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Léo Joannon
Léo Joannon (21 August 1904 – 28 March 1969) was a French writer and film director. Born in Aix-en-Provence, Joannon was originally a law student who became a novelist and journalist before entering the film industry in the 1920s as a cameraman.
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.
Joannon is best known to international audiences as the director of the comedy film Atoll K (1951), which was the final motion picture starring the legendary comedic double act Laurel and Hardy. Among his other better-known films were Le Defroqué (1954) and Fort du Fou (Outpost in Indochina) (1962).
Joannon died in Neuilly-sur-Seine.
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As director
Les Arnaud
Three Disordered Children
Outpost in Indo-china
Assassin in the Phonebook
The Desert of Pigalle
So Much Love Lost
L'Homme aux clés d'or
Sister Angele's Secret
The Unfrocked One
Drôle de noce
Robinson Crusoeland
Le 84 prend des vacances
Secret Documents
Children of Chaos
Lucrèce
The White Truck
Whims
The Emigrant
S.O.S. Mediterranean
De man zonder hart
Confessions of a Newlywed
Le Chanteur de minuit
L'Homme sans cœur
Les Conquêtes de César
Quand minuit sonnera
Train de plaisir
Mais n'te promène donc pas toute nue
Klokslag twaalf
What a Funny Kid!
Bibi-la-Purée
