Biography: life and films
Michel Legrand is a French composer. He was born in Paris, France on 24th February 1932.His best films as a musician include Jean-Luc Godard's Vivre sa vie (1962), Jacques Demy's La Baie des anges (1963), Bande à part (1964), Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (1964) and Joseph Losey's The Go-Between (1970).
Michel Legrand has so far supplied the music for 148 films, appeared in 6 films, scripted 1 film and directed 1 film.
He has most frequently worked with the following directors: Jacques Demy (9 films), Agnès Varda (5), Joseph Losey (4), Gilles Grangier (4), Edouard Molinaro (4), Claude Lelouch (4), Steven Paul (3), Sidney J. Furie (3), Pierre Grimblat (3), Jean-Paul Rappeneau (3), Jean-Luc Godard (3), Jacques Deray (3), François Reichenbach (3), Élie Chouraqui (3), Stuart Paul (2), Serge Korber (2), Roger Hanin (2), Philippe de Broca (2), Norman Jewison (2), Michel Lang (2) and Ettore Pasculli (2).
His most frequent genres include: drama (70 films), comedy (41), romance (20), Thriller (15), comedy-drama (14), comedy-romance (11), crime-thriller (7), Fantasy (5), Documentary (5), Animation (5), comedy-thriller (4), War (4), history (3) and Biography (3).
Our average rating for Michel Legrand over all films is: 2.8
Filmography
Key: m = musician; a = actor; w = writer; d = director
Rafles sur la ville (1958) [m]
L'Amérique insolite (1960) [m]
Le Coeur battant (1960) [m]
Les Portes claquent (1960) [m]
Me faire ça à moi (1960) [m]
Cause toujours, mon lapin (1961) [m]
Cléo de 5 à 7 (1961) [a,m]
Lola (1961) [m]
Une femme est une femme (1961) [m]
Une grosse tête (1961) [m]
Comme un poisson dans l'eau (1962) [m]
Eva (1962) [m]
L'Empire de la nuit (1962) [m]
Le Gentleman d'Epsom (1962) [m]
Les Sept péchés capitaux (1962) [m]
Un coeur gros comme ça (1962) [m]
Love Is a Ball (1963) [m]
Les Amoureux du France (1964) [m]
Les Parapluies de Cherbourg (1964) [m]
Les Plus belles escroqueries du monde (1964) [m]
Une ravissante idiote (1964) [m]
Corrida pour un espion (1965) [m]
Quand passent les faisans (1965) [m]
The Plastic Dome of Norma Jean (1965) [m]
Et la femme créa l'amour (1966) [m]
Qui êtes-vous, Polly Maggoo? (1966) [m]
Le Plus vieux métier du monde (1967) [m]
Les Demoiselles de Rochefort (1967) [m]
Pretty Polly (1967) [m]
How to Save a Marriage and Ruin Your Life (1968) [m]
Ice Station Zebra (1968) [m]
Play Dirty (1968) [m]
Sweet November (1968) [m]
The Thomas Crown Affair (1968) [m]
Appelez-moi Mathilde (1969) [m]
Castle Keep (1969) [m]
The Happy Ending (1969) [m]
The Picasso Summer (1969) [m]
Pieces of Dreams (1970) [m]
The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun (1970) [m]
A Time for Loving (1971) [a,m]
La Poudre d'escampette (1971) [m]
Le Mans (1971) [m]
Les Mariés de l'an II (1971) [m]
Summer of '42 (1971) [m]
Un peu de soleil dans l'eau froide (1971) [m]
Lady Sings the Blues (1972) [m]
Les Feux de la chandeleur (1972) [m]
One Is a Lonely Number (1972) [m]
Portnoy's Complaint (1972) [m]
40 Carats (1973) [m]
A Doll's House (1973) [m]
Bequest to the Nation (1973) [m]
Breezy (1973) [m]
Cops and Robbers (1973) [m]
L'Événement le plus important depuis que l'homme a marché sur la lune (1973) [m]
Le Gang des otages (1973) [m]
Story of a Love Story (1973) [m]
The Three Musketeers (1973) [m]
Our Time (1974) [m]
Vérités et mensonges (1974) [m]
Sheila Levine Is Dead and Living in New York (1975) [m]
Gable and Lombard (1976) [m]
La Flûte à six schtroumpfs (1976) [m]
Le Voyage de noces (1976) [m]
Ode to Billy Joe (1976) [m]
Gulliver's Travels (1977) [m]
The Other Side of Midnight (1977) [m]
Mon premier amour (1978) [m]
On peut le dire sans se fâcher (1978) [m]
Je vous ferai aimer la vie (1979) [m]
Les Fabuleuses aventures du légendaire Baron de Munchausen (1979) [m]
Falling in Love Again (1980) [m]
The Hunter (1980) [m]
The Mountain Men (1980) [m]
Les Uns et les autres (1981) [m]
Your Ticket Is No Longer Valid (1981) [m]
Le Cadeau (1982) [m]
Qu'est-ce qui fait courir David? (1982) [m]
Slapstick (Of Another Kind) (1982) [m]
Eine Liebe in Deutschland (1983) [m]
La Revanche des humanoides (1983) [m]
Never Say Never Again (1983) [m]
Yentl (1983) [m]
Echt tu matsch (1984) [a]
Secret Places (1984) [m]
Palace (1985) [m]
Parking (1985) [m]
Spirale (1987) [m]
Switching Channels (1988) [m]
Trois places pour le 26 (1988) [m]
Cinq jours en juin (1989) [d,w,m]
La Bottega dell'orefice (1989) [m]
Escape from Paradise (1990) [m]
Eternity (1990) [m]
Fate (1990) [m]
Gaspard et Robinson (1990) [m]
Dingo (1991) [m]
Les Demoiselles ont eu 25 ans (1993) [m]
The Pickle (1993) [m]
Die Schelme von Schelm (1995) [m]
L'Univers de Jacques Demy (1995) [a,m]
Les Enfants de Lumière (1995) [m]
Madeline (1998) [m]
Doggy Bag (1999) [m]
La Bûche (1999) [m]
And Now... Ladies and Gentlemen... (2002) [m]
Cavalcade (2005) [m]
The Legend of Simon Conjurer (2006) [m]
Disco (2008) [m]
Oscar et la dame rose (2009) [m]
Max Rose (2013) [m]
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