
Known for
Acting
Born
November 25, 1914
Birthplace
Petrograd, Russian Empire [now St. Petersburg, Russia]
Died
November 25, 1995 (aged 81)
Léon Zitrone (25 November 1914 – 25 November 1995) was a Russian-born French journalist and television presenter.
Zitrone was born in Petrograd, Russia. He arrived in France with his family fleeing communism at the age of six. He graduated from the ESJ Paris. He began by training in scientific studies but his mastership of Russian, French, English and German gave him entrance in 1948 to the radio foreign broadcasting services of Radiodiffusion-Télévision Française (RTF). In 1959, he joined the television activity of RTF. From 1961, he became news presenter, function he occupied for nearly 20 years, first until 1975, on the first French television channel (now TF1), then also on Antenne 2, t...
2022
2022
as Self (archive footage)
2019
as Self (archive footage)
1987
as Vigile
1987
1987
1985
as Voix du commentateur (voice)
1984
as Ivan Stranauvlitch
1983
as TV show presenter (uncredited)
1982
as Presenter of the circus games
1982
1980
as Self
1977
as Race Commentator
1976
1976
1975
as Espion français
1975
1975
1975
1974
as Self
1972
as Self
1972
1972
as Le journaliste
1971
as A personality
1971