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Date of Birth

11 November 1898, Paris, France

Date of Death

15 March 1981, Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, Île-de-France, France

Birth Name

René-Lucien Chomette

Trivia

Brother of Henri Chomette.

Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume One, 1890-1945". Pages 131-137. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1987.

President of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1974

Personal Quotes

"Nothing essential has been added to the art of the motion picture since D.W. Griffith."

"With very few exceptions, the best original scenarios have been written either by writers who knew the cinema particularly well, or by professional film workers. Although it may seem at first sight that anybody should be able to write a film scenario, experience shows that good scenarios are very rare."

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