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name: "François Wertheimer"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/francois-wertheimer"
fi1m_id: "francois-wertheimer"
imdb_id: "nm0921608"
tmdb_id: 147064
wikidata_id: "Q3086055"
roles: []
born: "4 May 1947"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-26T03:12:07.832649+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
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# François Wertheimer

## Identity

François Wertheimer

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/francois-wertheimer
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** francois-wertheimer
- **IMDb ID:** nm0921608
- **TMDB ID:** 147064
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3086055
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3086055, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0921608/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/147064

Composer. Born 4 May 1947 in Paris, France.

## Details

- **Born:** 4 May 1947, Paris, France
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3086055, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0921608/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/147064

## Biography

François Wertheimer is a French composer, singer-songwriter and actor, born on 4 May 1947 in Paris. He began his professional music career in the late 1960s, releasing solo albums in the early 1970s and writing songs for Barbara, including the album La Louve (1973).

Wertheimer has collaborated extensively with director Agnès Varda, composing music and appearing as an actor or himself in several of her films. His credits include original music for One Sings, the Other Doesn't (1977) and The So-Called Caryatids (1984), as well as a self appearance in the documentary The Gleaners and I (2000) and its 2002 follow-up. He has also worked as a producer and co-founded the audiovisual company Zygote, specialising in 3D films.

*Sources: fr.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, discogs.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *The Gleaners and I* (2000), Fi1m 85, as Self — [page](https://film.one/film/the-gleaners-and-i.md)

## Complete filmography (3)

Every credit, newest first. Titles without a page can be requested for review on the HTML page.

- *The Gleaners and I: Two Years Later* (2002), Original Music Composer
- *The So-Called Caryatids* (1984), Music
- *One Sings, the Other Doesn't* (1977), as François II, the Flutist · Original Music Composer

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