Writing

Albert Husson

Born — Died

1912-08-03 — 1978-12-16

Place of birth

Lyon, Rhône, France

Known for

Writing

Credits

10 titles

Albert Husson (3 August 1912 – 16 December 1978) was a French playwright and theatre director. On 26 January 1968, Jean Meyer and Albert Husson were both appointed directors of the Théâtre des Célestins in Lyon, which produced numerous adaptations for the theater as well as television. Albert Husson, former secretary general of the Théâtre des Célestins 1944-1959, was specifically responsible for the administrative management, while John Meyer was artistic director. Albert Husson was a member of the Académie des Sciences, Belles-Lettres et Arts de Lyon. Source: Article "Albert Husson" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Known for

The Train poster
7.6

As the Allied forces approach Paris in August 1944, German Colonel Von Waldheim is desperate to take all of France's greatest paintings to Germany. He manages to secure a train to transport the valuable art works even as the chaos of retreat descends upon them. The French resistance however wants to stop them from stealing their national treasures but have received orders from London that they are not to be destroyed. The station master, Labiche, is tasked with scheduling the train and making it all happen smoothly but he is also part of a dwindling group of resistance fighters tasked with preventing the theft. He and others stage an elaborate ruse to keep the train from ever leaving French territory.

The Train

1964

The Watchmaker of St. Paul poster
6.9

Michel Descombes is a watchmaker who lives in Lyon with his teenage son Bernard. When the police visit and inform him that Bernard has killed a man and is on the run with a girl, Michel realises that he knew far less about his son than he thought.

The Watchmaker of St. Paul

1974

Where the Truth Lies poster
7.0

A young veterinarian falls in love with a strange woman, a former explorer who might be a Voodoo priestess, after he comes to help her ailing cheetah. She begs him to return to Africa with her, but he doesn’t want to leave his wife. Soon his wife finds herself plagued by a series of bizarre accidents.

Where the Truth Lies

1962

Clara and the Villains poster
6.5

A rich kid, the daughter of an oil tycoon, lives a life of luxury. Bad guys kidnap the heiress.

Clara and the Villains

1958

Drôle de couple poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Drôle de couple

1987

Le système Fabrizzi poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Le système Fabrizzi

1967

Film credits

Behind the camera

The Train poster
7.6

As the Allied forces approach Paris in August 1944, German Colonel Von Waldheim is desperate to take all of France's greatest paintings to Germany. He manages to secure a train to transport the valuable art works even as the chaos of retreat descends upon them. The French resistance however wants to stop them from stealing their national treasures but have received orders from London that they are not to be destroyed. The station master, Labiche, is tasked with scheduling the train and making it all happen smoothly but he is also part of a dwindling group of resistance fighters tasked with preventing the theft. He and others stage an elaborate ruse to keep the train from ever leaving French territory.

The Train

1964

Where the Truth Lies poster
7.0

A young veterinarian falls in love with a strange woman, a former explorer who might be a Voodoo priestess, after he comes to help her ailing cheetah. She begs him to return to Africa with her, but he doesn’t want to leave his wife. Soon his wife finds herself plagued by a series of bizarre accidents.

Where the Truth Lies

1962

Clara and the Villains poster
6.5

A rich kid, the daughter of an oil tycoon, lives a life of luxury. Bad guys kidnap the heiress.

Clara and the Villains

1958

Drôle de couple poster
9.0

No synopsis available yet.

Drôle de couple

1987

Le système Fabrizzi poster
NR

No synopsis available yet.

Le système Fabrizzi

1967

Rien ne va plus poster
NR

Achille and Roméo, handymen at a casino, one day find a corpse at the bottom of the pool they're cleaning. Fearing they might be accused of murder, they hide the body, but it disappears.

Rien ne va plus

1964

Comment épouser un premier ministre poster
5.5

Philippe Lambert, an attractive young attaché to the Prime Minister's office, is a man of many female conquests. One of them, Madame Grandbourg, wife of a very influential man, sent him a passionate letter, which he lost at the theater. Marion, the usherette who found it, contacts him to ask him for a "favor" in exchange for its return: to avoid eviction from the family apartment, because of the father, who gardens in every room and constantly floods the downstairs neighbors. At first, Lambert refuses to give in to the "blackmail" and calls in the police to unmask the indelicate woman, but love soon gets in the way...

Comment épouser un premier ministre

1964

طبيخ الملائكة poster
NR

Three prisoners escape from prison, facing many consequences when trying to return to their normal lives.

طبيخ الملائكة

1964

No artwork available
9.0

Three kind-hearted criminals, Joseph, Albert, and Jules, plan to escape from Devil's Island. Fate intervenes, and they find refuge with the kind-hearted but clumsy Felix Ducotel and his family. Felix runs a shop for his demanding, arrogant cousin André, who makes the mistake of stealing Albert's beloved pet, a poisonous snake! For the Ducotel family, it will be a Christmas to remember—together with three crooks who turn out to be nothing less than three "wise men"!

Trasiga änglar

1962