Biography for
Michel Audiard More at IMDbPro »

Date of Birth

15 May 1920, Paris, France

Date of Death

27 July 1985, Dourdan, Essonne, France (cancer)

Mini Biography

After the Liberation Michel Audiard started a career as a movie magazine writer. Under the pen name of Jacques Potier he worked for short-lived titles such as "L'Etoile du Soir" and "Cinévie". One day, André Hunebelle, the popular French filmmaker, asked him if he thought he could write an adventure story for him. And, well...he could! "Mission à Tanger" having been reasonably successful, Audiard accepted offers to write other scripts. He wrote many original screenplays, adaptations and dialogues over thirty-five years, these were of uneven quality but always contained at least several brilliantly put lines uttered with relish by consenting actors! Audiard's biting humor, lucid vision of society and human behavior combined with a taste for the cinema as a crowd-pleaser were soon noticed by the public who remained faithful to the end, simply ignoring the opinions of the Parisian film critics who had made Michel one of their favorite scapegoats. In 1968 Audiard directed his own films but dissatisfied with what he was doing, he returned to writing until his untimely death.

IMDb Mini Biography By: Guy Bellinger

Spouse

Marie-Christine Guibert

(3 May 1947 - 27 July 1985) (his death) 2 children

Trade Mark

Colorful dialogue; use of slang

Trivia

Father of Jacques Audiard and François Audiard.

Turned to directing in the late sixties then went back to writing because he wasn't satisfied with his skills as a director.

Author of a dozen books, including mystery novels.