Jean Douchet

Biography

Jean Douchet was a French film director, historian, and critic who began his career in the early 1950s at Gazette du Cinéma and Cahiers du cinéma. As a journalist, he wrote extensively about influential directors such as Hitchcock and Kurosawa, and enabled Serge Daney to join Cahiers. He also taught at the Institut des Hautes Études Cinématographiques, which counted several notable filmmakers among his students.