Maurice Cloche, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

    

Maurice Cloche

French film director

Date of Birth: 17-Jun-1907

Place of Birth: Commercy, Grand Est, France

Date of Death: 20-Mar-1990

Profession: screenwriter, photographer, film director, film producer

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Maurice Cloche

  • Maurice Cloche (17 June 1907, Commercy, Meuse – 23 March 1990, Bordeaux, France) was a French film director, screenwriter, photographer and film producer.
  • Best known for his Oscar-winning film Monsieur Vincent (1947) he won a 1948 Special Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film.''Monsieur Vincent,'' a dramatization of the life of St.
  • Vincent de Paul that starred Pierre Fresnay, won the Academy Award in 1947 for best foreign film.
  • It also was honored as the best film in France that year. Mr.
  • Cloche, whose career spanned more than a half-century, also made spy thrillers and films with religious and social themes. His best-known films include ''La Cage aux Oiseaux'' (''The Bird Cage''); ''Le Docteur Laennec,'' the story of the inventor of the stethoscope; ''Ne de Pere Inconnu'' (''Father Unknown'') and ''La Cage aux Filles (''The Girl Cage''). In 1940, Mr.
  • Cloche founded a film society for young talent.
  • It later became France's leading film school, the Institute of Advanced Film Studies. He studied at the École des Beaux-Arts, then at the École nationale supĂ©rieure des arts dĂ©coratifs, before going to the cinema as an actor in 1933.
  • He became artistic director and became director by shooting several short films.
  • He created a production company and made his first feature film in 1937.
  • After the Second World War, he is best known as a writer of films about great figures of Christian charity, hence his reputation in the profession of official Catholic filmmaker.He does not neglect the social subjects, nor even the series B.
  • Maurice Cloche also realizes several documentaries on art: Terre d'amour, Symphonie graphique, Alsace, Franche-ComtĂ©, Gothic images.
  • In 1940, in the southern zone, he participated with Paul Legros (general director) and Pierre GĂ©rin (deputy director), at the founding of the artistic and technical center of the young people of the cinema of which he ensures the artistic direction.
  • 2009, HĂ´tel de Sully, National Gallery of the Jeu de Paume (collective exhibition). He died on March 20, 1990, at his home in Bordeaux after a long illness.
  • He was 82 years old and had Parkinson's disease.> More on imdb. > French filmography

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