Maurice Tourneur
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French film director and screenwriter
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Maurice Félix Thomas , known as Maurice Tourneur , was a French film director and screenwriter. Life Born Maurice Félix Thomas in the Épinettes district , his father was a wholesaler. As a young man, Maurice Thomas first trained as a graphic designer and a magazine illustrator but was soon drawn to the theater. In 1904, he married the actress Fernande Petit. They had a son, Jacques , who would follow his father into the film industry, establishing his own reputation as a director of American films in the 1940s and 1950s.
