Biography
Michel Boisrond was a French film director and screenwriter. Born Michel Jacques Boisrond on 9 October 1921 in Châteauneuf-en-Thymerais, Eure-et-Loir, he began his career as an assistant director in the 1940s, working with René Clair and on Henry King's The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952). He made his feature directorial debut in 1955 with Cette Sacrée Gamine.
Boisrond's films were chiefly comedies and romances, including Naughty Girl (1956), La Parisienne (1957), Come Dance with Me (1959) and Catherine et Compagnie (1975). He also acted in a small number of films, appearing as Wiener in Jean-Pierre Melville's Le Samouraï (1967). From the 1970s he directed several television series and miniseries. He died on 10 November 2002 in La Celle-Saint-Cloud.
