French film producer
French journalist who was instrumental in establishing the Csars and thus is usually known as the "father" of the "French Oscar."
On October 18, 1973, his second wife Danielle Cravenne, a manic-depressive, tried to hijack a Boeing 727 with false weapons at the airport of Marignane in what she claimed was a protest against the release of Les aventures de Rabbi Jacob , a film produced by her husband and which she considered "anti-Palestinian". Fatally injured by French security forces, she died shortly afterward in an ambulance.
In 1937, member of the jury of the first "Prix Louis Delluc".
Brother of Marcel Cravenne.
Father of a daughter by his wife Danielle, Julie, born on 24-3-1969.
