- French journalist who was instrumental in establishing the Césars and thus is usually known as the "father" of the "French Oscar."
- On October 18, 1973, his second wife Danielle Cravenne, a manic-depressive, tried to hijack a Boeing 727 with false weapons at the airport of Marignane in what she claimed was a protest against the release of The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob (1973), a film produced by her husband and which she considered "anti-Palestinian". Fatally injured by French security forces, she died shortly afterward in an ambulance.
- In 1937, member of the jury of the first "Prix Louis Delluc".
- Brother of Marcel Cravenne.
- Father of a daughter by his wife Danielle, Julie, born on 24-3-1969.
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