---
name: "Jean Thuillier"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/jean-thuillier"
fi1m_id: "jean-thuillier"
imdb_id: "nm0862005"
tmdb_id: 15392
wikidata_id: "Q3174790"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "9 April 1918"
died: "23 December 1967"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T07:42:37.590713+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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# Jean Thuillier

## Identity

Jean Thuillier

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/jean-thuillier
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** jean-thuillier
- **IMDb ID:** nm0862005
- **TMDB ID:** 15392
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3174790
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Thuillier, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3174790, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0862005/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/15392

Producer. Born 9 April 1918 in Varaignes, Dordogne, France. Died 23 December 1967.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 9 April 1918, Varaignes, Dordogne, France
- **Died:** 23 December 1967
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jean_Thuillier, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3174790, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0862005/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/15392

## Biography

Jean Thuillier was a French film producer. Born in Varaignes, Dordogne, he trained in law before working in publishing and film distribution, including roles at Union Générale Cinématographique and Alliance générale de distribution cinématographique. He later produced films through Les Éditions cinégraphiques.

Thuillier produced or co-produced several notable French films of the late 1950s and early 1960s. These include *A Man Escaped* (1956) directed by Robert Bresson, *Elevator to the Gallows* (1958) and *The Lovers* (1958) directed by Louis Malle, and *Testament of Orpheus* (1960) directed by Jean Cocteau. He died in Paris in 1967.

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

## On Fi1m (1)

- *A Man Escaped* (1956), Fi1m 90, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/a-man-escaped.md)

## Complete filmography (6)

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

- *Ballad for a Hoodlum* (1963), Producer
- *Naked Autumn* (1961), Producer
- *Testament of Orpheus* (1960), Producer
- *Bobosse* (1959), Producer
- *Elevator to the Gallows* (1958), Producer
- *A Man Escaped* (1956), Producer — Fi1m 90, [page](https://film.one/film/a-man-escaped.md)

## Awards

### Other awards — 2 won

- Grand prix du livre d'histoire de la Société des gens de lettres 1988: Grand prix du livre d'histoire de la Société des gens de lettres (won)
- prix Littré 1984: prix Littré (won)

*From Wikidata, which records wins more completely than nominations.*

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