Jean Manoussi

Jean Manoussi (14 November 1868 - 21 December 1929) was a French dramatist, film director and screenwriter. Jean Manoussi has written several theatre plays in collaboration with playwrights such as Paul Armont, Marcel Gerbidon or Gabriel Timmory.

Theatre 1902 : Un beau mariage, cowritten with Gabriel Timmory 1903 : Petite bonne sérieuse, cowritten with Gabriel Timmory 1904 : Pomme de terre, cowritten with Gabriel Timmory 1909 : Un cambrioleur ingénieux, cowritten with Gabriel Timmory 1913 : Le Chevalier au masque, cowritten with Paul Armont 1916 : La Ventouse, cowritten with Marcel Nancey 1923 : Dicky, cowritten with Paul Armont and Marcel Gerbidon

Filmography as director 1919 : Fanny Lear, cowritten with Robert Boudrioz, after Ludovic Halévy and Henri Meilhac, 1919 : L'Homme bleu after the novel by Georges Le Faure 1920 : Illusions 1922 : Le Grillon du foyer 1923 : Le Dernier des Capendu 1925 : The Painter and His Model, German film of the Maxim-Film Ges. Ebner & Co in Berlin 1926 : Fedora, also screenwriter, after the play by Victorien Sardou 1926 : Ma maison de Saint-Cloud after the novel by Paul Bourget

As screenwriter 1909 : Un cambrioleur ingénieux 1925: Knock 1927 : Le Secret de Délia or L'Évadée by Henri Ménessier after a play by Victorien Sardou

Cinema adaptations 1936 : The Mysterious Mister X by Johann Alexander Hübler-Kahla after Dicky (1923) 1938 : by Robert Péguy after Dicky (1923) 1940 : by Raffaello Matarazzo after Dicky (1923) 1955 : The Purple Mask by H. Bruce Humberstone after Le Chevalier au masque (1913)