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  • BIRTH 06/06/1906
  • DEATH 02/11/1994
  • Country Austria
  • DIRECTOR 16

Richard Pottier

Richard Pottier (6 June 1906, in Graz – 2 November 1994, in Le Plessis-Bouchard) was an Austrian-born French film director.He was born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire as Ernst Deutsch.

Pottier, born in 1906 in Budapest, began his career as Sternberg's assistant. His debut as a director coincided with the coming of the talkies. He broached many genres along his long career: plenty of comedies ("Si J'Etais Le Patron" ), adventures ("Les Secrets De La Mer rouge"), sci -fi ("Le Monde Tremblera", with its machine which could predict the date of your death), detective films ("Picpus" ) musicals ("Violettes Imperiales"), melodramas ("Defense D'Aimer" ), you name it. He was a solid craftsman and certainly did not deserve the critics' contempt. Without him, "Some like it hot" would never have happened for Billy Wilder used the German remake of "fanfare D'Amour" as a model. He was the first to talk about euthanasia in "Meurtres" (1950) at a time when the subject was thoroughly taboo; his buoyant "Caroline Chérie" predated the "Angélique Marquise Des Anges" saga by ten years. His rural thriller "La Ferme Aux Loups" renewed the story of twins. His career neatly declined after 1950,and his last works were cheap sword and sandals flicks such as "David Et Goliath" (starring Orson Welles) and "L'Enlèvement Des Sabines" (starring Roger Moore). He retired in the mid-sixties. He was to live thirty more years.(d.1994)

Richard Pottier

Director (16)

Meurtres ?
Meurtres ?
Le Chanteur de Mexico
Le Chanteur de Mexico
Casimir
Casimir
Caroline chérie
Caroline chérie
Huit hommes dans un château
Huit hommes dans un château
Le monde tremblera
Le monde tremblera
Destins
Destins
Un oiseau rare
Un oiseau rare
Il ratto delle sabine
Il ratto delle sabine
La Ferme aux loups
La Ferme aux loups
La Châtelaine du Liban
La Châtelaine du Liban
Défense d'aimer
Défense d'aimer
Ouvert contre X...
Ouvert contre X...
Picpus
Picpus
David e Golia
David e Golia
Fanfare d'amour
Fanfare d'amour