Jean-Pierre Melville, French actor, director, producer, and screenwriter (died 1973)

Jean-Pierre Melville

French filmmaker and actor (1917–1973)

Jean-Pierre Grumbach, known professionally as Jean-Pierre Melville, was a French filmmaker. Considered a spiritual godfather of the French New Wave, he was one of the first fully-independent French filmmakers to achieve commercial and critical success. His works include the…