Guy Lefranc (Director)
Little is known about Guy Lefranc, a figure with a modest footprint in Director. Stay tuned for updates as more details become available.
Works
Dickie-roi
Release Date: 1981-09-15
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 6
The Line
The series follows a group of Allied pilots who crashed in occupied territories during WWII. A network of civilians and Resistance fighters, "La Filière", is in charge of helping them pass from France to Spain so they can avoid capture.
Release Date: 1978-01-05
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 8
Vote Count: 1
Police Commissioner Moulin
The series follows the adventures of lighthearted Jean-Paul Moulin, a police Commissaire, and his team as they solve crimes.
Release Date: 1976-08-04
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 1
Vote Count: 7
Marie-Antoinette
Release Date: 1975-12-24
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 4
Vote Count: 2
Le Secret des Dieux
Release Date: 1975-06-02
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Episode Count: 6
Et qu'ça saute !
A uranium deposit brings turmoil to the small South American republic of Guatalpa. Between two revolutions, the government tries unsuccessfully to decide whether the Americans, Soviets or Cubans will exploit the concession. Delegates from these nations spy on and betray each other to achieve their goal.
Release Date: 1970-09-11
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
L'Auvergnat et l'Autobus
Julien Brûlebois, a brave peasant from Auvergne, learns that he has been summoned to Strasbourg to collect an inheritance. Amazed by the operation of the bus that takes him from the station to his notary's home, he decides to buy it. What follows is a bewildering chase between the agents of the Strasbourg transport authority, the capitalists, the naive peasant and his lucid, pretty fiancée.
Release Date: 1969-04-18
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Beru and These Women
Inspector Bérurier, having inherited a mansion three years earlier, comes to collect rent from the tenant when the latter is murdered under mysterious circumstances. Béru calls Commissaire San Antonio to the rescue, and the two men discover that Laurenzi's hotel is home to a "brothel" whose director, Madame Albertine, soon reveals to the two policemen that Laurenzi was having an ongoing relationship with Helga, one of the boarders, and Mr. Max, a regular guest of the house.
Release Date: 1968-10-23
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 2
Salut Berthe !
Adrien Chautard, a major industrialist from Abidjan, has been chosen to replace an expert on the official Ivory Coast delegation sent to Paris to discuss the country's association with the Common Market. Chautard is delighted at the prospect of this trip, where he will be reunited with the woman of his dreams: Elisabeth. Alas, at Abidjan airport, a nasty surprise awaits him: Berthe, his lawful wife, has decided to leave with him to consult a leading cardiologist in the capital.
Release Date: 1968-08-20
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 7
Sale temps pour les mouches
Renowned atomic scientists are kidnapped on French soil. Inspector San-Antonio and his loyal deputy Bérurier infiltrate a gang suspected of involvement in the case, in order to trace the trail.
Release Date: 1966-12-23
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 11
Les malabars sont au parfum
All sorts of spies are buzzing around Michel, whose cow, Dorothée, produces 200 liters of milk a day thanks to a treatment of his own invention. Dorothée is kidnapped and found. But now everyone disowns her. No matter! Dorothée's productivity will enrich Michel and his wife Nicole, who have opened a rotisserie; milk cocktails are in fashion.
Release Date: 1966-02-02
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 3
Let the Shooters Shoot
A top-secret prototype is stolen from an American base. The man who stole it, Andersen, is murdered. The investigation is led by Jeff Gordon, who discovers in Andersen's papers a photo of a woman identified as Corinne Martin. Jeff Gordon escapes an assassination attempt on his way out of Martin's house and meets Corinne again, who denies any involvement in the robbery. Her husband, in the pay of foreign spies, is in possession of the "repeller". After several scuffles, Jeff Gordon arrests Martin and his accomplices. The prototype is returned to its base.
Release Date: 1964-06-27
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 10
Conduite à gauche
It all happens in a hospital waiting room. While his young wife has just had a serious accident and is undergoing surgery, the husband relives, in his memory, the reality of their near past, or what he would have liked his marital union to be. At the outset, this young couple took as their model the famous couple from "Les Liaisons Dangereuses" and their line of conduct: complete freedom for everyone, as long as they confide in each other about their adventures.
Release Date: 1962-06-13
Department: Directing
Job: Director
The Elusive Corporal
The story serves as a companion piece to Renoir's 1937 film, Grand Illusion, once more bringing together men from across the broad social spectrum of French society to depict one man's Sisyphean efforts to escape captivity in a German POW camp.
Release Date: 1962-05-23
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 28
Keep Talking, Baby
Ex-boxer Eddie is framed for murder. While serving time, he tries to clear his name and uncover the real culprit behind the deadly setup.
Release Date: 1961-10-06
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 6
Follow Me Young Man
Françoise, a charming young saleswoman for a leading jeweller, is being courted in vain by a billionaire shipowner. He attributes her failure to the existence of a rival, and decides to have her followed by a private detective. Françoise, commissioned by her boss to transport a valuable necklace to Cannes, is accompanied by a bodyguard charged with her safety. Françoise, the bodyguard and the detective meet on the train and a series of misunderstandings ensue.
Release Date: 1958-12-03
Department: Writing
Job: Screenplay
Vote Count: 1
Why Women Sin
La moucharde stars Dany Carrel as a young miss who loves neither wisely nor well. Duped into a life of crime, Carrel remains on the wrong side of the Law because she's hopelessly in love with a two-bit crook. Soon she becomes as jaded and hardened as her criminal cohorts. When the police threaten to throw her in the Bastille, Carrel agrees to turn informer, with the expected disastrous results.
Release Date: 1958-08-06
Department: Writing
Job: Writer
Vote Count: 2
The Irony of Money
The finding of a wallet with a lot of money is the common theme of four stories, featuring a shoeshine from Seville, a clerk from Salamanca, a bullfighter from Cuenca and a newspapers seller from Paris.
Release Date: 1957-01-07
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 6
Fernand cow-boy
Fernand has just inherited a saloon in Texas from an uncle in America. Despite his inheritance, he is considered an intruder. Soon he's the victim of a cruel plot: accused of murder, arrested and kidnapped by Indians and gangsters. A young, beautiful, pure-hearted Indian, moved by Fernand's kindness, accompanies him back to the village. She's sure to become the owner of the Texas hotel.
Release Date: 1956-09-06
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 2
Daddy's Gang
Shy, timorous bank clerk, Fernand Jérôme, prevents -unwillingly of course - a gang led by "Le Grand J" from robbing the "Crédit Populaire", where he works. Having become a hero out of the blue, this new status allows him to woo Renée, the daughter of chief inspector Merlerin. What Merlerin does not know is that the man he has been trying to arrest for years, "Le Grand J" is in fact Joseph Jérôme, Fernand's father, who has disappeared for years...
Release Date: 1956-04-26
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 10
Blackmail
An atmospheric tale about a national blackmail organization, where no one can be trusted.
Release Date: 1955-07-19
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Le Fil à la patte
Count Fernand du Bois d'Enghien typifies the pleasure seeker and as such he has a mistress of course, star singer Lucette Gauthier. But now Fernand feels it is time for him to tie the knot. For that, pretty Viviane Duverger is the ideal prey. The trouble is that the explosive Lucette does not hear it that way. Fortunately for Bois d'Enghien, Urugua, a rich South American general, falls in love with Lucette.
Release Date: 1954-12-06
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 4
Captain Slipper
A bank clerk is bored to death with his nine-to-five work under his boss ' watchful eye. His missus is a pain in the neck and his in-laws are not better.
Release Date: 1953-07-31
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 5
She and Me
You never can tell. Jean had always been one of the most confirmed bachelors that kept swearing to anyone that would listen he would never put a ring on a female finger. But that was before he met Juliette, a capricious but irresistibly lovely young woman. Well, what else can you do when you fall dead in love with a creature of the kind? And too bad if their honeymoon proved catastrophic. To say nothing of their housing problems : what to do when neither husband nor wife has any money? How to build one's love nest when the housing crisis rages? How to get by when your wife has luxury tastes?
Release Date: 1952-12-31
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 6
The Man in My Life
L'homme de ma vie stars Madeleine Robinson as Madeleine, who after being abandoned by her lover is forced to raise her baby all by herself. Supporting herself and her child as a prostitute, Madeleine manages to give her daughter an expensive girl's-school education, all the while keeping her own identity and profession a secret. The girl grows up to be an insufferable snob; nonetheless, Madeleine attempts to re-establish a relationship. Things take a sorry turn when the daughter takes drastic actions to defend her mother's honor.
Release Date: 1952-04-16
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 1
Young Love
Catherine, 18, loved Jean, a young accountant, who loved her in return. And yet, one morning, two policemen find their dead bodies on a stretch of waste ground. The case is obvious: the two young people have killed themselves. But why? Chief Inspector Ernest Plonche, feeling upset, decides to investigate personally.
Release Date: 1951-11-14
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 10
Dr. Knock
Saint-Maurice, an ordinary peaceful village, lived healthily so much so that the local doctor's practice was scant. But that was before Dr. Parpalaid retired and was replaced by a charlatan by the name of Knock. A real genius this one, for he soon managed to persuade everyone that they were ill. And not only didn't they resent him but they even loved their physician, who made a fortune and brought prosperity to the village by turning it into a big hospital.
Release Date: 1951-03-21
Department: Directing
Job: Director
Vote Count: 53
Diary of a Country Priest
An inexperienced, sickly priest shows up in the rural French community of Ambricourt, where he joins the community's clergy. But the locals don't take kindly to the priest, and his ascetic ways and unsociable demeanor make him an outcast. During Bible studies at the nearby girls school, he is continually mocked by his students. Then his attempt to intervene in a family feud backfires into a scandal. His failures, compounded with his declining health, begin to erode his faith.
Release Date: 1951-02-07
Department: Directing
Job: First Assistant Director
Vote Count: 262
Monsieur Vincent
The life of Vincent de Paul, the 17th-century author and priest who founded two religious orders.
Release Date: 1947-11-05
Department: Directing
Job: First Assistant Director
Vote Count: 39
Goodbye Darling
Chérie is a beautiful young woman who works as an escort girl. She meets a young and wealthy man who propose her to be his fictional wife so that his mother won't bother him anymore with this other girl, a rich one, she wants to see her son married to.
Release Date: 1946-04-26
Department: Directing
Job: Assistant Director
Vote Count: 8
Paméla
During the Directory, a handful of royalists tried to get the Dauphin Louis XVII to escape from the Temple.
Release Date: 1945-05-02
Department: Directing
Job: Assistant Director
Vote Count: 3