Pierre Sabbagh

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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Il y a longtemps que je t'aime
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Le Mari, la femme et la mort
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Bon appétit monsieur
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Dix petits nègres
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Échec et meurtre
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Chat en poche
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Ce que femme veut
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Frédéric
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Le don d'Adèle
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La Perruche et le Poulet
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Comédie pour un meurtre
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S.O.S. homme seul
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L'Azalée
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Nono
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Ah ! La Police de papa
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Huit femmes
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Le Dindon
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La Plume
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Le Cœur sous le paillasson
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Un ange passe
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Pour Karine
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La Tête des autres
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Le noir te va si bien
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Allô Hélène
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L'Amour des 4 colonels
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Vacances pour Jessica
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Un Parfum De Miel
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Le Faiseur
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Appelez-moi maître
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Am Stram Gram
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Auguste
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La Manière forte
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La Femme de paille
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La Mamma
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La Cruche
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La Pomme
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Les deux timides
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Les Œufs de l'autruche
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Nina
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Peau de vache
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Pétrus
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An Ideal Husband
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Un dîner intime
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Chacun pour moi
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Je veux voir Mioussov
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L'Or et la paille
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La Fessée
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Les coucous
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Les Filles
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Le deuxième coup de feu
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L'École des cocottes
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Trésor party
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Le minotaure
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Le Système Ribadier
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La vie est trop courte
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Les Assassins associés
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La Route des Indes
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La Voyante
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Le Coin tranquille
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Le Pirate
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Chérie Noire
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Feu la mère de madame
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Detective Story
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L'Amant de Bornéo
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La Pèlerine écossaise
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Les Deux Vierges
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Attends-moi pour commencer
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Pour avoir Adrienne
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Doris
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Et ta sœur ?
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La Toile d'araignée
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Ferraille et chiffons
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Fric-Frac
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Hold Up
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Folie douce
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Interdit au public
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Jean de la lune
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Georges Courteline au travail & Boubouroche
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Le Traité d'Auteuil
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Noix de coco
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La Bagatelle
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Je l'aimais trop
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Un fil à la patte
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Il est important d'être aimé
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Constance
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Cash-Cash
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Domino
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Azaïs
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Les Dix Petits Nègres
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J'y suis, j'y reste
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L'École des contribuables
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Mademoiselle
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Monsieur le Trouhadec saisi par la débauche
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Ami-Ami
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Herminie
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Les portes claquent
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La Coquine
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Dom Juan
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Miam-miam ou le Dîner d'affaires
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Acapulco Madame
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Docteur Glass
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Folle Amanda
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La Main passe
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Beaufils et fils
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Le Bourgeois gentilhomme
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La Maîtresse de bridge
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La facture
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Une sacrée famille
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Silence on aime
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Les petits oiseaux
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Monsieur chasse
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Une femme presque fidèle
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Histoire de rire
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La Brune que voilà
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La chambre mandarine
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