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- Birth nameJoseph-Raoul Cohen
- Georges Cravenne was born on January 24, 1914 in Kairouan, French Protectorate of Tunisia [now Tunisia]. He was a producer and actor, known for Vivre sa vie (1962), Pile ou face (1980) and Don't Look Now... We're Being Shot At! (1966). He was married to Danielle Bâtisse and Françoise Arnoul. He died on January 10, 2009 in Paris, France.
- SpousesDanielle Bâtisse(1968 - October 18, 1973) (her death)Françoise Arnoul(1956 - 1964) (divorced)
- French journalist who was instrumental in establishing the Césars and thus is usually known as the "father" of the "French Oscar."
- On October 18, 1973, his second wife Danielle Cravenne, a manic-depressive, tried to hijack a Boeing 727 with false weapons at the airport of Marignane in what she claimed was a protest against the release of The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob (1973), a film produced by her husband and which she considered "anti-Palestinian". Fatally injured by French security forces, she died shortly afterward in an ambulance.
- In 1937, member of the jury of the first "Prix Louis Delluc".
- Brother of Marcel Cravenne.
- Father of a daughter by his wife Danielle, Julie, born on 24-3-1969.
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