Writer, journalist and director, head of radio and lyricist … had had a life of a thousand. The man of a Jack-of-Lall Media Philippe Labro died at age 88, BFMTV was confirmed on Wednesday, June 4. According to Paris Match, he suffered from cancer.
“It is an immense RTL figure that disappears and our house this morning is crossed by great emotion,” said Hervé Beroud, information director of the M6-RTL group.
Born on August 27, 1939 in Montauban, Tarn-Et-Ggaronne, he debuted in journalism with only 15 years, winning a competition organized by Le Figaro. At age 17, after missing his baccalaureate, he obtained a scholarship that allows him to study in the United States. A founding experience for the future journalist, which will draw two novels, The foreign student in 1986 and A summer in the westIn 1988.
“I lived an adventure that completely changed my life, which determined my career and perhaps even my character,” said Phosphorus in 2012.
Radio Europe 1 in 1957, then for Marie-France, France-Soir or Paris Match, Il in Chief in RTL in 1979. It will also pass through the Drafting Rooms of TF1 or ANTENNE 2 (which has become France 2 in 1992).
Director, lyricist …
Great cinema fan, later became a director and becomes particularly Without apparent mobileWith Jean-Louis Trintignant, CrimeWith Claude Brasseur and Jean-Claude Bialy and Right shore, left shoreWith Gérard Depardieu, Carole Bouquet and Nathalie Baye.
Occasional actor, plays his own role in several films, especially in front of the Jean-Luc Godard’s camera in Made in the US. In 1966.
Throughout his life, the insatiable Philippe Labro accompanied many artists and wrote songs for Johnny Hallyday, Jane Birkin at the request of Serge Gainsbourg or Eddy Mitchell.
In 1971, he wrote a complete album for Johnny, Flagrant offensecomposed of original songs, including My beautiful Sarahand adaptations of the American repertoire. In 1999, he signed the lyrics of the song Pardonestablished in the music of David Hallyday, for the album Blood.
Vice President of C8
In 2005, he founded, with Vincent Bolloré, the direct channel 8 in TNT, which has since become C8 and of which he was vice president. Until February 2025, he organized a weekly program called The main thing in labro. The non -browning of the Arcom Bolloré channel had sounded the end of his television career.
“I feel incredible sadness because they are wonderful teams, I have collaborators and collaborators of a great talent. The program was highly appreciated by all of culture, cinema and literature,” he confided the closure of C8 in Le Figaro.
Philippe Labro had published a last Roman, Two gimlets at the 5th AvenueIn October 2024. Discreet about his private life, Philippe Labro married the journalist and screenwriter Françoise Labro since 1978 and was the father of four children.
Source: BFM TV
