Champreux, Jacques

(March 31, 1930, Paris, France - )

   The grandson of director Louis Feuillade and son of filmmaker Maurice Champreux, he started out as an actor playing small parts in films (1961 Les Lâches vivent d'Espoir / USA: My Baby Is Black, Claude Bernard-Aubert; 1962 Les Parisiennes / Le Parigine / UK: Beds and Broads / USA: Tales of Paris, segment "Un Copain d'Ella / Ella", Jacques Poitrenaud, France / Italy; 1969 Trente-Six Heures, short, Philippe Haudi-quet; 2003 Histoires de Fiction, as himself, Sabine Chalvon-Demersay, Patrick Jeudy; 2004 Le Fantôme d'Henri Langlois / USA: Henri Langlois: The Phantom of the Cinematheque, Jacques Richard) and on TV (1961 Loin de Rueil, Claude Barma; 1964 Rocambole; first season: L'Héritage mystérieux, Jean-Pierre Decourt). Known mostly as a screenwriter (1963 Judex / L'uomo in nero, as co-screenwriter, co-adapter, co-dialogist, Georges Franju, France / Italy; 1967 Saturnin Belloir, 13 X 26', also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist, Jacques-Gérard Cornu; 1968 Les Compagnons de Baal, 7 X 50': episodes "Le Secret de Diogène", "Le Mystère de l'Île Saint-Louis", "Le Spectre rouge", "L'Inquiétant Profes­seur Lomer", "La Nuit du Huit de Trèfle", "L'Héritage de Nostradamus", "L'Eveil de Liliane", as screenwriter, dialogist, actor, Pierre Prévert; 1973 L'Île mystérieuse, 6 X 52', as co-screenwriter, co-adapter, Juan Antonio Bardem, Henri Colpi, France / Italy / Spain; 1974 Nuits rouges / UK and USA: Shadowman, as screenwriter, dialogist, actor, Georges Franju, France / Italy; 1975 L'Homme sans Visage, 8 X 60': episodes "L'Homme sans Visage", "Le Masque de Plomb", "Les Tueurs sans Âme", "La Mort qui rampait sur les Toits", "La Marche des Spectres", "Le Sang accusateur", "Le Rapt", "Le Secret des Templiers", as screenwriter, dialogist, actor, France / Italy), he directed a feature film on African immigration in France.

 Filmography

1979 ◘ Bako, l'Autre Rive (also co-screenwriter, co-dialogist)