François Truffaut

Born

February 6, 1932

Died

October 21, 1984 (aged 52)

Known as

film director, film producer, film critic, actor, director, film screenwriter

François Roland Truffaut was a French filmmaker, actor, and critic. Widely regarded as one of the founders of the French New Wave, he came under the tutelage of film critic André Bazin as a young man and was hired to write for the latter's Cahiers du Cinéma, where Truffaut became a proponent of the auteur theory, which posits that a film's director is its true author.

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