René Clair

René Chomette was born in Les Halles, in Paris, on 11 November 1898, into a family of soap merchants. An ambulance driver during the war, in 1917, he became a journalist, then an actor in 1920 under the name René Clair, notably for Louis Feuillade, before assisting Jacques de Baroncelli. He filmed in England from 1935 to 1938, then in the United States from 1940 to 1946. He was the first to enter the Académie française on the strength of his work as a filmmaker, and died in Neuilly-sur-Seine on 15 March 1981.

In the catalogue 2

• CinemaThe Crazy RayParis qui dortRené Clair · 1924Cinema
• CinemaEntr'acteRené Clair · 1924Cinema