René Vernadet, born in 1927 in Paris, is a French director and camera operator. René will never know his father, a dentist, who died in 1930.

His mother, Marguerite, is a film makeup artist and little René, an only son, follows her from set to set. This artistic environment is their universe, they rub shoulders with Christian Jacques, Bourvil, Sacha Guitry, Cocteau… He could have become an actor but, at the time, it was above all the technique that motivated him. He therefore embarked on advanced studies in a film laboratory.