Richard Pottier

Richard Pottier 6 June 1906 in Graz 2 November 1994 in Le PlessisBouchard was an Austrianborn French film directorHe was born in the AustroHungarian Empire as Ernst Deutsch Pottier born in 1906 in Budapest began his career as Sternbergs assistant His debut as a director coincided with the coming of the talkies He broached many genres along his long career plenty of comedies Si JEtais Le Patron adventures Les Secrets De La Mer rouge sci fi Le Monde Tremblera with its machine which could predict the date of your death detective films Picpus musicals Violettes Imperiales melodramas Defense DAimer you name it He was a solid craftsman and certainly did not deserve the critics contempt Without him Some like it hot would never have happened for Billy Wilder used the German remake of fanfare DAmour as a model He was the first to talk about euthanasia in Meurtres 1950 at a time when the subject was thoroughly taboo his buoyant Caroline Chérie predated the Angélique Marquise Des Anges saga by ten years His rural thriller La Ferme Aux Loups renewed the story of twins His career neatly declined after 1950and his last works were cheap sword and sandals flicks such as David Et Goliath starring Orson Welles and LEnlèvement Des Sabines starring Roger Moore He retired in the midsixties He was to live thirty more yearsd1994