Pierre Sabbagh

Biography

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…

Directed

1. Le noir te va si bien (1975) — Director
2. La facture (1976) — Director
3. La Brune que voilà (1970) — Director
4. Le don d'Adèle (1972) — Director
5. La Perruche et le Poulet (1969) — Director
6. Hold Up (1980) — Director
7. At Theatre Tonight (1966) — Director
8. Le Système Ribadier (1975) — Director
9. Attends-moi pour commencer (1977) — Director
10. Pour avoir Adrienne (1967) — Director
11. La Toile d'araignée (1969) — Director
12. Folie douce (1973) — Director
13. L'École des contribuables (1972) — Director
14. Les Dix Petits Nègres (1970) — Director
15. Échec et meurtre (1971) — Director
16. Chat en poche (1975) — Director
17. Frédéric (1970) — Director
18. Le Dindon (1969) — Director
19. An Ideal Husband (1972) — Director
20. Un dîner intime (1983) — Director
21. Le Pirate (1976) — Director
22. L'Amant de Bornéo (1981) — Director
23. La Pèlerine écossaise (1972) — Director
24. Ferraille et chiffons (1972) — Director
25. Fric-Frac (1971) — Director
26. Noix de coco (1972) — Director
27. Je l'aimais trop (1983) — Director
28. J'y suis, j'y reste (1966) — Director
29. Le Mari, la femme et la mort (1970) — Director
30. Bon appétit monsieur (1967) — Director
31. Comédie pour un meurtre (1981) — Director
32. L'Azalée (1981) — Director
33. Nono (1984) — Director
34. Huit femmes (1972) — Director
35. Un ange passe (1970) — Director
36. Ah ! La Police de papa (1975) — Director
37. Les deux timides (1978) — Director
38. Nina (1979) — Director
39. Peau de vache (1980) — Director
40. Pétrus (1974) — Director

Also appeared in

1. Volpone (1941) — Un vénitien
2. Champs-Elysées (1982) — Self
3. La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président (2022) — Self (archive footage)
4. Sacrée soirée (1987) — Self
5. En direct de... (1956) — self