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Jacques Tourneur

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French film director (1904-1977)

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Jacques Tourneur was a French-American filmmaker, active during the Golden Age of Hollywood.

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Out of the Past1947 · ★ 7.7
Cat People1942 · ★ 6.9
Night of the Demon1957 · ★ 7.0
I Walked with a Zombie1943 · ★ 6.8
The Comedy of Terrors1964 · ★ 6.5
The Leopard Man1943 · ★ 6.5
Nightfall1956 · ★ 6.9
The Flame and the Arrow1950 · ★ 6.3
War-Gods of the Deep1965 · ★ 5.0
Canyon Passage1946 · ★ 6.7
Wichita1955 · ★ 6.3
Berlin Express1948 · ★ 6.2
Stars in My Crown1950
Anne of the Indies1951
Experiment Perilous1944
Great Day in the Morning1956
Days of Glory1944
Love1927
Stranger on Horseback1955
The Giant of Marathon1959
Circle of Danger1951
Way of a Gaucho1952
Easy Living1949
Scaramouche1923
Phantom Raiders1940
The Fearmakers1958
The Trail of '981928
Nick Carter, Master Detective1939
Appointment in Honduras1953
Romance of Radium1937
They All Come Out1939
Frontier Rangers1959
Timbuktu1958
Doctors Don't Tell1941
Killer Dog1936
The King Without a Crown1937
The Man in the Barn1937
What Do You Think?1937
The Face Behind the Mask1938
The Jonker Diamond1936

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Television 11

Bonanza1959
The Twilight Zone1959
Adventures in Paradise1959
The Barbara Stanwyck Show1960
T.H.E. Cat1966
The Jane Wyman Show1955
General Electric Theater1953
The Walter Winchell File1957
The Californians1957
Northwest Passage1958
Follow the Sun1961

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Jacques Tourneur was a French-American filmmaker, active during the Golden Age of Hollywood. He was known as an auteur of stylish and atmospheric genre films, many of them for RKO Pictures, including the supernatural horror films Cat People (1942), I Walked with a Zombie (1943) and The Leopard Man (1943), the war film Days of Glory (1944), which marked Gregory Peck's debut film role, and the film noir Out of the Past (1947). He is also known for directing the British horror film Night of the Demon (1957), which was released by Columbia Pictures as Curse of the Demon.

Country
France
Category
Directors
Type
Movie Director
Status
deceased
Dates
Lived 1904 to 1977 · aged 73
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