Claude Henri Jean Chabrol was a French film director, a member of the French New Wave group of filmmakers who first came to prominence at the end of the 1950s. Like his colleagues and contemporaries Jean-Luc Godard, Fran�ois Truffaut, �ric Rohmer and Jacques Rivette, Chabrol was a critic for the influential film magazine Cahiers du cin�ma before beginning his career as a film maker. Chabrol's career began with Le Beau Serge, inspired by Hitchcock's Shadow of a Doubt. Thrillers became something of a trademark for Chabrol, with an approach characterized by a distanced objectivity. This is especially apparent in Les Biches, La Femme infid�le, and Le Boucher ? all featuring St�phane Audran, who was his wife at the time. Sometimes characterized as a "mainstream" New Wave director, Chabrol remained prolific and popular throughout his half-century career. In 1978, he cast Isabelle Huppert as the lead in Violette Nozi�re. On the strength of that effort, the pair went on to others including the successful Madame Bovary and La Ceremonie. 

June 24th, 1930 in 10th arrondissement of Paris  /  Died:   Sep 12th, 2010