Philippe Labro (born 27 August 1936) is a French author, journalist and film director. He has worked for RTL, Paris Match, TF1 and Antenne 2. He is a laureate of the Prix Interallié, a French literary distinction founded in 1930, which was awarded for «L'Étudiant étranger» in 1986. At the age of eighteen, he left France to study at Washington and Lee University in Virginia. He then travelled across the United States. On his return to Europe, he became a reporter. From 1960 to 1962, during the Algerian war, Labro was a member of the military. He then returned to his journalistic activities. While covering the assassination of John F. Kennedy for French newspaper France-Soir, he met Jack Ruby in Dallas days before he shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald; he was thus subsequently officially auditioned by the Warren Commission. He has written and directed many films and was a close friend of Jean-Pierre Melville, as he recalls in the 2008 documentary Code Name Melville. From 1985 to 2000, he was director of programmes at RTL becoming the vice president of the station in 1992. In April 2010, he became Commander of the Légion d'honneur. Source: Article "Philippe Labro" from Wikipedia in english, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Filmography

• 2020The Perfect Circle
• 2017Dieu, Diable & Rock'n'Roll
• 2001Winged Migration — Narrator (voice, English version)
• 1995The Little Boy — Novel
• 1994Foreign Student — Novel
• 1984Rive droite, rive gauche — Director, Writer
• 1983Cover Up — Director, Writer
• 1976Hunter Will Get You — Director, Screenplay
• 1975Cat and Mouse — Philippe Lacombe
• 1974Chance and Violence — Writer, Director
• 1973The Inheritor — Un journaliste (uncredited), Director, Adaptation, Screenplay
• 1971Without Apparent Motive — Director, Screenplay
• 1969Tout peut arriver — Director
• 19644XD — Director

Appearances as themselves (23)

• 2025Les Troubles de la Circulation — Self
• 2024Delon-Melville, la solitude de deux samouraïs — Self
• Johnny Hallyday: Beyond Rock — Self
• 2022La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président — Self (archive footage)
• 2021Coluche, une époque formidable — Self
• 2021Françoise Dorléac, from The Man from Rio to The Young Girls of Rochefort — self
• 2021Mon nom est Johnny — Self
• 2019Philippe R. Doumic - Sous son regard l'étincelle — Self
• 2018Françoise Dorléac, une promesse — Self
• 2011Belmondo, itinéraire... — Self
• 2011Marilyn Monroe: The Last Torments — self
• 2010Code Name: Melville — Self
• 2002Jean-Pierre Melville and Army of Shadows — Self
• Vivement dimanche — Self
• Sacrée soirée — Self, Self (Duplex)
• Ambitions — Self
• Télématin — Self
• Champs-Elysées — Self
• 30 millions d'amis — Self
• Apostrophes — Self
• Spécial cinéma — Self
• 1972J'ai tout donné — Self
• 1967Made in U.S.A — Self (uncredited)