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- Betty Schneider was born in 1934 in Lens, Pas-de-Calais, France. She is an actress, known for Paris Belongs to Us (1961), Classe Tous Risques (1960) and A Bomb for a Dictator (1957).
- Maryse Manios was born in 1960 in Lens, Pas-de-Calais, France.
- Music Department
- Writer
- Composer
Born in Lens in 1905, André Hornez developed a passion for architecture and writing. He finally chose writing. He began his career as secretary of Saint-Granier. For him, he writes books magazines and operettas. The author is also hired by Paramount Pictures in Hollywood to write screenplays.
His first songs are composed by Paul Misraki and performed by Ray Ventura. As for Ray Ventura, they collaborate with lyricist for many years. Among the best-known songs from this collaboration, we must mention "Ca vaut mieux que d'attraper la Scarlatine" (1936), "Qu'est-ce qu'on attend pour être Heureux ?" (1937), "Comme tout le Monde" (1938), "Tiens, tiens, tiens" (1939), "Dans mon Coeur" (1940), "Maria de Bahia" (1946) and "La mi-août" (1950).
In 1936, the song "Tant qu'il y aura des Étoiles", performed by Tino Rossi, became a classic of French song. In the late 1930s, André Hornez also written for Rina Ketty ("Sérénade sans Espoir", 1939) and Johnny Hess ("Je suis Swing", 1939).
Screenwriter for film, he wrote a number of film lyrics like "Avec son Tralala" sung by Suzy Delair in Jenny Lamour (1947). His songs are performed by Yves Montand ("Moi j'm'en fous", "Du Soleil plein la Tête"), Lucienne Delyle ("Mon Coeur Attendait", 1951), André Claveau ("Malgré Tout", 1951), Lucien Jeunesse ("Si la Brise", 1952) or Line Renaud ("Ni pourquoi ni comment", 1950).
In 1947, he collaborated for the first time with the composer Henri Betti for him to write the lyrics of "C'est si bon" as Henri Betti just composed. This song became a worldwide hit with the interpretation of Louis Armstrong in 1950.
André Hornez married in Boulogne-Billancourt (Hauts-de-Seine) in 1963 with the dancer Gisèle Fréry, met during the operetta "Baratin" in "L'Européen" in 1949. It is in this same operetta his usual composer Henri Betti met his future wife Françoise Engels who was also a dancer.- Actor
- Soundtrack
Georges Carpentier was a French boxer who reigned as the world's light heavyweight champion in 1920-22. He is best remembered for his fight for the world's heavyweight crown with champ Jack Dempsey, one of the highlights of the Roaring Twenties. Born on January 12, 1894, in Liévin, Pas-de-Calais, France, he first fought professionally as a welterweight and then worked his way up the weight classes, picking up championship belts along the way. Though he failed to topple "The Manassa Mauler" from his perch at the top of the world sports hierarchy, he did win a watered-down, bastardized version of that prize.
Turning pro at the age of 14, Carpentier first won the European welterweight championship in 1911. He became European middleweight champion in 1912 and won the European light heavyweight and heavyweight titles in 1913. The following year, he fought Gunboat Smith, the "White Heavyweight Champion of the World" (African American Jack Johnson still held claim to the world's heavyweight championship) and beat him. The "title", which came out of the quest for "The Great White Hope" to best Johnson, who was despised by white supremacists, was never recognized as a real boxing championship.
During World War One, Carpentier served as an aviator, winning the Croix de Guerre and the Médaille Militaire, two of France's highest military decorations. That this superb athlete was also a war hero boosted his popularity and made him a well-known name in the United States.
After the Great War, Carpentier twice defended his European heavyweight championship in 1919. While France was battling Germany on the West Front, Jack Johnson lost his title to Jess Willard in 1915, eliminating the phantom "White Heavyweight Championship" title. Willard, in turn, lost to Dempsey in 1919, the same year of Carpentier's title defenses. In 1920, Carpentier dropped in weight and beat Battling Levinsky for the world's light heavyweight championship. The title match was held in America, as was his challenge to Dempsey for the heavyweight crown.
The fight, held on July 2, 1921, in Jersey City, New Jersey (the site of the Lewinsky fight), was the first million dollar gate in boxing history. Living up to his nickname, Dempsey mauled Carpentier in the first three rounds before knocking him out in the fourth. The Frenchman would never again compete as a heavyweight.
He lost his world light heavyweight title and his European heavyweight and light heavyweight titles the following year. In 1924, the 30-year-old Carpentier was matched with Dempsey's future vanquisher Gene Tunney the light heavyweight champion of North America, at New York's Polo Grounds. Tunney, three years Carpentier's junior, took the bout with a TKO in fifteen rounds. Carpentier eventually retired from boxing in 1927.
After the ring, he became an entertainer, appearing in vaudeville, primarily in American and England. Carpentier made several movies in the silent and sound era and wrote a novel. He eventually ran a bistro, Chez Georges Carpentier. He remained friends with Dempsey, who also became a restaurateur, for the rest of his life.
Georges Carpentier died in Paris of a heart attack on October 28, 1975. He was 81 years old.- Thierry Dorfsman was born on 10 December 1949 in Lens, France.
- Actor
- Producer
Stéphane Rotenberg was born on 21 September 1967 in Lens, Pas-de-Calais, France. He is an actor and producer, known for Comme au cinéma (1998), Thelma, Louise et Chantal (2010) and Scènes de ménages (2009).- Writer
- Production Manager
- Director
Geneviève Lefebvre was born on 28 October 1949 in Lens, Pas-de-Calais, France. She is a writer and production manager, known for Le jupon rouge (1987), Chez Jules (2008) and Le ciel sur la tête (2001).- Actor
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
- Soundtrack
Christophe Salengro was born on 9 August 1953 in Lens, Pas-de-Calais, France. He was an actor and assistant director, known for The City of Lost Children (1995), The Truth About Charlie (2002) and Le défi (2002). He died on 30 March 2018 in Paris, France.- Jacqueline Menyhárt was born on 25 October 1937 in Lens, France. She was an actress, known for Gerolsteini kaland (1957). She died on 7 April 1999 in Budapest, Hungary.
- Director
- Cinematographer
- Second Unit Director or Assistant Director
Joanna Wisniewska was born on 13 August 1926 in Noyelles-sous-Lens, Pas-de-Calais, France. She was a director and cinematographer, known for Television Theater (1953). She died on 18 November 2013 in Warsaw, Mazowieckie, Poland.- Henri Tincq was born on 2 November 1945 in Fouquières-lès-Lens, Pas-de-Calais, France. He died on 29 March 2020 in Villeneuve-Saint-Georges, Île-de-France, Val-de-Marne, France.
- Ajin Panjapan was born on 11 October 1927 in Bang Len District, Nakhon Pathom Province, Thailand. He was a writer, known for The Tin Mine (2005). He was married to Naengnoi Panjapan. He died on 17 November 2018 in Bangkok, Thailand.
- Visual Effects
Maxime Bray was born on 9 June 1982 in Lens, France. Maxime is known for Transporter 3 (2008), The Lorax (2012) and The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch (2008).