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Truffaut, François
French New Wave film director and actor. A romantic and intensely humane film-maker, he wrote and directed a series of semi-autobiographical films starring Jean-Pierre Léaud, beginning with Les Quatre Cent Coups/The 400 Blows (1959). His other films include Jules et Jim (1961), Fahrenheit 451 (1966), L'Enfant sauvage/The Wild Child (1970), and La Nuit américaine/Day for Night (1973; Academy Award).
Truffaut's passion for cinema led to a job as film critic for Cahiers du cinéma during the 1950s before he embarked on his career as director. His later work includes The Story of Adèle H (1975) and Le Dernier Métro/The Last Metro (1980). He played one of the leading roles in Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977).
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