thumb|Jack Pinoteau Portrait {{Short description|French film director}} '''Jack Pinoteau''' (20 September 1923 – 6 April 2017) or '''Jacques Pinoteau''' was a French film director born at Clairefontaine-en-Yvelines. A brother of Claude Pinoteau and Arlette Merry, he is mostly known for his direction of the film ''{{Interlanguage link multi|Le Triporteur|fr}}'', after a novel by René Fallet which made Darry Cowl famous.

Pinoteau died on 6 April 2017, aged 93.<ref>{{Cite news|url=http://culturebox.francetvinfo.fr/cinema/stars/le-realisateur-jacques-pinoteau-est-mort-a-93-ans-254621|title=Le réalisateur Jacques Pinoteau est mort à 93 ans|date=April 6, 2017|work=Culturebox|access-date=2017-04-08|language=Fr}}</ref><ref>{{Cite news|url=https://toutlecine.challenges.fr/actualite-cinema/il-a-realise-le-triporteur-avec-darry-cowl-le-realisateur-jacques-pinoteau-est-mort_360400|title=Il a réalisé "Le Triporteur" avec Darry Cowl. Le réalisateur Jacques Pinoteau est mort|last=Croiset|first=Laure|date=April 6, 2017|work=Tout le ciné|access-date=2017-04-08|language=fr}}</ref>

== Filmography ==

=== Cinema ===

==== Film director ==== * 1952 : ''They Were Five'' with Jean Carmet, Jean Gaven * 1954 : ''The Big Flag'' with Jean Chevrier, Nicole Courcel * 1956 : ''A Friend of the Family'' with Darry Cowl * 1957 : ''The Tricyclist'' with Darry Cowl * 1958 : ''Chéri, fais-moi peur'' with Darry Cowl * 1960 : ''Robinson et le triporteur'' with Darry Cowl * 1963 : ''People in Luck'' * 1964 : ''Les Durs à cuire'' with Jean Poiret, Michel Serrault and Roger Pierre * 1965 : ''Me and the Forty Year Old Man'' with Dany Saval, Paul Meurisse and Michel Serrault

==== Assistant director ==== * 1948 : ''Rapide de nuit'' by Marcel Blistène * 1949 : ''Five Red Tulips'' by Jean Stelli * 1949 : ''On n'aime qu'une fois'' by Jean Stelli * 1949 : ''Dernier Amour'' by Jean Stelli * 1950 : ''{{ill|Minne, l'ingénue libertine|fr}}'' by Jacqueline Audry * 1950 : ''Les Maîtres nageurs'' by Henri Lepage * 1950 : ''Quai de Grenelle'' by Emil-Edwin Reinert * 1951 : ''The Red Needle'' by Emil-Edwin Reinert * 1952 : ''Plume au vent'' by Louis Cuny

==== Actor ==== * 1943 : ''Le Carrefour des enfants perdus'' by Léo Joannon

=== Television === * 1966 : ''{{Interlanguage link multi|Les Globe-trotters|fr}}'', TV serial with Yves Rénier * 1967 : ''S.O.S. Fernand'', with Fernandel

== References == {{Reflist}}

== External links == * {{IMDb name|0684510}} * [http://www.zweitausendeins.de/filmlexikon/?sucheNach=personnr&wert=6029 Filme von Jack Pinoteau mit deutschen Verleihtiteln] {{Authority control}}

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