Marcel Duhamel (1900 - 1977)[1] was a French actor and screenwriter, founder of the Série noire publishing imprint.
He played The Foreman in Jean Renoir's 1936 The Crime of Monsieur Lange.
He translated[2] and published Jim Thompson's 1964 pulp novel Pop. 1280 as 1275 Âmes ("souls") in French in 1966.[3] Thereafter, the book was transposed to French colonial Africa in Bertrand Tavernier's film Coup de Torchon (Clean Slate) in 1981.