Jacques Viot (1898–1973) was a French novelist and screenwriter.
[1][2] After service in the artillery during the First World War he became involved with the Surrealist movement.
From the mid-1930s he began working on screenplays, collaborating with directors such as Marcel Carne, Jacques Feyder and Marcel Camus.
After the war, he enrolled at HEC Paris where he obtained a diploma, then worked in an insurance firm in Nantes.
[3] This biographical article related to film in France is a stub.