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Jacques Tourneur (November 12, 1904 – December 19, 1977) was a French-born American director, the son of director Maurice Tourneur (1876–1961). He joined Val Lewton’s ‘B’ movie unit at RKO Radio Pictures for Cat People (1942), I Walked with a Zombie (1943), and The Leopard Man (1943), bringing a European sensibility to low-budget Hollywood horrors. Although he managed to recapture Lewton’s subtlety in the British-made Night of the Demon (aka Curse of the Demon, 1956), his final films for AIP, The Comedy of Terrors (1963) and City Under the Sea (aka War-Gods of the Deep, 1965), were disappointing if not uninteresting failures. His 1964 episode of TV’s The Twilight Zone, "Night Call" (scripted by Richard Matheson), was a belated return to form.