Born in 1932, died in 1991. He began as a songwriter, composer and singer in different cabarets in Geneva and Paris. He joined Suisse Romande TV as a director in 1961, where he worked as an assistant director and became director in 1964. In cinema, his name is well-known with Alain Tanner and Claude Goretta as fonders of form the “new Swiss cinema” which later would become the “Groupe des 5” with Jean- Louis Roy and Jean-Jacques Lagrange in 1968. In 1974, he was a member of the jury of the Festival de Cannes.