Jean Douchet
Known For
Acting
Born
1929-01-19 in Arras, Pas-de-Calais, France
Died
2019-11-22
Biography
Jean Douchet (January 19, 1929 – November 22, 2019) was a French film director, historian, film critic and teacher who began his career in the early 1950s at Gazette du Cinéma and Cahiers du cinema with members of the future French New Wave. As a journalist Douchet wrote extensively about New Wave filmmakers, as well as such directors as Alfred Hitchcock, F. W. Murnau, Kenji Mizoguchi, Vincente Minnelli, Akira Kurosawa, Jean-Luc Godard and Jean-Daniel Pollet. He enabled Serge Daney to begin working for Cahiers. He also acted in small roles for such directors as Godard, Rohmer, François Truffaut, Jean Eustache, Jacques Rivette, Jean Pierre Lefebvre and François Ozon. He taught at the Institut des Hautes Études Cinématographiques and his students included Ozon, Émilie Deleuze and Xavier Beauvois. He was also involved with the Cinémathèque Française and regularly hosts screenings and events. For the Cinémathèque's 2010 tribute to the then recently deceased Éric Rohmer he made the documentary Claude et Éric, an interview with Claude Chabrol about Rohmer's early days at Cahiers du cinema. On November 22, 2019, the Cinémathèque Française announced that Jean Douchet had died at age 90. Source: Article "Jean Douchet" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Most Known For
Elle
as Party Guest
Breathless
as A Journalist (uncredited)
The 400 Blows
as Gilberte's Lover (uncredited)
La photo
as Self
The Mother and the Whore
as Café de Flore's Customer (uncredited)
Queen Margot
Cinématon VII
as N°66
Céline and Julie Go Boating
as M'sieur Dede
A Dirty Story
Sitcom
as Psychotherapist
A Brutal Game
as Le Professeur Marchal
Les Bonnes Femmes
as customer (uncredited)
Don't Forget You're Going to Die
as Jean-Paul
Six in Paris
as A Client (segment "Place de l'Etoile") (uncredited)
Sodankylä Forever
as Self
Cinématon
as N°66
God's Comedy
as Antoine Doinel
Éric Rohmer, preuves à l’appui
as Self - Interviewer
The Old Country Where Rimbaud Died
as The Politician
Gardens in Autumn
as Le père de l'huissier