Jean Wiener

Age: N/A | From: Paris, France

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Aliases: No known aliases

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Paris, France

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Movie Involvements: 79

TV Involvements: 1

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Biography

Jean Wiener (or Wiéner) (19 March 1896, 14th arrondissement of Paris – 8 June 1982, Paris) was a French pianist and composer. Wiener was trained at the Conservatoire de Paris, where he studied alongside Darius Milhaud, and worked with Erik Satie. He then embarked on a career as concert impresario, composer and pianist. He was the house pianist at the Gaya bar, and later at Le Boeuf sur le Toit. In 1924, a chance encounter with Clement Doucet (who succeeded him at Le Boeuf) brought him into the world of popular music. Already a jazz enthusiast, Wiener found fame with Doucet in the music hall s of Europe as a piano duo, under the name "Wiener et Doucet" in which they performed classical music, hot dance and jazz. The two friends recorded many duos between 1925 and 1937. After the end of the war in 1945, Wiener devoted himself fully to composition, notably film music (working on more than 300), as well as the opening theme music for ORTF's film history program "History speechless" (History without words). He was of some significance in the promotion of new music, both by his friends in the Les Six (Milhaud, Poulenc, etc.), and by composers such as Schoenberg, Berg and Webern. His compositions involve the use of jazz informed by French wit and elegance. His daughter, Elizabeth Wiener, is an actress, singer and singer-songwriter. Jean Wiener published his memoirs in 1978 as Allegro Appassionato. Source: Article "Jean Wiener" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Acting

Year	Character	Movie/Tv
1976	Au piano	Duelle 1976-09-15 Movie
1972	Self	Midi trente 1972-03-06 TV Show
1971	Self	Samedi soir 1971-01-09 TV Show
1965	Krajewski	Lady L 1965-12-17 Movie
1959	Pianist	Stop the Massacre 1959-11-11 Movie
	Self	Discorama 1959-02-04 TV Show
1955	Le professeur de piano	School for Love 1955-04-25 Movie
1943	(uncredited)	Immortal France 1943-04-07 Movie
1939	Pianist of the “Perroquet” (uncredited)	Behind the Facade 1939-03-14 Movie
1922	Le pianiste	The Woman from Nowhere 1922-07-26 Movie
Year	Character	Movie/Tv

Sound

Year	Role	Movie/Tv
1987	Original Music Composer	L'âge de Monsieur est avancé 1987-12-30 Movie
1982	Original Music Composer	Le Crime d'amour 1982-11-24 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Love Letters in Somalia 1982-04-21 Movie
1974	Original Music Composer	The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir 1974-05-02 Movie
1971	Original Music Composer	On the Lam 1971-09-29 Movie
1970	Original Music Composer	The Demise of Father Mouret 1970-10-14 Movie
	Music	Les Ajoncs 1970-02-04 Movie
1969	Original Music Composer	God Chose Paris 1969-09-05 Movie
	Original Music Composer	A Gentle Woman 1969-08-27 Movie
	Sound	Les deux coquines 1969-02-28 Movie
1968	Original Music Composer	The Diary of an Innocent Boy 1968-01-12 Movie
1967	Original Music Composer	Mouchette 1967-03-28 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Golem 1967-02-18 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Les filous 1967-01-01 Movie
1966	Original Music Composer	Au Hasard Balthazar 1966-05-25 Movie
1965	Original Music Composer	Our Agent Tiger 1965-11-05 Movie
1962	Sound Director	Quatrevingt-treize 1962-12-29 Movie
1960	Original Music Composer	Pantalaskas 1960-02-08 Movie
1958	Original Music Composer	A Woman Like Satan 1958-12-19 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Be Beautiful and Shut Up 1958-05-07 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Neither Seen Nor Recognized 1958-04-23 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Seventh Heaven 1958-03-05 Movie
1957	Original Music Composer	Lovers of Paris 1957-10-18 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Notre Dame - cathédrale de Paris 1957-06-08 Movie
	Original Music Composer	La Garçonne 1957-04-05 Movie
1956	Music	Les Lumières du soir 1956-11-07 Movie
	Music	Deadlier Than the Male 1956-04-13 Movie
	Music	Rencontre à Varsovie 1956-01-01 Movie
1955	Music	School for Love 1955-04-25 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Station 307 1955-01-01 Movie
1954	Original Music Composer	Dust of Life 1954-06-17 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Touchez Pas au Grisbi 1954-03-17 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Count of Monte Cristo 1954-01-14 Movie
1953	Music	Je suis un mouchard 1953-04-17 Movie
1952	Original Music Composer	Forgotten Stones 1952-01-01 Movie
1951	Original Music Composer	Under the Paris Sky 1951-03-28 Movie
1950	Original Music Composer	The Century Is Fifty 1950-03-16 Movie
1949	Original Music Composer	Rendezvous in July 1949-12-06 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Perfume of the Lady in Black 1949-10-05 Movie
	Original Music Composer	L'Escadron blanc 1949-07-01 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Mark Of The Day 1949-04-06 Movie
	Music	The Mark Of The Day 1949-04-06 Movie
	Music	Zanzabelle in Paris 1949-01-26 Movie
1947	Original Music Composer	Panic 1947-01-15 Movie
1946	Music	Back Streets of Paris 1946-11-27 Movie
1944	Original Music Composer	The Lightning Rod Thief 1944-01-01 Movie
1943	Original Music Composer	The Passengers of Ursa Major 1943-10-15 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Scarecrow 1943-08-29 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Le Voyageur de la Toussaint 1943-04-08 Movie
	Music	Immortal France 1943-04-07 Movie
1940	Original Music Composer	Cristobal's Gold 1940-04-22 Movie
1939	Music	The Last Turning 1939-05-17 Movie
	Music	Behind the Facade 1939-03-14 Movie
1938	Original Music Composer	The Woman at the End of the World 1938-01-19 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Le Messager de la lumière 1938-01-01 Movie
1937	Music	De Man Zonder Hart 1937-04-23 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Nights of Fire 1937-04-16 Movie
	Original Music Composer	L'Homme sans cœur 1937-03-04 Movie
	Music	The Man of the Day 1937-01-02 Movie
1936	Music	The Lower Depths 1936-12-11 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Quand minuit sonnera 1936-11-27 Movie
	Music	Klokslag twaalf 1936-11-05 Movie
	Music	The Tomboy 1936-02-21 Movie
	Original Music Composer	The Crime of Monsieur Lange 1936-01-24 Movie
1935	Music	Le Voyage imprévu 1935-12-31 Movie
	Original Music Composer	La Bandera 1935-09-25 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Phénomènes électriques 1935-05-25 Movie
1934	Music	The Adventurer 1934-12-28 Movie
	Original Music Composer	Maria Chapdelaine 1934-12-14 Movie
	Music	S. S. Tenacity 1934-04-01 Movie
1933	Sound Director	Knock, ou le triomphe de la médecine 1933-11-03 Movie
	Music	Une vie perdue 1933-09-08 Movie
	Sound	The Man with the Hispano 1933-03-24 Movie
	Music	The Man with the Hispano 1933-03-24 Movie
1925	Original Music Composer	The Crazy Ray 1925-01-01 Movie
1922	Music	The Woman from Nowhere 1922-07-26 Movie
Year	Role	Movie/Tv