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Henri de Turenne

Known For
Writing

Known Credits
5

Gender
Male

Birthday
November 19, 1921 (104 years old)

Place of Birth
Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France

Henri de Turenne

Biography

Henri de Turenne (19 November 1921 – 23 August 2016) is a French journalist and screenwriter. He was born in Tours. The son of Armand de Turenne, a World War I flying ace, he was raised in Germany and French Algeria, both countries becoming central creative themes in his adult work. After the Second World War, de Turenne worked as a journalist for Agence France-Presse, Le Figaro, France Soir, and ORTF, reporting from Allied-occupied Germany, covering the Korean War and the Algerian War, and, in 1952, winning the Prix Albert Londres. Since the mid-1960s, he worked primarily in television, notably on the French Grandes Batailles series for Pathé, making over a hundred documentaries. He won an Emmy in 1982 for a documentary on the Vietnam War. His fictional works include Les Alsaciens ou les deux Mathilde (1996), made for Arte, for which he shared a 7 d'Or with Michel Deutsch.

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Known For

Creator

2009Apocalypse: The Second World War...Creator
1996The Alsatians or the two Mathilde...Creator
1973Les Grandes batailles du passé...Creator

Writing

2009Apocalypse: The Second World War...Writer
2001L'Algérie des chimères...Writer
1984Fort Saganne...Screenplay
1977Le Loup blanc...Writer
1977Le Loup blanc...Writer
1969De l'internationale à la marseillaise...Writer

Directing

197036, le grand tournant...Director
1969De l'internationale à la marseillaise...Director

Acting

1994Fear City: A Family-Style Comedyas Narrator of the tissu documentary (voice)
1973Les Grandes batailles du passéas Self
1968The Sixth Side of the Pentagonas Narrator (voice)
1966Les Grandes Bataillesas Henri de Turenne
1956Cinépanoramaas Self