---
name: "Paul Bertrand"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/paul-bertrand"
fi1m_id: "paul-bertrand"
imdb_id: "nm0078405"
tmdb_id: 1303236
wikidata_id: "Q3370633"
roles: ["Production designer"]
born: "4 April 1915"
died: "19 April 1994"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_fi1m_score: 84
average_over: 2
updated: "2026-10-05T04:34:50.845153+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."
---

# Paul Bertrand

## Identity

Paul Bertrand

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/paul-bertrand
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** paul-bertrand
- **IMDb ID:** nm0078405
- **TMDB ID:** 1303236
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3370633
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3370633, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0078405/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1303236

Production designer. Born 4 April 1915 in Chalon-sur-Saône, Saône-et-Loire, France. Died 19 April 1994.

## Details

- **Work:** Production designer
- **Born:** 4 April 1915, Chalon-sur-Saône, Saône-et-Loire, France
- **Died:** 19 April 1994
- **Active:** 1952–1960
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1950s 86 (1), 1960s 82 (1)
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3370633, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0078405/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1303236

## Biography

Paul Bertrand was a French production designer, art director and set decorator. Born on 4 April 1915 in Chalon-sur-Saône, Saône-et-Loire, he died on 19 April 1994 in the same town. He trained at the École des Beaux-Arts and began in advertising and decoration before entering film as an assistant to Alexandre Trauner.

Bertrand worked on numerous French films from the 1940s to the 1960s, often in collaboration with directors René Clément and Marcel Carné. His credits include production design on *The Damned* (1947), *Thérèse Raquin* (1953), *Gervaise* (1956) and *Purple Noon* (1960), and art direction on *Forbidden Games* (1952).

*Sources: imdb.com, de.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (2)

- *Purple Noon* (1960), Fi1m 82, Production Design, Production design — [page](https://film.one/film/purple-noon.md)
- *Forbidden Games* (1952), Fi1m 86, Art Direction — [page](https://film.one/film/forbidden-games.md)

## Complete filmography (18)

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

- *One, Two, Three, Sun* (1993), Sound
- *Purple Noon* (1960), Production Design — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/purple-noon.md)
- *End of Desire* (1958), Production Design
- *Crime and Punishment* (1956), Production Design
- *Gervaise* (1956), Production Design
- *Girl on the Third Floor* (1955), Production Design
- *Frou-Frou* (1955), Production Design
- *Air of Paris* (1954), Production Design
- *Thérèse Raquin* (1953), Production Design
- *Forbidden Games* (1952), as Art Direction — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/forbidden-games.md)
- *Gunman in the Streets* (1950), as Set Decoration
- *The Mark of the Day* (1949), Production Design, Decorator
- *The Damned* (1947), Production Design
- *Lunegarde* (1946), as Art Direction
- *Twilight* (1944), as Set Decoration
- *The Little Ones of the Flower Platform* (1944), as Set Decoration
- *Blind Venus* (1941), as Set Decoration
- *Sa meilleure cliente* (1932), Actor

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