Alain Corneau

Director, Writer, Actor, Producer

August 7, 1943 — August 30, 2010 (67 years)
Alain Corneau (7 August 1943 – 30 August 2010) was a French film director and writer.

Corneau was born in Meung-sur-Loire, Loiret. Originally a musician, he worked with Costa-Gavras as an assistant, which was also his first opportunity to work with the actor Yves Montand, with whom he would collaborate three times later in his career, including Police Python 357 (1976) and La Menace (1977).

He directed Gérard Depardieu in the screen adaptation of Tous les matins du monde in 1991.

Corneau died on 30 August 2010 from cancer,  and was interred at Pere-Lachaise cemetery.

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Known For

  • Passion
    Passion2012
  • All the Mornings of the World
    All the Mornings of the World1991
  • Love Crime
    Love Crime2010
  • Fear and Trembling
    Fear and Trembling2003
  • Serie Noire
    Serie Noire1979
  • Police Python 357
    Police Python 3571976
  • Choice of Arms
    Choice of Arms1981
  • The Confession
    The Confession1970
  • The Second Wind
    The Second Wind2007
  • Fort Saganne
    Fort Saganne1984
  • The Cousin
    The Cousin1997
  • La Menace
    La Menace1977
  • The Prince of the Pacific
    The Prince of the Pacific2000
  • Atlantic Wall
    Atlantic Wall1970
  • Lumière & Company
    Lumière & Company1995
  • The New World
    The New World1995
  • Words in Blue
    Words in Blue2005
  • Nocturne indien
    Nocturne indien1989
  • France, Incorporated
    France, Incorporated1974
  • Extreme Justice
    Extreme Justice1986

Filmography

2010
2007
The Second Wind · as Screenplay
2005
Some Kind of Blue · as Screenplay
2003
2000
1997
1995
1991
1989
1984
Fort Saganne · as Screenplay
1981
1979
1977
La Menace · as Screenplay
1976
1974
France, Incorporated · as Screenplay
1973

2022
Patrick Dewaere, My Hero · as Self (archive Footage) - Director
2022
2007
2004
1998
Roll on Sunday · as Self
1990
Faut pas rêver · as Self
1976
César Awards · as Self
1975
Le 13H de TF1 · as Self
1975
Sunday meetings · as Self

2008
Beauties at War · as Le Réalisateur

2003
Les ramoneurs cérébraux · as Associate Producer

2012
Passion · as Original Story
1986
Extreme Justice · as Scenario
1977
J.A. Martin photographe · as Boom Operator
1971
It Only Happens to Others · as Assistant Director
1970
Atlantic Wall · as Assistant Director
1970
The Confession · as Assistant Director
1969
L'Américain · as Assistant Director