Simon Gantillon
Simon Gantillon (7 January 1887 in Lyon – 9 September 1961 in Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a 20th-century French screenwriter and playwright.
Filmography
- Screenwriter
- 1932: Sergeant X by Vladimir Strizhevsky
- 1938: Gibraltar by Fedor Ozep
- 1939: Personal Column by Robert Siodmak
- 1945: Mission spéciale by Maurice de Canonge
- 1947: La Figure de proue by Christian Stengel
- 1947: Rumours by Jacques Daroy
- 1947: Love Around the House by Pierre de Hérain (dialoguist only)
- 1947: Lured by Douglas Sirk
- 1949: Maya by Raymond Bernard[1]
Plays
- 1923: Cyclone
- 1924: Maya
- 1928: Départs
- 1931: Bifur
- Mirages
- Fugues
- Iles fortunées
References
- ^ Adaptation of the Simon Gantillon's play created in 1924, mise en scène by Gaston Baty and performed more than one thousand times: "It is the biggest success of the interwar period" (La France noire, La Découverte, 2012). It had been translated into 17 languages writes Michel Vais (L'Écrivain scénique, Presses universitaires du Québec, 1978)
