Biography: life and films
Jacques Tourneur was a French film director whose birth name was Jacques Thomas. He was born in Paris, France on 12th November 1904 and died in Bergerac, France on 19th December 1977, aged 73.His best films as a film director include Cat People (1942), I Walked with a Zombie (1943), Out of the Past (1947), Night of the Demon (1957) and Nightfall (1957), and whose best work as an actor include Edmund Goulding's Love (1927), Sam Wood's comedy The Fair Co-Ed (1927) and Clarence Brown's The Trail of '98 (1928).
Jacques Tourneur directed 36 films and appeared in 3 films.
His most frequent genres include: drama (19 films), Thriller (10), romance (8), Western (8), Horror (5), crime-thriller (3), comedy (3), War (3), Fantasy (3) and history (2).
Our average rating for Jacques Tourneur over all films is: 3.2
Filmography
Key: d = director; a = actor
Love (1927) [a]
The Trail of '98 (1928) [a]
Tout ça ne vaut pas l'amour (1931) [d]
Pour être aimé (1933) [d]
Toto (1933) [d]
Les Filles de la concierge (1934) [d]
Nick Carter, Master Detective (1939) [d]
They All Come Out (1939) [d]
Phantom Raiders (1940) [d]
Doctors Don't Tell (1941) [d]
I Walked with a Zombie (1943) [d]
Experiment Perilous (1944) [d]
Canyon Passage (1946) [d]
Berlin Express (1948) [d]
Easy Living (1949) [d]
Stars in My Crown (1950) [d]
The Flame and the Arrow (1950) [d]
Circle of Danger (1951) [d]
Way of a Gaucho (1952) [d]
Appointment in Honduras (1953) [d]
Stranger on Horseback (1955) [d]
Wichita (1955) [d]
Great Day in the Morning (1956) [d]
Nightfall (1957) [d]
The Fearmakers (1958) [d]
Frontier Rangers (1959) [d]
La Battaglia di Maratona (1959) [d]
Mission of Danger (1959) [d]
Timbuktu (1959) [d]
Fury River (1961) [d]
The Comedy of Terrors (1964) [d]
The City Under the Sea (1965) [d]
The brighter side of Franz Kafka
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The very best fantasy films in French cinema
