Henri Verneuil was a French-Armenian playwright and filmmaker, who made a successful career in France.
10 Facts About Henri Verneuil
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Henri Verneuil was nominated for Oscar and Palme d'Or awards, and won Locarno International Film Festival, Edgar Allan Poe Awards, French Legion of Honor, Golden Globe Award, French National Academy of Cinema and Honorary Cesar awards.
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For exactly 40 years, the prolific Verneuil made movies as mainstream and commercial as any to be found in America or Britain.
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Henri Verneuil was born Ashot Malakian to Armenian parents in Rodosto, East Thrace, Turkey.
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Henri Verneuil later recounted his childhood experience in the novel Mayrig, which he dedicated to his mother and made into a 1991 film with the same name, which was followed by a sequel, 588 Rue Paradis, the following year.
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Henri Verneuil entered the Ecole Nationale d'Arts et Metiers in Aix-en-Provence in 1942.
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In 1947, Henri Verneuil managed to convince the established European film actor Fernandel to appear in his first film.
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Henri Verneuil has filmed almost all the great figures of French cinema, with the exception of Bourvil, as even Louis de Funes has a small role in one of his films.
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Henri Verneuil was awarded a Cesar in 1996 and he was elected a member of the Academy of Fine Arts in 2000.
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Henri Verneuil died at Bagnolet, a suburb of Paris, in 2002.