Known For
Directing
Born
Aug 27, 1936
Died
Jun 04, 2025
Place of Birth
Montauban, Tarn-et-Garonne, France
Credits
37 titles
Philippe Labro
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. Source: Article "Philippe Labro" from Wikipedia in english, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Known For
Filmography
Les Troubles de la Circulation
Self
Delon-Melville, la solitude de deux samouraïs
Self
Johnny Hallyday: Beyond Rock
Self
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
Self (archive footage)
Françoise Dorléac, from The Man from Rio to The Young Girls of Rochefort
self
Mon nom est Johnny
Self
Coluche, une époque formidable
Self
The Perfect Circle
Philippe R. Doumic - Sous son regard l'étincelle
Self
Françoise Dorléac, une promesse
Self
Dieu, Diable & Rock'n'Roll
Marilyn Monroe: The Last Torments
self
Belmondo, itinéraire...
Self
Code Name: Melville
Self
Jean-Pierre Melville and Army of Shadows
Self
Winged Migration
Narrator (voice, English version)
Vivement dimanche
Self
The Little Boy
Novel
Foreign Student
Novel
Sacrée soirée
Self
Ambitions
Self
Télématin
Self
Rive droite, rive gauche
Director
Cover Up
Director
Champs-Elysées
Self
Hunter Will Get You
Director
30 millions d'amis
Self
Cat and Mouse
Philippe Lacombe
Apostrophes
Self
Spécial cinéma
Self
Chance and Violence
Writer
The Inheritor
Un journaliste (uncredited)
J'ai tout donné
Self
Without Apparent Motive
Director
Tout peut arriver
Director
Made in U.S.A
Self (uncredited)
4XD
Director