Jacques Tourneur

Jacques Tourneur

French film director (1904–1977)

Jacques Tourneur was a French and American filmmaker, active during the Golden Age of Hollywood. He was known as an auteur of stylish and atmospheric genre films, many of them for RKO Pictures, including the supernatural horror films Cat People (1942), I Walked with a Zombie (1943) and The Leopard Man (1943), and the film noir Out of the Past (1947). He is also known for directing the war film Days of Glory (1944), which marked Gregory Peck's debut film role, and the British horror film Night of the Demon (1957), which was released by Columbia Pictures as Curse of the Demon.

Filmography in the catalog

Credited on 29 films (1923–1965) — matched by name in the Creator or Credits field. Also mentioned in 25 other records (descriptions, transcriptions, copyright notes).

Year ▲ Title CreatorLengthFormatColorSound
1923 Scaramouche Rex Ingram 124 min B&W
1928 THE TRAIL OF '98 ▶ Clarence Brown 87 min 16mm B&W
1929 THE TRAIL OF '98. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Distributing Corp. 10 reels B&W
1937 Romance Of Radium Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. 1 reel 16mm B&W sound
1940 Phantom Raiders. Jacques Tourneur 7 reels B&W sound
1941 Doctors Don't Tell. Jacques Tourneur 7 reels B&W
1943 Cat People. Jacques Tourneur 73 min. B&W
1943 I walked with a zombie. Jacques Tourneur 68 min 16mm B&W sound
1943 I Walked With A Zombie. Jacques Tourneur 69 min. B&W
1943 The Leopard Man. Jacques Tourneur 66 min. B&W
1944 Days Of Glory Jacques Tourneur 86 B&W
1944 Experiment Perilous Jacques Tourneur 91 B&W
1944 Experiment Perilous. Jacques Tourneur 91 min. B&W
1944 Reward Unlimited ▶ Natl Nursing Council For War Serv 10 min 16mm B&W sound
1946 Canyon passage. Jacques Tourneur 2500 16mm Color sound
1947 Out Of The Past. Jacques Tourneur 97 min. 35mm B&W sound
1948 Berlin Express. Jacques Tourneur 86 min. 35mm B&W sound
1949 Easy Living Jacques Tourneur 77
1949 Easy Living. Jacques Tourneur 77 min. 35mm B&W sound
1951 Anne Of The Indies. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp 81 min. 35mm Color sound
1951 Circle of danger. Coronado Productions (England) Ltd. 86 min. 35mm B&W sound
1952 Way Of A Gaucho. Twentieth Century-Fox Film Corp 91 min. 35mm Color sound
1955 Wichita. Allied Artists Pictures Corp. 81 min. 35mm Color sound
1957 Night of the Demon Jacques Tourneur 95 min B&W
1959 The Giant Of Marathon. Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Inc. 84 min 35mm Color sound
1960 The Alaskans Park Films 13 min 16mm color sound
1961 Fury River A Metro Goldwyn Mayer picture 74 min Color sound
1965 City Under the Sea Jacques Tourneur 93 min Color
1965 War-Gods Of The Deep. American International Productions 85 35mm Color sound