Édouard Molinaro, born May 13, 1928 in Bordeaux (Gironde) and died December 7, 2013 in the 20th arrondissement of Paris, was a French film director and screenwriter.
Alternating between film and television from an early age, he owes his greatest successes to comedies. His career is marked by nume... More
Édouard Molinaro, born May 13, 1928 in Bordeaux (Gironde) and died December 7, 2013 in the 20th arrondissement of Paris, was a French film director and screenwriter.
Alternating between film and television from an early age, he owes his greatest successes to comedies. His career is marked by numerous stage adaptations (Oscar with Louis de Funès, À gauche en sortir de l'ascenseur with Pierre Richard, Le Souper with Claude Brasseur), including two written by Francis Veber (L'Emmerdeur and La Cage aux folles). The latter was a major commercial success in France, Belgium, and the United States.
He is best known for his comedies with Louis de Funès (Oscar, etc.), My Uncle Benjamin (with Jacques Brel and Claude Jade), Dracula and Son (with Christopher Lee), and the Academy Award-nominated La Cage aux Folles (with Michel Serrault and Ugo Tognazzi). Molinaro was active as a director until a few years before his death, although he had almost exclusively been producing works for television.[2]
In 1996, his cinematic work was awarded the René Clair Award, a prize given by the Académie française for excellent film work.
Molinaro died of a respiratory insufficiency in 2013. He was 85.
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