Édouard Molinaro earns a living as a French director with a body of work that has to be looked up rather than recognized. The beginning of the record is the part hardest to track down. The filmography runs to 57 credits. The most visible credit is 'Oscar'. The list also holds 'Hibernatus'.
Édouard Molinaro
85 years (May 13, 1928 – Dec 7, 2013)Bordeaux, Gironde, France
46 Directed5 Series
Édouard Molinaro earns a living as a French director with a body of work that has to be looked up rather than recognized. The beginning of the record is the part hardest to track down. The filmography runs to 57 credits. The most visible credit is 'Oscar'. The list also holds 'Hibernatus'.
He is best known for his comedies with Louis de Funès (Oscar, etc.), My Uncle Benjamin (with Jacques Brel and Claude Jade), Dracula and Son (with Christopher Lee), and the Academy Award-nominated La Cage aux Folles (with Michel Serrault and Ugo Tognazzi). Molinaro was active as a director until a few years before his death, although he had almost exclusively been producing works for television.[2]
In 1996, his cinematic work was awarded the René Clair Award, a prize given by the Académie française for excellent film work.
Molinaro died of a respiratory insufficiency in 2013. He was 85.
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