AKA: Phillipe de Broca
Nationality: French
Birthdate: 03/15/1933
Birthplace: Paris, France
Death Date: 11/26/2004
An assistant to New Wave directors Francois Truffaut and Claude Chabrol, Phillippe de Broca made his directorial debut in 1959 with "Les jeux de l'amour". His best known film remains "King of Hearts" (1966), a whimsical fable about a WWI soldier (Alan Bates) in a French town populated exclusively by former inmates of the insane asylum. "Hearts" was the first of de Broca's films to be produced under his own Fildebroc production banner.
Jacques Rivette de la Chasuble
1953
Joined a Saharan expedition as a cameraman
1954
Directed and photographed three short films; debut, "Salon nautique"
Worked as assistant director on features by Henri Decoin, Francois Truffaut and Claude Chabrol
1959
Feature directing and co-writing debut, "Les jeux de l'amour"
1960
Bit part in Jean-Luc Godard's "Breathless"
