---
name: "Pierre Cottrell"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/pierre-cottrell"
fi1m_id: "pierre-cottrell"
imdb_id: "nm0183172"
tmdb_id: 28752
wikidata_id: "Q3384539"
roles: ["Producer"]
born: "29 August 1945"
died: "23 July 2015"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 3
average_fi1m_score: 83
average_as: "producer"
average_over: 3
updated: "2026-09-26T17:36:15.822339+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."
---

# Pierre Cottrell

## Identity

Pierre Cottrell

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/pierre-cottrell
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** pierre-cottrell
- **IMDb ID:** nm0183172
- **TMDB ID:** 28752
- **Wikidata ID:** Q3384539
- **Same entity:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3384539, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0183172/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/28752

Producer. Born 29 August 1945 in Béthune, Pas-de-Calais, France. Died 23 July 2015.

## Details

- **Work:** Producer
- **Born:** 29 August 1945, Béthune, Pas-de-Calais, France
- **Died:** 23 July 2015
- **Active:** 1969–1974
- **Average Fi1m score:** 83, as producer, over 3 titles
- **Fi1m score by decade:** 1960s 81 (1), 1970s 84 (2)
- **Score spread:** 3 at 80+, 0 at 60–79, 0 under 60
- **Lead roles:** 0 of 1 acting credits billed first or second
- **Genres:** Drama 2, Romance 2, Comedy 1, Documentary 1, War 1
- **Screen time:** 7 hours of reviewed films
- **Box office:** $0m across 1 films with figures
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3384539, https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0183172/, https://www.themoviedb.org/person/28752

## Streaming the US now

- **HBO Max:** [*My Night at Maud's*](https://film.one/film/my-night-at-mauds.md) (81)

For United States; add `?region=XX` for another country.

## Biography

Pierre Cottrell (1945–2015) was a French film producer. He was closely associated with Les Films du Losange, the company founded by Barbet Schroeder and Éric Rohmer, and worked as a producer on several of Rohmer’s films in the Six Moral Tales series.

His credits include *My Night at Maud’s* (1969), *Claire’s Knee* (1970) and *Love in the Afternoon* (1972). He served as executive producer on Jean Eustache’s *The Mother and the Whore* (1973) and also produced *My Little Loves* (1974). Cottrell later worked in the United States and with directors including Jacques Rivette.

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

## On Fi1m (3)

- *Hearts and Minds* (1974), Fi1m 82, Consulting Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/hearts-and-minds.md)
- *The Mother and the Whore* (1973), Fi1m 86, as (uncredited) — [page](https://film.one/film/the-mother-and-the-whore.md)
- *My Night at Maud's* (1969), Fi1m 81, Producer — [page](https://film.one/film/my-night-at-mauds.md)

## Complete filmography (18)

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

- *Le Juif de Lascaux* (2015), Actor
- *The Lady and the Duke* (2001), Producer
- *The Rose Seller* (1998), Associate Producer
- *Out 1* (1990), as Un pornographe
- *The State of Things* (1982), Associate Producer
- *Lightning Over Water* (1980), Producer
- *The American Friend* (1977), Production Manager
- *Hearts and Minds* (1974), Consulting Producer — Fi1m 82, [page](https://film.one/film/hearts-and-minds.md)
- *My Little Loves* (1974), Producer
- *The Mother and the Whore* (1973), as (uncredited) · Executive Producer — Fi1m 86, [page](https://film.one/film/the-mother-and-the-whore.md)
- *Love in the Afternoon* (1972), Producer
- *Out 1* (1971), series, as Un pornographe
- *Claire's Knee* (1970), Producer
- *More* (1969), Associate Producer
- *My Night at Maud's* (1969), Producer — Fi1m 81, [page](https://film.one/film/my-night-at-mauds.md)
- *A Modern Coed* (1966), Producer
- *Six in Paris* (1965), Production Assistant
- *Suzanne’s Career* (1963), as Party Guest (uncredited)

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