Philippe Labro

Known for DirectingBorn 1936-08-27Died 2025-06-04Montauban, Tarn-et-Garonne, France

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. Source: Article "Philippe Labro" from Wikipedia in english, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.Read more

Movies & web series

4XD

Spécial cinéma

J'ai tout donné

Apostrophes

Coluche, une époque formidable

Françoise Dorléac, from The Man from Rio to The Young Girls of Rochefort

Belmondo, itinéraire...

Delon-Melville, la solitude de deux samouraïs

Winged Migration

La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président

Code Name: Melville

The Little Boy

Champs-Elysées

Hunter Will Get You

Johnny Hallyday: Beyond Rock

Françoise Dorléac, une promesse

The Inheritor

Tout peut arriver

30 millions d'amis

Made in U.S.A

Télématin

Without Apparent Motive

Sacrée soirée

Rive droite, rive gauche

Cat and Mouse

Cover Up

Jean-Pierre Melville and Army of Shadows

Chance and Violence

Foreign Student

Ambitions

Vivement dimanche

Les Troubles de la Circulation

Mon nom est Johnny

The Perfect Circle

Philippe R. Doumic - Sous son regard l'étincelle

Dieu, Diable & Rock'n'Roll

Marilyn Monroe: The Last Torments