Francois Truffaut

Director
BIRTHDAY
February 6,1932
Birthplace
Paris,France
Age
Oct 21,1984,age 52
Birth Sign
Aquarius
BIRTHDAY
February 6,1932 (age Oct 21,1984,age 52)
Birthplace
Paris,France

About

French New Wave film director who won the award for Best Director at the Cannes Film Festival for his seminal 1959 feature The 400 Blows. His 1973 film Day for Night won the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film and he also directed the critically acclaimed films Shoot the Piano Player (1960), Jules et Jim (1961) and The Wild Child (1970).

Before Fame

He joined the French Army when he was eighteen years old.

Trivia

His final film, 1983's Confidentially Yours, was filmed in black and white and was a tribute to his favorite director, Alfred Hitchcock.

Family Life

He had three children with his wife Madeleine Morgenstern.

Associated With

He played the character Claude Lacombe in the 1977 Steven Spielberg film Close Encounters of the Third Kind.