Edmond T. Gréville
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Edmond T. Gréville (real name Edmond Gréville Thonger, 20 June 1906 Nice – 26 May 1966, Nice) was a French film director. The son of Franco-British parents, his father a Protestant pastor, Gréville began his career as a film journalist and critic. In parallel with a few acting performances in some silent films and in the first talkie of René Clair, Sous les toits de Paris (1930), he directed his first short films. His first experience of directing had been on the shooting of Abel Gance's Napoléon in 1927. He had then worked as an assistant director, notably on the English film Piccadilly, L'Arlésienne (directed by Jacques de Baroncelli), Augusto Genina's Prix de beauté ( with Louise Brooks) and Abel Gance's La Fin du Monde. Between 1930 and 1940 he directed several French films - Le Train des suicidés (1931), Remous (1934) with Françoise Rosay (a social-realist film on the sensitive sexual issue of impotence), and two comedy musical films Princesse Tam Tam (1935) with Josephine Baker, and Gypsy Melody (1936), with Lupe Velez. In Britain again, he filmed Mademoiselle Docteur with Dita Parlo and John Loder, and Menaces (1938) with Mireille Balin and Erich von Stroheim, playing an Austrian refugee who commits suicide following the Anschluss. With a heavy atmosphere charged with eroticism which characterises his films, Gréville imposed his independence and original style on the cinema of the time. He stopped directing films during the Second World War and the Occupation - xenophobia and anti-Semitism ruined or put a stop to some careers, among film-makers those of Léonide Moguy and Pierre Chenal for example, both French Jews, and the half-British Gréville, and took away production and distribution companies belonging to Jews like the father and son distributors Siriztky. In 1948 he made a film on the subject of resistance and collaboration in the Dutch film Niet tevergeefs. The same year he made a film with Carole Landis, Noose. In Le Port du désir (1954) he directed Jean Gabin as a captain confronted by an unscrupulous smuggler and torn by his love for a young woman who is also loved by a younger man. In Gréville's last years he made Beat Girl (1959) with Adam Faith and a horror film The Hands of Orlac (1960) with Mel Ferrer. His last film was L'Accident (1963) with Magali Noël based on a Frédéric David novel. In May 1966, Edmond Greville died in hospital in Nice, thought to be the result of complications following a car accident. Description above from the Wikipedia article Edmond T. Gréville, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
DirectingBirthday
June 20, 1906Deathday
May 26, 1966Gender
MaleKnown Movie Credits
33Place of birth
Nice, FranceCast credits
Crew credits
Beat Girl
DirectorWhirlpool
DirectorNoose
DirectorThe Hands of Orlac
Director, Writer, DialoguePrincess Tam Tam
DirectorHouse on the Waterfront
DirectorNaughty Arlette
Director, AdaptationBrief Ecstasy
DirectorSecret Lives
Screenplay, DirectorOther Side of Paradise
Director, ScreenplayThreats
Screenplay, DirectorHorror Castle
ScreenplayThe Fire Triangle
DirectorForty Years
DirectorWoman of Evil
Director, WriterWhen Will it Strike Noon
DirectorThe Accident
DirectorPassionnelle
Director, ScreenplayMarchand d'amour
DirectorGypsy Melody
Director