Biography
René Le Hénaff was a French film editor and director. Born in Saigon, Vietnam, he began his career as a film editor in the late 1920s, working on titles including Under the Roofs of Paris (1930), À Nous la Liberté (1931) and several films directed by Marcel Carné and René Clair.
He edited Port of Shadows (1938), Hôtel du Nord (1938) and Daybreak (1939). From 1935 he also directed feature films, among them Colonel Chabert (1943). He continued editing into the 1960s and retired from filmmaking in 1968.
