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Philippe Cousteau

Philippe Cousteau

Director · Born 1940-12-30 · Toulon, Var, France

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Biography

Philippe Pierre Cousteau (30 December 1940 – 28 June 1979) was a French diver, sailor, pilot, photographer, author, director and cinematographer specializing in environmental issues, with a background in oceanography. He was the second son of Jacques Cousteau and Simone Melchior. Cousteau was proficient filming from the air, on land and underwater. He was the lead cinematographer for most of the Cousteau films during his lifetime; he was nominated for and won several awards. Born in Toulon, Philippe Cousteau first dived with an aqua-lung in 1945 when he was 4 years old. His father brought home a miniature version of the aqua-lung he had co-invented a few years before. Though Philippe had not yet learned to swim, he followed his father into the water. Growing up, he spent each school vacation aboard his father's ship, RV Calypso. As a teenager, he began to feel the drive to explore. While his father had pursued the horizon on the sea, Philippe Cousteau dreamed of pursuing horizons in the sky and began to study aerodynamics at the age of 16, flying first as a glider pilot, and then earning his airplane pilot license at a young age. Cousteau spent two years in the French Navy duri…

Directed

  1. Voyage to the Edge of the World (1976) — Director
  2. The Cousteau Collection N°8-1 | In Search of Atlantis (Part 1) (1978) — Director
  3. The Cousteau Collection N°1-2 | Sleeper Sharks of the Yucatan (1975) — Director
  4. Cousteau: A Voyage to the End of the World (1976) — Director

Also appeared in

  1. Becoming Cousteau (2021) — Self (archive footage)
  2. The Dick Cavett Show (1968) — Self - Guest
  3. Voyage to the Edge of the World (1976) — Self
  4. The Cousteau Collection N°3-1 | Desert Whales (1969) — Self
  5. The Cousteau Collection N°2-1 | The Song of the Dolphins (1972) — Self
  6. Midi Première (1975) — Self
  7. The Cousteau Collection N°8-2 | In Search of Atlantis (Part 2) (1978) — Self
  8. The Cousteau Collection N°7-2 | The Night of the Squid (1969) — Self
  9. The Cousteau Collection N°9-2 | Morse's Smile (1973) — Self
  10. The Cousteau Collection N°7-1 | Octopus, Little Octopus (1972) — Self
  11. The Cousteau Collection N°5-1 | Life Under an Ocean of Ice (1974) — Self
  12. The Cousteau Collection N°12-1 | The Dragons of the Galapagos (1971) — Self
  13. The Cousteau Collection N°4-2 | The Flight of the Penguin (1974) — Self
  14. The Cousteau Collection N°6-1 | Hippo, Hippo (1973) — Self
  15. The Cousteau Odyssey: The Nile Part 1 (1979) — Self
  16. The Cousteau Collection N°8-1 | In Search of Atlantis (Part 1) (1978) — Self
  17. The Cousteau Odyssey: The Nile Part 2 (1979) — Self
  18. En direct de... (1956) — self