Biography

Paul Gégauff was a French screenwriter, notable primarily for his long-term collaboration with the director Claude Chabrol. He scripted 14 of Chabrol's films. He won an Edgar Award for scripting the crime thriller film "Purple Noon" (1960), a loose adaptation of the novel "The Talented Mr. Ripley" (1955) by Patricia Highsmith. On Christmas Eve 1983, Gégauff was stabbed to death by his second wife Coco Ducados.
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Stabbed to death by his second wife

Novelist and screenwriter, a controversial figure and frequent collaborator of the director Claude Chabrol. Chabrol once remarked that, if he needed for "something really nasty" to happen in one of his films, "then I send for Gegauff".