Jeanne Moreau

Jeanne Moreau died in her home on Monday. She considered herself a stage actor first and foremost, but appeared in more movies than plays. Orson Welles called her the greatest actress in the world and she starred in what is arguably his greatest film, Chimes At Midnight, among others.

The overwhelming majority of her movies are in French, and she worked with the best directors of her time, François Truffaut, Agnès Varda, Jean-Luc Godard, Jean Renoir, Louis Malle, Roger Vadim, Luc Besson, Michelangelo Antonioni, Luis Buñuel, Marcel Ophüls, Rainer Werner Fassbinder, Wim Wenders. She did several movies in English with Orson Welles, Elia Kazan, Tony Richardson, Paul Mazursky, Martin Ritt, John Frankenheimer, among others. She was also a singer, appearing on a dozen albums.


Last Love, directed by Jean Stelli
Meurtres, directed by Richard Pottier
Pigalle-Saint-Germain-des-Prés, directed by André Berthomieu
L' Homme de ma vie, directed by Guy Lefranc
Il est minuit, docteur Schweitzer, directed by André Haguet
Dortoir des grandes, directed by Henri Decoin
Julietta, directed by Marc Allégret
Touchez pas au grisbi, directed by Jacques Becker
Les Intrigantes, directed by Henri Decoin
Secrets d'alcôve, “Le Billet de logement” directed by Henri Decoin
La Reine Margot, directed by Jean Dréville
Les Hommes en blanc, directed by Ralph Habib
M'sieur la Caille, directed by André Pergament
Opération gas-oil, directed by Gilles Grangier
Le Salaire du péché, directed by Denys de la Patellière
Jusqu'au dernier, directed by Pierre Billon
Les Louves, directed by Luis Saslavsky
L'étrange Monsieur Steve, directed by Raymond Bailly
Trois jours à vivre, directed by Gilles Grangier
Les amants, directed by Louis Malle
Ascenseur pour l'échafaud, directed by Louis Malle
Le Dos au mur, directed by Édouard Molinaro
Les Quatre Cents Coups, directed by François Truffaut
Les liaisons dangereuses, directed by Roger Vadim
Five Branded Women, directed by Martin Ritt
Moderato Cantabile, directed by Peter Brook
Dialogue with the Carmelites, directed by Philippe Agostini
La Notte, directed by Michelangelo Antonioni
Une femme est une femme, directed by Jean-Luc Godard
Jules et Jim, directed by François Truffaut
Eva, directed by Joseph Losey
The Trial, directed by Orson Welles
La baie des angess, directed by Jacques Demy
Le feu follet, directed by Louis Malle
Peau de banane, directed by Marcel Ophüls
The Victors, directed by Carl Foreman
Le journal d'une femme de chambre, directed by Luis Buñuel
The Train, directed by John Frankenheimer
The Yellow Rolls-Royce, directed by Anthony Asquith
Mata Hari, Agent H21, directed by Jean-Louis Richard
Viva Maria!, directed by Louis Malle
Chimes at Midnight, directed by Orson Welles
Mademoiselle, directed by Tony Richardson
Le Plus Vieux Métier du monde, “Mademoiselle Mimi” directed by Philippe de Broca
The Sailor from Gibraltar, directed by Tony Richardson
La Mariée était en noir, directed by François Truffaut
The Immortal Story, directed by Orson Welles
Great Catherine, directed by Gordon Flemyng
Le Corps de Diane, directed by Jean-Louis Richard
Monte Walsh, directed by William A Fraker
Le Petit Théâtre de Jean Renoir, “Quand l'amour meurt” directed by Jean Renoir
The Deep, directed by Orson Welles
Alex in Wonderland, directed by Paul Mazursky
Comptes à rebours, directed by Roger Pigaut
Chère Louise, directed by Philippe de Broca
L'humeur vagabonde, directed by Édouard Luntz
Nathalie Granger, directed by Marguerite Duras
Absences répétées, directed by Guy Gilles
Joanna Francesa, directed by Cacá Diegues
Je t'aime, directed by Pierre Duceppe
Les Valseuses, directed by Bertrand Blier
La Race des seigneurs, directed by Pierre Granier-Deferre
Le Jardin qui bascule, directed by Guy Gilles
Hu-Man, directed by Jérôme Laperrousaz
Lumiere, directed & written by Jeanne Moreau
Monsieur Klein, directed by Joseph Losey
The Last Tycoon, directed by Elia Kazan
L'Adolescente, directed & written by Jeanne Moreau
Plein sud, directed by Luc Béraud
Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid, directed by George Kaczender
Mille milliards de dollars, directed by Henri Verneuil
Querelle, directed by Rainer Werner Fassbinder
La Truite, directed by Joseph Losey
Le paltoquet, directed by Michel Deville
Sauve-toi, Lola, directed by Michel Drach
Le Miraculé, directed by Jean-Pierre Mocky
Remake, directed by Ansano Giannarelli
Jour après jour, directed by Alain Attal
Nikita, directed by Luc Besson
Alberto Express, directed by Arthur Joffé
La femme fardée, directed by José Pinheiro
Anna Karamazoff, directed by Rustam Khamdamov
To meteoro vima tou pelargou, directed by Theo Angelopoulos
La vieille qui marchait dans la mer, directed by Laurent Heynemann
Until the End of the World, directed by Wim Wenders
The Lover, directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud
Map of the Human Heart, directed by Vincent Ward
La nuit de l'océan, directed by Antoine Perset
L'Absence, directed by Peter Handke
À demain, directed by Didier Martiny
Screen Two, "The Clothes in the Wardrobe" directed by Waris Hussein
Je m'appelle Victor, directed by Guy Jacques
Screen One, "A Foreign Field" directed by Charles Sturridge
Les cent et une nuits de Simon Cinéma, directed by Agnès Varda
Catherine the Great, directed by Marvin J Chomsky
Beyond the Clouds, directed by Michelangelo Antonioni & Wim Wenders
I Love You, I Love You Not, directed by Billy Hopkins
The Proprietor, directed by Ismail Merchant
Amour et confusions, directed by Patrick Braoudé
Un Amour de Sorcière, directed by René Manzor
Ever After, directed by Andy Tennant
Balzac, directed by Josée Dayan
Il manoscritto del Principe, directed by Roberto Andò
Les Misérables, directed by Josée Dayan
Lisa, directed by Pierre Grimblat
Cet amour-là, directed by Josée Dayan
Love Actually, directed by Richard Curtis
Les Parents terribles, directed by Josée Dayan
Akoibon, directed by Édouard Baer
Le Temps qui reste, directed by François Ozon
Go West, directed by Ahmed Imamović
Les Rois maudits, directed by Josée Dayan
Roméo et Juliette, directed by Yves Desgagnés
Chacun son cinéma, “Trois Minutes” directed by Theo Angelopoulos
Désengagement, directed by Amos Gitai
One Day You'll Understand, directed by Amos Gitai
Everywhere at Once, directed by Holly Fisher
Carmel, directed by Amos Gitai
Visage, directed by Ming-liang Tsai
La guerre des fils de la lumière contre les fils des ténèbres, directed by Amos Gitai
Kérity, la maison des contes, directed by Dominique Monfery
Une estonienne à Paris, directed by Ilmar Raag
Gebo et l'Ombre, directed by Manoel de Oliveira
Le talent de mes amis, directed by Alex Lutz