Jack Pinoteau

Directing

Jack Albert Louis Charles Pinoteau, known as Jack Pinoteau, is a French director and screenwriter, born on September 20, 1923 in Clairefontaine and died on April 6, 2017 in Chesnay.

Jack Pinoteau, born in 1923 near Paris in a family of acrobats. His father Lucien was a stage manager. His sister, the eldest of the siblings, Jacqueline Pinoteau will become a recognized actress under her stage name Arlette Merry. His younger brother Claude Pinoteau before directing La Boum and La Boum 2, one of the greatest popular successes of the early 80s, was an assistant director sought after by a host of…