Jean-Pierre Melville
Jean-Pierre Grumbach, known professionally as Jean-Pierre Melville, was a French filmmaker. Considered a spiritual father of the French New Wave, he was one of the first fully-independent French filmmakers to achieve commercial and critical success. His works include the crime dramas Bob le flambeur (1956), Le Doulos (1962), Le Samouraï (1967), and Le Cercle Rouge (1970), and the war films Le Silence de la mer (1949) and Army of Shadows (1969).
20 October 1917
Born on the same birth date (20 October 1917): Ants Kaljurand • Stéphane Hessel
Born on the same birth day (20 October): Aleksander Maaker • Alphonso Smith • Arlene Francis • Constantin Lipsius • Emidio Greco • Florent Sinama Pongolle • Hans Warren • Jean-Pierre Dikongué Pipa • Jennifer Freeman • Johann Gruber • Karl Probst • Matt Jansen • Peter Combe • Prince Yasuhiko Asaka • Stan Valckx • Stanisław Leszczyński • Taj McWilliams-Franklin • Tom Petty • Wilma Salgado
Born in the same month (October 1917): Allen Ludden • Cahal Daly • Charles Drake (actor) • Christian de Duve • Dizzy Gillespie • Fannie Lou Hamer • George Osmond • June Allyson • Marie Foster • Oliver Tambo • Sharadchandra Shankar Shrikhande • Sumner Locke Elliott • Walter Lord