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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. He was married to the Vietnamese actress Foun-Sen.
Writer. Actor. IMDbPro Starmeter See rank. Léo Joannon was born on 21 August 1904 in Aix-en-Provence, Bouches-du-Rhône, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France. He was a director and writer, known for Le défroqué (1954), Le camion blanc (1943) and S.O.S. Mediterranean (1938). He was married to Foun-Sen.
- Director, Writer, Actor
- August 21, 1904
- Léo Joannon
- March 28, 1969
Léo Joannon est un réalisateur, scénariste et producteur français, né le 21 août 1904 à Aix-en-Provence et mort le 28 mars 1969 à Neuilly-sur-Seine. Il a réalisé, depuis le début du parlant jusqu'à la fin des années 1960, plus d'une trentaine de films.
French director Leo Joannon made numerous competently made mainstream films during the '30s, '40s and '50s. Before breaking into films during the mid '20s as a cameraman, Joannon studied law and was a writer of short stories, novels, and articles about films.
Les Arnaud: Directed by Léo Joannon. With Bourvil, Salvatore Adamo, Christine Delaroche, Gérard Croce.
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- Crime, Drama, Thriller
- Léo Joannon
- 1967-10-13
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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).
Le défroqué: Directed by Léo Joannon. With Pierre Fresnay, Pierre Trabaud, Nicole Stéphane, Marcelle Géniat. In a prison camp, Gérard Lacassagne meets Maurice Morand, a mysterious, anticlerical officer. Lacassagne, who aspires to enter religion, discovers that Morand himself was a priest.
