Dupont, Jacques

(Claude Jacques Dupont / April 21, 1921, Ruelle-sur-Touvre, Charente, France - )

   Having graduated with a bachelor's degree in law, he studied cinema at the Ecole Technique de Photog­raphie and then at the IDHEC. An assistant direc­tor (1947 Paysans noirs / Famoro le Tyran, Georges Régnier) and costume designer (1962 Les Amants de Teruel / USA: The Lovers of Teruel, Raymond Rouleau; 1966 Hotel Paradiso, also color consultant, Peter Glen-ville, UK), he began directing shorts.

 Filmography

        ◘ Au Pays des Pygmées (documentary; short)

        ◘ Pirogues sur l'Ogooue (documentary; short)

        ◘ La Grande Case (documentary; short)

        ◘ Savage Africa / Congolaise (documentary; USA)

        ◘ L'Eveil d'un Monde (documentary; short)

        ◘ Moissons d'aujourd'hui (documentary; short)

        ◘ Okoumé (documentary; short)

        ◘ Palmes (documentary; short)

        ◘ Voilà (n)vous! (documentary; short)

        ◘ A tout casser (short)

        ◘ L'Enfant au Fennec (short)

        ◘ Coureurs de Brousse (documentary; short)

        ◘ Crèvecoeur / Heartbreak Ridge (documentary; shot in 1953-1954)

        ◘ La Passe du Diable / I figli di Gengis-Khan / El desfiladero del Diablo (co-director with Pierre Schoendoerffer; shot in 1956-1957; France / Italy / Spain)

        ◘ Les Distractions / Le distrazioni / UK and USA: Trapped by Fear (also co-screenwriter, co-adapter; France / Italy)

1967 ◘ Demain Roissy en France (documentary; short)

1971 ◘ Les Chantiers de Roissy en France (documentary; short)

1978 ◘ Paris (documentary; short)

 Television Filmography

1990 ◘ Les Sacrifiés dOrves