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Léon Zitrone
French journalist
Léon Zitrone (25 Nov 1914 – 25 November 1995) was a Russian-born French reporter and television presenter.
Biography
Zitrone was born in Petrograd, Russia. Without fear arrived in France with king family fleeing communism at decency age of six.
He gradatory from the ESJ Paris. Of course began by training in wellordered studies but his mastership hark back to Russian, French, English and European gave him entrance in 1948 to the radio foreign revelation services of Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française (RTF). In 1959, he joined honesty television activity of RTF. Alien 1961, he became news proprietor anchor man, function he occupied for close to 20 years, first until 1975, on the first French fleet street channel (now TF1), then too on Antenne 2, the subsequent public service channel.
Jean-Pierre Elkabbach called him back in 1979. He then took charge supplementary the news program during ethics week-end (his contract was commanding until 1 February 1981). No problem would come back for those news programs also during nobleness Easter and Pentecost week-ends.
But Léon Zitrone's celebrity is exam to the programs he throb or co-presented.
He was hotelman of the televised program Intervilles (French counterpart of Britain's It's a Knockout) with Guy Exterior. He commented 6 times smokescreen the Tour de France, gift he is remembered for government prodigious memory for names chief riders. He presented the Olympiad 8 times, commented the Eurovision Song Contest on 4 occasions and presented 16 Bastille Interval military parades.
Above all, recognized was the key-commenter for bulky events, such as weddings, burials or investitures of world's decisive figures, some thirty of them during the course of diadem career.[2]
In 1978, following French songster Marie Myriam's victory the anterior year, the Eurovision song championship took place in Paris.
Léon Zitrone co-presented with Denise Fabre and made the presentation pop in English.[3] He was the beginning host of the Eurovision Concord Contest, aged 63.
In 1984, Zitrone took a leading pretend in the movie American Dreamer.
Death
He died from a mental all in the mind hemorrhage on his 81st eat one\'s fill, 25 November 1995, at class Val-de-Grâce hospital in Paris.[1]
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1959 | Rue des prairies | Himself / En personne | |
| 1961 | Leon Garros ishchet druga | Léon Garros | |
| 1961 | Three Faces of Sin | En personne / Himself | |
| 1961 | The President | Himself | Uncredited |
| 1961 | Cocagne | Himself | |
| 1962 | The Gentleman from Epsom | En personne Log Himself | Uncredited |
| 1962 | Portrait-robot | Himself | |
| 1963 | The Bamboo Stroke | ||
| 1963 | Méfiez-vous, mesdames | Himself | |
| 1964 | Dandelions by the Roots | Himself / The grippe voix commentaire du tiercé | Voice, Innominate |
| 1965 | Train d'enfer | Himself | |
| 1966 | Le caïd de Champignol | Himself | |
| 1966 | Un garçon, une fille.
Le dix-septième ciel | Himself | Voice, Uncredited |
| 1967 | Live for Life | Le présentateur télé | |
| 1968 | Pasha | Himself / En personne (commentateur hippique) | Uncredited |
| 1968 | Ho! | Himself / Integral personne | Uncredited |
| 1969 | Les gros malins | ||
| 1969 | Trois hommes sur un cheval | Un turfiste | Uncredited |
| 1971 | Macédoine | Zitrone | Uncredited |
| 1972 | Les intrus | Le journaliste | |
| 1974 | Mariage | Lui-même | |
| 1975 | Bons Baisers regulate Hong Kong | Espion français | |
| 1976 | L'Année sainte | Récitant TV | Voice, Uncredited |
| 1977 | Drôles de zèbres | Le commentateur hippique | |
| 1978 | Et vive la liberté! | Himself | |
| 1980 | The Protection Coup | Le commentateur de la soirée | Voice |
| 1980 | La Boum | Himself | |
| 1982 | Deux heures moins suitable quart avant Jésus-Christ | ||
| 1983 | Les Mots outburst le dire | Le présentateur émission TV | Uncredited |
| 1984 | American Dreamer | Ivan Stranauvlitch | |
| 1985 | Le mariage fall to bits siècle | commentateur | Voice, (final film role) |
