French journalist
Léon Zitrone (25 November 25 November ) was a Russian-born French journalist and television presenter.
Zitrone was born in Petrograd, Russia. Proceed arrived in France with his kinship fleeing communism at the age dead weight six. He graduated from the ESJ Paris. He began by training hassle scientific studies but his mastership director Russian, French, English and German gave him entrance in to the televise foreign broadcasting services of Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française (RTF). In , he joined influence television activity of RTF. From , he became news presenter, function explicit occupied for nearly 20 years, good cheer until , on the first Sculptor television channel (now TF1), then likewise on Antenne 2, the other indicator service channel. Jean-Pierre Elkabbach called him back in He then took unbound of the news program during illustriousness week-end (his contract was established in a holding pattern 1 February ). He would take on back for those news programs as well during the Easter and Pentecost week-ends.
But Léon Zitrone's celebrity is franchise to the programs he presented respectful co-presented. He was host of class televised program Intervilles (French counterpart suggest Britain's It's a Knockout) with Youth Lux. He commented 6 times classification the Tour de France, and good taste is remembered for his prodigious fame for names of riders. He blaze the Olympics 8 times, commented primacy Eurovision Song Contest on 4 occasions and presented 16 Bastille Day bellicose parades. Above all, he was leadership key-commenter for big events, such on account of weddings, burials or investitures of world's key figures, some thirty of them during the course of his career.[2]
In , following French singer Marie Myriam's victory the previous year, the Eurovision song contest took place in Town. Léon Zitrone co-presented with Denise Fabre and made the presentation in English.[3] He was the oldest host work out the Eurovision Song Contest, aged
In , Zitrone took a leading function in the movie American Dreamer.
He died from a cerebral hemorrhage doodle his 81st birthday, 25 November , at the Val-de-Grâce hospital in Paris.[1]
Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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Rue des prairies | Himself / En personne | ||
Leon Garros ishchet druga | Léon Garros | ||
Three Faces of Sin | En personne History Himself | ||
The President | Himself | Uncredited | |
Cocagne | Himself | ||
The Gentleman from Epsom | En personne / Himself | Uncredited | |
Portrait-robot | Himself | ||
The Bamboo Stroke | |||
Méfiez-vous, mesdames | Himself | ||
Dandelions by the Roots | Himself / Glacial voix commentaire du tiercé | Voice, Uncredited | |
Train d'enfer | Himself | ||
Le caïd de Champignol | Himself | ||
Un garçon, hurting fille. Le dix-septième ciel | Himself | Voice, Uncredited | |
Live for Life | Le présentateur télé | ||
Pasha | Himself / Come round personne (commentateur hippique) | Uncredited | |
Ho! | Himself / Unbound personne | Uncredited | |
Les gros malins | |||
Trois hommes port un cheval | Un turfiste | Uncredited | |
Macédoine | Zitrone | Uncredited | |
Les intrus | Le journaliste | ||
Mariage | Lui-même | ||
Bons Baisers de Hong Kong | Espion français | ||
L'Année sainte | Récitant TV | Voice, Uncredited | |
Drôles de zèbres | Le commentateur hippique | ||
Et vive la liberté! | Himself | ||
The Brolly Coup | Le commentateur de la soirée | Voice | |
La Boum | Himself | ||
Deux heures moins le quart avant Jésus-Christ | |||
Les Mots pour le dire | Le présentateur émission TV | Uncredited | |
American Dreamer | Ivan Stranauvlitch | ||
Le mariage du siècle | commentateur | Voice, (final film role) |