Francis Girod, 62; French movie, TV director, screenwriter
Francis Girod, 62, a French director and screenwriter whose films featured such actresses as Catherine Deneuve and Romy Schneider, died early Sunday of a heart attack in Bordeaux, France.
Girod, who was making a television movie in the southwestern wine capital, died at his hotel, according to members of his crew.
After briefly working as a broadcast journalist in the 1960s, Girod learned the movie trade at the side of directors Jean-Pierre Mocky and Roger Vadim. He made his first movie, “Le Trio Infernal,” in 1974 with Schneider and Michel Piccoli.
Top French stars consistently showed up in his movies: Gerard Depardieu in “Rene la Canne” (Rene the Cane), 1976; Schneider again in “La Banquiere” (The Banker), 1980; and Deneuve and Jean-Louis Trintignant in “Le Bon Plaisir” (The Pleasure) in 1984.
His latest movie, “Un Ami Parfait” (A Perfect Friend), about a journalist struck by amnesia, came out in April.
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