Pierre Sabbagh
Directing
Born 1918-07-18
Died 1994-09-30
Lannion, Côtes-du-Nord, France
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Pierre Sabbagh (18 July 1918 – 30 September 1994) was a major personality in French television, as a journalist, producer and director.
Pierre Alain Sabbagh was born in Lannion (Côtes-d'Armor) and died in Paris. He was the younger son of the artist Georges Hanna Sabbagh and the art historian and resistance heroine Agnès Humbert. His brother was naval officer Jean Sabbagh.
Pierre Sabbagh became a war correspondent in the hope of finding his mother Agnès in World War II. He had visited her in Fresnes Prison and the Prison de la Santé in 1942, a few days before she was deported by the Nazis, sentenced to slave labour in Germany. In 1944, he travelled into Germany behind the advancing American army, but did not find her until he returned to Paris in 1945.
Pierre Sabbagh presented and directed the first television news in the world on 29 June 1949.
His greatest success was the creation, in 1966, of the programme "Au théâtre ce soir" ("The Theatre Tonight") following a strike on French television and the success of a Belgian television comedy called "La Bonne planque", which provoked the appetite of the public for this kind of programme: over 300 plays were produced in the series. To his credit also is the first audiovisual game which reunited France of the 1960s in front of the black-and-white screen: "L'Homme du XXe siècle" ("20th Century Man"), a game of general cultural questions which went on for many years and which finished with the final "Super homme du XXe siècle" ("20th Century Superman") which brought together all the previous winners of whom the comedian, Robert Manuel, beat a professor of complementary medicine, Georges Rivault.
He was Director-General of the television network France 2 between September 1971 and July 1972.
His wife was the French television presenter and actress Catherine Langeais.
Source: Article "Pierre Sabbagh" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
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Directing
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At Theatre Tonight
Les coucous
La Plume
Trésor party
La Pomme
L'Azalée
Chérie Noire
An Ideal Husband
La Main passe
Les Filles
Ce que femme veut
Folie douce
La Mamma
Le Pirate
Allô Hélène
L'École des cocottes
La Cruche
Le Cœur sous le paillasson
Un ange passe
Domino
La Voyante
Monsieur chasse
Dom Juan
Fric-Frac
Pétrus
Constance
La facture
Le deuxième coup de feu
Cash-Cash
La Fessée
Appelez-moi maître
La vie est trop courte
Herminie
Pour Karine
Le don d'Adèle
Doris
Docteur Glass
La Femme de paille
Les Dix Petits Nègres
Le Dindon
Monsieur le Trouhadec saisi par la débauche
Chacun pour moi
La Bagatelle
Nono
Les deux timides
Azaïs
La Toile d'araignée
Les portes claquent
Le Bourgeois gentilhomme
Vacances pour Jessica
Pour avoir Adrienne
Georges Courteline au travail & Boubouroche
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An Ideal Husband
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Fric-Frac
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Le don d'Adèle
La Femme de paille
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Il y a longtemps que je t'aime
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