Jean Pélégri

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Male

Birthday

1920-06-20 (83 years old)

Deathday

2003-09-24

Place of Birth

Rovigo, French Algeria

Jean Pélégri

Biography

Jean Pélégri (June 20, 1920 – September 24, 2003) was a writer and professor of literature. Of French descent, he was born in Algeria, but left as part of the diaspora of French colonists referred to as pied-noirs following the Algerian War. He was friends with many Algerian writers (such as Mohammed Dib and Kateb Yacine) and, like Jean Sénac, Pélégri considered himself to be one of them; he always saw himself as an "Algerian at heart". He supplemented his novels' prefaces with artwork from his painter friends Baya, Abdallah Benanteur, Mohammed Khadda and Jean de Maisonseul. Pélégri also assisted on the film adaptation of his novel Les Olivi...

Acting

1959

Pickpocket

as Lead Inspector

1994

Coming to Terms with the Dead

as le vieil homme du métro

1988

Frequent Death

as Dr. Pastor

1962

1986

Thérèse

as The father

1989

Errors of Youth

as Gilles Genest

Production

1962

The Olive Trees of Justice

as First Assistant Director

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