François Roland Truffaut was a French filmmaker, actor, and critic. Widely regarded as one of the founders of the French New Wave, he came under the tutelage of film critic André Bazin as a young man and was hired to write for the latter's Cahiers du Cinéma, where Truffaut became a proponent of the auteur theory, which posits that a film's director is its true author.
- Occupation
- film director, film producer, film critic, actor
- Citizenship
- France
- Born
- February 6, 1932
- Died
- October 21, 1984
- Website
- http://www.francoistruffaut.com/
