Richard Balducci ( FR. Richard Balducci ; February 10, 1922 , Paris , France - December 8, 2015 , ibid.) - French screenwriter, writer, director, actor. Known as the screenwriter of films about the Gendarme of Saint-Tropez with Louis de Funes in the title role.
| Richard Balducci | |
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| Richard Balducci | |
 Richard Balducci | |
| Date of Birth | February 10, 1922 |
| Place of Birth | Paris , France |
| Date of death | December 8, 2015 (93 years old) |
| Place of death | Paris , France |
| Citizenship |  France |
| Profession | screenwriter, writer, director, actor |
| Career | 1960-2003 |
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Biography
During World War II he worked as a war correspondent. After its completion, he got a job in the culture department of the France-Soire newspaper, where he worked for more than ten years. Working in the newspaper allowed Balducci to make acquaintance with many figures of French cinema of that time, such as Jacques Becker , Roger Vadim , Philippe de Broca , Jacques Demy , Christian-Jacques , Claude Lelouch , Jean-Pierre Melville and Francois Truffaut . As a result, by the beginning of the 1960s, Richard decided to leave the newspaper and devote himself to work in cinema [1] [2] [3] . Back in 1959, Balducci played a small role in the debut film of Jean-Luc Godard " In the last breath ", but this role remained the only one in his film career [4] .
Since the 1960s, he worked as a screenwriter, and also organized filming. The idea of his most famous film saga about the gendarme from Saint-Tropez came to Balducci's mind by chance. According to his own recollections, he once was at Saint-Tropez for work - he had to choose the nature for the filming of the next film. At that moment, a camera was stolen from his car. Richard came to the local gendarmerie to report the theft. In the police station, he found one gendarme who reluctantly rose to accept a statement from Balducci, and then said: “I know your thief. I almost caught him a few days ago. " Returning to Paris, Balducci spoke about the troubles that had happened to him to Louis de Funes , who replied to this: “From this we must make a film.” Thus, the first film about Louis Cruchot - the most famous French gendarme - was born. Subsequently, several sequels to the film [1] [3] were shot.
In the 1970s and the first half of the 1980s, he shot several films as both the author of the script and the director. Most of these films were not seen by critics, but, in Richard's own words, he did not care [1] .
Filmography
| Year | Russian name | original name | Note | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 | f | In the last breath | À bout de souffle | Actor: Tolmachev |
| 1962 | f | Les saintes nitouches | written by | |
| 1963 | f | Look for an idol | Cherchez l'idole | written by |
| 1964 | f | Gendarme of Saint-Tropez | Le gendarme de saint-tropez | written by |
| 1965 | f | Gendarme in new york city | Le Gendarme à New York | written by |
| 1968 | f | The gendarme is getting married | Le gendarme se marie | written by |
| 1969 | f | Love | L'amour | Screenwriter and Director |
| 1969 | f | The honor of the family | La honte de la famille | Screenwriter and Director |
| 1970 | f | Gendarme on vacation | Le gendarme en balade | written by |
| 1972 | f | Too beautiful to be honest | Trop jolies pour être honnêtes | Screenwriter and Director |
| 1972 | f | The smell of predators | L'Odeur des fauves | Screenwriter and Director |
| 1974 | f | Where the money | Par ici la monnaie | Screenwriter and Director |
| 1976 | f | Day of Glory | Le jour de gloire | written by |
| 1978 | f | Recruits on a walk | Les Bidasses en vadrouille | written by |
| 1979 | f | Happy holidays | Les joyeuses colonies de vacances | written by |
| 1980 | f | Want a geek? | Voulez-vous un bébé Nobel? | written by |
| 1981 | f | Take Rolls-Royce and go to work | Prends ta rolls et va pointer | Screenwriter and Director |
| 1982 | f | Hi baby | Salut la puce | Screenwriter and Director |
| 1982 | f | Do not forget your father in the wardrobe | N'oublie pas ton père au vestiaire | Screenwriter and Director |
| 1983 | f | Disaster required | On l'appelle catastrophe | Screenwriter and Director |
| 1984 | f | Communication via Charlot | Charlots connexion | written by |
| 1985 | f | Postman from Saint-Tropez | Le Facteur de Saint-Tropez | Screenwriter and Director |
Source: AlloCiné [4]
Notes
- ↑ 1 2 3 Mort de Richard Balducci: On lui doit la naissance de la saga du "Gendarme" (French) . Purepeople (9 décembre 2015). Date of treatment January 31, 2016. Archived February 11, 2016.
- ↑ Le réalisateur Richard Balducci est décédé (French) . Le Figaro. Date of treatment January 31, 2016. Archived March 4, 2016.
- ↑ 1 2 Mort de Richard Balducci, le scénariste à l'origine de la saga du “Gendarme” (French) . Le Parisien. Date of treatment January 31, 2016.
- ↑ 1 2 Richard Balducci (Fr.) . AlloCiné. Date of treatment January 31, 2016. Archived December 12, 2015.