Henri de Turenne (writer), Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Henri de Turenne (writer)

French screenwriter

Date of Birth: 19-Nov-1921

Place of Birth: Tours, Centre-Val de Loire, France

Date of Death: 23-Aug-2016

Profession: screenwriter, journalist

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Henri de Turenne (19 November 1921 – 23 August 2016) is a French journalist and screenwriter.
He was born in Tours.
The son of Armand de Turenne, a World War I flying ace, he was raised in Germany and French Algeria, both countries becoming central creative themes in his adult work. After the Second World War, de Turenne worked as a journalist for Agence France-Presse, Le Figaro, France Soir, and ORTF, reporting from Allied-occupied Germany, covering the Korean War and the Algerian War, and, in 1952, winning the Prix Albert Londres.
Since the mid-1960s, he worked primarily in television, notably on the French Grandes Batailles series for Pathé, making over a hundred documentaries.
He won an Emmy in 1982 for a documentary on the Vietnam War.
His fictional works include Les Alsaciens ou les deux Mathilde (1996), made for Arte, for which he shared a 7 d'Or with Michel Deutsch.