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Jean-Daniel Simon

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Film director, Actor, Screenwriter
Principal country concerned : Column : Theater, Cinema/tv

French film director, actor and screenwriter.

Jean-Daniel SIMON is a director, actor and screenwriter.

He is known for "Camp de Thiaroye" (1987, Actor).

Born in 1942 in Salon-de-Provence, he died in Aulnay-sous-Bois (Paris, France), on February 3, 2021, at the age of 79.
The last ten years of his life he lived in Dakar, Senegal.

He is co-founder of the Society of Film Directors (SRF) and of the Directors' Fortnight (Cannes FilmFest).
He had been one of the instigators of the Visions sociales film festival (Cannes).

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