Jean de Limur

Jean de Limur (13 November 1887, Vouhé, Charente-Maritime – 5 June 1976, Paris) was a French film director, actor and screenwriter. His works include La Garçonne (1936) and The Letter (1929). A French army officer and a designer, he first came to the United States with his parents, Count and Countess de Limur in September 1920; their destination was Burlingame, California, where lived Jean's brother André (who married Ethel, daughter of William Henry Crocker).

Selected filmography

 * The Arab (1924) actor
 * Human Desires (1924)
 * The Legion of the Condemned (1928) co-screenplay
 * The Letter (1929) director
 * Jealousy (1929) director
 * My Childish Father (1930)
 * Monsieur the Duke (1931)
 * Paprika (1933) director
 * L'Auberge du Petit-Dragon (1935)
 * The Slipper Episode (1935)
 * La Garçonne (1936) director; with Arletty, Edith Piaf, and Marie Bell
 * Runaway Ladies (1938)
 * The City of Lights (1938)
 * The Man Who Played with Fire (1942)
 * The Golden Age (1942)
 * Apparition (1943)
 * The Great Pack (1945)