FILM DIRECTOR

François Truffaut

1932 - 1984

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François Roland Truffaut (UK: TROO-foh, TRUU-, US: troo-FOH; French: [fʁɑ̃swa ʁɔlɑ̃ tʁyfo]; 6 February 1932 – 21 October 1984) was a French filmmaker, actor, and critic. He is widely regarded as one of the founders of the French New Wave. He came under the tutelage of film critic Andre Bazin as a young man and was hired to write for Bazin's Cahiers du Cinéma, where he became a proponent of the auteur theory, which posits that a film's director is its true author. The 400 Blows (1959), starring Jean-Pierre Léaud as Truffaut's alter-ego Antoine Doinel, was a defining film of the New Wave. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. François Truffaut is the 24th most popular film director (down from 19th in 2019), the 260th most popular biography from France (down from 202nd in 2019) and the 2nd most popular French Film Director.

François Truffaut is most famous for his contribution to the French New Wave movement. He is also known for being the first person to write a book on Alfred Hitchcock.

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Among FILM DIRECTORS

Among film directors, François Truffaut ranks 24 out of 2,041. Before him are Bernardo Bertolucci, Luchino Visconti, Luis Buñuel, Andrei Tarkovsky, Sergio Leone, and Francis Ford Coppola. After him are Cecil B. DeMille, Miloš Forman, George Lucas, Jean-Luc Godard, Konstantin Stanislavski, and Georges Méliès.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1932, François Truffaut ranks 9. Before him are Jacques Chirac, Elizabeth Taylor, Debbie Reynolds, Sheldon Lee Glashow, Andrei Tarkovsky, and Omar Sharif. After him are Miloš Forman, Johnny Cash, John Williams, Cesare Maldini, Luc Montagnier, and Roh Tae-woo. Among people deceased in 1984, François Truffaut ranks 7. Before him are Indira Gandhi, Michel Foucault, Yuri Andropov, Richard Burton, Marvin Gaye, and Paul Dirac. After him are Truman Capote, James Mason, Alfred Kastler, Tigran Petrosian, Mohamed Naguib, and Mikhail Sholokhov.

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In France

Among people born in France, François Truffaut ranks 260 out of 6,770. Before him are Nicolas Léonard Sadi Carnot (1796), Nadar (1820), Louis-Ferdinand Céline (1894), Arsène Wenger (1949), Louis VI of France (1081), and Frédéric Joliot-Curie (1900). After him are Philip III of France (1245), Letizia Ramolino (1750), Annie Ernaux (1940), Saint Roch (1295), François Boucher (1703), and Charles the Simple (879).

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Among FILM DIRECTORS In France

Among film directors born in France, François Truffaut ranks 2. Before him are Roman Polanski (1933). After him are Jean-Luc Godard (1930), Georges Méliès (1861), Roger Vadim (1928), Jean-Jacques Annaud (1943), Éric Rohmer (1920), William Wyler (1902), Claude Chabrol (1930), Luc Besson (1959), Alain Resnais (1922), and Robert Bresson (1901).

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