Jean Rollin
Jean Michel Rollin Roth Le Gentil (3 November 193815 December 2010) was a French film director, actor, and novelist best known for his work in the fantastique genre.
Max Ophüls
Back in France, he directed and collaborated on the adaptation of Schnitzler's "La Ronde" (1950), which won the 1951 BAFTA Award for Best Film, and "Lola Montès" (1955) starring Martine Carol and Peter Ustinov, as well as "Le Plaisir" and "The Earrings of Madame de..." (1953), the latter with Danielle Darrieux and Charles Boyer, which capped his career. Ophüls died from rheumatic heart disease on 26 March 1957 in Hamburg, while shooting interiors on "The Lovers of Montparnasse", and was buried in Le Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. This final film was completed by his friend Jacques Becker.