Marcel Duhamel

Marcel Duhamel (1900 - 1977)^[1] was a French actor and screenwriter, founder of the Série noire publishing imprint.

He played The Foreman in Jean Renoir's 1936 The Crime of Monsieur Lange.

He translated^[2] and published Jim Thompson's 1964 pulp novel Pop. 1280 as 1275 Âmes ("souls") in French in 1966.^[3] Thereafter, the book was transposed to French colonial Africa in Bertrand Tavernier's film Coup de Torchon (Clean Slate) in 1981.

References

1. ^ Universalis (French) retrieved 6th Sept 2010
2. ^ Amazon page, Gallimard ed. Retrieved 2011-02-08.
3. ^ "Black series", Google translation of French Wikipedia page. Retrieved 2011-02-14.

External links

• Marcel Duhamel at the Internet Movie Database

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Name	Duhamel, Marcel
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Date of birth	1900
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Date of death	1977
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