
Richard Pottier
Richard Pottier (6 June 1906, in Graz – 2 November 1994, in Le Plessis-Bouchard) was an Austrian-born French film director.He was born in the Austro-Hungarian Empire as Ernst Deutsch. Pottier, born in 1906 in Budapest, began his career as Sternberg's assistant. His debut as a director coincided with the coming of the talkies. He broached many genres along his long career: plenty of comedies ("Si J'Etais Le Patron" ), adventures ("Les Secrets De La Mer rouge"), sci -fi ("Le Monde Tremblera", with its machine which could predict the date of your death), detective films ("Picpus" ) musicals ("Violettes Imperiales"), melodramas ("Defense D'Aimer" ), you name it. He was a solid craftsman and certainly did not deserve the critics' contempt. Without him, "Some like it hot" would never have happened for Billy Wilder used the German remake of "fanfare D'Amour" as a model. He was the first to talk about euthanasia in "Meurtres" (1950) at a time when the subject was thoroughly taboo; his buoyant "Caroline Chérie" predated the "Angélique Marquise Des Anges" saga by ten years. His rural thriller "La Ferme Aux Loups" renewed the story of twins. His career neatly declined after 1950,and his last works were cheap sword and sandals flicks such as "David Et Goliath" (starring Orson Welles) and "L'Enlèvement Des Sabines" (starring Roger Moore). He retired in the mid-sixties. He was to live thirty more years.(d.1994)
- Known ForDirecting
- Born6 June 1906 (age 119)
- Place of BirthGraz, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]
Richard Pottier

- Known ForDirecting
- Born6 June 1906 (age 119)
- Place of BirthGraz, Austria-Hungary [now Austria]

Dernier tiercé
1965

Romulus and the Sabines
1961

David and Goliath
1960

Serenade of Texas
1958

Tabarin
1958

The Singer from Mexico
1957

The Lebanese Mission
1956

The Rebels of Lomanach
1954

The Beautiful Otero
1954

Imperial Violets
1952

The Case Against X
1952

Dear Caroline
1951

Rendezvous in Grenada
1951

Three Feet in a Bed
1950

Three Sinners
1950

Barry
1949

Two Loves
1949

Adventure Starts Tomorrow
1948

La Nuit blanche
1948

Vertiges
1947

The Uncatchable Mr. Frederic
1946

Destiny
1946

Majestic Hotel Cellars
1945

Picpus
1943

The Wolf Farm
1943

My Love is Near You
1943

Eight Men in a Castle
1942

Mademoiselle Swing
1942

Forbidden to Love
1942

The World Will Shake
1939

Lights of Paris
1938

The Secrets of the Red Sea
1937

27, rue de la Paix
1936
Guilty Melody
1936

Disk 413
1936

Fanfare of Love
1935

A Rare Bird
1935
