Philippe Labro

Philippe Labro (born 27 August 1936) is a French author, journalist and film director. He has worked for RTL, Paris Match, TF1 and Antenne 2. He received the Prix Interallié for his autobiography L'Étudiant étranger in 1986.

At the age of eighteen, he left France to study at Washington and Lee University in Virginia. He then travelled across the United States. On his return to Europe, he became a reporter. From 1960 to 1962, during the Algerian war, Labro was a member of the military. He then returned to his journalistic activities. While covering the assassination of John F. Kennedy for French newspaper France-Soir, he met Jack Ruby in Dallas days before he shot and killed Lee Harvey Oswald; he was thus subsequently officially interviewed by the Warren Commission. He has written and directed many films and was a close friend of Jean-Pierre Melville, as he recalls in the 2008 documentary Code Name Melville. From 1985 to 2000, he was director of programmes at RTL becoming the vice president of the station in 1992.

In April 2010, he became Commander of the Légion d'honneur.

Selected filmography

 * Sans mobile apparent (Without Apparent Motive) - with Jean-Louis Trintignant (1971)
 * L'Héritier - with Jean-Paul Belmondo (1973)
 * Le hasard et la violence (Chance and Violence) - with Yves Montand and Katharine Ross (1974)
 * L'Alpagueur (The Hunter Will Get You) - with Jean-Paul Belmondo (1976)
 *  (Cover Up) - with Claude Brasseur, Jean-Louis Trintignant and Jean-Claude Brialy (1983)
 * Rive droite, rive gauche - with Gérard Depardieu, Nathalie Baye and Carole Bouquet (1984)