Jacques Deray

Biography Born Jacques Desrayaud in Lyon, France, in 1929 to a family of Lyon industrialists. At the age of 19 he went to Paris to study drama under René Simon. Deray's last theatrical release was The Teddy Bear in 1994. Deray worked professionally in television until his death in 2003. who served as vice-president of the Institut Lumière until his death, the Jacques Deray Prize rewards the best French crime-thriller film of the year. Among the first laureates are 36 Quai des Orfèvres by Olivier Marchal, The Beat That My Heart Skipped by Jacques Audiard, Tell No One by Guillaume Canet, The Second Wind by Alain Corneau, and later Polisse by Maïwenn (2012).

Filmography

1960: The Gigolo 1963: Rififi in Tokyo 1963: 1965: Crime on a Summer Morning 1966: To Skin a Spy 1966: That Man George 1969: La Piscine 1970: Borsalino 1971: Easy, Down There! 1971: Un peu de soleil dans l'eau froide 1972: The Outside Man 1974: Borsalino & Co. 1975: Flic Story 1977: Le Gang 1978: Butterfly on the Shoulder 1980: Three Men to Kill 1983: Le Marginal 1985: He Died with His Eyes Open 1987: Le Solitaire 1987: Maladie d'amour 1989: Les Bois noirs 1991: Contre l'oubli (film collection) 1991: Netchaïev est de retour 1993: 1994: 3000 scénarios contre un virus (segment « Arnaud et ses copains ») 1994: The Teddy Bear 1998: (TV movie) 2000: On n'a qu'une vie (TV movie) 2002: Lettre d'une inconnue (TV movie)