Veteran French director Yves Boisset died in Levallois-Perret,
Île-de-France, France on March 31st he was 86. Boisset began his
career as an assistant director. After working with such directors as Hossein,
Ciampi, Melville and Clement, he began directing short films until the late
1960s when he made his feature film debut. Boisset frequently contributed to
the scripts he shot and is known for his fast-paced action-adventures and his
social and political thrillers. His 1972 film” L'Attentat” entered into the 8th
Moscow International Film Festival where it won the Silver Prize. His films
have been known for their controversial releases, and he for his left-wing
political views. He sued Arnold Schwarzenegger and 20th Century Fox over The
Running Man, which he believed had plagiarized his film Le prix du danger and
won the lawsuit. In 2011, he published an autobiography, La vie est un choix
(Life is a choice). Boisset was an assistant director on the 1966 Spaghetti
western “Death at Owell Rock” directed by Riccardo Freda and starring Mark
Damon and directed the 1995 TV Euro-western film “Red River” starring Christophe
Malavoy.
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