Mini-Biography:
Jacques Mercanton was born on November 22, 1909 in Neully-sur-Seine. He was a French Director of Photography, known for L' alibi (1938), Jour de fête (1947), Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (1953), Jacques Mercanton's first movie on record is from 1938. Jacques Mercanton died on September 27, 1997 in Grasse, Alpes-Maritimes. His last motion picture on file dates from 1962.
FilmographyFilmography [Auszug]
1962: Les quatre vérités (Three Fables of Love) (Director of Photography), Directed by René Clair, Hervé Bromberger, Alessandro Blasetti, Luis Garcia Berlanga, with Leslie Caron, Charles Aznavour, Raymond Bussières,
1960: Monsieur Suzuki (Intelligence Service) (Director of Photography), Directed by Robert Vernay, with , Ivan Desny, ,
1959: Bal de Nuit (Director of Photography), Directed by Maurice Cloche, with Bernadette Lafont, Hélène Dieudonne, Pascale Audret,
1957: Marchands de filles (Director of Photography), Directed by Maurice Cloche, with Daniela Rocca, Georges Marchal, Agnès Laurent,
1953: Les Vacances de Monsieur Hulot (Director of Photography), Directed by Jacques Tati, with Valentine Camax, A Dubois, Nathalie Pascaud,
1952: Le Grand Méliès (Director of Photography), Directed by Georges Franju, with Jeanne d'Alcy, André Méliès, Marie-Georges Méliès,
1947: Jour de fête (Director of Photography), Directed by Jacques Tati, with Guy Decomble, Paul Frankeur, Santa Relli,
1942: Une femme disparait (Portrait of a Woman, A woman desappeared) (Director of Photography), Directed by Jacques Feyder, with Françoise Rosay, Claude Dauphin, Jean Nohain,
1938: L' alibi (Director of Photography), Directed by Pierre Chenal, with Georges Auric, Erich von Stroheim, Louis Jouvet,