Henri Langlois

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Henri Langlois was a pioneering French film archivist and co-founder of the Cinémathèque Française, renowned for his crucial role in preserving world cinema and inspiring the French New Wave.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf French person
cinema historian
film archivist
human
awardReceived Academy Honorary Award NERFINISHED
Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres NERFINISHED
Légion d'honneur
surface form: Legion of Honour

Venezia Classica award for film preservation (posthumous recognition via institutions) NERFINISHED
burialPlace Montparnasse Cemetery NERFINISHED
causeOfDeath cardiac arrest
coFounded Cinémathèque Française NERFINISHED
countryOfCitizenship France
countryOfDeath France
dateOfBirth 1914-11-13
dateOfDeath 1977-01-13
employer Cinémathèque Française NERFINISHED
familyName Langlois NERFINISHED
fieldOfWork archival science
film history
film preservation
founded Cinémathèque Française NERFINISHED
gender male
givenName Henri NERFINISHED
hasPartIn Langlois Affair NERFINISHED
heritage French
influenced Claude Chabrol NERFINISHED
François Truffaut NERFINISHED
French New Wave directors NERFINISHED
Jean-Luc Godard NERFINISHED
Éric Rohmer NERFINISHED
knownFor co-founding the Cinémathèque Française
influencing the French New Wave
pioneering film preservation
languageSpoken French
memberOf Cinémathèque Française NERFINISHED
movement French New Wave (as an influence) NERFINISHED
name Henri Langlois NERFINISHED
notableEvent Langlois Affair NERFINISHED
notableWork development of the Cinémathèque Française film collection
occupation curator
film archivist
film historian
placeOfBirth Izmir NERFINISHED
Ottoman Empire NERFINISHED
Smyrna NERFINISHED
placeOfDeath Paris
positionHeld director of the Cinémathèque Française
religion Roman Catholicism
workLocation France
Paris

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Montparnasse Cemetery, Paris (grave later lost) burialPlaceOf Henri Langlois
subject surface form: Montparnasse Cemetery
Richard Roud wroteAbout Henri Langlois