Biography
Frédéric Dard (Frédéric Charles Antoine Dard; 29 June 1921, in Bourgoin-Jallieu, Isère, France – 6 June 2000, in Bonnefontaine, Fribourg, Switzerland) was a French crime writer. He wrote more than three hundred novels, plays and screenplays, under his own name and a variety of pseudonyms, including the San-Antonio book series.
Frédéric Dard wrote 175 adventures of San-Antonio, of which millions of copies were sold. Detective Superintendent Antoine San-Antonio is a kind of French James Bond without gadgets, flanked by two colleagues, the old, sickly but wise inspector César Pinaud and the gargantuesque inspector Alexandre-Benoît Bérurier. He is a member of the French secret service and has to fulfill impossible missions given by "Le Vieux" (the Old Man), later known as "Achilles", the head of the French police. With the help of his colleagues he always succeeds through various adventures.
Dard won the 1957 Grand prix de littérature policière for The Executioner Weeps.
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Filmography
all 50
Movies 41
Writer 40
TV Shows 9
self 8
Creator 1
Director 1
Merry Christmas (2024)
San Antonio (2004)
Mausolée pour une garce (2001)
Le danger d'aimer (1998)
Vivement dimanche (1998)
Maître Da Costa (1997)
Coma (1993)
Leon's Husband (1993)
The Old Lady Who Walked in the Sea (1991)
Nulle part ailleurs (1987)
Le Caviar rouge (1986)
Le Tueur triste (1984)
Is There a Frenchman in the House? (1982)
Champs-Elysées (1982)
San-Antonio ne pense qu'à ça (1981)
Emmenez-moi au Ritz (1977)
Die Lady von Chikago (1976)
30 millions d'amis (1976)
Death Rite (1975)
Apostrophes (1975)
Spécial cinéma (1974)
Le Grand Échiquier (1972)
Samedi soir (1971)
Béru et ces dames (1968)
Sale temps pour les mouches (1966)
The Accident (1963)
The Empire of Night (1962)
Crime Does Not Pay (1962)
Paris Pick-Up (1962)
Les Bras de la nuit (1961)
House of Sin (1961)
Desperate Flight (1961)
The Menace (1961)
Rendezvous (1960)
The Wretches (1960)
Premeditated (1960)
Double Agents (1959)
Soft Skin on Black Silk (1959)
Blonde in a White Car (1959)
Pensione Edelweiss (1959)
The Tiger Attacks (1959)
La Fille de Hambourg (1958)
A Legitimate Defense (1958)
Back to the Wall (1958)
La Nuit des suspectes (1957)
Mr. Steve (1957)
To Catch a Spy (1957)
Daddy's Gang (1956)
The Wicked Go to Hell (1955)
M'sieur la Caille (1955)
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GenderMale
Birthday1921-06-29
Deathday2000-06-06 (78 years old)
Birth PlaceBourgoin-Jallieu, France
CitizenshipsFrance
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