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Georges Cravenne (24 January 1914 – 10 January 2009), real name Joseph-Raoul Cohen, was a French film producer, publicity agent and founder of the
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Georges Cravenne (24 January 1914 – 10 January 2009), real name Joseph-Raoul Cohen, was a French film producer, publicity agent and founder of the César Award Cesar, César or Cèsar may refer to:
Arts, entertainment, and media
* ''César'' (film), a 1936 film directed by Marcel Pagnol
* ''César'' (play), a play by Marcel Pagnolt
* César Award, a French film award
Places
* Cesar, Portugal
* Ces ...
. He received an Honorary César
The César Award is France's national film award. Recipients are selected by the members of the Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma. The following are the recipients of the Honorary César award since 1976.
Recipients
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1980s
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in 2000.
Marriages
He married French actressFrançoise Arnoul
Françoise Arnoul (born Françoise Annette Marie Mathilde Gautsch; 3 June 1931 – 20 July 2021) was a French actress, who achieved popularity during the 1950s.
Early life
Born in Constantine, French Algeria, as the daughter of stage a ...
in 1956. They divorced in 1964.
On 18 October 1973, his second wife Danielle Cravenne was shot dead by a police sniper
A sniper is a military/paramilitary marksman who engages targets from positions of concealment or at distances exceeding the target's detection capabilities. Snipers generally have specialized training and are equipped with high-precision r ...
at Marignane airport in Marseille. Danielle, who was mentally unstable, had tried to to protest against the release of the film ''The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
''The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob'' (french: Les Aventures de Rabbi Jacob, ) is a 1973 French-Italian comedy film directed by Gérard Oury, starring Louis de Funès and Claude Giraud. It follows a bigoted businessman and a kidnapped revolutioni ...
'' which was being promoted by Cravenne and which she considered "anti-Palestinian", especially in the midst of the Yom Kippur War
The Yom Kippur War, also known as the Ramadan War, the October War, the 1973 Arab–Israeli War, or the Fourth Arab–Israeli War, was an armed conflict fought from October 6 to 25, 1973 between Israel and a coalition of Arab states led by E ...
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* French film producers Jewish film people Grand Officers of the Legion of Honour Commanders of the Ordre national du Mérite César Honorary Award recipients 20th-century French Jews 1914 births 2009 deaths {{France-film-bio-stub