Francois Truffaut Autographs
François Roland Truffaut (UK: /ˈtruːfoʊ, ˈtrʊ-/ TROO-foh, TRUU-, US: /truːˈfoʊ/ troo-FOH; French: ; 6 February 1932 – 21 October 1984) was a French filmmaker, actor, and critic. He is widely regarded as one of the founders of the French New Wave. He came under the tutelage of film critic Andre Bazin as a young man and was hired to write for Bazin's Cahiers du Cinéma, where he became a proponent of the auteur theory, which posits that a film's director is its true author. The 400 Blows (1959), starring Jean-Pierre Léaud as Truffaut's alter-ego Antoine Doinel, was a defining film of the New Wave. Truffaut supplied the story for another milestone of the movement, Breathless (1960), directed by his Cahiers colleague Jean-Luc Godard.
His other notable films include Shoot the Piano Player (1960), Jules and Jim (1962), The Soft Skin (1964), Two English Girls (1971) and The Last Metro (1980). Truffaut's Day for Night (1973) earned him the BAFTA Award for Best Film and the Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film. He played the doctor in The Wild Child (1970), the director of the film-within-the-film in Day For Night and the scientist in Steven Spielberg's Close Encounters of the Third Kind (1977). He starred in The Green Room (1978), based on Henry James's "The Altar of the Dead". He wrote Hitchcock/Truffaut (1966), a book-length interview with his hero Alfred Hitchcock which tied for second on Sight and Sound's list of the greatest books on film. Truffaut paid homage to Hitchcock in The Bride Wore Black (1968), Mississippi Mermaid (1969) and his last film, Confidentially Yours (1981).
He was married from 1957 until 1964 to Madeleine Morgenstern, in 1968 became engaged to leading actress Claude Jade from three of his films, and lived together with Fanny Ardant, actress in his two last films, until his death. David Thomson writes that "for many people who love film Truffaut will always seem like the most accessible and engaging crest of the New Wave."
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Traded items with a signature of Francois Truffaut
The most expensive item with a signature of Francois Truffaut (1967 HITCHCOCK by Francois Truffaut. Signed & Inscribed by Truffaut & Hitchcock) was sold in August 2025 for $12,500.00 while the cheapest item (director FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT signed AUTOGRAPH 8328) found a new owner for $6.50 in August 2023. The month with the most items sold (2) was August 2023 with an average selling price of $178.25 for an autographed item of Francois Truffaut. Sold items reached their highest average selling price in December 2021 with $1,350.00 and the month that saw the lowest prices with $6.83 was July 2023. In average, an autographed item from Francois Truffaut is worth $180.75.
Most recently, these items with a signature of Francois Truffaut were sold on eBay - click here for more items.
| Picture | Item Title | Price | Store |
 | director FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT signed AUTOGRAPH 8328 | $6.50 |  |
| director Francois Truffaut signed autograph NO RESERVE B7239 | $27.78 | |
| film director FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT signed AUTOGRAPH 6055 | $6.83 | |
| FILMMAKER Francois Truffaut NEW WAVE autograph, signed photo | $435.07 | |
| Francois Truffaut (1932-1984) - Filmmaker - Rare signed book - Cannes 1973 - COA | $599.99 | |
| FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT Signed Photo Original Autograph Nouvelle Vague 400 | $299.00 | |
| FRENCH DIRECTOR FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT The Wild Child VINTAGE HAND SIGNED PHOTO | $295.00 | |
| french film maker FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT signed AUTOGRAPH 4240 | $13.27 | |
| Hitchcock Truffaut (1966) book SIGNED by Francois Truffaut + 35 actors - 1st ed | $1,350.00 | |
| JEANNE MOREAU François Truffaut Signed/Autographed 8x10 Color Photograph | $17.00 | |
| JEANNE MOREAU JULES AND JIM FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT HAND SIGNED AUTOGRAPH PHOTO d 2017 | $16.66 | |
 | NOTABLE FRENCH FILM DIRECTOR FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT - 1972, SIGNED VINTAGE PHOTO. 5X7 | $308.49 | |
| OSKAR WERNER VINTAGE SIGNED - FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT - RAY BRADBURY FAHRENHEIT 451 - | $50.00 | |
| Rare FRANCOIS TRUFFAUT + 34 Stars Autographed Book: HITCHCOCK | $695.00 | |
| Rare Francois Truffaut Signed Photo | $350.00 | |
Latest News about Francois Truffaut
‘The 400 Blows,’ a Directing Debut That Still Astonishes (09/21/2022): In 1959, François Truffaut premiered his first film, about a Parisian boy playing hooky, and moviemaking hasn’t been the same since. 
