Louis Chavance

Louis Chavance
Born	23 December 1907 Paris, France
Died	1979
Occupation	Writer, Editor, Assistant Director
Years active	1932 - 1961 (film)

Louis Chavance (1907–1979) was a French screenwriter. He also worked occasionally as a film editor and assistant director. He is best known for his screenplay for Le Corbeau which he first wrote in 1933 although the film was not made for another decade.^[1]

Selected filmography

Screenwriter

• La Nuit fantastique (1942)
• The Phantom Baron (1943)
• Le Corbeau (1943)
• A Lover's Return (1946)
• The Last Penny (1946)
• The Unknown Singer (1947)
• Under the Cards (1948)
• The Man Who Returns from Afar (1950)
• The 13th Letter (1951)
• Tom Toms of Mayumba (1955)

Editor

• L'Atalante (1934)

References

1. Bernstein & Studlar p.251

Bibliography

• Matthew Bernstein & Gaylyn Studlar. Visions of the East: Orientalism in Film. Rutgers University Press, 1997.

External links

• Louis Chavance at the Internet Movie Database