Born in Paris in 1909 and dying in 1985, Jean-Paul Le Chanois worked as an editor and screenwriter and was an assistant to Jean Renoir on La Vie est à nous and La Marseillaise. He directed Without Leaving an Address (Sans laisser d'adresse, 1951), a drama of postwar housing shortage in Paris, which won the Golden Bear in Berlin. His popular adaptations include Papa, maman, la bonne et moi (1954) and a big production of Les Misérables (1958).
Filmography
- Papa, maman, la bonne et moi (1954)
- The Case of Dr. Laurent (1957)
- Les Misérables (1958) (1958)