Claude Boissol

Claude Boissol was a French film and television director and screenwriter, recognized for his contributions to mid-20th-century French cinema and television. Born in Paris, he began his career as an assistant director, collaborating with filmmakers such as Jacques Becker and Yves Allégret. Boissol made his directorial debut with Three Boys, One Girl (1948). His notable works include The Whole Town Accuses (1956) and Julie the Redhead (1959). In television, he co-created the long-running crime series Commissaire Moulin, which aired from 1976 to 2008. Boissol's work is characterized by its narrative depth and exploration of human relationships.

Works

Mr. Leguignon Lampiste

A railway worker, Leguignon, and his wife are forced to move into a house located in a shaggy part of town. What Leguignon doesn't know is that a group of children have discovered a treasure and keeps it stored in the house. Trouble ensues when he discovers the cache and tries to claim it as his own.

Release Date1952-05-08

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Charactersd Le substitut #1

Vote Count9

The Contessa's Secret

The lover of an Italian revolutionary offers herself to Napoleon in exchange for her sweetheart's life.

Release Date1954-09-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Charactersd Nigra

Vote Count1

Police Commissioner Moulin

The series follows the adventures of lighthearted Jean-Paul Moulin, a police Commissaire, and his team as they solve crimes.

Release Date1976-08-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count4

Vote Count7

Love at First Sight

Release Date1992-02-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count1

Vote Count1

Marie Pervenche

Marie Lorieux, a contract worker at the Paris Police Prefecture, is tired of distributing tickets. While walking the streets of the capital, she finds herself mingled with intrigues all wacky and incredible as each other and decides to act alone in its investigations to the chagrin of his head of department who does not know how to do for the reason and her husband, Hervé, worried constantly.

Release Date1984-03-22

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count22

Vote Count4

Les Diamants du Président

Georges Lancier is a former mercenary for hire. After he retires from business, he gets trapped in a complex conspiracy involving a diamond heist, international financiers, and struggle for political power in an imaginary African country.

Release Date1977-11-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count6

Vote Count1

Poly

Release Date1961-12-21

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count65

Vote Count2

Pour tout l'or du Transvaal

Release Date1979-10-12

DepartmentCreator

JobCreator

Les Globe-trotters

Release Date1966-10-16

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count39

Vote Count1

Les Fils de la liberté

Release Date1981-06-12

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Episode Count6

Aux frontières du possible

Aux frontières du possible is a French television show that was broadcast from 1971 and 1974. The show was created by Henri Viard and Jacques Bergier, based on the latter's book Scientific Espionage. 13 50-minute episodes were made, and the series was shown on channel 2 of the French ORTF network. In Canada, the series was broadcast in 1972 and 1974 on Radio-Canada.

Release Date1971-10-04

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count6

Vote Count1

Le Temps des as

The World War I is declared. The french pioneers of aviation are requisitioned, but they try to renew with the spirit of chivalry.

Release Date1978-10-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count6

Nick Verlaine ou Comment voler la tour Eiffel

Release Date1976-07-08

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Episode Count5

Napoléon II, the Eagle

The story of Napoleon 1st's long-awaited son, born in 1911. He spent his childhood in the Tuileries, before being separated from his father and taken in and raised by his grandfather, Emperor Francis, who made him an Austrian prince.

Release Date1961-11-01

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

Three Etc.'s and the Colonel

In Spain, during the Napoleonic rule, the French Governor of Andalusia is besieged by the locals who have countless demands and wishes.

Release Date1960-08-26

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Rasputin

Gregory Iefommovich Raspoutine is a monk with healing powers and a liking for debauchery who manages to insinuate himself into the court of the Romanoffs thanks to Princess Dikvona. Being the only person able to heal he son of Czar Nicolas II and Czarina Alexandra from his hemophilia, he becomes a very powerful man, which infuriates many.A group of nobles, determined to save the monarchy, start conspiring to murder him.

Release Date1954-07-19

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

Prelude to Glory

Roberto, a 10-year-old boy, is drawn to music. An old organist discovers his gifts, and begins his musical education which will lead him to the head of an orchestra.

Release Date1950-06-15

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

Vote Count1

Every Day Has Its Secret

Given up for dead three years ago in a plane crash in the Amazon rainforest, a young woman arrives in Paris to find her eminent ethnologist husband. She learns of his death in obscure circumstances, having remarried in the meantime. She sets out to unravel the mystery surrounding her husband's death.

Release Date1958-06-11

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count3

The Drunkard

Unfairly accused of her husband's murder, a woman is imprisoned.

Release Date1953-02-27

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Le tampon du capiston

Cochu, a simple soldier, is mistakenly believed to be a rich heir which causes many problems.

Release Date1930-12-31

DepartmentDirecting

JobAssistant Director

The Whole Town Accuses

François is the benefactor of the town; but later on, all the inhabitants turn against him.

Release Date1956-05-23

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Vote Count2

Julie la rousse

The artist Edouard Lavigne falls in love with a young girl but must quickly leave her because her parents are opposed to this relationship. Edourd's son will go in search of this woman and will thereby meet her daughter. About a love story that continues from one generation to the next.

Release Date1959-08-12

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

La Peau de l'ours

A police commissioner lives with his two children, wife, mother-in-law and maid. But he discovers that he has been poisoned with arsenic, and that the culprit must be someone close to him.

Release Date1957-08-30

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count2

El cerco

Release Date1959-01-01

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

J'y suis... j'y reste

Just as she is about to marry Jules, Nénette realizes that an adventuress has borrowed her identity in order to marry Hubert de Mont-Vermeil. But at the same time, a cardinal arrives, and the truth must be kept from him. Nénette passes for Hubert's wife, and the cardinal spends his time reconciling the pseudo-spouses. After many misunderstandings, Hubert and Nénette discover that they love each other, while Jules marries the pretty soubrette, not without first inoculating Hubert's virtuous aunt with his taste for racing.

Release Date1954-04-13

DepartmentWriting

JobWriter

Vote Count1

Ohnivé jaro

The story of Sebastien, a seriously ill 25-year-old, and his mother, whose lives were also affected by the events of 1968 in Czechoslovakia.

Release Date1995-07-12

DepartmentDirecting

JobDirector

Deux de l'escadrille

During the Second World War, midshipman Dourdan, nicknamed 'Saucisse', distinguished himself by his clumsiness and his blunders. Charged with Lieutenant Goldfinch to convey an aircraft to Marrakech, he shot down an American bomber on the way, mistaken for a German plane.

Release Date1953-01-30