Yves Boisset

Yves Félix Claude Boisset (14 March 1939 – 31 March 2025) was a French film director and screenwriter. He directed fiction films like The Assassination, Le prix du danger, as well as investigative documentaries. Boisset was known for his left wing political views and the controversial releases of his films. He was labeled "the most censored man in France", Boisset was raised on a farm. When Boisset was 8, his younger brother died after overdosing on medication left out by his grandmother, leading to strife within his family. Boisset's first job was as a crime reporter for Paris-Jour in the late 1950s. He began writing for film magazines.

Career Boisset directed his first film in 1968, Coplan Saves His Skin. His films were known for their controversial releases, and legal and political issues. and declared himself the most censored filmmaker of the Fifth Republic. He sued Arnold Schwarzenegger and 20th Century Fox over The Running Man, which he believed had plagiarized his film Le prix du danger.

Boisset went on to direct several television films.

In 2011, he published an autobiography, . He had been in hospital care in Levallois-Perret for a few days.

Filmography

As director

1966: Rouletabille (episode "Le parfum de la dame en noir") (TV series) 1968: Coplan Saves His Skin 1970: Cran d'arrêt 1970: The Cop 1971: 1972: The Assassination 1973: 1975: 1975: The Common Man 1977: The Purple Taxi 1977: Judge Fayard Called the Sheriff 1978: 1979: Histoires insolites (épisode "La stratégie du serpent") (TV) 1980: The Woman Cop 1981: 1982: Espion, lève-toi 1983: Le Prix du Danger 1984: Dog Day 1986: 1987: La Fée carabine (TV) 1988: Médecins des hommes (TV series) 1988: 1989: Le Suspect (TV) 1989: 1990: Frontière du crime (Double Identity) (TV) 1991: Les Carnassiers (TV) 1991: 1993: (TV) 1993: Chute libre (TV) 1994: : Der Tunnel (TV) 1995: (TV) 1996: Les Amants de rivière rouge (TV series) 1997: La Fine équipe (TV) 1997: Une leçon particulière (TV) 1997: (TV) 1999: Sam (TV) 2001: Les Redoutables (episode Poisson d'avril) (TV series) 2001: Dormir avec le diable (TV) 2001: (TV) 2002: (TV) 2005: Ils veulent cloner le Christ (TV) 2006: Les Mystères sanglants de l'OTS (TV) 2007: La Bataille d'Alger (TV) 2009: (TV)