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Filmmaker · Gabon

Philippe Mory

Died in 2016

Philippe Mory was born in Gabon in 1932 or in 1935, depending on the sources. At first a stage actor, he made his film debut in France in the mid-1950s and in 1959 played the lead in a film crowned with the Louis-Delluc prize, a first for an African actor. Back in Gabon, he wrote the screenplay of the first feature film shot in the country. He took part in the failed coup of 1964 against Léon Mba and remained imprisoned until his pardon in 1967. In 1975 he founded the Centre national du cinéma gabonais. He died in Libreville on 7 June 2016.

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