Marcel Duhamel
Encyclopedia
Marcel Duhamel was a French
actor
and screenwriter
, founder of the Série noire
publishing imprint.
He played The Foreman in Jean Renoir
's 1936 The Crime of Monsieur Lange
.
He translated and published Jim Thompson's 1964 pulp novel Pop. 1280
as 1275 Âmes ("souls") in French in 1966. Thereafter, the book was transposed to French colonial Africa in Bertrand Tavernier
's film Coup de Torchon
(Clean Slate) in 1981.
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
actor
Actor
An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...
and screenwriter
Screenwriter
Screenwriters or scriptwriters or scenario writers are people who write/create the short or feature-length screenplays from which mass media such as films, television programs, Comics or video games are based.-Profession:...
, founder of the Série noire
Série noire
Série noire is a French publishing imprint, founded in 1945 by Marcel Duhamel. It has released a collection of crime fiction of the hardboiled detective thrillers variety published by Gallimard....
publishing imprint.
He played The Foreman in Jean Renoir
Jean Renoir
Jean Renoir was a French film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and author. As a film director and actor, he made more than forty films from the silent era to the end of the 1960s...
's 1936 The Crime of Monsieur Lange
The Crime of Monsieur Lange
The Crime of Monsieur Lange is a 1936 film directed by Jean Renoir about a publishing cooperative...
.
He translated and published Jim Thompson's 1964 pulp novel Pop. 1280
Pop. 1280
Pop. 1280 is a novel by Jim Thompson . Although not in print at the time of his death , Pop. 1280 is part of Orion's Crime Masterworks series, a testament to the gradual rehabilitation and recognition of Jim Thompson's literary legacy: a clear exposition of an especially bleak species of American...
as 1275 Âmes ("souls") in French in 1966. Thereafter, the book was transposed to French colonial Africa in Bertrand Tavernier
Bertrand Tavernier
Bertrand Tavernier is a French director, screenwriter, actor, and producer.-Life and career:Tavernier was born in Lyon, the son of Geneviève and René Tavernier, a publicist and writer, several years president of the French PEN club. Tavernier wanted to become a filmmaker since the age of thirteen...
's film Coup de Torchon
Coup de Torchon
Coup de Torchon is a 1981 French film adaptation of Jim Thompson's 1964 novel Pop. 1280, directed by Bertrand Tavernier. The film follows the novel relatively faithfully, but changes its setting from a West Texas boom town to a small town in French West Africa.-Plot:Lucien Cordier is an...
(Clean Slate) in 1981.