- He began as a stage actor but one evening his voice was suddenly blocked by fear. He related this incident in La fin du jour (1939), where it happens to Michel Simon's character.
- Died when the car he was driving collided with one that was carrying Maurice Schumann, French President Charles De Gaulle's Minister of Scientific Research.
- Member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival in 1959
- Biography in: John Wakeman, editor. "World Film Directors, Volume One, 1890-1945". Pages 280-283. New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1987.
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