A work in constant progress (and occasional regress).
Birthplace:
Paris, France
Born:
October 10, 1918
Died:
July 21, 2012
Jean Ferniot (10 October 1918 – 21 July 2012) was a French journalist and novelist. He won the Prix Interallié in 1961. Ferniot was born on 10 October 1918 in Paris, France. He grew up in the 14th arrondissement of Paris. He became an orphan at the age of eight, when his mother died. He was raised as a Roman Catholic, and he considered becoming a priest as a young man. Ferniot was educated at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand in Paris. He briefly served in World War II, and he was subsequently awarded the Croix de Guerre. Ferniot was a journalist. He began his career at the Agence France-Presse. He subsequently worked for Franc-Tireur and France Soir. He then joined L'Express as a political and culinary columnist. He was also a contributor to Radio Luxembourg until 1983. Ferniot was the author of several books. He won the Prix Interallié for L’Ombre portée in 1961. He was a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Ferniot was married three times. With his second wife, journalist Christiane Collange, he had two sons, Vincent Ferniot and Simon Ferniot. He has five children. He died on 21 July 2012 in Paris. He was 93 years old. Source: Article "Jean Ferniot" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Data are -- hey, it's a plural -- subject to the limitations of their sources. (For example, TMDB search results currently max out at 20.) I am limiting myself to free data sources for now. (No, a "free trial" is not free.)
While much of the above data are retrieved directly from outside APIs and other such sources, data from American Film Institute (AFI) and British Film Institute (BFI) were manually entered the old fashioned way into a MySQL database. Re BFI I took the following liberties:
Regarding profile removals and data corrections:
Filtering is applied here to film projects flagged as "adult" by TheMovieDB. Pending "popular demand" I am contemplating a login and profile system with preferences (such as whether to allow adult images to appear) and permissions (such as data entry).
Whereas the overall purpose of this website is to serve as a personal demo/portfolio/workshop of web and data skills, this Movies section is not meant to compete with or substitute for far more definitive movie websites.
Whether or not he still clings to an award which he won in 1986 as a film critic for his college's newspaper, Jeffrey Hartmann is not responsible for the texts of overviews and biographies supplied by external data sources.