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Jean-Michel Gaillard

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Directed movies: 0Directed series: 0All crew credits: 7

TMDB ID: 1996713

IMDb ID: nm0301241

Known for: Writing

Born: May 16, 1946

Died: July 19, 2005

Age: 59

Place of birth: Pont-Saint-Esprit, Gard, France

Gender: Male

Adult content flag: No

Career span: 1975 - 2006

Years active: 32

Average TMDB rating: 6.7

Wikidata: Q3168028

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Biography

Jean-Michel Gaillard (May 16, 1946, Pont-Sant-Esprit in Gard, France – July 19, 2005, Paris) was a high-ranking French official. He was, most notably, director general of Antenne 2 (now France 2), from 1989 to 1991. He was a student of the École normale supérieure de Saint-Cloud, where he received a doctorate in history. As a politician he was a militant socialist, aligned with the likes of François Hollande and Ségolène Royal. He was father to two girls. Before his death from cancer at the age of 59, he was counsel for the Academy of Television Arts. During the presidency of François Mitterrand, he worked as a senior advisor at the Élysée Palace. As a television script writer he co-wrote the television film Leclerc, a Dream of Indochina with Nicolas Sarkozy, which debuted on France 3 in 2003. He wrote many works, including a biography of Jules Ferry, published in 1989. Source: Article "Jean-Michel Gaillard" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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