Jacques Tourneur

Jacques Tourneur was born on Nov 12, 1904 in France. Jacques Tourneur's big-screen debut came with Tell It to the Marines directed by George W. Hill in 1926. Jacques Tourneur is known for Curse of the Demon directed by Jacques Tourneur, Dana Andrews stars as John Holden and Peggy Cummins as Joanna Harrington. The upcoming new movie Jacques Tourneur plays is City in the Sea which will be released on May 26, 1965.

Born in Paris in 1904, Tourneur went to Hollywood with his father, director Maurice Tourneur around 1913. He started out as a script clerk and editor for his father, then graduated to such jobs as directing shorts (often with the pseudonym Jack Turner), both in France and America. He was hired to run the second unit for David O. Selznick's A Tale of Two Cities (1935), where he first met Val Lewton. In 1942, when Lewton was named to head the new horror unit at RKO, he asked Tourneur to be his first director. The result was the highly artistic (and commercially successful) Cat People (1942). Tourneur went on to direct masterpieces in many different genres, all showing a great command of mood and atmosphere.