Trivia

Celebrated his 100th birthday on January 12, 2008, in his home city of Bueil in Normandy, surrounded by his friends, among them famous actress Michèle Morgan. The ceremony took place in the small City Hall, which is named after him ("Salle des Fêtes Polyvalente Jean Delannoy"). He is the oldest French film director still alive as of January 2008.

Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume One, 1890-1945". Pages 199-203. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1987.

Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1973

President of the Société des Auteurs de Films as of 1952.

Today, there is a museum dedicated to Jean Delannoy in the town of Bueil (department of Eure) run by his daughter Claire Delannoy. It summarizes his career and all his collaborations around exhibitions and rehabilitated scenarios.

He was a Protestant, a descendant of Huguenots, some of whom fled the country during the French Wars of Religion, and settled first in Wallonia. Afterwards, their name became De la Noye and then Delano, who were on the second ship to immigrate to Plymouth, Massachusetts.

In 1960, his film, Maigret tend un piège was nominated for a BAFTA award for "Best Film from any Source".

Multi-award-winning filmmaker, in Cannes, Venice or Berlin, Delannoy is then, with Julien Duvivier or Claude Autant-Lara, the target of New Wave filmmakers (Godard, Truffaut, Chabrol...) in the assault on "dad's cinema "('Le cinéma de papa').

In 1934 he directed his first film and went on to a long career, both writing and directing.

In 1946, his film about a Protestant minister titled La symphonie pastorale was awarded the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival.

He was a French actor, film editor, screenwriter and film director.

He landed a job with Paramount Studios Parisian facilities, working his way up to head film editor.

Director of several melodramas, he has already had success, notably with Pontcarral, colonel d'empire (1943), when he was able to make L'Eternel Retour (1943), with the collaboration of Jean Cocteau. Later, the latter adapted La Princesse de Clèves (1961) for him.

He was a student in Paris when he began acting in silent films.

Jean Delannoy is also known for his costume films.