Pierre Sabbagh

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 his credit also is the first audiovisual game which reunited France of the 1960s in front of the black-and-white screen: "L'Homme du XXe siècle" ("20th Century Man"), a game of general cultural questions which went on for many years and which finished with the final "Super homme du XXe siècle" ("20th Century Superman") which brought together all the previous winners of whom the comedian, Robert Manuel, beat a professor of complementary medicine, Georges Rivault.

He was Director-General of the television network France 2 between September 1971 and July 1972.

His wife was the French television presenter and actress Catherine Langeais.

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Le noir te va si bien

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La Perruche et le Poulet

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Attends-moi pour commencer

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La Toile d'araignée

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La facture

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La Brune que voilà

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Chat en poche

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Échec et meurtre

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Le don d'Adèle

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Le Système Ribadier

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Le Pirate

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Pour avoir Adrienne

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Fric-Frac

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Folie douce

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Hold Up

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L'École des contribuables

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At Theatre Tonight

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Bon appétit monsieur

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Dix petits nègres

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Frédéric

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Comédie pour un meurtre

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L'Azalée

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Nono

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Le Dindon

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Les deux timides

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An Ideal Husband

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L'Amant de Bornéo

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La Pèlerine écossaise

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Ferraille et chiffons

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Noix de coco

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Un fil à la patte

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Je l'aimais trop

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Azaïs

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J'y suis, j'y reste

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Monsieur le Trouhadec saisi par la débauche

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Les portes claquent

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Herminie

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La Coquine

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La Main passe

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Le Mari, la femme et la mort

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Ce que femme veut

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S.O.S. homme seul

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Huit femmes

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La Plume

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Un ange passe

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Le Cœur sous le paillasson

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Pour Karine

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Allô Hélène

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L'Amour des 4 colonels

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Un Parfum De Miel

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Le Faiseur

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Vacances pour Jessica

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Appelez-moi maître

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Am Stram Gram

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Ah! La police de Papa

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Auguste

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La Cruche

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La Femme de paille

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La Mamma

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La Pomme

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La Manière forte

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Les oeufs de l'autruche

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Peau de vache

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Nina

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Pétrus

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Un dîner intime

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Chacun pour moi

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Je veux voir Mioussov

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La fessée

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Les coucous

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L'École des cocottes

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Les Filles

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Trésor party

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Le deuxième coup de feu

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Le minotaure

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La vie est trop courte

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La Route des Indes

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Les assassins associés

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La voyante

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Chérie Noire

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Detective Story

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Le Coin tranquille

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Feu la mère de madame

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Les Deux Vierges

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Doris

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Et ta sœur ?

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Jean de la lune

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Georges Courteline au travail & Boubouroche

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Le Traité d'Auteuil

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La bagatelle

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Il est important d'être aimé

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Constance

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Cash-Cash

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Domino

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Les Dix Petits Nègres

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Mademoiselle

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Ami-Ami

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Dom Juan

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Miam-miam ou le Dîner d'affaires

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Acapulco Madame

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Docteur Glass

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Beaufils et fils

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Les petits oiseaux

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Le Bourgeois gentilhomme

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Monsieur chasse

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La Maîtresse de bridge

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Une sacrée famille

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Silence on aime

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Une femme presque fidèle

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Histoire de rire

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La chambre mandarine

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