He achieved success before (Fric-frac) and during the Occupation, with Douce, then after the Second World War, notably with the adaptation of Raymond Radiguet's novel, The Devil in the Flesh (1947), followed by The Red Inn, The Grain in the Grass, The Red and the Black (adaptation of Stendhal's novel), and The Crossing of Paris. From the 1960s onwards, his cinema met with less success. He was President of the Technicians' Union from 1948 to 1954 and then of the National Federation of Entertainment CGT (a union close to the communists) until 1963, and he became closer to the National Front in the 1980s. Autographed letter signed to journalist and writer Jean-Claude Lamy.