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Pierre Boileau (1906-1989)

Alias:
Boileau-Narcejac
Pierre Louis Boileau

Birthplace:
Paris, France

Born:
April 28, 1906

Died:
January 16, 1989

Biography from TheMovieDB

Boileau-Narcejac is the nom de plume under which French crime fiction writers Pierre Boileau (28 April 1906, Paris – 16 January 1989, Beaulieu-sur-Mer) and Pierre Ayraud, aka Thomas Narcejac (3 July 1908, Rochefort-sur-Mer – 9 June 1998, Nice) collaborated. A number of their works were adapted for film, including the renowned Les Diaboliques, directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, and Vertigo, directed by Alfred Hitchcock. They also notably adapted the novel Les yeux sans visage by Jean Redon into the horror film known in English as Eyes Without a Face (1960).  Individually, Boileau and Narcejac were each winners of the prestigious Prix du Roman d'Aventures, awarded each year to the best work of detective fiction, French or foreign: Boileau for Le Repos de Bacchus in 1938 and Narcejac for La Mort est du Voyage in 1948, each a locked-room mystery. They met in 1948 at the award dinner for Narcejac, to which Boileau — as a prior winner — had also been invited. Their collaboration began soon after, with Boileau providing the plots and Narcejac the atmosphere and characterisation, not unlike Frederic Dannay and Manfred Lee ("Ellery Queen").  Description above from the Wikipedia article Boileau-Narcejac, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia

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Adaptation:
1960  Eyes Without a Face

Novel:
1955  Diabolique
1957  Demoniac
1958  Vertigo
1959  Witness in the City
1960  Eyes Without a Face
1960  Faces in the Dark
1960  Murder at 45 R.P.M.
1962  Where the Truth Lies
1969  Misdeal
1974  Reflections of Murder
1978  Ztrácím tě, lásko
1986  Letters to an Unknown Lover
1986  Rückfahrt in den Tod
1990  Das Geheimnis des gelben Geparden
1991  Body Parts
1993  House of Secrets
1996  Diabolique
1996  Les Victimes
2005  Černá karta
2012  Bad Seeds
2023  Goodbye Vinyle
????  Vertigo

Original Story:
1955  Diabolique
1957  Demoniac
1958  Vertigo
1959  Witness in the City
1960  Eyes Without a Face
1960  Faces in the Dark
1960  Murder at 45 R.P.M.
1962  Where the Truth Lies
1969  Misdeal
1974  Reflections of Murder
1978  Ztrácím tě, lásko
1979  The Illusion
1986  Letters to an Unknown Lover
1986  Rückfahrt in den Tod
1990  Das Geheimnis des gelben Geparden
1991  Body Parts
1993  House of Secrets
1996  Diabolique
1996  Les Victimes
2005  Černá karta
2012  Bad Seeds
2023  Goodbye Vinyle
????  Vertigo

Scenario Writer:
1955  Diabolique
1957  Demoniac
1958  Vertigo
1959  Witness in the City
1960  Eyes Without a Face
1960  Faces in the Dark
1960  Murder at 45 R.P.M.
1962  Crime Does Not Pay
1962  Where the Truth Lies
1969  Misdeal
1974  Reflections of Murder
1978  Ztrácím tě, lásko
1979  The Illusion
1986  Letters to an Unknown Lover
1986  Rückfahrt in den Tod
1990  Das Geheimnis des gelben Geparden
1991  Body Parts
1993  House of Secrets
1996  Diabolique
1996  Les Victimes
2005  Černá karta
2012  Bad Seeds
2023  Goodbye Vinyle
????  Vertigo

Screenplay:
1955  Diabolique
1957  Demoniac
1958  Vertigo
1959  Twelve Hours by the Clock
1959  Witness in the City
1960  Eyes Without a Face
1960  Faces in the Dark
1960  Murder at 45 R.P.M.
1962  Crime Does Not Pay
1962  Where the Truth Lies
1969  Misdeal
1974  Reflections of Murder
1978  Ztrácím tě, lásko
1979  The Illusion
1986  Letters to an Unknown Lover
1986  Rückfahrt in den Tod
1990  Das Geheimnis des gelben Geparden
1991  Body Parts
1993  House of Secrets
1996  Diabolique
1996  Les Victimes
2005  Černá karta
2012  Bad Seeds
2023  Goodbye Vinyle
????  Vertigo

Writer:
1955  Diabolique
1957  Demoniac
1957  S.O.S. Noronha
1958  Vertigo
1959  Meurtre au ralenti
1959  Twelve Hours by the Clock
1959  Witness in the City
1960  Eyes Without a Face
1960  Faces in the Dark
1960  Murder at 45 R.P.M.
1960  The Magician
1961  Spotlight on a Murderer
1962  Crime Does Not Pay
1962  Where the Truth Lies
1969  Misdeal
1974  Reflections of Murder
1978  Ztrácím tě, lásko
1979  The Illusion
1986  Letters to an Unknown Lover
1986  Rückfahrt in den Tod
1990  Das Geheimnis des gelben Geparden
1991  Body Parts
1993  House of Secrets
1996  Diabolique
1996  Les Victimes
2005  Černá karta
2011  Les Amants naufragés
2012  Bad Seeds
2023  Goodbye Vinyle
????  Vertigo

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TV Performances

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TV Production

Writer:
1965  Les Survivants

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