Claude-Jean Philippe
Claude Nahon (20 April 1933 – 11 September 2016), better known as Claude-Jean Philippe, was a French film critic, essayist, diarist, director, and producer who made numerous documentaries. He was also active on the radio and occasionally worked as a screenwriter and actor.
Claude-Jean Philippe
- Birth Name
- Claude Nahon
- Born
- 20 April 1933
- Birthplace
- Tangier
- Died
- 11 September 2016
- Occupation
- Critic, director, producer
- Full name
- Claude Lucien Nahon.
- Nationality
- France
- Education
- Institut des hautes études cinématographiques · Lycée Voltaire
- Honours
- Commandeur des Arts et des Lettres
- Languages
- French
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Claude-Jean Philippe (20 April 1933 – 11 September 2016) is described as a television journalist and “Filmwissenschaftler” in the authority records of the Bibliothèque nationale de France and the Deutsche Nationalbibliothek.
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Claude-Jean Philippe was born on 20 April 1933 and died on 11 September 2016.
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Bibliothèque nationale de France · Deutsche Nationalbibliothek
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• Birth Name — Claude Nahon • Born — 20 April 1933 • Birthplace — Tangier • Died — 11 September 2016 • Occupation — Critic, director, producer
Actor
Actor
• 1972: L'Amour l'après-midi • 1980: Le Rôle effacé de Marie • 1991: Sale comme un ange • 2002: Inconnu à cette adresse • 2004: Ne quittez pas!
Director
Director
• 1966: Et pourtant ils tournent (documentary, in the Cinéastes de notre temps series) • 1973: Les Gens de Belleville, légende de Belleville (documentary, in the L'Album de famille des Français series) • 1978: Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma (six-episode documentary): • Max Linder • Le cinéma en son temps: Les années dix ou le temps de l'hécatombe • Le cinéma forain • Méliès ou le génie de la surprise • Lumière ou le cinématographe • 1994: Léo Ferré par lui-même (montage)
Producer
Producer
• 1970: Postface Dalio • 1978: Encyclopédie audiovisuelle du cinéma
Identity
Identity
Claude-Jean Philippe is recorded at birth as Claude Lucien Nahon. Recorded as having studied at Institut des hautes études cinématographiques and Lycée Voltaire. Identity and origins. He also worked under the name Claude-Jean Philippe. His recorded language was French.
Life and career
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Life and career
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1933
Claude-Jean Philippe born at Tangier.
2016
Claude-Jean Philippe died at 15th arrondissement of Paris.
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Tangier.
Birth place
15th arrondissement of Paris.
Death place
Publications
Publications
• 1984: Le Roman du cinéma, Fayard • 1985: Métropolis: images d'un tournage, Cinémathèque française • 1985: Simone Signoret, Hachette • 1984: Le Roman du cinéma. Tome 2, Fayard • 1986: Une nuit chez les Marx, Dargaud • 1986: Studio Harcourt: acteurs, Seghers • 1987: Le Roman de Charlot, Fayard • 1987: Cannes, le festival, Nathan • 1988: François Truffaut, Seghers • 1989: Jean Cocteau, Seghers • 1990: Le Journal d'un cinéphile, Éd. Filipacchi • 1994: La Douce Gravité du désir: roman, Presses de la Cité • 1996: La Nuit bienfaisante, Éditions du Rocher • 2006: Jean Renoir, une vie en œuvres, Grasset • 2008: 100 films pour une cinémathèque idéale, Cahiers du cinéma
Screenwriter
Screenwriter
• 1960: Actua-Tilt (commentary) • 1964: Les Baisers • 1970: La Brigade des maléfices • 1974: Une légende, une vie: Citizen Welles
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- 1.« Claude-Jean Philippe est mort », on lefigaro.fr, 11 septembre 2016
- 2.Carole Desbarats, « Claude-Jean Philippe, l'avocat du cinéma », émission À voix nue on France Culture, 22 October 2012.
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