Jean Mamy
Jean Mamy was a French actor, producer, film and theatre director, screenwriter, film editor, and journalist, notable for directing the anti-Masonic propaganda film Forces occultes under the pseudonym "Paul Riche".
He belonged to the inter-war left, acting in René Clair's 1924 Dada film Entr'acte and editing Jean Renoir's 1931 On purge bébé. Subsequently, he directed a number of films in the series "Une heure d'angoisse" based on the novels written by Marcel Allain for the Éditions Ferenczi. On the fall of France he decided on collaboration. His last film was the anti-Masonic 1943 film Forces occultes, which he directed. The film was commissioned in 1942 by the Propaganda Abteilung, a delegation of Nazi Germany's propaganda ministry within occupied France by the ex-Mason Mamy. It virulently denounces Freemasonry, parliamentarianism and Jews as part of Vichy's drive against them and seeks to prove a Jewish-Masonic plot.
Mamy had also been a journalist on the collaborationist periodical L'Appel under Pierre Constantini and on the collaborationist journal Au pilori. After being purged for collaboration with the enemy, he was condemned to death and executed at the fortress of Montrouge on 29 March 1949.
Selected filmography
- Entr'acte, as actor
- Misdeal, as actor and production manager
- Black and White, as sound editor
- Baby's Laxative, as editor
- The Lovers of Midnight, as editor
- Baleydier, as director
- The Agony of the Eagles, as editor
- The Path to Happiness, as director
- The Secret of Polichinelle, as editor
- A Picnic on the Grass, as editor
- L'habit vert, as editor
- Forces occultes, as director under the pseudonym Paul Riche.