Jean Bourgoin

Jean Bourgoin
Born	4 March 1913 Paris, France
Died	September 3, 1991(1991-09-03) (aged 78) Paris, France
Occupation	Cinematographer
Years active	1935-1972 (film)

Jean Bourgoin (1913–1991) was a French cinematographer. He won the Academy Award for Best Cinematography for the 1962 war film The Longest Day.

Selected filmography

• The Time of the Cherries (1938)
• La Marseillaise (1938)
• Cristobal's Gold (1940)
• It Happened at the Inn (1943)
• Box of Dreams (1945)
• Justice Is Done (1950)
• Shadow and Light (1951)
• It Happened in Paris (1952)
• We Are All Murderers (1952)
• The House on the Dune (1952)
• Follow That Man (1953)
• Before the Deluge (1954)
• Black Dossier (1955)
• The River of Three Junks (1957)
• Goha (1958)
• Mon Oncle (1958)
• Black Orpheus (1959)
• A Mistress for the Summer (1960)
• The Counterfeit Traitor (1962)
• Gigot (1962)
• The Longest Day (1962)
• Germinal (1963)
• Impossible on Saturday (1965)

Bibliography

• Langman, Larry. Destination Hollywood: The Influence of Europeans on American Filmmaking. McFarland, 2000.

External links

• Jean Bourgoin at IMDb