Henri Diamant-Berger

Henri DiamantBerger 9 June 1895 7 May 1972 was a French director producer and screenwriter In a career that lasted more than 50 years he directed 48 films between 1913 and 1959 produced 17 between 1925 and 1967 and wrote 21 screenplays between 1916 and 1971 Born in Paris to a Jewish family he studied to be a lawyer but was drawn to the motion picture business He began his career when he codirected the 1913 silent film short De film en aiguilles with André Heuzé In addition to writing screenplays during the period from 1916 to 1919 DiamantBerger also published and edited a film magazine and books about the movies In 1918 he was hired by Pathé and sent to the United States to help set up the companys film laboratory at Fort Lee New Jersey Upon his return to France Pathé had him set up a laboratory in Vincennes as well as organize a film studio in BoulogneBillancourt In 1921 DiamantBerger directed the film serial Les Trois Mousquetaires one of two film versions of Alexandre Dumas pères novel The Three Musketeers released in 1921 the other was Douglas Fairbanks version For a short time in the mid1920s he made pictures in the USA including the drama FiftyFifty 1925 starring Lionel Barrymore He also directed the 1927 silent film Éducation de Prince By the end of the decade he successfully made the transition to talkies Through his Barrymore connection DiamantBerger acquired the screen rights for a play produced on Broadway in 1921 written by John Barrymores exwife Blanche Oelrichs His French language film version of the same title Clair de lune 1932 starred Claude Dauphin and Blanche Montel Among his notable sound films was a remake Les Trois Mousquetaires 1932 a sixhour epic about the three musketeers for which he wrote the screen adaptation and used much of the same cast from his 1921 silent version DiamantBergers other directorial efforts include two Arsène Lupin detective films in 1937 However after directing Tourbillon de Paris in 1939 he lost eight full years to World War II In 1951 he directed the acclaimed drama Monsieur Fabre starring Pierre Fresnay During the 1960s DiamantBerger devoted himself exclusively to producing making several successful films which includes La Belle Américaine 1961 Heaven Sent 1963 and The Counterfeit Constable 1964 Henri DiamantBerger died at age 76 in Paris Source Article Henri DiamantBerger from Wikipedia in English licensed under CCBYSA 30