Jean Ferry

{{infobox Person | name = Jean Ferry | birth_name = Jean André Medous | birth_date = {{birth date|1906|06|16|df=yes}} | birth_place = Capens, Haute-Garonne, France | death_date = {{death date and age|1974|09|05|1906|06|16|df=yes}} | death_place = Créteil, France | occupation = Writer • Screenwriter }}

'''Jean Levy''', known as '''Jean Ferry''' (16 June 1906 – 5 September 1974), was a French writer and screenwriter and follower of the 'pataphysical tradition'. He died in Val-de-Marne, France, in 1974.<ref>{{Cite web |title=Jean Ferry |url=https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0275081/ |access-date=2022-12-07 |website=IMDB}}</ref> French publisher {{Interlanguage link|Raphaël Sorin|fr}} described him as "a little man, round all over. A sharp eye behind round glasses, close-shaven head, high-pitched voice, and a potbelly that recalled Ubu's ''gidouille''."<ref>{{Cite web |last=Gauvin |first=Edward |date=2018-01-28 |title=Jean Ferry: A Figure of the French 20th Century |url=https://weirdfictionreview.com/2013/01/jean-ferry-a-figure-of-the-french-20th-century/ |archive-url= |access-date=2022-12-07 |website=Weird Fiction Review}}</ref>

In addition to his literary career, he was known as an Oulipo guest of honour, satrap of the College of Pataphysics, and specialist in the cult figure and French poet, novelist and playwright Raymond Roussel (also known as the eccentric neighbour of Proust).<ref>{{Cite web |title=Collège de 'Pataphysique {{!}} LITS |url=https://lits.mtholyoke.edu/archives-special-collections/asc-research/rare-book-collection/college-de-pataphysique |access-date=2022-12-14 |website=lits.mtholyoke.edu}}</ref><ref>{{Cite journal |last=Rolle |first=Elisa |date=2016-07-24 |title=Raymond Roussel (January 20, 18-77-July 14, 1933) |url=https://elisa-rolle.livejournal.com/3450891.html? |journal=Queer Places |volume=3 |via=Live Journal}}</ref>

==Selected filmography== * ''Musicians of the Sky'' (1940) - directed by ''Georges Lacombe'' * ''Children of Paradise'' (1944) - treatment written in hiding of the ''Marcel Carné'' / ''Jacques Prévert'' film * ''The Eleventh Hour Guest'' (1945) * ''Dawn Devils'' (1946) * ''Quai des Orfèvres'' (1947) - directed by ''Henri-Georges Clouzot'' * ''Eternal Conflict'' (1948) * ''Manon'' (1949) - directed by ''Henri-Georges Clouzot'' * ''Miquette et sa mère'' (1949) - directed by ''Henri-Georges Clouzot'' * ''Tuesday's Guest'' (1950) - directed by ''Jacques Deval'' * ''The Most Beautiful Girl in the World'' (1951) directed by ''Christian Stengel'' * ''The Beautiful Image'' (1951) - directed by ''Claude Heymann'' * ''Spartacus'' (1951) - directed by ''Riccardo Freda'' * ''Nana'' (1955) - directed by ''Christian-Jaque'' * ''Cela s'appelle l'aurore'' (1955) - directed by ''Luis Buñuel'' * ''Nathalie'' (1957) - directed by ''Christian-Jacque'' * ''Tabarin'' (1958) - directed by ''Richard Pottier'' * ''Babette s'en va-t-en guerre'' (1959) - directed by ''Christian-Jaque'' * ''The Fenouillard Family'' (1960) - directed by ''Yves Robert'' * ''Madame Sans-Gêne'' (1961) - directed by ''Christian-Jaque'' * ''Vie privée'' (1962) - directed by ''Louis Malle'' * ''The Man from Cocody'' (1965) - directed by ''Christian-Jaque'' *''The Saint Lies in Wait'' (1966) - directed by ''Christian-Jaque'' * {{Lang|fr|La Faute de l'abbé Mouret}} (1970) - directed by ''Georges Franju'' * ''Daughters of Darkness'' (1971) - directed by ''Harry Kümel'' * ''Malpertuis'' (1972) - directed by ''Harry Kümel'' * ''De Komst van Joachim Stiller'' - ''The Coming of Joachim Stiller'' (1974) - directed by ''Harry Kümel''

== See also == * ''La Loi des rues'' (1956) * ''Le Saint prend l'affût'' (1966)

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