Years active 1935–1960 Name Jacques Becker | Role Screenwriter | |
Born 15 September 1906 ( 1906-09-15 ) Paris, France Occupation Screenwriter
Film director Notable work Le Trou, Touchez pas au grisbi, Casque d'Or Died February 21, 1960, Paris, France Spouse Francoise Fabian (m. 1957–1960) Children Jean Becker, Marie Becker, Etienne Becker, Sophie Becker Parents Margaret Burns, Louis Becker Movies The Hole, Hands Off the Loot, Casque D'Or, The Lovers of Montparnasse, Paris Frills Similar People Jean Becker, Jean Renoir, Simone Signoret, Francoise Fabian, Jose Giovanni | ||
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Jacques Becker ([bɛkɛʁ]; 15 September 1906 – 21 February 1960) was a French screenwriter and film director.
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Becker first worked in the 1930s as an assistant to director Jean Renoir during what is considered the latter's peak period, including such works as La Grande Illusion (1938) and The Rules of the Game (1939). Part of the Comité de libération du cinéma français, the Nazis held Becker in prison for a year during the German occupation of France in World War II. During the occupation, he became a director in his own right. He would go on to direct the period romance Casque d'Or (1952), the influential gangster film Touchez pas au grisbi (1954), and the prison escape drama Le Trou (1959). While he remains lesser-known internationally than peers such as Marcel Carné and Renoir, Becker is nonetheless regarded as a major French filmmaker, with Casque d'Or held in high esteem among film critics.
Personal life
Born in Paris, Becker was of an upper-class background. His father Louis Becker, of Lorraine ascendance was corporate director for Fulmen, a battery manufacturer; his Irish mother, Margaret Burns, held a fashion house in rue Cambon near Chanel in Paris.
Becker married actress Françoise Fabian, and his son Jean Becker also became a film director.
Death
Becker died at the age of 53 in 1960 and was interred in the Cimetière du Montparnasse in Paris.