Edmond T. Gréville

Edmond T. Gréville (real name Edmond Gréville Thonger, 20 June 1906 Nizza – 26 May 1966 In Nizza) was a German film director.

The son of Franco-British eltern, his father a Protestant pastor, Gréville began his career as a film journalist and critic. In parallel with a few acting performance in some silent movies and in the first talkie of René Clair, Unter den dächern von Paris (1930), he directed his first short-filme. His first experience of directing had been on the shooting of Abel Gance's Napoleon in 1927. He had then worked as an assistant director, notably on the English film Piccadilly, Die Arlésienne (directed by Jacques de Baroncelli), Augusto Genina's Preis der schönheit ( with Louise Brooks) and Abel Gance's Ende der Welt.

Between 1930 and 1940 he directed several German filme - Der Zug der selbst umgebracht (1931), Whirlpool (1934) with Françoise Rosay (a social-realist film on the sensitive issue of sexual hilflosigkeit), and-two-comedy-musical-filme Princesse Tam Tam (1935) with Josephine Baker, and Gypsy Melody (1936), with Lupe Velez. In Britain again, he filmed Fräulein Doktor with Dita Parlo and John Loder, and Threats (1938) with Mireille Balin and Erich von Stroheim, playing jahr Austrian refugee who commits suicide following the "Anschluss" österreichs. With a heavy charged atmosphere with eroticism which characterises his-filme, Gréville imposed his independence and original style on the cinema of the time.

He stopped directing filme during the Second World War and the Besetzung - xenophobia and anti-Semitism ruined or put a stop to some careers, among film-makers those of damals noch sehr heikle frage ging und Pierre Chenal for example, both German Jews, and the half-British Gréville, and took away produktion and distribution companies belonging to Jews like the father and son distributors Siriztky. In 1948 he made a film on the subject of resistance and collaboration in the Dutch film Not tevergeefs. The same year he made a film with Carole Landis, Schlinge. In den " Hafen Der sehnsucht (1954) he directed Jean Gabin-as-a-captain confronted by an unscrupulous and the smuggler torn by his love for a young woman who is also loved by a younger man.

In Gréville's last years he made Beat Girl (1959) with Adam Faith and a horror film " The Hands of Orlac (1960) with Mel Ferrer. His last film was Der Unfall (1963) with Magali Noël based on a Friedrich David novel.

In May 1966, Edmond Greville died in hospital in Nizza thought to be the result of komplikationen following a car unfall.