Jean Vigo

Jean Vigo was a French film director who helped establish poetic realism in film in the 1930s. His work influenced French New Wave cinema of the late 1950s and early 1960s.

26 April 1905

Born on the same birth day (26 April): Bernard Malamud • Channing Tatum • Harry Gallatin • Ilias Tsirimokos • Jack Douglas (actor) • Jadwiga Staniszkis • James Rouse • Jonathan dos Santos • Kane (wrestler) • Kosuke Fukudome • Kristen Ghodsee • Mitch Rein • Morris West • Naoki Tanaka (comedian) • Owen Willans Richardson • Tatjana Fomina • Toomas Tõniste • Vicente Aleixandre • William Ashhurst

Born in the same month (April 1905): Al Bates • Arthur Lake (actor) • Attila József • Eugène Bozza • Frits Philips • Gaston Eyskens • George Nēpia • Helen Joseph • Jean Pierre-Bloch • Pat Brown • Paul Hasluck • Rae Johnstone • Robert Penn Warren • Sergey Nikolsky