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Michel Deville

Born
Apr 13, 1931 · Aged 91
Died
Feb 16, 2023
Place of birth
Boulogne-Billancourt, Hauts-de-Seine, France
Gender
Male
Movie credits
3
TV credits
4
Directing credits
34

Biography

Deville started his filmmaking career in the late 1950s, paralleling the emergence of the French New Wave directors. He never achieved the level of critical and international recognition of some of his contemporaries such as François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard and Claude Chabrol, possibly because of his more conventional filmmaking style. Nevertheless, his films, especially his comedies from the 1970s and 1980s, were popular in his native France.