refimprove date September 2011 File Marcel Gaudart with Arri 35mm camera.jpg thumb Marcel Gaudart with his 35mm camera around 1958 Marcel Gaudart or Marc Gaudart 10 June 1913&ndash 2 July 1959 was a film director, producer, former Jesuit priest Licence Th ologie and member of the French Resistance . He was sometimes known as Marcel Goddart. ref http www.glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com show 477 Valerie Varda index.html Valerie Varda refers to Marcel Goddart , glamourgirlsofthesilverscreen.com. ref Life and work He was born Marie Fran ois Antoine Marcel Gaudart on 10 June 1913, at Pondich ry in French India . He became a Jesuit priest, but he was released from his vows by Pope Pius XII . On 14 April 1951, he was married, at Innsbruck Austria n Tyrol , to Dorothea Johanna H bel. They were divorced in Austria on 15 October 1957. ref Landesgericht f r Zivilrechtssachen, Vienna Austria . ref After leaving the religious world, Gaudart became a film producer director and made several films. He had started his film and sound career after the Second World War, when he was recording interviews and plays for some European radio broadcasters. He moved on to film very quickly and became a TV producer in the 1950s. Although already being successful in Canada, he moved on to Mexico. For one film, he was in Mexico, where he died officially on 4 July 1959, his burial date in rather odd circumstances. Some members of his family think him to be still alive. ref S.65 178, Histoire et Genealogie de la Famille Gaudart, Agn s de Place. ref The Fables of La Fontaine File Gaudart The Fables of La Fontaine.jpg thumb A still taken from the Fables of La Fontaine films Marc Gaudart produced the Canadian television series Fables of La Fontaine TV series Fables of La Fontaine or Tales of La Fontaine . As a French producer in Canada, Marc Gaudart was responsible for this series of fifteen minute fables with animal characters, based on stories by the 17th century poet La Fontaine . The films emplo ... more details
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