Jean Dutourd

Jean Dutourd

  • Birthday: 1/14/1920
  • Deathday: 1/17/2011
  • Place of birth: Paris, France
  • Fame for: Acting

Biography

Jean Gwenaël Dutourd (14 January 1920 – 17 January 2011) was a French novelist. Dutourd was born in Paris. His mother died when he was seven years old. At the age of twenty, he was taken prisoner fifteen days after Germany's invasion of France in World War II. He escaped six weeks later and returned to Paris where he studied philosophy at the Sorbonne. He entered the Resistance and was again arrested in early 1944. He escaped and took part in the Liberation of Paris. He was a candidate for the Democratic Union of Labour (UDT) in the legislative elections of 1967. His first work, Le Complexe de César, appeared in 1946 and received the Prix Stendhal. He was elected to the Académie française on 30 November 1978. In 1997 he was elected as a member of Serbian Academy of Sciences and Arts in the Department of Language and Literature. Dutourd died in Paris on 17 January 2011, at the age of 91. Source: Article "Jean Dutourd" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Filmography

Portrait de groupe
Release date: 2/5/1986

Portrait de groupe

Role(s): Self

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Lire
Release date: 12/7/1986

Lire

Role(s): Self

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Trio
Release date: 4/2/1987

Trio

Role(s): Self

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Le Grand Échiquier
Release date: 1/12/1972

Le Grand Échiquier

Role(s): Self

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Samedi soir
Release date: 1/9/1971

Samedi soir

Role(s): Self

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