Jean Manoussi

Jean Manoussi
Born	14 November 1868 Marseille, France
Died	21 December 1929(1929-12-21) (aged 61) Paris, France
Occupation(s)	Dramatist, film director and screenwriter

Jean Manoussi (14 November 1868 - 21 December 1929) was a French dramatist, film director and screenwriter. Jean Manoussi has written several theatre plays in collaboration with playwrights such as Paul Armont, Marcel Gerbidon or Gabriel Timmory.

Theatre

• 1902 : Un beau mariage, cowritten with Gabriel Timmory
• 1903 : Petite bonne sérieuse, cowritten with Gabriel Timmory
• 1904 : Pomme de terre, cowritten with Gabriel Timmory
• 1909 : Un cambrioleur ingénieux, cowritten with Gabriel Timmory
• 1913 : Le Chevalier au masque, cowritten with Paul Armont
• 1916 : La Ventouse, cowritten with Marcel Nancey
• 1923 : Dicky, cowritten with Paul Armont and Marcel Gerbidon

Filmography

as director

• 1919 : Fanny Lear, cowritten with Robert Boudrioz, after Ludovic Halévy and Henri Meilhac,
• 1919 : L'Homme bleu after the novel by Georges Le Faure
• 1920 : Illusions
• 1922 : Le Grillon du foyer
• 1923 : Le Dernier des Capendu
• 1925 : The Painter and His Model, German film of the Maxim-Film Ges. Ebner & Co in Berlin
• 1926 : Fedora, also screenwriter, after the play by Victorien Sardou
• 1926 : Ma maison de Saint-Cloud after the novel by Paul Bourget

As screenwriter

• 1909 : Un cambrioleur ingénieux
• 1925: Knock
• 1927 : Le Secret de Délia or L'Évadée by Henri Ménessier after a play by Victorien Sardou

Cinema adaptations

• 1936 : The Mysterious Mister X by Johann Alexander Hübler-Kahla after Dicky (1923)
• 1938 : Monsieur Breloque a disparu [fr] by Robert Péguy after Dicky (1923)
• 1940 : Trappola d'amore [it] by Raffaello Matarazzo after Dicky (1923)
• 1955 : The Purple Mask by H. Bruce Humberstone after Le Chevalier au masque (1913)

External links

• Jean Manoussi at IMDb
• lesgensducinema.com