Christian-Jaque

Christian Maudet was born in Paris on 4 September 1904. A student at the Beaux-Arts, he met Jacques Chabraison there, with whom he designed posters for film companies; he formed his filmmaker's name from his own first name and that of this friend. A set designer, then a director from the early thirties, he made some sixty films and received the prize for direction at Cannes in 1952. He married several actresses, among them Martine Carol. He died in Boulogne-Billancourt on 8 July 1994.

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• CinemaWho Killed Santa Claus?L'Assassinat du père NoëlChristian-Jaque · 1941Cinema