Jean‑Claude Camredon was born on April 9, 1933, in Neuilly‑sur‑Seine and died on March 4, 2016, in Issy‑les‑Moulineaux. Before becoming a screenwriter, he pursued a completely different career: he worked as an accountant at INSERM.

In 1961, reading an article in Historia about the Napoleonic spy Charles‑Louis Schulmeister sparked a bold idea: creating a television adventure series centered on this historical figure. Encouraged by a friend, he submitted his project to the ORTF. After several months of waiting, Pathé purchased the rights, paving the way for the creation of the series Schulmeister, l’espion de l’empereur, which began airing in 1971 and became his best‑known work.

In addition to this series, Camredon also wrote two other films and a book devoted to audiovisual and multimedia terminology.