FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT

Francois Truffaut was a French actor, writer, and director from the 1950s to the 1980s. He was a French film critic who made his first movie, "Les Quatre cents coups" (The 400 Blows), about his troubled childhood, and together with Godard, they gave birth to the French "New Wave". Some of his other movies include: Day For Night (nominated for the Best Director Academy Award for this film), Fahrenheit 451, Jules et Jim, A Bout De Souffle, and he had a memorable acting role in Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind. He passed away in 1984 at the age of 52 from a brain tumor.