Jacques Viot (writer)

Jacques Viot (1898–1973) was a French novelist and screenwriter.

After service in the artillery during the First World War he became involved with the Surrealist movement. From the mid-1930s he began working on screenplays, collaborating with directors such as Marcel Carne, Jacques Feyder and Marcel Camus.

Selected filmography

 * Beautiful Days (1935)
 * Under Western Eyes (1936)
 * People Who Travel (1938)
 * The Tamer (1938)
 * Daybreak (1939)
 * Carmen (1942)
 * Marie-Martine (1943)
 * The Ménard Collection (1944)
 * Lunegarde (1946)
 * Back Streets of Paris (1946)
 * The Woman in Red (1947)
 * The Long Night (1947)
 * Night Express (1948)
 * Juliette, or Key of Dreams (1951)
 * The Call of Destiny (1953)
 * The King's Prisoner (1954)
 * The Air of Paris (1954)
 * House on the Waterfront (1955)
 * Black Orpheus (1959)