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Filmmaker · Belgium

Jacques Feyder

Died in 1948

Jacques Feyder is the name taken by Jacques Frédérix, born in Ixelles on 21 July 1885. He went to Paris to become an actor and joined Gaumont, where he made his first films, then served in the Belgian army from 1917 to 1919. Naturalised French in 1928, he left shortly afterwards for Hollywood, under contract with MGM, where he directed Greta Garbo. Back in France, he made several films with his wife, the actress Françoise Rosay, whom he had married in 1917. A refugee in Switzerland during the war, he died in Prangins on 24 May 1948.

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