Léon Zitrone

Personal Info

Birthday

November 25, 1914

Day of Death

1995-11-25

(81 years old)

Place of Birth

Petrograd, Russian Empire [now St. Petersburg, Russia]

Léon Zitrone

Biography

Léon Zitrone (25 November 1914 – 25 November 1995) was a Russian-born French journalist and television presenter. Zitrone was born in Petrograd, Russia.

He arrived in France with his family fleeing communism at the age of six. He graduated from the ESJ Paris. He began by training in scientific studies but his mastership of Russian, French, English and German gave him entrance in 1948 to the radio foreign broadcasting services of Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française (RTF).

Known For

Quarter to Two Before Jesus Christ

Assassin's Check

American Dreamer

Marriage of the Century

Leon Garros Is Looking for His Friend

Menace

Live for Life

Les mots pour le dire

Filmography

2022
La TV des 70's : Quand Giscard était président
as Self (archive footage)
1987
Dorothée Show
as Vigile
1985
Marriage of the Century
as Voix du commentateur (voice)
1984
American Dreamer
as Ivan Stranauvlitch
1983
Les mots pour le dire
as TV show presenter (uncredited)
1982
Quarter to Two Before Jesus Christ
as Presenter of the circus games
1980
The Party
as Self
1977
Drôles de zèbres
as Race Commentator
1975
From Hong Kong with Love
as Espion français
1974
Marriage
as Self
1972
J'ai tout donné
as Self
Menace
as Le journaliste
1971
La Lucarne magique
as A personality
1970
Let Them Live!
as Self - Narrator
1969
Les gros malins
as Self
1967
Live for Life
as Le présentateur télé
1966
Seventeenth Heaven
as Self (voice) (uncredited)
The Boss of Champignol
as Self
1965
Operation Double Cross
as Self
1964
Clémentine chérie
as Self (archive footage) (uncredited)
1963
Be Careful Ladies
as Self
1962
Assassin's Check
as Le journaliste télé
1961
Three Faces of Sin
as Self
Cocagne
as Self
Leon Garros Is Looking for His Friend
as Léon Garros
Vingt mille lieues sur la Terre
as Léon Garros, journaliste
1959
Rue de Paris
as Self