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Born in Paris, Tourneur went to Hollywood with his father, director Maurice Tourneur around 1913. He started out as a script clerk and editor for his father, then graduated to such jobs as directing shorts (often with the pseudonym Jack Turner), both in France and America. He was hired to run the second unit for David O. Selznick's A Tale of Two Cities (1935), where he first met Val Lewton. In 1942, when Lewton was named to head the new horror unit at RKO, he asked Tourneur to be his first director. The result was the highly artistic (and commercially successful) Cat People (1942). Tourneur went on to direct masterpieces in many different genres, all showing a great command of mood and atmosphere.

Second Unit Director or Assistant Director

The staircase in Cat People was borrowed from The Magnificent Ambersons.

He has directed two films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being &quot;culturally, historically or aesthetically&quot; significant: <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0034587/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Cat People (1942)</a> and <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/title/tt0039689/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Out of the Past (1947)</a>.

Son of <a class="ipc-md-link ipc-md-link--entity" href="/name/nm0869665/?ref_=nmtrv_trv">Maurice Tourneur</a>

Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. &quot;World Film Directors, Volume One,
1890-1945&quot;. Pages 1098-1103. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company,
1987.

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