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Personal Info

Gender

Male

Birthday

1918-07-18 (106 years old)

Place of Birth

Lannion, Côtes-du-Nord, France

Pierre Sabbagh

Biography:

Pierre Sabbagh (18 July 1918 – 30 September 1994) was a major personality in French television, as a journalist, producer and director.

Pierre Alain Sabbagh was born in Lannion (Côtes-d'Armor) and died in Paris. He was the younger son of the artist Georges Hanna Sabbagh and the art historian and resistance heroine Agnès Humbert. His brother was naval officer Jean Sabbagh.

Pierre Sabbagh became a war correspondent in the hope of finding his mother Agnès in World War II. He had visited her in Fresnes Prison and the Prison de la Santé in 1942, a few days before she was deported by the Nazis, sentenced to slave labour in Germany. In 1944, he travelled into Germany behind the advancing American army, but did not find her until he returned to Paris in 1945.

Pierre Sabbagh presented and directed the first television news in the world on 29 June 1949.

His greatest success was the creation, in 1966, of the programme "Au théâtre ce soir" ("The Theatre Tonight") following a strike on French television and the success of a Belgian television comedy called "La Bonne planque", which provoked the appetite of the public for this kind of programme: over 300 plays were produced in the series. To his credit also is the first audiovisual game which reunited France of the 1960s in front of the black-and-white screen: "L'Homme du XXe siècle" ("20th Century Man"), a game of general cultural questions which went on for many years and which finished with the final "Super homme du XXe siècle" ("20th Century Superman") which brought together all the previous winners of whom the comedian, Robert Manuel, beat a professor of complementary medicine, Georges Rivault.

He was Director-General of the television network France 2 between September 1971 and July 1972.

His wife was the French television presenter and actress Catherine Langeais.

Source: Article "Pierre Sabbagh" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Known For

Acting

2022

1987

1982

1956

1941

Volpone as Un vénitien

Production

1983

Je l'aimais trop as Producer

1981

L'Amant de Bornéo as Producer

1980

Peau de vache as Producer
Hold Up as Producer

1979

Nina as Producer

1978

Les deux timides as Producer
Acapulco Madame as Producer

1976

La Femme de paille as Producer

1975

1974

L'Or et la paille as Producer
Folle Amanda as Producer

1973

1972

An Ideal Husband as Producer
La voyante as Producer
Le don d'Adèle as Producer
Noix de coco as Producer

1971

Fric-Frac as Producer

1970

La Manière forte as Producer

1969

Le minotaure as Producer

1968

1967

1966

Interdit au public as Producer

Directing

1985

La Pomme as Director
Chacun pour moi as Director
Dom Juan as Director

1984

Nono as Director
Un Parfum De Miel as Director

1983

Allô Hélène as Director
Un dîner intime as Director
Et ta sœur ? as Director
Je l'aimais trop as Director

1982

Jean de la lune as Director
Histoire de rire as Director

1981

Ce que femme veut as Director
L'Azalée as Director
La Cruche as Director
L'Amant de Bornéo as Director
Silence on aime as Director

1980

Peau de vache as Director
La Route des Indes as Director
Hold Up as Director
Beaufils et fils as Director

1979

Nina as Director

1978

La Plume as Director
Les deux timides as Director
La fessée as Director
Les coucous as Director
Les Deux Vierges as Director
Acapulco Madame as Director
Monsieur chasse as Director

1977

Le Faiseur as Director
Les Filles as Director
Le Coin tranquille as Director
La bagatelle as Director
Les petits oiseaux as Director

1976

Am Stram Gram as Director
La Femme de paille as Director
Le Pirate as Director
La facture as Director

1975

Chat en poche as Director
Trésor party as Director

1974

Pétrus as Director

1973

Folie douce as Director

1972

Le don d'Adèle as Director
Huit femmes as Director
An Ideal Husband as Director
La voyante as Director
Detective Story as Director
Noix de coco as Director
La Main passe as Director

1971

Échec et meurtre as Director
S.O.S. homme seul as Director
Pour Karine as Director
Fric-Frac as Director
Cash-Cash as Director
Herminie as Director

1970

Dix petits nègres as Director
Frédéric as Director
Un ange passe as Director
La Manière forte as Director
Doris as Director
Un fil à la patte as Director

1969

Le minotaure as Director
Constance as Director

1968

Le Dindon as Director
Azaïs as Director
Mademoiselle as Director
La Coquine as Director

1967

Auguste as Director
Domino as Director
Ami-Ami as Director
Docteur Glass as Director

1966

La Mamma as Director
Chérie Noire as Director
At Theatre Tonight as Director

Art

1977

L'École des cocottes as Production Design

1976

Am Stram Gram as Production Design

1970

Un fil à la patte as Art Direction

Creator

1966