“You stopped eating beef just when you discovered it was safe. That was 10 years ago. Do you want to be immortal?”
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Claude Chabrol
Claude Henri Jean Chabrol was a French film director and a member of the French New Wave group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s. Like his colleagues and contemporaries Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Éric Rohmer and Jacques Rivette, Chabrol was a critic for the influential film magazine Cahiers du Cinéma before beginning his career as a filmmaker.
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entertainment · French film director (1930–2010) · film actor · film screenwriter · film critic · director · producer · manufacturer · film director · screenwriter · actor · also Claude Chabrol, Claude Henri Jean Chabrol, Chabrol
Born 24 June 1930 · Died 12 September 2010 · Q55375
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2026· 18 entries
“but negotiations always ended in confusion.”
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“who feel obliged to sleep with their leading ladies. I do not like agitation on the set.”
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“They knew little about music,”
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“but music is really part of my life.”
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“and there was a danger the audience would not accept him as a murderer.”
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“and she fell in love with me.”
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“It was the story of an evil genius who plans to poison the world,”
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“but I always managed to have one or two good scenes, just to keep the flag flying.”
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“and he took Les Cousins and Le Beau Serge.”
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“I wrote a 15-page script, which I fashioned in what I hoped would be the Rossellini style. But he said it was unsuitable. I was as vexed as a flea.”
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“I spent the next seven years doing little - reading, painting, listening to music. I did work vaguely for Cahiers du Cinéma and I did some PR work for Fox films, but the earnings were nothing great.”
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“As far as I was concerned, either I was a homosexual or I wasn”
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“but I was so pissed off I quit. Not only did the work piss me off, so did the people. I found the atmosphere insupportable.”
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“I was pretty good in the gym.”
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“I like to get to the absolute limit of principles...In drivel like the Tiger series I really wanted to get the full extent of the drivel. They were drivel, so OK, let”
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“when I want cruelty, I go off and look for Gégauff. Paul is very good at gingering things up...He can make a character look absolutely ridiculous and hateful in two seconds flat.”
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“s father and grandfather had been pharmacists, and Chabrol was expected to follow in the family business. But as a child, Chabrol was”
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2025· 1 entry
Moviefone: Claude Chabrol, the Maverick - Where to Watch
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2022· 1 entry
We Are Movie Geeks: Twisting the Knife: Four Films by Claude Chabrol – Available on Blu-ray April 26th From Arrow Video
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2010· 14 entries
The Guardian: David Thomson on Claude Chabrol
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Gala: Claude Chabrol: ses obsèques se dérouleront vendredi au Père Lachaise
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The Guardian: Through the French looking glass with Claude Chabrol | Agnès Poirier
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NPR: French Filmmaker Claude Chabrol Dies At 80
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The Guardian: Claude Chabrol: a career in clips
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The Guardian: Claude Chabrol's life in pictures
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The Guardian: Claude Chabrol anatomised the French middle class with a twist of the scalpel
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The Guardian: Claude Chabrol obituary
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The Guardian: French film-maker Claude Chabrol dies
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Digital Spy: Director Claude Chabrol dies at 80
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Gala: Claude Chabrol a tiré sa révérence, en province, un dimanche
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Died 2010-09-12.
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“others have influenced me more. My three greatest influences were Murnau, the great silent film director...Ernst Lubitsch and Fritz Lang.”
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Chabrol died on 12 September 2010 of leukemia.
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2003· 1 entry
Awarded European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award (2003).
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2000· 1 entry
Awarded Louis Delluc Prize for Merci pour le chocolat (2000).
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1996· 1 entry
Awarded National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Foreign Language Film for La Cérémonie (1996).
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1995· 1 entry
Chabrol was awarded the Prix René Clair from the Académie française for his body of work
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1991· 1 entry
“but a crime story is a vehicle for describing characters and milieu. I like to deconstruct the story, but if it were presented in an extremely intellectual way it would pass over people”
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1989· 1 entry
Awarded Pipe Smoker of the Year (1989).
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1983· 1 entry
Gégauff was stabbed to death in real life by his second wife
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1978· 1 entry
Cast Isabelle Huppert as the lead in Violette Nozière
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1975· 1 entry
With A piece of pleasure (Une partie de plaisir)
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1971· 2 entries
At the Wayback Machine (archived 12 March 2005)
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Chabrol made Ten Days' Wonder (La Décade prodigieuse), based on a novel by Ellery Queen
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1970· 2 entries
Chabrol made The Butcher (Le boucher) starring Jean Yanne and Stéphane Audran
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Chabrol made Just Before Nightfall (Juste avant la nuit) in 1971
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1968· 2 entries
Chabrol began working with film producer André Génovès and started to make more critically acclaimed films that would later be considered his "Golden Era"
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Chabrol made Les Biches, one of his most acclaimed works
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1965· 1 entry
Chabrol also contributed to the New Wave portmanteau film Six in Paris with the segment "La Muette"
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1964· 4 entries
Career landmark: marriage.
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Chabrol also directed a stage production of MacBeth for the Théâtre Récamier
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And worked together until the late 1970s
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Career landmark: divorce.
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1962· 1 entry
Chabrol made Ophelia, a loose adaptation of Hamlet that was another box office disappointment
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1961· 1 entry
Received better reviews than Chabrol's previous films, with critics pointing out that the films that Chabrol wrote without Paul Gégauff were much more compassionate and realistic than the ones with Gégauff
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1960· 1 entry
Chabrol made what is considered by many critics as his best early film, Les Bonnes Femmes
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1957· 1 entry
Chabrol and Eric Rohmer co-wrote Hitchcock (Paris: Éditions Universitaires, 1957), a study of the films made by director Alfred Hitchcock through the film The Wrong Man
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1956· 1 entry
Helped finance Jacques Rivette's short film Le coup du berger, and later helped finance Rohmer's short Véronique et son cancre in 1958
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1955· 1 entry
Chabrol was briefly employed as a publicity man at the French offices of 20th Century Fox, but was told that he was "the worst press officer they'd ever seen" and was replaced by Jean-Luc Godard, who they said was even w
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1954· 1 entry
On the set of To Catch a Thief, where the two famously walked into a water tank after being starstruck by Hitchcock
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1952· 1 entry
And in 1957 his wife inherited a large sum of money from relatives
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1930· 1 entry
Born 1930-06-24.
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