Jacques Deray

Jacques Desrayaud, known as Jacques Deray, was born in Lyon on 19 February 1929, into a family of Lyon industrialists. He trained as an actor and played small parts in the theatre and in films, then was assistant to Jean Boyer, Gilles Grangier, Luis Buñuel and Jules Dassin. He moved into directing in 1960 and worked several times with Alain Delon. He died in Boulogne-Billancourt in August 2003, aged seventy-four.

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• CinemaLa PiscineJacques Deray · 1969Cinema