• Date of Birth: November 12, 1904
  • Place of Birth: Paris, France
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Jacques Tourneur Biography

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Replace this image with an actor photoJacques Tourneur mini-bio: Born in Paris in 1904, Tourneur went to Hollywood with his father, director Maurice Tourneur around 1913. He started out as a script clerk and editor for his father, then graduated to such jobs as directing shorts (often with the pseudonym Jack Turner), both in France and America. He was hired to run the second unit for David O. Selznick's A Tale of Two Cities (1935), where he first met Val Lewton. In 1942, when Lewton was named to head the new horror unit at RKO, he asked Tourneur to be his first director. The result was the highly artistic (and commercially successful) Cat People (1942). Tourneur went on to direct masterpieces in many different genres, all showing a great command of mood and atmosphere.

Date of Death: 19 December 1977, Bergerac, Dordogne, Aquitaine, France.


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  • Stories by which prolific American writer were filmed by Alfred Hitchcock, Francois Truffaut, Jacques Tourneur, Robert Siodmak and Rainer Werner Fassbinder?  Answer »

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