Claude Boissol Biography
Claude Boissol (1920 - 2016) was a French film and television director and screenwriter. Born in Paris, France, he began his career in the years of World War II, which motivated him to try to work without attracting the attention of the Germans. After the war he dedicated himself to writing screenplays, becoming assistant director on films by Jacques Becker, Yves Allegret or Georges Lacombe. He collaborated mainly with director Maurice Labro. At the height of the success of French cinema, he was assistant to Paul Paviot and André Défontaines, to whom he presented adapted screenplays from 1948 onwards. It was in 1956 that he directed his first film, Tout La Ville Accuse, with Jean Marais. He collaborated with Marais on two other films: Every Day in His Secret (1958) and Napoléon II, l'aiglon (1961). Boissol filmed El cerca in Argentina in 1959, and Le tre et cetera del colonel in Italy in 1960, the latter starring Daniel Gélin. In the early 1960s, with the advance of television, he decided "not to miss the boat", despite the fact that, as he said, "movie people despise television people, and television people don't like very cinema people." On television, he created the series Les Globe-trotters in 1966, with Yves Rénier and Edward Meeks Gregory. For this filming he traveled the world for three years. In 1976 he met Yves Rénier, with whom he worked on another series, Inspector Moulin, whose production continued until June 2008. Claude Boissol died in 2016 in Gourdon, France.
