Léo Joannon
Biography
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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Acting (8 movies)
Directing (37 movies)
De man zonder hart
1937
Utopia
1951
Assassin in the Phonebook
1962
Les Arnaud
1967
Three Disordered Children
1966
L'Homme aux clés d'or
1956
Children of Chaos
1944
The Unfrocked One
1954
Les Conquêtes de César
1936
What a Funny Kid!
1935
Lucrèce
1943
Whims
1942
Quand minuit sonnera
1936
We Found a Naked Woman
1934
Outpost in Indo-china
1963
Confessions of a Newlywed
1937
The Desert of Pigalle
1958
Le Chanteur de minuit
1937
S.O.S. Mediterranean
1938
The Emigrant
1940
L'Homme sans cœur
1937
Train de plaisir
1936
Farewell, friends
1931
600,000 francs per month
1933
Bibi-la-Purée
1935
Suzanne
1932
Durand versus Durand
1931
On the voice of happiness
1931
He has lost a bride
1932
Secret Documents
1945
Sister Angele's Secret
1956
The White Truck
1943
So Much Love Lost
1958
Le 84 prend des vacances
1950
Drôle de noce
1952
Mais n'te promène donc pas toute nue
1936
Klokslag twaalf
1936
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Fünf bange Tage | 1928 | Screenplay |
| The Emigrant | 1940 | Screenplay |
| Whims | 1942 | Screenplay |
| The Seven Deadly Sins | 1952 | Screenplay |
| Drôle de noce | 1952 | Producer |
| Drôle de noce | 1952 | Writer |
| The Unfrocked One | 1954 | Screenplay |
| The Rebels of Lomanach | 1954 | Writer |
| Casta diva | 1954 | Screenplay |
| Sister Angele's Secret | 1956 | Writer |
| L'Homme aux clés d'or | 1956 | Writer |
| Lovers of Paris | 1957 | Writer |
| So Much Love Lost | 1958 | Writer |
| Amazons of Rome | 1961 | Screenplay |
| Three Disordered Children | 1966 | Screenplay |
| Les Arnaud | 1967 | Screenplay |