Léonide Moguy | |
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Born |
Léonide Maguilevsky 14 July 1899 St. Petersburg, Russia |
Died | 21 April 1976 Paris, France |
(aged 76)
Léonide Moguy (14 July 1899 – 21 April 1976) was a Russian born French film director, screenwriter and film editor .
Moguy was born Léonide Maguilevsky in 1899. He was active in film between 1936 and 1961. His work has influenced American director Quentin Tarantino, who discovered him while writing the script for Inglourious Basterds, and named a character after him in Django Unchained.
One of Moguy's early companions was the fashion designer Jacques Fath, a sometime actor who appeared in an early Moguy film.