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      • François Roland Truffaut (UK: / ˈtruːfoʊ, ˈtrʊ -/ TROO-foh, TRUU-, US: / truːˈfoʊ / troo-FOH; French: [fʁɑ̃swa ʁɔlɑ̃ tʁyfo]; 6 February 1932 – 21 October 1984) was a French filmmaker, actor, and critic, widely regarded as one of the founders of the cinematic French New Wave.
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  2. François Roland Truffaut (UK: / ˈtruːfoʊ, ˈtrʊ -/ TROO-foh, TRUU-, US: / truːˈfoʊ / troo-FOH; [1][2] French: [fʁɑ̃swa ʁɔlɑ̃ tʁyfo]; 6 February 1932 – 21 October 1984) was a French filmmaker, actor, and critic, widely regarded as one of the founders of the cinematic French New Wave. [3]

  3. François Truffaut. Writer: Day for Night. French director François Truffaut began to assiduously go to the movies at age seven. He was also a great reader but not a good pupil. He left school at 14 and started working. In 1947, aged 15, he founded a film club and met André Bazin, a French critic, who became his protector.

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    • Paris, France
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    • Neuilly-sur-Seine, Hauts-de-Seine, France
  4. Mini Bio. French director François Truffaut began to assiduously go to the movies at age seven. He was also a great reader but not a good pupil. He left school at 14 and started working. In 1947, aged 15, he founded a film club and met André Bazin, a French critic, who became his protector.

    • February 6, 1932
    • October 21, 1984
  5. Dec 18, 2021 · Born an unwanted child in 1932 in Paris, François Truffaut grew up roaming the Parisian streets and developed an obsessive interest in literature and cinema. He started a film club and befriended André Bazin, one of France’s most renowned film critics and theorists, who even housed the young outcast.

  6. Francois Roland Truffaut (February 6, 1932 – October 21, 1984) was one of the founders of the French New Wave, and remains an icon of French cinema. In a career lasting just over a quarter of a century, he was screenwriter, director, producer and actor in over twenty-five films.

  7. Feb 6, 2015 · François Truffaut: 10 essential films The gentlest of the major directors of the French New Wave, François Truffaut made some of the movement's best-loved classics, from Jules et Jim to Day for Night.

  8. Jan 4, 2022 · Time and critical favour can be unkind to the former young firebrand who becomes middle-aged and middlebrow. When François Truffaut won best director at Cannes in 1959 for his first feature The 400 Blows, the 27-year-old was blazing a trail pointing the way to a new kind of cinema.