Biography: life and films
Georges Auric was a French composer. He was born in Lodève, Hérault, France on 15th February 1899 and died in Paris, France on 23rd July 1983, aged 84.His best films as a musician include Jean Cocteau's Le Sang d'un poète (1930), Jean Delannoy's Les Jeux sont faits (1947), Jules Dassin's crime-thriller Du rififi chez les hommes (1955), Max Ophüls's Lola Montès (1955) and Georges Franju's Thomas l'imposteur (1965), and whose best work as an actor include René Clair's Entr'acte (1924) and Man Ray's Les Mystères du château de Dé (1929).
Georges Auric supplied the music for 113 films and appeared in 2 films.
He has most frequently worked with the following directors: Jean Delannoy (11 films), Marc Allégret (7), Jean Cocteau (5), Charles Crichton (5), Terence Young (3), Robert Hamer (3), Henry Cornelius (3), Henri-Georges Clouzot (3), André Zwoboda (3), (3), René Clair (2), Raymond Rouleau (2), Pierre Chenal (2), Marcello Pagliero (2), Jules Dassin (2), John Huston (2), Jean Dréville (2), Charles Brabant (2), Basil Dearden (2), Anatole Litvak (2) and Alexander Alexeieff (2).
His most frequent genres include: drama (75 films), romance (27), comedy (19), Thriller (13), comedy-drama (9), history (8), War (7), Fantasy (6), crime-thriller (5), Horror (5), comedy-thriller (2), comedy-romance (2), Documentary (2) and Biography (2).
Our average rating for Georges Auric over all films is: 3.2
Filmography
Key: m = musician; a = actor
Entr'acte (1924) [a]
Les Mystères du château de Dé (1929) [a]
Les Mystères de Paris (1935) [m]
Sous les yeux d'occident (1936) [m]
L'Alibi (1937) [m]
La Danseuse rouge (1937) [m]
Tamara la complaisante (1937) [m]
Un déjeuner de soleil (1937) [m]
Entrée des artistes (1938) [m]
L'Affaire Lafarge (1938) [m]
La Vie d'un homme (1938) [m]
Les Oranges de Jaffa (1938) [m]
Orage (1938) [m]
Son oncle de Normandie (1938) [m]
Le Corsaire (1939) [m]
Macao, l'enfer du jeu (1939) [m]
L'Assassin a peur la nuit (1942) [m]
La Belle aventure (1942) [m]
Opéra-Musette (1942) [m]
Le Bossu (1944) [m]
Caesar and Cleopatra (1945) [m]
Farandole (1945) [m]
François Villon (1945) [m]
La Belle et la bête (1946) [m]
La Symphonie pastorale (1946) [m]
It Always Rains on Sunday (1947) [m]
Les Jeux sont faits (1947) [m]
Torrents (1947) [m]
Another Shore (1948) [m]
Aux yeux du souvenir (1948) [m]
Corridor of Mirrors (1948) [m]
L'Aigle à deux têtes (1948) [m]
Les Parents terribles (1948) [m]
Ruy Blas (1948) [m]
Les Noces de sable (1949) [m]
Maya (1949) [m]
Orphée (1949) [m]
Passport to Pimlico (1949) [m]
Silent Dust (1949) [m]
The Queen of Spades (1949) [m]
The Spider and the Fly (1949) [m]
Cage of Gold (1950) [m]
Les Amants de Bras-Mort (1951) [m]
The Galloping Major (1951) [m]
The Lavender Hill Mob (1951) [m]
La P... respectueuse (1952) [m]
L'Esclave (1953) [m]
Le Salaire de la peur (1953) [m]
The Titfield Thunderbolt (1953) [m]
La Chair et le diable (1954) [m]
The Divided Heart (1954) [m]
Chéri-Bibi (1955) [m]
Du rififi chez les hommes (1955) [m]
Nagana (1955) [m]
Gervaise (1956) [m]
Les Aventures de Till L'Espiègle (1956) [m]
Notre Dame de Paris (1956) [m]
Walk Into Paradise (1956) [m]
Celui qui doit mourir (1957) [m]
Dangerous Exile (1957) [m]
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957) [m]
Les Sorcières de Salem (1957) [m]
The Story of Esther Costello (1957) [m]
Bonjour tristesse (1958) [m]
Christine (1958) [m]
Les Bijoutiers du clair de lune (1958) [m]
Next to No Time (1958) [m]
SOS Pacific (1959) [m]
The Journey (1959) [m]
Schlußakkord (1960) [m]
Sergent X (1960) [m]
Bridge to the Sun (1961) [m]
La Princesse de Clèves (1961) [m]
Le Rendez-vous de minuit (1961) [m]
Les Croulants se portent bien (1961) [m]
Carillons sans joie (1962) [m]
The Mind Benders (1962) [m]
La Communale (1965) [m]
La Grande vadrouille (1966) [m]
La Sentinelle endormie (1966) [m]
Poppies Are Also Flowers (1966) [m]
Therese and Isabelle (1968) [m]
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