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Michel Audiard wrote for Jean Gabin in approximately 19 films. In addition to the 14 films listed in the summary, the following should be included: Le Sang à la tête (1956), Le Désordre et la Nuit (1958), Les Misérables (1958), Le Baron de l'écluse (1960), and Sous le signe du taureau (1969).
Michel Audiard and Jean Gabin collaborated extensively, with Audiard writing the dialogue for a significant portion of Gabin's post-war career. Excluding Any Number Can Win (1963) (Mélodie en sous-sol), here is a list of other notable films Audiard wrote for Jean Gabin, along with specific details:
| Year | Film Title (Original/English) | Michel Audiard's Credit | Jean Gabin's Role and Detail |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1955 | Gas-Oil | Dialogue and Adaptation | Jean Chappe, a truck driver (routier) whose tranquil life is overturned when he accidentally runs over a dying gang member and becomes a target for the criminals. |
| 1957 | Le Rouge est mis | Dialogue and Scenario | Louis Bertain, alias "Louis le blond", a seemingly peaceful garage owner who is secretly the highly disciplined head of a sophisticated gang of robbers. |
| 1958 | Maigret tend un piège | Dialogue | Commissaire Jules Maigret, the famous pipe-smoking detective who, after a series of murders, sets an elaborate trap for a Parisian serial killer terrorizing the Marais district. |
| 1958 | Les Grandes Familles | Dialogue and Scenario | Noël Schoudler, the cold, autocratic patriarch of a vast French financial and industrial empire who tests his reform-minded son with a brutal lesson in business strategy. |
| 1959 | Archimède le clochard | Dialogue and Scenario | Joseph Hugues Guillaume Boutier-Blainville, dit Archimède, an eccentric, well-educated, and fiercely independent tramp who plots to commit a crime to get himself a warm spot in jail for the winter. |
| 1959 | Maigret et l'Affaire Saint-Fiacre | Dialogue | Commissaire Jules Maigret, who returns to his childhood village to investigate a death threat against the Comtesse de Saint-Fiacre, whose father was the steward of the local chateau. |
| 1959 | Rue des Prairies | Dialogue and Scenario | Henri Neveux, a widowed construction foreman and former prisoner of war who struggles to raise his three children, particularly an illegitimate son he adopted, only to face rejection from his eldest children as they climb the social ladder. |
| 1960 | Les vieux de la vieille | Dialogue and Adaptation | Jean-Marie Péjat, a cranky, philosophical bicycle repairman and World War I veteran who conspires with his two old friends to walk from their village to a remote retirement home. |
| 1961 | Le Président | Dialogue and Adaptation | Émile Beaufort, a 73-year-old former President of the Council (Prime Minister) and elder statesman who returns to the political arena to prevent his ambitious former chief of staff from committing financial malfeasance. |
| 1961 | Le Cave se rebiffe | Dialogue and Adaptation | Ferdinand Maréchal, alias "le Dabe" (The Boss), a legendary master counterfeiter lured out of his peaceful retirement in Venezuela by a trio of younger, less experienced crooks. |
| 1962 | Un singe en hiver | Dialogue | Albert Quentin, a former French marine and hotelier in a Normandy village who, after years of abstinence, decides to go on a final, epic bender with a younger friend (Jean-Paul Belmondo). |
| 1962 | Le Gentleman d'Epsom | Dialogue and Adaptation | Richard Briand-Charmery, dit "le Commandant", an elegant, impoverished aristocrat who maintains his lifestyle through selling bad "inside tips" at the horse races to desperate gamblers. |
| 1968 | Le Pacha | Dialogue and Scenario | Commissaire Divisionnaire Louis Joss, an uncompromising, tough-talking police chief who takes justice into his own hands when his friend, a corrupt police inspector, is murdered during a heist. |
| 1971 | Le drapeau noir flotte sur la marmite | Writer and Director | Victor Ploubaz, a mythomaniac, self-proclaimed old sea dog who is hired to oversee the construction of a sailboat by a group of railway workers in their backyard. |
A major film starring Gabin as Jean Valjean with screenplay/dialogue co-written by Audiard.
A notable comedy where Gabin plays a destitute baron, featuring classic Audiard dialogue.
A highly regarded film noir collaboration.
An early collaboration (drama).
A later collaboration.