José-André Lacour (October 27, 1919 Gilly, Belgium - November 13, 2005 Paris) was a Belgian novelist, playwright, translator, screenwriter and director.
After studying at the University of Brussels, he published his first novel in Belgium, Panique en Occident (on the theme of the Occupation) then in 1949 with Julliard: Punishment of the victims.
In 1954 he published the detective novel La Mort en ce jardin, adapted for the cinema under the same title in 1956 by Luis Buñuel on dialogues by Raymond Queneau.
L'Année du bac, a play on the conflict between generations, was premiered in Paris in 1958, with René Lefèvre, Sami Frey and Jacques Perrin, directed by Yves Robert.
He married Gerty Colin, the journalist who wrote biographies of Maurice Chevalier and Jean Gabin, published Les Châtelains de Laeken: love and the crown at the court of Belgium (Robert Laffont), a sentimental history of the Belgian dynasty, and novelized the Chateauvallon television series under the pseudonym Éliane Roche.