- Léo Joannon
Léo Joannon (
August 21 ,1904 -March 28 ,1969 ) was a Frenchwriter andfilm director . Born inAix-en-Provence , [ [http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/participant/participant.jsp?spid=95320&apid=0 Turner Classic Movies profile] ] Joannon was originally alaw student who became anovelist andjournalist before entering the film industry in the 1920s as a cameraman. [http://movies.nytimes.com/person/96102/Leo-Joannon New York Times/All Movie Guide profile] ]Joannon first attracted international attention in early 1939 during the production of "S.O.S. Mediterranean," when his attempts to include shots of a German naval ship docked in the port of
Tangier created a diplomatic incident between the pre-World War II French and German governments. The film later won the Grand Prix du Cinema Français. [ [http://select.nytimes.com/mem/archive/pdf?res=F20A1EFD385A177A93C3AA1789D95F4D8385F9 New York Times review, December 31, 1939 (fee required for access)] ]Joannon is best known to international audiences as the director of the 1951
comedy film "Atoll K ", which was the final motion picture starringStan Laurel andOliver Hardy . Among his other films were "Le Defroque" (1954) and "Outpost in Indochina" (1969).References
External link
* [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0423329/ Léo Joannon in the Internet Movie Database]
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