Pierre-William Glenn

Pierre-William Glenn

Camera
1943-10-31
Paris, France

Biography

Pierre-William Glenn (31 October 1943 – 24 September 2024) was a French cinematographer and film director. He contributed to more than seventy films from 1968 to 2024, including Day for Night and Street of No Return. Glenn died on 24 September 2024, at the age of 80. At age 21, he enrolled at the Institut des hautes études cinématographiques (IDHEC). Source: Article "Pierre-William Glenn" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.

Known For & Full Filmography8 Titles

#1Champs-Elysées

Drama Series - 1982, 16 episodes as Self

6.8 / 10
Talk

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

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#2Be Natural: The Untold Story of Alice Guy-Blaché

Movie - 2018, 2h 15m as Self

7.2 / 10
DocumentaryHistory

The epic life story of Alice Guy-Blaché (1873–1968), a French screenwriter, director and producer, true pioneer of cinema, the first person who made a narrative fiction film; author of hundreds of movies, but banished from history books. Ignored and forgotten. At last remembered.

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#3The Watchmaker of St. Paul

Movie - 1974, 2h 15m as Cyclist (uncredited)

6.9 / 10
ThrillerDramaCrime

Michel Descombes is a watchmaker who lives in Lyon with his teenage son Bernard. When the police visit and inform him that Bernard has killed a man and is on the run with a girl, Michel realises that he knew far less about his son than he thought.

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#4Close Encounters with Vilmos Zsigmond

Movie - 2016, 2h 15m as Self

6.9 / 10
Documentary

A very special encounter between legendary American cinematographer Vilmos Zsigmond and young French director Pierre Filmon. A personal journey with the brightest shadowmaker and his friends.

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#5The Mysteries of Paris: Jacques Rivette's Out 1 Revisited

Movie - 2016, 2h 15m as Self

6.3 / 10
Documentary

In June 2015, forty-five years after OUT 1 was made, the filmmakers went to Paris to interview cast and crew members and to revisit some of the film’s most significant locations. THE MYSTERIES OF PARIS features new contributions from actors Bulle Ogier, Michael Lonsdale and Hermine Karagheuz, cinematographer Pierre-William Glenn, assistant director Jean-François Stévenin and producer Stéphane Tchal Gadjieff, but also rare archival interviews with actors Jacques Doniol-Valcroze and Michel Delahaye and, most prominently, illuminating statements by director Jacques Rivette himself from two different archival interviews.

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#6Romy Schneider: A Woman in Three Notes

Movie - 2008, 2h 15m as Self

7.0 / 10
Documentary

Documentary portrait of the actress Romy Schneider, in which director Frederick Baker tries to form an overall picture from the facets of image, myth, real life and screen persona.

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#7L'impossible Monsieur Papa

Movie - 1995, 2h 15m as Sacha

10.0 / 10
Comedy

An outstanding performance featuring brilliant storytelling, high stakes drama, and unforgettable character arcs.

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#8Trotsky

Movie - 1967, 2h 15m as Self

5.0 / 10
History

Story of the life of an extraordinary man, who with Lenin, was the symbol of the Revolution of 1917.

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