Jacques Viot (writer)

Jacques Viot
Born	20 November 1898 Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, France
Died	29 January 1973 (aged 74) Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, France
Alma mater	HEC Paris
Occupation	Writer
Years active	1935–1964 (film)

Jacques Viot (1898–1973) was a French novelist and screenwriter.^[1][2]

After service in the artillery during the First World War he became involved with the Surrealist movement. From the mid-1930s he began working on screenplays, collaborating with directors such as Marcel Carne, Jacques Feyder and Marcel Camus.

After the war, he enrolled at HEC Paris where he obtained a diploma, then worked in an insurance firm in Nantes.^[3]

Selected filmography

• Beautiful Days (1935)
• Under Western Eyes (1936)
• People Who Travel (1938)
• The Tamer (1938)
• Daybreak (1939)
• Carmen (1942)
• Marie-Martine (1943)
• The Ménard Collection (1944)
• Lunegarde (1946)
• Back Streets of Paris (1946)
• The Woman in Red (1947)
• The Long Night (1947)
• Night Express (1948)
• Juliette, or Key of Dreams (1951)
• The Call of Destiny (1953)
• The King's Prisoner (1954)
• The Air of Paris (1954)
• House on the Waterfront (1955)
• Black Orpheus (1959)

References

1. Crisp p.133
2. Berg p.175
3. Jacques Viot, le scénario d'une vie aventureuse

Bibliography

• Crisp, Colin. French Cinema—A Critical Filmography: Volume 2, 1940–1958. Indiana University Press, 2015.
• Richardson, Michael. Surrealism and Cinema. Berg, 2006.

External links

• Jacques Viot at IMDb