- Born
- Died
- Nicknames
- The Balzac of Cinema
- The French Hitchcock
- Height5′ 6″ (1.68 m)
- Claude Chabrol was born on June 24, 1930 in Paris, France. He was a director and writer, known for Le Beau Serge (1958), La cérémonie (1995) and Story of Women (1988). He was married to Aurore Chabrol, Stéphane Audran and Agnès Goute. He died on September 12, 2010 in Paris, France.
- SpousesAurore Chabrol(March 9, 1983 - September 12, 2010) (his death, 1 child)Stéphane Audran(December 4, 1964 - November 15, 1982) (divorced, 1 child)Agnès Goute(June 26, 1952 - March 10, 1963) (divorced, 2 children)
- ChildrenJean-Yves Chabrol
- ParentsYves ChabrolMadeleine Delarbre
- His movies were often strong attacks of the French bourgeoisie
- Often paid homage to Alfred Hitchcock
- Often cast frosty leading ladies in the Hitchcock tradition
- Often used the names Hélène, Charles and Paul Thomas
- His relationship with Stéphane Audran ended when he fell in love with his frequent collaborator Aurore Chabrol (nee Aurore Pajot). He always liked to claim that it was Stéphane who threw him into Aurore's arms as, during the shooting of Ten Days Wonder (1971), she couldn't attend his birthday dinner and jokingly suggested that he should jump on the script-girl instead. The script-girl was Aurore and the friendship between her and Claude developed into a love affection. Audran always claimed that the story wasn't true.
- Fritz Lang was one of his main influences.
- The Good Girls (1960), now regarded as one of his masterworks, was a critical and commercial failure when it was originally released. In her autobiography "Le Roman de ma vie", Bernadette Lafont remembers that, at one point during the movie premiere, a viewer furiously screamed that he wanted back the 5 francs he had paid for the ticket. Chabrol, who was sitting before him, turned around and gave them to him. Also, at the end of the screening, another spectator tried to get in a fist fight with the director. The two men were separated.
- He was famous for his drunken antics on movie sets. Stéphane Audran remembers that, one day during the shooting of The Butcher (1970), he drank so much wine that he had to be brought away with a cart.
- He studied pharmacology at the University of Paris, before going into film-making.
- "I am a Communist, certainly, but that doesn't mean I have to make films about the wheat harvest." (1971 interview with Roger Ebert)
- Nous vivons une époque où les pizzas arrivent plus vite que la police.
- We live in an era where pizzas show up faster than the police.
- There is no new wave, only the sea.
- [on his movie Ophélia (1963)] I saw it recently and it was still execrable.
- [on divorcing Stéphane Audran] I found myself becoming more interested in her as an actress than a wife.
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