From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Edmond T. Gréville (real name Edmond Gréville Thonger, 20 June 1906 Nice – 26 May 1966, Nice) was a French film director. The son of Franco-British parents, his father a Protestant pastor, Gréville began his career as a film journalist and critic. In parallel with a few acting performances in some silent films and in the first talkie of René Clair, Sous les toits de Paris (1930), he directed his first short films. His first experience of directing had been on the shooting of Abel Gance's Napoléon in 1927. He had then worked as an assistant director, notably on the English film Piccadilly, L'Arlésienne (directed by Jacques de Baroncelli), Augusto Genina's Prix de beauté ( with Louise Brooks) and Abel Gance's La Fin du Monde. Between 1930 and 1940 he directed several French films - Le Train des suicidés (1931), Remous (1934) with Françoise Rosay (a social-realist film on the sensitive sexual issue of impotence), and two comedy musical films Princesse Tam Tam (1935) with Josephine Baker, and Gypsy Melody (1936), with Lupe Velez. In Britain again, he filmed Mademoiselle Docteur with Dita Parlo and John Loder, and Menaces (1938) with Mireille Balin and Erich von Stroheim, playing an Austrian refugee who commits suicide following the Anschluss. With a heavy atmosphere charged with eroticism which characterises his films, Gréville imposed his independence and original style on the cinema of the time. He stopped directing films during the Second World War and the Occupation - xenophobia and anti-Semitism ruined or put a stop to some careers, among film-makers those of Léonide Moguy and Pierre Chenal for example, both French Jews, and the half-British Gréville, and took away production and distribution companies belonging to Jews like the father and son distributors Siriztky. In 1948 he made a film on the subject of resistance and collaboration in the Dutch film Niet tevergeefs. The same year he made a film with Carole Landis, Noose. In Le Port du désir (1954) he directed Jean Gabin as a captain confronted by an unscrupulous smuggler and torn by his love for a young woman who is also loved by a younger man. In Gréville's last years he made Beat Girl (1959) with Adam Faith and a horror film The Hands of Orlac (1960) with Mel Ferrer. His last film was L'Accident (1963) with Magali Noël based on a Frédéric David novel. In May 1966, Edmond Greville died in hospital in Nice, thought to be the result of complications following a car accident. Description above from the Wikipedia article Edmond T. Gréville, licensed under CC-BY-SA,full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Biography from TMDB.
- June 20, 1906
- May 26, 1966 (aged 59)
- Nice, France
- Director and writer, also producer
- 6 on Motif · 34 credits in all
What are Edmond T. Gréville's films like?
Across their 6 Motif titles with a thematic analysis, their films lean Self and Morality.
Genres
Their Motif films by primary genre. The badge is the typical Motif score of the genre's films, the median percentile; an up arrow marks a genre at or above their average across these genres.
Themes
What they feel like to watch
Ironic 0 · Wry 1 · Earnest 5
Light 2 · Serious 3 · Dark 1
Grounded 2 · Stylized 3 · Heightened 1
Gentle 2 · Charged 3 · Intense 1
A split, not a type: Steady 3 · Shifting 2 · Whiplash 1
Straight-faced 3 · Some laughs 3 · Funny 0
Slow burn 5 · Even-paced 1 · Relentless 0
Casual 4 · Engaged 2 · Full focus 0
Easy watch 5 · Affecting 1 · Heavy 0
Resolved 6 · Open-ended 0 · Ambiguous 0
Moods and endings
- Happy3
- Bittersweet1
- Tragic1
- Ambiguous1
AI-generated from each title's plot synopsis and cast list, with extra plot summaries, reviews and Parents Guide notes for titles the model may not know, and the model's own knowledge of the ones it recognizes. Only analyzed titles count, so this covers part of the filmography; the feel axes count films only for now.
Where can I watch Edmond T. Gréville's films?
As of October 24, 2026, 4 of their 6 Motif titles stream on a subscription or free service, most on Tubi (4).
Subscription and free streaming for Edmond T. Gréville's titles on Motif; rent and buy are not counted. Titles are listed by Motif score, highest first, at most 12 per service; a dashed chip is a producer credit or a minor one, such as a thanks. A service opens the browse page, which counts movies only, so its number can differ.
Filmography
34 credits, 6 with a Motif page.
Horror Castle(1963)
Motif score: 35th percentile of all films
The Accident (not in the Motif catalog yet)(1963)
House of Sin (not in the Motif catalog yet)(1961)
The Hands of Orlac(1960)
Motif score: 19th percentile of all films
Wild for Kicks(1960)
Motif score: 42nd percentile of all films
Temptation(1959)
Motif score: 50th percentile of all films (provisional, few ratings)
When Will It Strike Noon (not in the Motif catalog yet)(1958)
Guilty? (not in the Motif catalog yet)(1956)
Tant qu'il y aura des femmes (not in the Motif catalog yet)(1955)
House on the Waterfront (not in the Motif catalog yet)(1955)
Other Side of Paradise (not in the Motif catalog yet)(1953)
The Romantic Age (not in the Motif catalog yet)(1949)
But Not in Vain (not in the Motif catalog yet)(1948)
The Silk Noose(1948)
Motif score: 48th percentile of all films
Woman of Evil (not in the Motif catalog yet)(1947)
Passionnelle (not in the Motif catalog yet)(1947)
Dorothy Looks for Love (not in the Motif catalog yet)(1945)
A Woman in the Night (not in the Motif catalog yet)(1943)
Threats (not in the Motif catalog yet)(1940)
What a Man! (not in the Motif catalog yet)(1939)
Forty Years (not in the Motif catalog yet)(1938)
Under Secret Orders (not in the Motif catalog yet)(1937)
Brief Ecstasy (not in the Motif catalog yet)(1937)
Secret Lives (not in the Motif catalog yet)(1937)
Gypsy Melody (not in the Motif catalog yet)(1936)
Princesse Tam-Tam(1935)
Motif score: 48th percentile of all films
Whirlpool (not in the Motif catalog yet)(1935)
Marchand d'amour (not in the Motif catalog yet)(1935)
Pleasures of Paris (not in the Motif catalog yet)(1934)
The Fire Triangle (not in the Motif catalog yet)(1932)
The Train of Suicides (not in the Motif catalog yet)(1931)
L'Arlésienne (not in the Motif catalog yet)(1930)
Miss Europe (not in the Motif catalog yet)(1930)
Under the Roofs of Paris (not in the Motif catalog yet)(1930)
Career shape
A full career of 34 titles from 1930 to 1963.
Film career
- 1930Screen debut· Under the Roofs of Paris
Counts from TMDB across their full career, self appearances out; a title counts in every role they held on it. The ring is the typical Motif score (the median percentile) of the role's titles that are on Motif, shown from 5 scored.
How do Edmond T. Gréville's films land?
Their typical Motif film has a Motif score in the 45th percentile, the median of all 6; across their 6 films with reception data, the typical film sits in the 43rd percentile for acclaim.
- 50th to 74th1
- 25th to 49th4
- Below 25th1
Shape of the crowd
2 of their 6 titles are Broadly Agreed.
- Cult Classic1
- Crowd Pleaser1
- Broadly Agreed2
- Mixed2
Reviewers score the atmosphere 55/100 and the pacing 40/100 in their films, across 6 reviewed titles. The element that speaks to their work as a director.
Percentiles are each film's standing among all films on Motif; the typical film is the median, so one outlier cannot drag it. Percentiles and reviewer scores count the films IMDb credits them on, for now; the Motif score bands, the shape of the crowd and the two cards count their Motif titles, shows included (a show ranked among shows), appearances as themselves left out. A descriptor is the shape of a title's IMDb rating distribution against the catalog; "most divisive" needs a spread wider than half of all titles, and a card names only a principal credit: a craft role, and on a show a crew role or a run of episodes, never a courtesy credit or a one-off guest spot.
Who does Edmond T. Gréville work with?
People who share at least 2 of Edmond T. Gréville's Motif titles, grouped by what they did on them; Christopher Lee shares the most, 3.
Actors
- Christopher LeeShared titles: Horror Castle (1963), The Hands of Orlac (1960), Wild for Kicks (1960)See all 3 shared titles with Christopher Lee
- Rossana PodestàShared titles: Horror Castle (1963), Temptation (1959)See all 2 shared titles with Rossana Podestà
Cinematographers and editors
- Jacques LemareShared titles: The Hands of Orlac (1960), Temptation (1959)See all 2 shared titles with Jacques Lemare
- Jean RavelShared titles: The Hands of Orlac (1960), Temptation (1959)See all 2 shared titles with Jean Ravel