Biografía

12 de noviembre de 1904 · París, Francia

19 de diciembre de 1977 · Bergerac, Dordogne, Francia (causas no reveladas)

He has directed two films that have been selected for the National Film Registry by the Library of Congress as being "culturally, historically or aesthetically" significant: La marca de la pantera (1942) and Traidora y mortal (1947).

Tourneur loved the story for Corona de estrellas (1950) so much that he agreed to direct the film for scale. Although it's one of his finest and least known films and an American classic, it literally marked the end of his career: after accepting such a low salary, no studio took him seriously any more, and he was left to direct marginal films and television shows for the rest of his life.

The staircase in Cat People was borrowed from The Magnificent Ambersons.

Son of Maurice Tourneur

Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume One, 1890-1945". Pages 1098-1103. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1987.

Largely, I hate doing television; it's horrible. It's against everything I believe in; if you don't bring some of your individuality and some of your experience and sensitivity to bear on a subject, you don't get more than a mechanical result.