Still of Jean Delannoy in La princesse de Clèves (1961)
Caption: Still of Jean Delannoy in La princesse de Clèves (1961)
Director, Writer, Editor
Born: January 12, 1908
Star sign: Capricorn
Known for: Inspector Maigret (1958), Pastoral Symphony (1946), Imperial Venus (1962), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1956)
Source: IMDB
Jean Delannoy began his film career in the 1920s as an actor. By the 1930s he had switched careers and become an editor, then a short-subjects director. By the mid-'30s he was a full-fledged director, and soon garnered a reputation as a sensitive, understated craftsman with a thorough command of the medium. By the 1950s, however, he was doing ...