A last farewell to Philippe Labro. The family of the journalist-author-director, his wife, children and grandchildren, met this Friday, June 13 in the Church of Germain-Després for funeral. Many personalities were present, witnesses of the ecological and the richness of their life and their career.
There was Laeicia Hallyday and Johnny’s producer, Jean-Claude Camus. Philippe Labro, who wrote many titles for the singer, maintained with him a long friendship, from the 1960s until his death in 2017.
Many personalities in the world of media, and especially RTL, of which he was one of the pillars, had also come to pay tribute to him. Among these personalities, journalists Nicolas Domenach, Marc-Olivier Fogiel, Jean-Jacques Bourdin, Franz-Olivier Gisbert, Patrick Cohen, Olivier Mazerolle, the animators Nagui, Michel Drucker, Sophie Davant accompanied by William Leymerie.
“He brought me 20 years of radio, his friendship, his loyalty,” Nagui said in RTL, the day of his disappearance.
Fabrice Luchini and Alain Terzian
Actor Christopher Thompson, son of screenwriter Danièle Thompson, was also there, such as advertiser Jacques Séguéla, former Minister Bernard Kouchner. There was also Fabrice Luchini, whom Philippe Labro met in 1969, when the actor was still a hairdresser. Philippe Labro also offered Fabrice Luchini his first role in his film Anything can happenlaunched the same year.
Producer Alain Terzian, who produced two of Philippe Labro’s films, Right shore, left shore AND CrimeIn 1984, I was also there.
Chef Yannick Alléno was also present, as well as the musicians Renaud and Gautier Capuçon.
Renaud Capuçon, who had met him during a concert, had mentioned in Europe 1, on the day of his disappearance “a friendship that he has never denied, which has always been brilliant.”
Philippe Labro died on June 4, at the age of 88, after cancer. He marked the French media and cultural life for six decades, as a journalist, writer, filmmaker and lyricist by Johnny Hallyday, lovers like him in the United States.
Source: BFM TV
