Additionally, Cahiers critics such as Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Claude Chabrol, Jacques Rivette and Eric Rohmer went on to make films themselves, creating what was to become known as the French New Wave.

Rohmer himself was quoted in the biography his wife co-authored Master of Villainy to respond to charges that Fu Manchu had demonized all Chinese people by stating that

Gulacy was a film buff, and modeled many characters after film stars: Juliette on Marlene Dietrich, James Larner on Marlon Brando, Clive Reston ( often broadly hinted at as being the son of James Bond as well as the grand nephew of Sherlock Holmes ) occasionally looking like Basil Rathbone and Sean Connery, and a minor character Ward Sarsfield ( after the real-life name of Sax Rohmer ) who looked like David Niven.

He was portrayed by Joseph Schildkraut in the 1938 film Marie Antoinette, and by Jean-Claude Dreyfus in the 2001 Éric Rohmer film The Lady and the Duke.

Their son, Rohmer Emmanuel, was born on March 17, 2010.

Cunliffe has always had an interest in reading, stating that when he was a child he enjoyed the novels of writers such as H. Rider Haggard, Sax Rohmer, Norman Hunter's Professor Branestawm stories and W. E. Johns's Biggles books.

Éric Rohmer, a pioneering director from the French New Wave, was notable for focusing on young adults or youth and their complications with love in a number of his films.

A prominent example occurs within the first volume of The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, wherein a character who is clearly intended in appearance and description by other characters to be Dr. Fu Manchu appears as a significant villain ; however, as this character was not in the public domain at the time of writing and the rights still held by the estate of his creator Sax Rohmer, he is not directly named as such in the work and is only referred to as ' the Devil Doctor '.

He writes regularly for the magazine which was moving on from its " yellow cover ” beginnings ( the time of André Bazin, François Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Éric Rohmer and Jacques Rivette-roughly 1951-1959 ) and was about to enter a period of heavy theoretical debates and radical political engagement after 1968.

" For Kirsch, Fleming's style was a combination of Sax Rohmer and James Fitzpatrick, although he also considered that " Fleming's wit is provincial ".

For her performance in the Éric Rohmer film, Full Moon in Paris, Ogier was nominated for a César Award for Best Actress and won the best actress award at the 1984 Venice Film Festival.

Maurice Henri Joseph Schérer or Jean Marie Maurice Schérer, known as Éric Rohmer ( ( 20 March 1920 – 11 January 2010 ), was a French film director, film critic, journalist, novelist, screenwriter and teacher.

Rohmer was the last of the French New Wave directors to become established.

Rohmer came to international attention around 1969 when his film Ma nuit chez Maud ( My Night at Maud's ) was nominated at the Academy Awards.

Rohmer was a Catholic.

Rohmer was educated in Paris and received an advanced degree in history.

Rohmer was known as being more politically conservative than most of the staff at Cahiers and his opinions were highly influential on the direction of Cahiers during his time as editor.

Rohmer first published articles under his real name, but began using " Eric Rohmer " in 1955 so that his family did not find out that he was involved in the film world, which they would have disapproved of.

In the article, Rohmer states that in an age of cultural self-consciousness, film was " the last refuge of poetry " and the only contemporary art form from which metaphor could still spring naturally and spontaneously.

By 1963 Rohmer was becoming more at odds with some of the more radical left-wing critics at Cahiers du Cinema.

Rohmer finally resigned that year and was succeeded by Jacques Rivette.

In 1952 Rohmer began collaborating with Pierre Guilbaud on a one hour short feature called Les Petites Filles modéles, but the film was never finished.

* Sax Rohmer, author of the Fu Manchu thrillers, was the pseudonym of Arthur Henry Ward, who was born in Birmingham but pursued his writing career in London and then New York.

Major-General ( Ret'd ) Richard Heath Rohmer, OC, CMM, DFC, O. Ont, KStJ, CD, QC ( born in 1924 ).

Rohmer was born in Hamilton, Ontario, and spent some of his early youth in Pasadena, California as well as in western Ontario at Windsor and Fort Erie.

Béatrice Romand ( born 1952, Birkadem, French Algeria ) is a French actress best known for her work with director Éric Rohmer in such films as Claire's Knee, Chloe in the Afternoon, A Good Marriage, Le Rayon vert and Autumn Tale.

Initially edited by Éric Rohmer ( Maurice Scherer ), it included amongst its writers Jacques Rivette, Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol and François Truffaut.

Rohmer's mother died without ever knowing that her son Maurice was in fact a famous film director named Eric Rohmer.

The grave of Eric Rohmer ( Maurice Scherer ) is located at the 13 district of Montparnasse Cemetery in Paris.

* " The Grave of Eric Rohmer ( Maurice Scherer ), Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris.

In about 1949 while living in Paris, Rohmer first began to attend Henri Langlois's Cinémathèque Française, where he first met and befriended Jean-Luc Godard, François Truffaut, Claude Chabrol, Jacques Rivette and other members of the French New Wave.

* TCM Remembers 2010: director Arthur Penn, editor Dede Allen, Jean Simmons, director Roy Ward Baker, Lynn Redgrave, producer David Brown, editor Sally Menke, Harold Gould, director Dino De Laurentiis, Dennis Hopper, Jill Clayburgh, Robert Culp, James Mitchell, James MacArthur, Johnny Sheffield, Corey Haim, director Clive Donner, Kevin McCarthy, Cammie King, Eddie Fisher, director Éric Rohmer, John Forsythe, producer Irving Ravetch, art director Robert F. Boyle, Robert Ellenstein, producer Tom Mankiewicz, editor Suso Cecchi d ' Amico, Fess Parker, Baby Marie Osborne, Lena Horne, Lionel Jeffries, Kathryn Grayson, Tony Curtis, Doris Eaton Travis, writer Joseph Stein, director Ronald Neame, Claude Chabrol, Gloria Stuart, June Havoc, Glenn Shadix, Peter Graves, Barbara Billingsley, Leslie Nielsen, director Blake Edwards, Zelda Rubinstein, cinematographer William A. Fraker, producer David L. Wolper, Meinhardt Raabe, director Irvin Kershner and Patricia Neal.

A dramatic portrayal of part of her life is contained in the film The Lady And The Duke ( French title L ' Anglaise et le duc ) by director Éric Rohmer, France, 2001.

Rohmer later took part in the liberation of France, Belgium and Holland.

By 1951 Rohmer had a bigger budget provided by friends and shot the 35mm short film Présentation ou Charlotte et son steak.

In 1958 Rohmer made Véronique et son cancre, a 20 minute short produced by Chabrol.

Jacques Rivette replaced Rohmer as editor in 1963, shifted political and social concerns and paid more attention to the non-Hollywood cinema.

* 1883 – Sax Rohmer, English author ( d. 1959 )

Dr. Fu Manchu is a fictional character introduced in a series of novels by British author Sax Rohmer during the first half of the 20th century.

When Rohmer revived the series in the early 1930s, Smith ( who has been knighted ) is Assistant Commissioner of Scotland Yard.

* 1959 – Sax Rohmer, English author ( b. 1883 )

Though an original character himself, many of Shang-Chi's supporting characters ( most notably Fu Manchu and Sir Denis Nayland Smith ) were Rohmer creations.

* Fu Manchu is portrayed in a manner mostly consistent with the Sax Rohmer novels.

Fu Manchu, Sax Rohmer, and Shang-Chi in The Deadly Hands of Kung Fu Special Album Edition # 1, Summer 1974, pp. 29 – 33.

* April 4 – Éric Rohmer, French film director ( d. 2010 )

* February 15 – Sax Rohmer, English author ( d. 1959 )

In 1968, following the example of Cahiers du Cinéma critics Truffaut, Jean-Luc Godard, Claude Chabrol, and Éric Rohmer who had created the Nouvelle Vague (" New Wave ") by making their own films, Bogdanovich decided to become a director.

The area achieved notoriety for opium dens in the late 19th century, often featured in pulp fiction works by Sax Rohmer and others.

The area also features in the Fu Manchu books of Sax Rohmer, where a Limehouse opium den serves as the hideout of the Chinese supervillain.

Dr. Fu Manchu, the antagonist of several popular novels of Sax Rohmer, is credited with popularizing many of the typical characteristics of the modern supervillain, including his sadistic personality, his desire for world domination, and his use of sinister lairs and themed crimes and henchmen.

However, celebrated writers such as G. K. Chesterton, Arthur Conan Doyle, Clayton Rawson and Sax Rohmer have had their works adapted to comic book form.