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Véra Clouzot is a Actor and Scriptwriter Brésil born on 30 december 1913 at Rio de Janeiro (Bresil)

Véra Clouzot

Véra Clouzot
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Birth name Vera Gibson Amado
Nationality Bresil
Birth 30 december 1913 at Rio de Janeiro (Bresil)
Death 15 december 1960 (at 46 years) at Paris (France)

Véra Clouzot (30 December 1913 – 15 December 1960) was a Brazilian-born French film actress and screenwriter.

Born Véra Gibson-Amado in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, she became the wife of film director Henri-Georges Clouzot. She made only three films, all directed by her husband, the most notable of which was the classic thriller, Les Diaboliques (1955). She co-wrote the screenplay for the film La Vérité (1960), which was also directed by her husband. Clouzot died in Paris in 1960, aged 46, from a heart attack and is buried in the Montmartre Cemetery.

Biography

En 1941, Vera Gibson Amado, fille d’un diplomate brésilien, rencontre et épouse le comédien Léo Lapara, membre de la troupe de Louis Jouvet justement en tournée à Rio de Janeiro en pleine seconde Guerre mondiale. Elle intègre le groupe pour une série de représentations en Amérique du Sud qui se concluent près de quatre ans plus tard par un retour à Paris, à la Libération. Dans la capitale française Louis Jouvet, qui a repris la direction du théâtre de l'Athénée, continue de lui confier des petits rôles.

En 1947, elle rencontre le réalisateur Henri-Georges Clouzot sur le tournage de Quai des orfèvres dans lequel Léo Lapara joue l'inspecteur Marchetti. Sur un coup de foudre elle divorce et épouse aussitôt Clouzot.

Ce dernier l'engage comme scripte sur le film Miquette et sa mère (1949) et il lui fait aussi tourner ses trois uniques films : Le Salaire de la peur (1953), Les Diaboliques (1955) et Les Espions (1957). Le réalisateur fonde à cette occasion la société de production Vera Films en l'honneur de sa femme.

Le 2 novembre 1960, sort le film d'Henri-Georges Clouzot, La Vérité (1960) avec Brigitte Bardot et dont elle est coscénariste.

Véra Clouzot meurt le 15 décembre 1960, à 46 ans, d'une attaque cardiaque.

Best films

The Truth (1960)
(Scriptwriter)
Diabolique (1955)
(Actress)

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Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Véra Clouzot (5 films)

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Actress

The Spies
The Spies (1957)
, 2h17
Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Action, Spy
Themes Spy films, Medical-themed films, Films about psychiatry, Films set in psychiatric hospitals
Actors Curd Jürgens, Véra Clouzot, Gérard Séty, Sam Jaffe, O. E. Hasse, Peter Ustinov
Roles Lucie
Rating66% 3.3422153.3422153.3422153.3422153.342215
The plot concerns a doctor at a run-down psychiatric hospital, who is offered a large sum of money to shelter a new patient. Soon the place is full of suspicious and secretive characters, all apparently international secret agents trying to find out who and what the patient is.
Diabolique
Diabolique (1955)
, 1h54
Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Horror
Themes Assassinat, Films about education, Psychologie, Films about sexuality
Actors Simone Signoret, Véra Clouzot, Paul Meurisse, Charles Vanel, Michel Serrault, Jean Brochard
Roles Christina Delassalle
Rating80% 4.0484454.0484454.0484454.0484454.048445
A second-rate boarding school is run by the tyrannical and mean Michel Delassalle (Meurisse). The school, though, is owned by Delassalle's teacher wife, the frail Christina (Clouzot), and Delassalle flaunts his relationship with Nicole Horner (Signoret), a teacher at the school. Rather than antagonism, the two women are shown to have a somewhat close relationship, primarily based on their apparent mutual hatred of Michel, who is physically and emotionally abusive to both.
The Wages of Fear, 2h21
Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot
Origin Italie
Genres Drama, Thriller, Adventure
Themes Transport films, Films about the labor movement, Films about automobiles, Trucker films, Road movies
Actors Yves Montand, Charles Vanel, Peter van Eyck, Folco Lulli, Véra Clouzot, Darío Moreno
Roles Linda
Rating81% 4.098624.098624.098624.098624.09862
Frenchmen Mario and Jo, Dutchman Bimba and Italian Luigi are stuck in the isolated Southern Mexican town of Las Piedras. Surrounded by desert, the town is linked to the outside world only by a small airport, but the airfare is beyond the means of the men. There is little opportunity for employment aside from the American corporation that dominates the town, Southern Oil Company (SOC), which operates the nearby oil fields and owns a walled compound within the town. SOC is suspected of unethical practices such as exploiting local workers and taking the law into its own hands, but the townspeople's dependence upon it is such that they suffer in silence.
Brasil
Brasil (1950)

Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot
Origin France
Genres Documentary
Actors Henri-Georges Clouzot, Véra Clouzot, Danièle Delorme, Saturnin Fabre, Louis Jouvet, Maurice Schutz
Roles Self
Rating58% 2.9289352.9289352.9289352.9289352.928935
Henri-Georges Clouzot vient d'épouser Véra, rencontrée sur le tournage de Quai des Orfèvres et jusque-là mariée au secrétaire particulier de Louis Jouvet. Ils veulent profiter de leur voyage de noces au Brésil (pays natal de Véra) pour réaliser un documentaire.

Scriptwriter

The Truth
The Truth (1960)
, 2h4
Directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot
Origin France
Genres Drama, Thriller, Crime, Romance
Actors Brigitte Bardot, Charles Vanel, Sami Frey, Paul Meurisse, Jacques Perrin, Marie-Josée Nat
Rating75% 3.7967253.7967253.7967253.7967253.796725
Dominique Marceau is a young Frenchwoman on trial for killing her lover, Gilbert.