Henri Alekan
- Known for
- Camera
- Born
- February 10, 1909, Paris, France
- Died
- June 15, 2001
- Movies
- 15
Henri Alekan (10 February 1909, Paris – 15 June 2001, Auxerre, Bourgogne) was a French cinematographer.
Alekan was born in Montmartre in 1909. At the age of sixteen he and his brother became travelling puppeteers. A little later he started work as third assistant cameraman at the Billancourt Studios. He then spent a short time in the army, returning to Billancourt in 1931.
In the late 1930s he was the camera operator to Eugene Shufftan on Marcel Carné's Quai des Brumes and Drôle de drame. He was greatly influenced by Schufftan's non-naturalistic style. His first success as a director of photography was René Clément's realistic war drama La Bataille du Rail of 1946. In the same year he worked on Jean Cocteau's fable La Belle et la Bête.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2001 | Jean Cocteau, cinéaste | Self |
| 1997 | Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths | Self |
| 1997 | Screening at the Majestic | Self - Interviewee |
| 1996 | Le travail d'un cinéaste : Julien Duvivier, 1896-1967 | Self |
| 1994 | Carné, You Said Carné? | Self |
| 1993 | Faraway, So Close! | Captain |
| 1991 | The Other Eye | Self |
| 1990 | Max Ophüls - Den schönen guten Waren | Self |
| 1988 | Alekan, la lumière | Self |
| 1984 | 7 False Connections | Self |
| 1984 | Cinématon XXXIV | N°330 |
| 1984 | Cinématon n°330 : Henri Alekan | Self |
| 1984 | Our Nazi | Self |
| 1952 | Stranger on the Prowl | Priest on Bicycle |
Directing, Writing & Producing
| 1959 | Rodin's Hell | Director |
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