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Philippe Labro
Philippe Labro (born 27 August 1936) is a French author, journalist and film director. He has worked for RTL, Paris Match, TF1 and Antenne 2. He is a laureate of the Prix Interallié, a French literary distinction founded in 1930, which was awarded for «L'Étudiant étranger» in 1986.
At the age of eighteen, he left France to study at Washington and Lee University in Virginia. He then travelled across the United States. On his return to Europe, he became a reporter. From 1960 to 1962, during the Algerian war, Labro was a member of the military. He then returned to his journalistic activities. While covering the assassination of John F. Kennedy for French newspaper France-Soir, he met Jack Ruby in Dallas days before he shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald; he was thus subsequently officially auditioned by the Warren Commission. He has written and directed many films and was a close friend of Jean-Pierre Melville, as he recalls in the 2008 documentary Code Name Melville. From 1985 to 2000, he was director of programmes at RTL becoming the vice president of the station in 1992.
In April 2010, he became Commander of the Légion d'honneur.
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Filmography
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Sacrée soirée
Sacrée soirée
Vivement dimanche
Apostrophes
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Spécial cinéma
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Télématin
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30 millions d'amis
Johnny Hallyday: Beyond Rock
Johnny Hallyday in his own words. This intimate docuseries explores the life and career of France's rock icon t...
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
In May 1974, Valéry Giscard d'Estaing became President of the Republic and wanted to bring about a new era of m...
Winged Migration
This documentary follows various migratory bird species on their long journeys from their summer homes to the e...
Ambitions
Belmondo, itinéraire...
Documentary on the career of Jean-Paul Belmondo.
Code Name: Melville
Mixing interviews, rare archival footage and film extracts, the film shows how Melville's works were impacted b...
Made in U.S.A
Paula Nelson goes to Atlantic City to meet her lover, Richard Politzer, but finds him dead and decides to inves...
Coluche, une époque formidable
Documentary on the French comedian, actor, humanitarian and legend Coluche.
The Inheritor
After his father is killed in a plane crash, Bart Cordell returns back home to France to claim his inheritance:...
Françoise Dorléac, from The Man from Rio to The Young Girls of Rochefort
Born into a family of actors, Françoise Dorléac, Catherine Deneuve's older sister, began her career at the age...
Cat and Mouse
A jaded and charming police inspector is assigned along with his cheerful partner to a case involving the myste...
Mon nom est Johnny
From New York to Los Angeles, a journey in the United States, in the footsteps of Johnny Hallyday, on tour in t...
Delon-Melville, la solitude de deux samouraïs
Françoise Dorléac, une promesse
A portray of French actress Françoise Dorléac
J'ai tout donné
An intimate cinéma vérité style documentary following french mega star Johnny Hallyday's summer tour.
Jean-Pierre Melville and Army of Shadows
In this documentary, produced by Philippe Quinconneau for StudioCanal, editor Françoise Bonnot, actor Jean-Pier...
Dieu, Diable & Rock'n'Roll
"We're more popular than Jesus." John Lennon's statement caused a scandal. Yet it is just another chapter in th...
Marilyn Monroe: The Last Torments
Nearly fifty years after her death, Marilyn Monroe remains an absolute icon, the image of a superficial and sen...
Les Troubles de la Circulation
Philippe R. Doumic - Sous son regard l'étincelle
The Perfect Circle
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