Claude Chabrol

Also known as Claude Henri Jean Chabrol

French film director (1930–2010)

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Claude Chabrol was a French film actor, critic, director, and producer associated with the French New Wave movement. Born in the 10th arrondissement of Paris in 1930, he was educated at the Paris Medical Faculty and Lycée Louis-le-Grand. He worked for 20th Century Studios and Cahiers du cinéma, and resided in Paris. Chabrol spoke French, German, and English. He was married to Stéphane Audran and had a child named Thomas Chabrol.

Chabrol received the Louis Delluc Prize, the European Film Academy Lifetime Achievement Award, and the Golden Bear. He was nominated for the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Director, the César Award for Best Director, the César Award for Best Original Screenplay or Adaptation, and the National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He died of cancer in the 3rd arrondissement of Paris in 2010 and is buried at Père Lachaise Cemetery.

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Claude Chabrol (24 June 1930 – 12 September 2010) was a French film director, a member of the French New Wave (nouvelle vague) group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s. Like his colleagues and contemporaries Godard, Truffaut, Rohmer and Rivette, Chabrol was a critic for the influential film magazine Cahiers du cinéma before beginning his career as a film maker.…

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Stéphane Audran, la complice de Chabrol — Self (archive) - filmmaker2026
Mia Farrow: Shadows and Light — Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)2025
Godard Cinema — Self (archive footage)2023
Les cahiers du cinéma, la création d'une empreinte — Self (archive footage)2021
Sous le soleil de Pialat — Self (archive footage)2021
Jodie Foster: Hollywood Under the Skin — Self2021
Claude Chabrol, the Maverick — Self - Filmmaker (archive footage)2019
The Other Side of the Wind — Claude Chabrol2018
Cannes 1968, révolution au palais — Self2018
Vadim Mister Cool — Self (archive footage)2016

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Wikidata facts

Instance of: human
Given name: Claude
Gender: male
Citizenship: France
Place of birth: 10ᵗʰ arrondissement of Paris
Place of death: 3rd arrondissement of Paris
Child: Thomas Chabrol
Occupation: producer
Educated at: Lycée Louis-le-Grand
Employer: Cahiers du cinéma
Languages spoken: English language
Native language: French
Participant in: Documenta 6
Movement: French New Wave
Image: Chabrol-italie-1985.png
Height: 1.75
Number of children: 4
Motto: Oncques ne m’emmerde.
Residence: Paris
Significant event: marriage

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place of burial: Père Lachaise Cemetery
Commons category: Claude Chabrol
cause of death: cancer
date of birth: 1930-06-24
date of death: 2010-09-12
manner of death: natural causes
nominated for: Goya Award for Best European Film
name in native language: Claude Chabrol
has works in the collection: Museum of Modern Art
archives at: Cinémathèque Française
related category: Category:Films directed by Claude Chabrol
birth name: Claude Henri Jean Chabrol
nickname: Chacha
start of work period: 1956-00-00
end of work period: 2010-00-00

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Encyclopedic overview

Claude Henri Jean Chabrol ( French: [klod ʃabʁɔl]; 24 June 1930 – 12 September 2010) was a French film director and a member of the French New Wave (nouvelle vague) group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s. Like his colleagues and contemporaries Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Éric Rohmer and Jacques Rivette, Chabrol was a critic for the influential film magazine Cahiers du Cinéma before beginning his career as a filmmaker.

His feature debut, Le Beau Serge (1958), was inspired by Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt (1943). Thrillers became a trademark for Chabrol, with an approach characterized by a distanced objectivity. This is especially apparent in Les Biches (1968), La Femme infidèle (1969), and Le Boucher (1970) – all featuring Stéphane Audran, who was his wife at the time.

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