René Wheeler
René Wheeler (8 February 1912 - 11 December 2000) was a French screenwriter and film director. He co-wrote the story of the film A Cage of Nightingales (1945) with Georges Chaperot, for which they both received an Academy Award nomination in 1947. Their story would later serve as an inspiration for the hugely successful film The Chorus (2004). Wheeler also co-wrote the screenplay for the 1955 heist film Rififi. Selected filmography Moutonnet (1936) The Innocent (1938) The Duraton Family (1939) Night Warning (1946) The Faceless Enemy (1946) The Winner's Circle (1950) The Love of a Woman (1953) Double or Quits (1953) Rififi (1955) The Restless and the Damned (1959) A Woman in White (1965) References External links French male screenwriters 20th-century French screenwriters French film directors 1912 births 2000 deaths 20th-century French male writers