Jacques-Yves Cousteau, was a French naval officer, oceanographer, filmmaker and author. He co-invented the first successful Aqua-Lung, open-circuit SCUBA. The apparatus assisted him in producing some of the first underwater documentaries.
Jacques Romain Georges Brel was a Belgian singer and actor who composed and performed literate, thoughtful, and theatrical songs that generated a large, devoted following—initially in Belgium and France, later throughout the world. He is considered a master of the modern chanson.
Jacques Tati was a French mime, film-maker, actor and screenwriter. In an Entertainment Weekly poll of the Greatest Movie Directors, he was voted the 46th greatest of all time, although he directed only six feature-length films.
Laramie is derived from a French surname LaRamie and often refers to Laramie, Wyoming, or one of the places named after it.
Jacques Tourneur was a French film director known for the classic film noir Out of the Past and a series of low-budget horror films he made for RKO Studios, including Cat People, I Walked with a Zombie, and The Leopard Man. He is also known for directing Night of the Demon, which was released by Columbia Pictures. While in Hollywood, he was usually addressed by his anglicized name "Jack Turner", a literal and phonetic translation of his name in English.
Todd-AO is an American post-production company founded in 1953 by Mike Todd and Robert Naify, providing sound-related services to the motion picture and television industries. For more than five decades, it was the worldwide leader in theater sound. The company now operates one facility in the Los Angeles area.
Love Unto Death is a 1984 French drama film directed by Alain Resnais.
Oklahoma! is a 1955 American musical film based on the 1943 musical of the same name by Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II, which in turn was based on the 1931 play Green Grow The Lilacs written by Lynn Riggs. It stars Gordon MacRae, Shirley Jones, Rod Steiger, Charlotte Greenwood, Gloria Grahame, Gene Nelson, James Whitmore, and Eddie Albert. The production was the only musical directed by Fred Zinnemann. Oklahoma! was the first feature film photographed in the Todd-AO 70 mm widescreen process.
Itakura Katsushige was a Japanese daimyō of the Azuchi–Momoyama Period to early Edo period. He fought at the side of Tokugawa Ieyasu at the Battle of Sekigahara in 1600. He was also an ordained Shin Buddhist priest.
Richard Anconina is a French actor. He won the César Award for Best Supporting Actor in 1983, and for Best Actor in 1989.
Roberto Farias was a Brazilian film director, producer and screenwriter. He directed 15 films during his career. His 1982 film Pra Frente, Brasil was entered into the 33rd Berlin International Film Festival. Farias' brother Reginaldo Faria is also a film director and actor.
Nezha Conquers the Dragon King is a 1979 Chinese animated fantasy film produced by Shanghai Animation Film Studio. It was screened out of competition at the 1980 Cannes Film Festival, listed under the English title Prince Nezha's Triumph Against Dragon King, and was released in the United Kingdom as Little Nezha Fights Great Dragon Kings.
A Species Odyssey is a French documentary film directed by Jacques Malaterre, first broadcast on January 7, 2003 on France 3.
Sadaf Malaterre is a Pakistani fashion designer who has been running her eponymous label in Karachi, Pakistan since 2005.
Ao Haru Ride is a Japanese shōjo manga series written and illustrated by Io Sakisaka. It began serialization in the February 2011 issue of Shueisha's Bessatsu Margaret and ended in February 2015.
Ao Oni is a survival horror adventure video game developed under the name of "noprops". It was first released on November 2008 as a Japan-only freeware and adapted into an official English-language version in later versions. It was later acquired by Kenji Kuroda, who adapted from the game into light novel and manga as a writer.
Switch is a 2011 French action film directed by Frédéric Schœndœrffer.
Ao: The Last Hunter is a 2010 French prehistoric paleoanthropological fiction film directed by Jacques Malaterre, and is loosely based on the first novel of the trilogy Aô, l'homme ancien by Marc Klapczynski.
Malaterre is a surname. Notable people with the surname include:
Germaine Renée Suzanne Malaterre-Sellier (1889–1967) was a French nurse, feminist, suffragist and pacifist. From 1920, she was Vice-President of the Union féminine pour la Société des Nations. In parallel, she was first Secretary-General, then Vice-President of the Union Française pour le Suffrage des Femmes.
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