---
name: "Paul Gégauff"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/paul-gegauff"
fi1m_id: "paul-gegauff"
imdb_id: "nm0337541"
tmdb_id: 19084
wikidata_id: "Q369428"
roles: ["Writer"]
born: "10 August 1922"
died: "25 December 1983"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 2
average_as: "writer"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-10-05T04:34:53.262265+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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# Paul Gégauff

## Identity

Paul Gégauff

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/paul-gegauff
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** paul-gegauff
- **IMDb ID:** nm0337541
- **TMDB ID:** 19084
- **Wikidata ID:** Q369428
- **Same entity:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_G%C3%A9gauff, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q369428, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0337541/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/19084

Writer. Born 10 August 1922 in Blotzheim, Haut-Rhin, France. Died 25 December 1983.

## Details

- **Work:** Writer
- **Born:** 10 August 1922, Blotzheim, Haut-Rhin, France
- **Died:** 25 December 1983
- **Also known as:** P. Gegauff 
- **Titles on Fi1m:** 2: 1 writing, 1 other
- **Elsewhere:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_G%C3%A9gauff, https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q369428, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0337541/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/19084

## Biography

Paul Gégauff (1922–1983) was a French screenwriter, adapter and dialogue writer. He began writing fiction in the 1950s and co-founded the Ciné-Club du Quartier Latin. His first credited feature screenplay was for *Les Cousins* (1959).

Gégauff collaborated extensively with Claude Chabrol, contributing to fourteen of the director’s films. His other notable screenplays include *À double tour* (1959), *Purple Noon* (1960, for which he shared an Edgar Award), *Les Bonnes Femmes* (1960), *Sign of the Lion* (1962), *Les Biches* (1968) and *This Man Must Die* (1969). He also wrote for directors including René Clément, Éric Rohmer and Barbet Schroeder.

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

## On Fi1m (2)

### Wrote (1) — the average rests on these

- *Purple Noon* (1960), Fi1m 82, Screenplay — [page](https://film.one/film/purple-noon.md)

### Also credited (1) — thanks, archive footage, uncredited

- *Weekend* (1967), Fi1m 81, as Le Pianiste (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/weekend-1967.md)

## Complete filmography (39)

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

- *Oriana* (1985), Writer
- *Ave Maria* (1984), Writer
- *Frankenstein 90* (1984), Screenplay
- *Secrets of the Satin Blues* (1981), Screenplay
- *Neon* (1981), Dialogue
- *The Story of a Mother* (1979), Writer
- *Death Rite* (1975), Writer
- *A Piece of Pleasure* (1975), as Philippe · Original Music Composer, Screenplay
- *An Invitation to the Hunt* (1974), Writer
- *My Husband, His Mistress and I* (1974), Writer
- *Scoundrel in White* (1972), Screenplay
- *The Valley* (1972), Adaptation, Dialogue
- *Ten Days' Wonder* (1971), Writer
- *The Sensuous Assassin* (1970), Writer
- *The Novices* (1970), Writer
- *This Man Must Die* (1969), Screenplay
- *More* (1969), Writer
- *The Scarlet Lady* (1969), Writer
- *Delphine* (1969), Writer
- *Les Biches* (1968), Screenplay, Dialogue
- *Weekend* (1967), as Le Pianiste (uncredited) — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/weekend-1967.md)
- *Diabolically Yours* (1967), Screenplay
- *Salle 8* (1967), series, Screenplay
- *The Champagne Murders* (1967), Screenplay
- *Line of Demarcation* (1966), as Gestapo Agent
- *Le Reflux* (1965), Director, Screenplay
- *Whisky y vodka* (1965), Screenplay
- *The Other Woman* (1964), Writer
- *The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers* (1964), Writer
- *The Big Hit* (1964), Dialogue
- *Of Flesh and Blood* (1963), Dialogue
- *Vice and Virtue* (1963), as S.S. Doctor
- *Ophélia* (1963), Screenplay
- *Sign of the Lion* (1962), Dialogue
- *The Third Lover* (1962), Writer
- *Wise Guys* (1961), Screenplay
- *Les Bonnes Femmes* (1960), Dialogue, Screenplay
- *Purple Noon* (1960), Screenplay — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/purple-noon.md)
- *À double tour* (1959), Adaptation, Dialogue

## Awards

### Other awards — 1 won

- Edgar Awards 1962: Edgar Awards (won)

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

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