Louis Chavance

Louis Chavance
Born	24 December 1907 Paris, France
Died	1979
Occupation(s)	Writer, editor, assistant director
Years active	1932–1961 (film)

Louis Chavance (1907–1979) was a French screenwriter. He also worked occasionally as a film editor and assistant director. He is best known for his screenplay for Le Corbeau which he first wrote in 1933 although the film was not made for another decade.

Selected filmography

Screenwriter

• The Trump Card (1942)
• La Nuit fantastique (1942)
• The Phantom Baron (1943)
• Le Corbeau (1943)
• A Lover's Return (1946)
• The Last Penny (1946)
• The Unknown Singer (1947)
• Under the Cards (1948)
• Summer Storm (1949)
• The Man Who Returns from Afar (1950)
• The 13th Letter (1951)
• Tom Toms of Mayumba (1955)

Editor

• L'Atalante (1934)
• The Duraton Family (1939)

Bibliography

• Matthew Bernstein & Gaylyn Studlar. Visions of the East: Orientalism in Film. Rutgers University Press, 1997.

External links

• Louis Chavance at IMDb