA: Astragal (also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist; France / West Germany)

        ◘ Les Novices / Le novizie / USA: The Novices (also screenwriter, adapter; France / Italy)

        ◘ Les Pétroleuses / Le pistolere / Petroleum Girls / USA: Frenchie King / The Legend of Frenchie King (also actor; co-director with Christian-Jaque; France / Italy / UK)

1972 ◘ Le Rempart des Béguines / Gli amori impossibili / UK: The Beguines / USA: Rampart of Desire (also co-screenwriter)

        ◘ Piaf / USA: Piaf:The Early Years (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)

        ◘ Emilienne / USA: Emilienne & Nicole

 Television Filmography

1964 ◘ La Nuit écoute Marguerite Long (documentary)

        ◘ Le Passage de Vénus

        ◘ Variations

        ◘ L'Or de Troie (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)

        ◘ La Nuit écoute Vittorio de Sica (documentary)

        ◘ Vers Francis Ponge (documentary)

        ◘ Il faut que je tue Monsieur Rumann (also screenwriter, adapter, dialogist)

        ◘ Par Quatre Chemins (also screenwriter, dialogist)

        ◘ Pitchi-Poï ou La Parole donnée (co-director with François Billetdoux)

        ◘ Drift (also screenwriter, dialogist)