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Jean-Patrick Manchette

Name in Native Language: "Jean Manchette" (French/FR)
Writer / Screenwriter / Journalist | * 12/19/1942 († 52, 06/03/1995) | Marseille (France)
Jean-Patrick Manchette (19 December 1942, Marseille – 3 June 1995, Paris) was a French crime novelist credited with reinventing and reinvigorating the genre. He wrote ten short novels in the seventies and early eighties, and is widely recognized as the foremost French crime fiction author of that period. His stories are violent explorations of the human condition and French society. Manchette was politically to the left and his writing reflects this through his analysis of social positions and culture. Eight of his eleven novels have been translated into English. Two were published by San Francisco publisher City Lights Books—3 To Kill (from the French Le petit bleu de la côte ouest) and The Prone Gunman (from the French La Position du tireur couché). Five other novels, Fatale, The Mad and the Bad (from the French O dingos, O chateaux!), Ivory Pearl (from the French La Princesse du Sang), Nada, and No Room at the Morgue were released by New York Review Books Classics in 2011, 2014, 2018, 2019, and 2020 respectively. In 2009, Fantagraphics Books released an English-language version of French cartoonist Jacques Tardi's adaptation of Le petit bleu de la côte ouest, under the new English title West Coast Blues. Fantagraphics released a second Tardi adaptation, of "La Positi... ()
Most frequent genres for this person: Crime | Thriller | Action

Known for these Movies & Shows

Awards & Nominations for Jean-Patrick Manchette

Grand Prix de Littérature Policière
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Movies with Jean-Patrick Manchette as Actor(1)

as A servile employee1970 Bartleby

TV Shows/Series with Jean-Patrick Manchette as Actor(1)

as himself1975 Apostrophes

Movies with Jean-Patrick Manchette as Crew(15)

Writing/Novel2017 Let the Corpses Tan
Writing/Novel2015 The Gunman
Writing/Novel1984 Polar
Writing/Novel1982 Le Choc
Writing/Dialogue1982 The Masters of Time
Writing/Screenplay1982 Legitimate Violence
Writing/Novel1981 For a Cop's Hide
Writing/Novel1980 Three Men to Destroy
Writing/Screenplay1976 The Undertaker Parlor Computer
Writing/Novel1975 Mad Enough to Kill
Writing/Writer1975 Act of Aggression
Writing/Novel1974 The Nada Gang
Writing/Screenplay1974 The Nada Gang
Writing/Dialogue1968 Le Socrate
Writing/Adaptation1967 Love + Fear = Torment

Citizenship: France
Born: Saturday, 12/19 1942 (December) in Marseille (France)
Died: Saturday, 06/03 1995 (June) in 12th arrondissement of Paris (aged: 52)
Zodiac sign: Sagittarius (Chinese zodiac sign: Horse)
Languages: English (EN), French (FR, native language)
Educated at: Faculty of Arts of Paris
Employer: Charlie Hebdo
Children: Doug Headline
Other names for Jean-Patrick Manchette (nicknames, foreign languages etc.):
"Jean Patrick Manchette"
"Général-Baron Staff" (Pseudonym)
"Erich Erdstein" (Pseudonym)
"Sylvette Cabrisseau" (Pseudonym)
"Shuto Headline" (Pseudonym)
"Zeus de Castro" (Pseudonym)
"Pierre Duchesne" (Pseudonym)
Jean-Patrick Manchette frequently works together with these people:
Alain Delon (9x, Actor)
Gérard Pirès (4x, Crew)
Sean Penn (3x, Actor)
Claude Chabrol (3x, Crew)
René Laloux (3x, Crew)
Bernard Pivot (3x, Actor)
Etienne Chicot (3x, Actor)
François Perrot (3x, Actor)
Jean Giraud (3x, Crew)
Catherine Deneuve (2x, Actress)
Jacques Rispal (2x, Actor)
WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:640298, Added: 10/24/2018, Last updated: 03/23/2024