The filmmaker François Villiers (2 March 1920 – 29 January 2009), Chevalier of the Legion of Honor was a French film director. He was responsible for several films, from Hans le marin in 1949, to Manika, une vie plus tard, in 1989 which won the Prix du Public at Cannes

Cannes Film Festival

The Cannes International Film Festival , is an annual film festival held in Cannes, France, which previews new films of all genres including documentaries from around the world. Founded in 1946, it is among the world's most prestigious and publicized film festivals...

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As a film director and television producer of quality dramas, François Villiers also participated in the writing of his films. He was the brother of actor Jean-Pierre Aumont

Jean-Pierre Aumont

-Early life:Aumont was born Jean-Pierre Philippe Salomons in Paris, the son of Suzanne and Alexandre Salomons, owner of La Maison du Blanc . His mother's uncle was well-known stage actor Georges Berr. His father was from a Dutch Jewish family and his mother's family were French Jews...

, who he directed in his first film, Hans le marin, with Aumont's wife, Maria Montez

María Montez

María Montez was a Dominican-born motion picture actress who gained fame and popularity in the 1940s as an exotic beauty starring in a series of filmed-in-Technicolor costume adventure films. Her screen image was that of a hot-blooded Latin seductress, dressed in fanciful costumes and sparkling...

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Filmography

Film	Year	Star	Award
Hans le marin	1949
Manika, une vie plus tard	1989		Prix du Public
L'Eau vive	1958	Pascale Audret Pascale Audret Pascale Audret was a French actress who was most active during the 1950s through to the 1960s.-Career:...	Golden Globe for best foreign film
La verte moisson	1959	Jacques Perrin Jacques Perrin Jacques Perrin is a French actor and filmmaker. He is occasionally credited as Jacques Simonet. Simonet was his father's name and Perrin his mother's.-Life and career:...  and Claude Brasseur Claude Brasseur -Biography:He was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine as Claude Pierre Espinasse, the son of actor Pierre Brasseur and actress Odette Joyeux. He is the godson of Ernest Hemingway and the father of Alexandre Brasseur....
Pierrot la tendresse	1960	Michel Simon Michel Simon Michel Simon , was a Swiss actor. The actor François Simon is his son.-Early years:...
Le puits aux trois vérités	1961	Michèle Morgan Michèle Morgan Michèle Morgan is a French film actress, who was a leading lady for three decades.- Career :Morgan was born Simone Renée Roussel in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, a western suburb of Paris....
Jusqu'au bout du monde	1963	Pierre Mondy Pierre Mondy Pierre Mondy, whose real name was Pierre Cuq, born 10 February 1925 in Neuilly-sur-Seine, is a French actor and director.He began his film career in 1949 and has appeared in over 140 films. In 1960, he received international revcognition for the role of Napoléon Bonaparte in the film Austerlitz...	Grand Prix du Cinema Français
Constance aux enfers Constance aux enfers Constance aux enfers is a 1963 French language motion picture crime thriller drected by François Villiers. It was based on novel "Constance aux enfers" by Jean-Pierre Ferrière, who co-wrote screenplay with Jacques Sigurd. The films stars Michèle Morgan, Dany Saval.-Plot:A young woman is killed by...	1963	Michèle Morgan Michèle Morgan Michèle Morgan is a French film actress, who was a leading lady for three decades.- Career :Morgan was born Simone Renée Roussel in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, a western suburb of Paris....

Television

Show	Year	Adaptation
Les Chevaliers du Ciel Les Chevaliers du ciel Les Chevaliers du ciel is a 2005 French film directed by Gérard Pirès about two air force pilots preventing a terrorist attack on the Bastille Day celebrations in Paris...	1967
Jean-Christophe Jean-Christophe Jean-Christophe is the novel in ten volumes by Romain Rolland for which he received the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915. It was translated into English by Gilbert Cannan....	1978	Romain Rolland Romain Rolland Romain Rolland was a French dramatist, novelist, essayist, art historian and mystic who was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 1915.-Biography:...
Les Chevaux du Soleil	1980	Jules Roy Jules Roy Jules Roy was a French writer. "Prolific and polemical" Roy, born an Algerian pied noir and sent to a Roman Catholic seminary, used his experiences as the French colony and during his service in the Royal Air Force during the Second World War to inspire a number of his words...
Quelques Hommes de Bonnes Volontés	1983	Jules Romains Jules Romains Jules Romains, born Louis Henri Jean Farigoule , was a French poet and writer and the founder of the Unanimism literary movement...  by Marcel Jullian Marcel Jullian Marcel Jullian was a french writer, scenarist and TV editor.-Filmography:* 1964 : Cent mille dollars au soleil* 1965 : Le Corniaud* 1966 : Ne nous fâchons pas* 1966 : Le Saint prend l'affût* 1966 : La Grande Vadrouille...