Louis-Ferdinand Céline
Birthday
1894/05/27
Day of death
1961/07/01 (67 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Courbevoie, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France
Also know as
Louis Ferdinand Destouches, Céline
Biography
Louis Ferdinand Auguste Destouches (27 May 1894 – 1 July 1961), better known by the pen name Louis-Ferdinand Céline, was a French novelist, polemicist, and physician. His first novel Journey to the End of the Night (1932) won the Prix Renaudot but divided critics due to the author's pessimistic depiction of the human condition and his writing style based on working class speech. In subsequent novels such as Death on the Installment Plan (1936), Guignol's Band (1944) and Castle to Castle (1957) C...Read more
Acting
(1957) Louis-Ferdinand Céline : entretien avec Pierre Dumayet
as Lui-même
(1958) Louis-Ferdinand CÉLINE : entretien avec André Parinaud
as Lui-même
(1961) En français dans le texte - Entretien avec Louis-Ferdinand Céline
as Lui-même
(2008) Il falso bugiardo
as Self (archive footage)
(1935) Tovaritch
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(1957) Lectures pour tous : D'un château l'autre
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(1976) "Une légende, une vie" Louis-Ferdinand Céline
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(2011) Historiquement Show - Spéciale Céline
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(1975) Apostrophes
as Self (archive footage)