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name: "Jean-Pierre Melville"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jean-pierre-melville"
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "20 October 1917"
died: "2 August 1973"
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updated: "2026-09-16T21:17:04.944772+00:00"
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# Jean-Pierre Melville

Actor. Born 20 October 1917 in Paris, France. Died 2 August 1973.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 20 October 1917, Paris, France
- **Died:** 2 August 1973
- **Also known as:** Jean-Pierre Grumbach, 让-皮埃尔·梅尔维尔, 장피에르 멜빌, 장-피에르 멜빌, 장 피에르 멜빌

## Biography

Jean-Pierre Melville, born Jean-Pierre Grumbach on 20 October 1917 in Paris, was a French film director, screenwriter and occasional actor. He died in Paris on 2 August 1973. He adopted the professional name Melville after the American author Herman Melville.

Melville served in the French Resistance during the Second World War. He directed *Le Silence de la mer* (1949), *Bob le Flambeur* (1956), *Léon Morin, prêtre* (1961), *Le Doulos* (1962), *Le Deuxième Souffle* (1966), *Le Samouraï* (1967), *Army of Shadows* (1969), *Le Cercle Rouge* (1970) and *Un Flic* (1972). He appeared as Parvulesco the Writer in Jean-Luc Godard's *Breathless* (1960).

He founded his own production company after the war and built a studio in Paris. His films often centred on crime or wartime themes.

*Sources: en.wikipedia.org, imdb.com, britannica.com.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Breathless* (1960), Fi1m 86, as Parvulesco the Writer — [page](https://film.one/film/breathless.md)

## Also known for

- *Le Samouraï* (1967), Director, Screenplay
- *Army of Shadows* (1969), Director, Screenplay
- *Le Cercle Rouge* (1970), Director, Writer
- *Le Doulos* (1962), Director, Screenplay
- *Bob le Flambeur* (1956), Director, Writer
- *Un Flic* (1972), Director, Writer
- *Le Deuxième Souffle* (1966), Writer, Director
- *Léon Morin, Priest* (1961), Director, Writer

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