Joseph Kessel
Personal Info
Know For
Writing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1898-01-31 (81 years old)
Deathday
1979-07-23
Place of Birth
Clara, Argentina
Also known As
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Joseph Kessel
Biography
Joseph Kessel (10 February 1898 – 23 July 1979), also known as "Jef" was a French journalist and novelist. He was a member of the Académie française and Grand Officer of the Legion of Honour. Kessel was born to a Jewish family in Villa Clara, Entre Ríos, Argentina, because of the constant journeys of his father, a Litvak physician. From 1905 to 1908, Joseph Kessel lived the first years of his childhood in Orenburg, Russia, before the family moved to France in 1908. He studied in lycée Masséna, Nice and lycée Louis-le-Grand, Paris and took part in the First World War as an aviator. He was also an aviator during the Second World War, in the Fr...
Acting
Production
1967
as Author
1982
as Novel
1951
as Novel
1969
as Novel
1955
as Writer
1955
as Novel
1953
as Screenplay
1935
as Writer
1940
as Writer
1937
as Novel
2000
as Music
1986
as Novel
1994
as Novel
1947
as Screenplay
1956
as Writer
1936
as Dialogue
1959
as Writer
1971
as Novel
2003
as Writer
1955
as Novel
1934
as Screenplay
1935
as Novel
1962
as Novel
1968
as Writer
1949
as Writer
1938
as Novel
1967
as Screenplay
1928
as Novel
1929
as Novel
1935
as Screenplay
1935
as Novel
1936
as Dialogue
1936
as Writer
1938
as Original Story
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