Alain Choquart
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Alain Corneau
Alain Corneau was a Cesar Award-winning French writer-director best known for his multiple collaborations with French cinema superstars Yves Montand, Simone Signoret and Gérard Depardieu. Born on August 7, 1943 in Meung-sur-Loire, Loiret, Corneay trained as a musician but switched his interest to film, becoming an assistant director. He was an assistant director on Costa-Gavras's 1970 film L'aveu (1970) ("The Confession"), which co-starred Montand and Signoret. In 1974 he made the transition to the director's chair, helming France société anonyme (1974), a movie about drug dealers. His next policier starred Montand as a a Dirty Harry-like dick in Police Python 357 (1976) (1976), which co-starred Montand's wife Signoret. He followed it up with another crime drama starring Montand, La menace (1977) (1977). Corneau finished up his crime cycle with Le choix des armes (1981) (1981), which starred Montand, Depardieu and Catherine Deneuve. The movie was released in the United States as "Choice of Arms." Shifting gears away from policiers, he directed the French Foreign Legion drama 'Fort Saganne (1984)' (1984). Set in 1911, the movie starred Depardieu and Deneuve. Depardieu also headlined his lush costume drama _Tous les matins du monde (1991)- (1991), an international hit, for which Corneau won the Cesar Award, the French equivalent of the Oscar, for direction. At the age of 67, Alain Corneau died on August 30, 2010 in Paris from cancer. His remains were interred at Père Lachaise Cemetery.
Alain Cuny
Alain Cuny went to medical school with the intention of becoming a physician, but left to attend an arts school in Paris and became a painter. He entered the film industry as a costume and set designer for such directors as Alberto Cavalcanti and Jacques Feyder, all the time attending acting school. In the late 1930s he began acting professionally, first on stage and then in films. Cuny divided his time between making films in France and Italy, switching back and forth from romantic leads to solid character parts. His best remembered role is probably that of the conflicted philosopher in Federico Fellini's La dolce vita (1960).
Alain Damasio
Alain Damasio is a writer, known for Remember Me (2013), Dans les limbes (2015) and Windwalkers: Chronicle of the 34th Horde.
Alain Darborg
Alain Darborg is a director and actor, known for Jönssonligan - Den perfekta stöten (2015), Red Dot (2021) and Alex (2017).
Alain Delon
Alain Fabien Maurice Marcel Delon was born in Sceaux, Hauts-de-Seine, France, to Édith (Arnold) and Fabien Delon. His father was of French and Corsican Italian descent, and his mother was of French and German ancestry. His parents divorced early on, and Delon had a stormy childhood, being frequently expelled from school. In 1953/1954 he served with the French Marines in Indochina. In the mid-'50s he worked at various odd jobs including waiter, salesman and porter in Les Halles market. He decided to try an acting career and in 1957 made his film debut in Yves Allégret's Quand la femme s'en mêle (1957). He declined an offer of a contract from producer David O. Selznick, and in 1960 he received international recognition for his role in Luchino Visconti's Rocco e i suoi fratelli (1960). In 1961 he appeared on the stage in "'Tis a Pity She's a Whore", directed by Visconti, in Paris. In 1964 he formed his own production company, Delbeau Productions, and he produced a short film directed by Guy Gilles. In 1968 he found himself involved in murder, drug and sex scandal that indirectly implicated major politicians and show-business personalities, but he was eventually cleared of all charges. In the late 1960s he formed another company. Adel Film, and the next year he began producing features. In 1981 he directed his first film, Pour la peau d'un flic (1981). Delon was a sensation early in his career; he came to embody the young, energetic, often morally corrupted man. With his breathtaking good looks he was also destined to play tender lovers and romantic heroes, and he was a French embodiment of the type created in America by James Dean. His first outstanding success came with the role of the parasite Tom Ripley in 'Rene Clement''s sun-drenched thriller Plein soleil (1960). Delon presented a psychological portrait of a murderous young cynic who attempts to take on the identity of his victim. A totally different role was offered to him by Visconti in Rocco e i suoi fratelli (1960). In this film Delon plays the devoted Rocco, who accepts the greatest sacrifices to save his shiftless brother Simon. After several other films in Italy, Delon returned to the criminal genre with Jean Gabin in Mélodie en sous-sol (1963). This work, a classic example of the genre, was distinguished not only by a soundly worked-out screenplay, but also by the careful production and the excellent performances of both Delon and Gabin. It was only in the late 1960s that the sleek and lethal Delon came to epitomize the calm, psychopathic hoodlum, staring into the camera like a cat assessing a mouse. His tough, ruthless side was first used to real effect by Jean-Pierre Melville in Le Samouraï (1967). In 1970 he had a huge success in the bloodstained Borsalino (1970)--which he also produced--playing a small-time gangster in the 1930s who, with Jean-Paul Belmondo, becomes king of the Marseilles underworld. Delon later won critical acclaim for his roles, against type, in Joseph Losey's Mr. Klein (1976) in which he played (brilliantly) the icily sinister title role, and the art-movie Un amour de Swann (1984). He has an older son Anthony Delon (who has also acted in a number of movies) from his first marriage to Nathalie Delon, and has a young son and daughter, Alain-Fabien and Anouchka with Rosalie.
Alain Desrochers
Alain Desrochers studied at St-Jean-Sur-Richelieu College in the early 1980s and then at Concordia University earning himself a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree at the end of the decade. He began his filmmaking career with more than one-hundred music videos and television commercials, with numerous awards to honor them. After branching into fiction with several short films, Desrochers directed episodes of Tony and Ridley Scott's popular television horror anthology series, "The Hunger" before directing his first feature-length film, "La Bouteille" in 2000, which earned him a nomination for a Genie for Best Direction. Having helmed "Music Hall I" and "Music Hall II" and the first season of the hit comedy "Les Bougon: C'est Aussi ça la Vie," Desrochers emerged on the English-language market with the cult sci-fi series "Charlie Jade." Desrochers directed the action-thriller "Nitro," starring Guillaume Lemay-Thivierge and Lucie Laurier, which opened in theaters to tremendous critical and box office success. He then went on to direct "Musée Éden" a big-budget miniseries, which earned him a Rockie Award in Banff, an Artistic & Technical Contribution Award in La Rochelle and a nomination for Best Direction in a Dramatic Series at the Gémeaux Awards 2010. He soon followed with "Cabotins," a feature comedy starring Rémy Girard and Yves Jacques and then directed "Gerry," a biopic about Offenbach's lead singer, Gerry Boulet. Desrochers then shot a new series for France 2, "Les Limiers" and the series "La Marraine" for Série +.
Alain Dorval
Alain Dorval is known for Les misérables (1972), La peau de l'ours (2008) and Mutafukaz (2017).
Alain Doutey
Alain Doutey was born on October 12, 1944 in Paris, France. He is an actor and producer, known for Frantic (1988), L'ennemi public n°1 (2008) and Marie Antoinette (2006).
Alain Ducasse
Alain Ducasse is an iconic chef with decades in the business, several restaurants under his belt, and an eponymous restaurant group with its hand in everything from actual restaurant operations to consultancy to cooking schools and beyond, Ducasse is a verifiable culinary force. He operates a number of restaurants including Alain Ducasse at The Dorchester which holds three stars (the top ranking) in the Michelin Guide. The name Alain Ducasse has become synonymous with fine dining. He was born in Orthez, but educated on a farm in Castel-Sarrazin in southwestern France. He began his culinary journey in 1972 with an apprenticeship at the Pavillon Landais restaurant in Soustons. From there, Ducasse sweated his way through the ranks of several French kitchens, eventually landing at Moulin de Mougins where he began playing with the contours of the Provençale cuisine for which he is now so very, very well known. Head chef positions followed, and soon enough Ducasse was earning his first Michelin stars as executive chef of La Terrasse in Juan-les-Pins in 1984. More stars would follow. As chef de cuisine for the Hôtel de Paris in Monte Carlo, Ducasse helped earn Louis XV three stars-making it the first hotel restaurant to earn three stars in the history of the guide. Ducasse would maintain strong ties to the hotel world, opening his own inn in Provence in 1995 and opening his own restaurants in hotels from Paris to New York City's own Essex House Hotel. Alain Ducasse's restaurants, cooking schools, cookbooks, and consulting activities had revenues of $15.9 million in 2002. Since that time, Ducasse has been expanding his reach. Alain Ducasse has also opened a cooking school for the general public in Paris and another for chefs (ADF), which also works for the European Space Agency to develop astronaut meals to be taken into space. In 2005, Ducasse opened his first Asian restaurant in Tokyo, Japan. With restaurants stretching from Tokyo to Las Vegas, a slew of important cookbooks, and legions of chefs training in his kitchens across the globe, Ducasse is slowly working his way towards a culinary version of world domination. Nowadays this culinary mastermind is more CEO than chef as he oversees the day-to-day operations of his Alain Ducasse Group, an entrepreneurial outfit that includes his restaurants, inns, cooking schools, and consulting activities. In 2002 alone, the group brought in revenues of $15.9 million, and it is showing no signs of slowing down. Ducasse now has 14 restaurants in seven countries, including France, England, the United States, Lebanon, Japan, Mauritius, and Saint-Tropez, making him the first French chef to truly go global.