Claude Autant-Lara

August 5, 1901 (age 98)

Luzarches, canton of Luzarches, France

Le mariage de chiffon, Sylvie et le fantome, Occupe-toi d’Amelie, Le diable au corps, Douce, The Red Inn, Game of Love, Le rouge et le noir, Seven Sins, Marguerite de la nuit, la traversee de Paris, En cas de malheur, Louisiana jument verte, Le bois des amants, Tu ne tueras point, Vive Henri-IV, Vive l’amour, Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, Le meurtrier, Le magot de Josefa, Le journal d’une femme en blanc, Le nouveau journal d’une femme en blanc, Le plus vieux metier du monde 1967, Le franciscain de Bourges 1968, Les patates, Lucien Leuwen (television serial) 1973, Gloria.Early in his career, he worked as an art director and costume designer, his best-known work in this vein was possibly for Nana (1926), a silent film directed by Jean Renoir. Autant-Lara also acted in the film. As a director, he frequently created provocative movies, saying "if a film does not have venom, it is worthless". In the 1960s, he turned his back on the New Wave movement, and from then on he had no popular successes. In his maiden speech, in July 1989, he caused a scandal by expressing his "concerns about the American cultural threat", provoking a walkout by the majority of the deputies. Justice Minister Pierre Arpaillange described the remarks as "racial insults, racial slandering and incitements to racial hatred". The resulting scandal led to his resignation as European deputy. His memoir, The Rage in the Heart, appeared in 1984. He died at Antibes in Alpes-Maritimes in 2000.

Claude Autant-Lara

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Background

Born at Luzarches in Val-d"Oise, Autant-Lara was educated in France and at London"s Mill Hill School during his mother"s exile as a pacifist.

Education

Lycee Janson de Sailly, Mill Hill School, London, Ecole des Arts Decoratifs, and Ecole des Beaux-Arts.

Career

Le mariage de chiffon, Sylvie et le fantome, Occupe-toi d’Amelie, Le diable au corps, Douce, The Red Inn, Game of Love, Le rouge et le noir, Seven Sins, Marguerite de la nuit, la traversee de Paris, En cas de malheur, Louisiana jument verte, Le bois des amants, Tu ne tueras point, Vive Henri-IV, Vive l’amour, Le Comte de Monte-Cristo, Le meurtrier, Le magot de Josefa, Le journal d’une femme en blanc, Le nouveau journal d’une femme en blanc, Le plus vieux metier du monde 1967, Le franciscain de Bourges 1968, Les patates, Lucien Leuwen (television serial) 1973, Gloria.Early in his career, he worked as an art director and costume designer, his best-known work in this vein was possibly for Nana (1926), a silent film directed by Jean Renoir. Autant-Lara also acted in the film. As a director, he frequently created provocative movies, saying "if a film does not have venom, it is worthless".

In the 1960s, he turned his back on the New Wave movement, and from then on he had no popular successes.

In his maiden speech, in July 1989, he caused a scandal by expressing his "concerns about the American cultural threat", provoking a walkout by the majority of the deputies. Justice Minister Pierre Arpaillange described the remarks as "racial insults, racial slandering and incitements to racial hatred".

The resulting scandal led to his resignation as European deputy. His memoir, The Rage in the Heart, appeared in 1984.

He died at Antibes in Alpes-Maritimes in 2000.

Achievements

Claude Autant-Lara has been listed as a noteworthy director by Marquis Who's Who.

Politics

On 18 June 1989, he came to public notice again, controversially, when he was elected to the European Parliament as a member of the National Front and the oldest member of the assembly.

Membership

Moreover, the members of the Académie des Beaux-Arts, of which he was a vice-president for life, voted to prohibit him from taking his seat thenceforth.

Connections

Married Ghislaine Auboin (deceased).

Father:: Edouard
Mother:: Louise (nee Larapidie de L’lsle) AutantLara
Spouse:: Ghislaine Auboin

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