Louis Malle | |
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Born |
Louis Marie Malle 30 October 1932 Thumeries, Nord, France |
Died | 23 November 1995 Beverly Hills, California, U.S. |
(aged 63)
Cause of death | Lymphoma |
Years active | 1953–1995 |
Spouse(s) |
Anne-Marie Deschodt (1965–67) Candice Bergen (1980–95) |
Children | Manuel Cuotomec Malle, (b. 1971) (with Gila von Weitershausen) Justine Malle, (b. 1974) (with Alexandra Stewart) Chloe Malle, (b. 1985) (with Candice Bergen) |
Louis Marie Malle (French: [mal]; 30 October 1932 – 23 November 1995) was a French film director, screenwriter, and producer. His film Le Monde du silence won the Palme d'Or in 1956 and the Academy Award for Best Documentary in 1957, although he was not credited at the ceremony with the award instead being presented to the film's co-director Jacques Cousteau. He was later nominated multiple times for Academy Awards later in his career. Malle is also one of the few directors to have won the Golden Lion multiple times.
Malle worked in both French cinema and Hollywood, and he produced both French and English language films. His most famous films include the crime film Ascenseur pour l'échafaud (1958), the World War II drama Lacombe, Lucien (1974), the romantic crime film Atlantic City (1980), the comedy-drama My Dinner with Andre (1981), and the autobiographical film Au revoir les enfants (1987).
Malle was born into a wealthy industrialist family in Thumeries, Nord, France, the son of Francoise (Béghin) and Pierre Malle. He initially studied political science at Sciences Po before turning to film studies at IDHEC instead.