Michel Audiard

Michel Audiard was born in Paris, in the fourteenth arrondissement, on 15 May 1920. Holding a welder's certificate, he delivered newspapers by bicycle, then became a journalist and entered the cinema in 1949. A dialogue writer and screenwriter, he drew on the popular speech of Paris for lines that remain famous, often wrote for Jean Gabin and received the César for best screenplay in 1982. He also moved into directing. He died at Dourdan on 28 July 1985.

In the catalogue 1

• CinemaYou Must Not Take Children of the Good Lord for Wild DucksFaut pas prendre les enfants du bon Dieu pour des canards sauvagesMichel Audiard · 1968Cinema