Jacques Tati - Jacques Tati, Director

Jacques Tati, Director

In early 1946 Jacques Tati and Fred Orain founded the production company Cady-Films, which would produce Tati's first three films.

With the exception of his first and last films, Tati played the gauche and socially inept lead character, Monsieur Hulot. With his trademark raincoat, umbrella and pipe, Hulot is among the most memorable comic characters in cinema. Several themes recur in Tati's work, most notably in Mon Oncle, Play Time and Trafic. They include Western society's obsession with material goods, particularly American-style consumerism, the pressure-cooker environment of modern society, the superficiality of relationships among France's various social classes, and the cold and often impractical nature of space-age technology and design.

On October 23, 1946 Tati fathered his second child, Sophie Catherine Tatischeff.