- Known For
- Directing
- Born
- August 27, 1936
- Place of Birth
- Montauban, Tarn-et-Garonne, France
- Died
- June 4, 2025
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 J…
Filmography
movieLes Troubles de la Circulation
2025 · Self
movieDelon-Melville, la solitude de deux samouraïs
2024 · Self
tvJohnny Hallyday: Beyond Rock
2022 · Self
movieLa TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
2022 · Self (archive footage)
movieFrançoise Dorléac, from The Man from Rio to The Young Girls of Rochefort
2021 · self
movieMon nom est Johnny
2021 · Self
movieColuche, une époque formidable
2021 · Self
The Perfect Circle
movieThe Perfect Circle
2020
moviePhilippe R. Doumic - Sous son regard l'étincelle
2019 · Self
movieFrançoise Dorléac, une promesse
2018 · Self
movieDieu, Diable & Rock'n'Roll
2017
Marilyn Monroe: The Last Torments
movieMarilyn Monroe: The Last Torments
2011 · self
movieBelmondo, itinéraire...
2011 · Self
movieCode Name: Melville
2010 · Self
movieJean-Pierre Melville and Army of Shadows
2002 · Self
movieWinged Migration
2001 · Narrator (voice, English version)
tvVivement dimanche
1998 · Self
movieThe Little Boy
1995 · Novel
movieForeign Student
1994 · Novel
tvSacrée soirée
1987 · Self, Self (Duplex)
tvAmbitions
1986 · Self
tvTélématin
1985 · Self
movieRive droite, rive gauche
1984 · Director, Writer
movieCover Up
1983 · Director, Writer
tvChamps-Elysées
1982 · Self
movieHunter Will Get You
1976 · Director, Screenplay
tv30 millions d'amis
1976 · Self
movieCat and Mouse
1975 · Philippe Lacombe
tvApostrophes
1975 · Self
tvSpécial cinéma
1974 · Self
movieChance and Violence
1974 · Writer, Director
movieThe Inheritor
1973 · Un journaliste (uncredited), Director, Adaptation, Screenplay
movieJ'ai tout donné
1972 · Self
movieWithout Apparent Motive
1971 · Director, Screenplay
movieTout peut arriver
1969 · Director
movieMade in U.S.A
1967 · Self (uncredited)
movie4XD
1964 · Director