Francis Veber
Francis Paul Veber is a French film director, screenwriter and producer, and playwright. He has written and directed both French and American films. Eight Frenchlanguage films with which he has been involved, as either writer or director or both, have been remade as Englishlanguage Hollywood films Le grand blond avec une chaussure noire , Lemmerdeur , La Cage aux Folles , Le Jouet , Les Compres , La chvre , Les Fugitifs , and Le dner de cons . He also wrote the screenplay for My Father the Hero, the 1994 American remake of the Frenchlanguage film Mon pre, ce hros.
Veber was born in NeuillysurSeine, HautsdeSeine, the son of a writer mother and PierreGilles Veber, a screenwriter. Vebers father was Jewish and his mother was ArmenianRussian . His granduncle was writer Tristan Bernard.
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