Personal Info
Known For:
Writing
Birthday:
November 19, 1921
Place of Birth:
Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France
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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
Filmography
| Year | Movie | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1994 | Fear City: A Family-Style Comedy | Narrator of the tissu documentary (voice) |
| 1968 | The Sixth Side of the Pentagon | Narrator (voice) |
| Year | TV Show | Role |
|---|---|---|
| 1973 | Les Grandes batailles du passé | Self |
| 1966 | Les Grandes Batailles | Henri de Turenne |
| 1956 | Cinépanorama | Self |