Georges Combret

{{short description|French film director}} {{Infobox person | name = Georges Combret | image = | image_size = | caption = | birth_date = 11 November 1906 | birth_place = Paris, France | death_date = 31 January 1998 | death_place = Cannes, Alpes-Maritimes, France | other_names = | occupation = Director, Producer, Writer | years_active = 1950-1982 (film) }} '''Georges Combret''' (1906–1998) was a French film director, producer and screenwriter.<ref>Hayward p.423</ref>

== Biography == Born as Maurice Antonin Georges Combret<ref>{{Cite web |title=matchID - Moteur de recherche des décès |url=https://deces.matchid.io/id/VcWi0dLE5ePH |access-date=2024-02-02 |website=deces.matchid.io}}</ref> in 1906, he would start work in the automobile industry. After the Second World War, he would find work in the film industry (starting as a production manager for the 1949 film ''La Ronde des Heures''). During the 1970s, he would finance pornographic films and operated several theatres. He died after succumbing to injuries caused by a car in 1998.<ref>{{Cite book |last=Rège |first=Philippe |title=Encyclopedia of French Film Directors, Vol. 1 |publisher=Scarecrow Press, Inc. |year=2010 |isbn=978-0-8108-6939-4 |pages=245}}</ref>

==Selected filmography== * ''Duel in Dakar'' (1951) * ''Music in the Head'' (1951) * ''The Fighting Drummer'' (1953) * ''Rasputin'' (1954) * ''The Contessa's Secret'' (1954) * ''The Whole Town Accuses'' (1956) * ''Marie of the Isles'' (1959) * ''Hot Frustrations'' (1965) * ''Ring Around the World'' (1966) * ''Fire of Love'' (1967) * ''The Curse of Belphegor'' (1967) * ''Hot and Naked'' (1974) * ''Le plumard en folie'' (1974)

==References== {{Reflist}}

==Bibliography== * Hayward, Susan. ''French Costume Drama of the 1950s: Fashioning Politics in Film''. Intellect Books, 2010. {{ISBN|978-1-84150-318-9}}.

==External links== *{{IMDb name|0173625}}

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