Henri Alekan
Birthday
1909/02/10
Day of death
2001/06/15 (92 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Paris, France
Also know as
Henri Albert Alakan, H. Alekan, Henry Alekan, Henri Alékan
Biography
Henri Alekan (10 February 1909, Paris – 15 June 2001, Auxerre, Bourgogne) was a French cinematographer. Alekan was born in Montmartre in 1909. At the age of sixteen he and his brother became travelling puppeteers. A little later he started work as third assistant cameraman at the Billancourt Studios. He then spent a short time in the army, returning to Billancourt in 1931. In the late 1930s he was the camera operator to Eugene Shufftan on Marcel Carné's Quai des Brumes and Drôle de drame. He w...Read more
Acting
(1996) Le travail d'un cinéaste : Julien Duvivier, 1896-1967
as Self
(1991) The Other Eye
as Self
(1984) Our Nazi
as Self
(1994) Carné, You Said Carné?
as ---
(1997) Jean Cocteau: Lies and Truths
as Self
(1997) Screening at the Majestic
as Self - Interviewee
(1988) Alekan, la lumière
as Self
(1990) Max Ophüls - Den schönen guten Waren
as Self
(1984) 7 False Connections
as Self
(1984) Cinématon XXXIV
as N°330
(1952) Stranger on the Prowl
as Priest on Bicycle
(1993) Faraway, So Close!
as Captain
(1984) Cinématon n°330 : Henri Alekan
as Self
(1951) Deutscher Filmpreis
as Self
(1987) 40° à l'ombre
as Self