Biography
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
all 38
Movies 28
self 21
TV Shows 10
Director 9
Writer 3
Narrator 1
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président (2022)
Coluche, une époque formidable (2021)
L'essentiel chez Labro (2021)
The Perfect Circle (2020)
Philippe R. Doumic - Sous son regard l'étincelle (2019)
C'est un complot (2019)
Six portraits XL : 3 Philippe et Bernard (2018)
Françoise Dorléac, une promesse (2018)
Dieu, Diable & Rock'n'Roll (2017)
Belmondo, itinéraire... (2011)
Melville Steps Out of the Shadows (2010)
Code Name: Melville (2008)
One Day, One Fate (2007)
Jean-Pierre Melville and Army of Shadows (2002)
Winged Migration (2001)
Godard on TV: 1960-2000 (1999)
Vivement dimanche (1998)
The Little Boy (1995)
Foreign Student (1994)
Poorly Extinguished Fires (1994)
Ambitions (1986)
Télématin (1985)
Rive droite, rive gauche (1984)
Cover Up (1983)
Champs-Elysées (1982)
Hunter Will Get You (1976)
30 millions d'amis (1976)
Cat and Mouse (1975)
Apostrophes (1975)
Spécial cinéma (1974)
Chance and Violence (1974)
The Inheritor (1973)
J'ai tout donné (1972)
Without Apparent Motive (1971)
Tout peut arriver (1969)
Made in U.S.A (1967)
4XD (1964)
Hong Kong as seen by Orson Welles (1960)
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Known ForDirecting
GenderMale
Birthday1936-08-27 (87 years old)
Birth PlaceMontauban, France
Height
MotherHenriette Labro
SiblingsJacques Labro, Claude Labro
CitizenshipsFrance
AwardsCommander of the Legion of Honour, Prix Interallié
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