Paul Michel Audiard (15 May 1920 – 27 July 1985) was a French screenwriter and film director, known for his witty, irreverent and slang-laden dialogues which made him a prominent figure on the French cultural scene of the 1960s and 1970s. He was the father of French film director Jacques Audiard.
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Known For
The Professional
(1981)
Screenplay
Under Suspicion
(2000)
Screenplay
The Vultures
(1984)
Writer
The Outsider
(1983)
Writer
Dog Day
(1984)
Screenplay
Les Misérables
(1958)
Writer
The Great Spy Chase
(1964)
Writer
Deadly Circuit
(1983)
Writer
Le Guignolo
(1980)
Writer
Dear Inspector
(1978)
Writer
Pasha
(1968)
Screenplay
Any Number Can Win
(1963)
Writer
The Skirt Chaser
(1979)
Writer
The Inquisitor
(1981)
Dialogue
Incorrigible
(1975)
Dialogue and Writer
Animal
(1977)
Screenplay
Full Filmography
Writing
Mission in Tangier
(1949)
Writer
One Only Loves Once
(1950)
Writer
Beware of Blondes
(1950)
Writer
Dear Caroline
(1951)
Writer
My Wife Is Formidable
(1951)
Writer
Mr. Peek-a-Boo
(1951)
Writer
Young Love
(1951)
Writer
The Man in My Life
(1952)
Writer
Adorable Creatures
(1952)
Writer
Pour Vous, Mesdames
(1952)
Writer
Massacre in Lace
(1952)
Writer
She and Me
(1952)
Writer
The Three Musketeers
(1953)
Screenplay
Les Dents longues
(1953)
Writer
The Most Wanted Man
(1953)
Screenplay
Daughters of Destiny
(1954)
Story
Love in a Hot Climate
(1954)
Writer
April Fools' Day
(1954)
Writer
The Cheerful Squadron
(1954)
Screenplay
Quai des blondes
(1954)
Writer
Hi-Jack Highway
(1955)
Screenplay
Série noire
(1955)
Writer
Mannequins of Paris
(1956)
Writer
Daddy's Gang
(1956)
Writer
Blood to the Head
(1956)
Screenplay and Dialogue
Slightly Ahead
(1956)
Writer
There's Always a Price Tag
(1957)
Screenplay
Speaking of Murder
(1957)
Writer
Mort en fraude
(1957)
Writer
Until the Last One
(1957)
Writer
Sins of Youth
(1958)
Writer
The Possessors
(1958)
Screenplay and Dialogue
Maigret Sets a Trap
(1958)
Dialogue, Adaptation, and Writer
Les Misérables
(1958)
Writer
Three Days to Live
(1958)
Screenplay and Dialogue
The Night Affair
(1958)
Writer
125, rue Montmartre
(1959)
Writer
Eyes of Love
(1959)
Screenplay
Babette Goes to War
(1959)
Writer
Too Late to Love
(1959)
Writer
Rue de Paris
(1959)
Writer
Beast at Bay
(1959)
Dialogue and Writer
The Magnificent Tramp
(1959)
Screenplay
Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case
(1959)
Dialogue and Writer
Love and the Frenchwoman
(1960)
Writer and Dialogue
The Baron of the Locks
(1960)
Writer
The Old Guard
(1960)
Dialogue and Screenplay
The Counterfeiters of Paris
(1961)
Screenplay and Dialogue
The President
(1961)
Screenplay
The Lions Are Loose
(1961)
Writer
Taxi for Tobruk
(1961)
Dialogue and Writer
The Devil and the Ten Commandments
(1962)
Dialogue
A Monkey in Winter
(1962)
Writer
Emile's Boat
(1962)
Writer
The Gentleman from Epsom
(1962)
Writer
Crooks in Clover
(1963)
Writer
The Trip to Biarritz
(1963)
Writer
Carom Shots
(1963)
Writer
Any Number Can Win
(1963)
Writer
Teuf-teuf
(1963)
Writer
Dandelions by the Roots
(1964)
Writer
Male Hunt
(1964)
Writer
A Mouse with the Men
(1964)
Writer
The Great Spy Chase
(1964)
Writer
Greed in the Sun
(1964)
Writer
Cloportes
(1965)
Writer
How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning
(1965)
Dialogue
Crime on a Summer Morning
(1965)
Writer
When the Pheasants Pass
(1965)
Writer
Tender Scoundrel
(1966)
Writer
Let's Not Get Angry
(1966)
Writer
Sale temps pour les mouches
(1966)
Writer
Idiot in Paris
(1967)
Writer
Johnny Banco
(1967)
Writer
Sorrel Flower
(1967)
Dialogue
The Big Grasshopper
(1967)
Dialogue and Screenplay
All Mad About Him
(1967)
Writer
Don't Take God's Children for Wild Geese
(1968)
Writer
A Little Virtuous
(1968)
Writer
Pasha
(1968)
Screenplay
A Golden Widow
(1969)
Writer
Under the Sign of the Bull
(1969)
Writer
She Does Not Drink, Smoke or Flirt But... She Talks
(1970)
Screenplay
The Black Flag Waves Over the Scow
(1971)
Writer
Le Cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques
(1971)
Writer
She No Longer Talks, She Shoots
(1972)
Writer
Baxter !
(1973)
Writer
Vive la France
(1974)
Writer
How to Make Good When One Is a Jerk and a Crybaby
(1974)
Writer
OK Patron
(1974)
Writer
Incorrigible
(1975)
Dialogue and Writer
The Body of My Enemy
(1976)
Screenplay
The Big Operator
(1976)
Writer
Death of a Corrupt Man
(1977)
Writer
Animal
(1977)
Screenplay
Dear Inspector
(1978)
Writer
Cop or Hood
(1979)
Writer
The Sewers of Paradise
(1979)
Writer
The Skirt Chaser
(1979)
Writer
Il lupo e l'agnello
(1980)
Writer
Heads or Tails
(1980)
Writer
Le Guignolo
(1980)
Writer
L'entourloupe
(1980)
Dialogue and Writer
Jupiter's Thigh
(1980)
Dialogue and Screenplay
The Inquisitor
(1981)
Dialogue
Is This Reasonable?
(1981)
Writer
The Professional
(1981)
Screenplay
Espion, lève-toi
(1982)
Writer and Dialogue
The Outsider
(1983)
Writer
Deadly Circuit
(1983)
Writer
Dog Day
(1984)
Screenplay
The Vultures
(1984)
Writer
La Cage aux Folles 3: The Wedding
(1985)
Writer and Adaptation
He Died with His Eyes Open
(1985)
Screenplay and Dialogue
Under Suspicion
(2000)
Screenplay
Acting
Don't Take God's Children for Wild Geese
(1968)
The rapporteur at the Court of Auditors (uncredited)
D'un Céline l'autre
(1969)
Self
She Does Not Drink, Smoke or Flirt But... She Talks
(1970)
Sortie de secours
(1970)
The Black Flag Waves Over the Scow
(1971)
Vive la France
(1974)
Récitant / Narrator (voice)
C'est jeune et ça sait tout !
(1974)
Le père de Joëlle
Dear Inspector
(1978)
Le mainate (voix)
Il était une fois... Les Tontons flingueurs
(2010)
Self
Belmondo, il était une fois le beau monde
(2011)
(images d'archives)
Michel Audiard : J'parle pas aux cons, ça les instruit
(2015)
Self (archive footage)
Belmondo ou le goût du risque
(2017)
Self (archive footage)
Mireille Darc, la femme libre
(2018)
Self (archive footage)
Lino Ventura, la part intime
(2018)
Self (archive footage)
Alain Delon, l'ombre au tableau
(2019)
Self (archive footage)
Le Terminus des prétentieux
(2020)
Self (archive footage)
Jacques Audiard, le cinéma à cœur
(2021)
Self - Jacques' Father (archive footage) (uncredited)
Directing
La marche
(1951)
Director
Don't Take God's Children for Wild Geese
(1968)
Director
A Golden Widow
(1969)
Director
She Does Not Drink, Smoke or Flirt But... She Talks
(1970)
Director
The Black Flag Waves Over the Scow
(1971)
Director
Le Cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques
(1971)
Director
She No Longer Talks, She Shoots
(1972)
Director
Vive la France
(1974)
Director
How to Make Good When One Is a Jerk and a Crybaby
(1974)
Director
Kisses Till Monday
(1974)
Director
Crew
Production