About Jacques Ledoux
Lived 1921 – 1988 (aged 66). Jacques Ledoux was a Belgian curator, historian, archivist and film curator.
Jacques Ledoux (1921 – 6 June 1988) was a Polish-born Belgian cinema specialist, the first curator of the Royal Film Archive of Belgium (Cinémathèque royale de Belgique) from 1948 to 1988 and the founder of the Cinema Museum in Brussels (Musée du cinéma de Bruxelles) in 1962. He was born in Warsaw and died in Brussels.
Awards and honors Ledoux received the Erasmus Prize, a Dutch award for contributions to art in 1988.
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Who was Jacques Ledoux?
film curator (1921–1988)
When was Jacques Ledoux born?
Jacques Ledoux was born on 26 October 1921 in Warsaw.
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Jacques Ledoux died on 6 June 1988 in Brussels.
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Jacques Ledoux was a curator, historian, archivist and film curator.
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Jacques Ledoux was Belgian.
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