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Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Jacques-Yves Cousteau

Actor · 1910 – 1997 · Saint-André-de-Cubzac, Gironde, France

Jacques-Yves Cousteau, AC (11 June 1910 – 25 June 1997) was a French naval officer, oceanographer, scientist, inventor, filmmaker, photographer, innovator, conservationist, author, and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water. He co-invented the first successful open-circuit self-contained underwater breathing apparatus, ("SCUBA"), called the Aqua-Lung, which assisted him in producing some of the first underwater documentaries. He also pioneered marine conservation and was a member of the Académie française. From 1966 to 1976, he hosted The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau, a documentary television series, presented on American commercial television stations. A second documentary series, The Cousteau Odyssey, ran from 1977 to 1982 on public television stations. In his first book, The Silent World: A Story of Undersea Discovery and Adventure, he surmised the existence of the echolocation abilities of porpoises. The book was adapted into an underwater documentary called The Silent World. Co-directed by Cousteau and Louis Malle, it was one of the first films to use underwater cinematography to document the ocean depths in color. The film won the 1956 Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and remained the only documentary to do so until 2004 (when Fahrenheit 9/11 received the award). It was also awarded the Academy Award for Best Documentary in 1957. ​From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Movies18

  • Movie6.9

    Becoming Cousteau

    2021 · 35 votes

  • Movie10.0
  • Movie6.5

    Le Monde du silence

    The Silent World

    1956 · 49 votes

  • Movie9.0
  • Movie7.1

    Voyage au bout du monde

    Voyage to the Edge of the World

    1976 · 12 votes

  • Movie8.5

    Titanic's Lost Sister

    1996 · 2 votes

  • Movie
  • Movie10.0

    Les Pièges de la Mer

    Cries from the Deep

    1981 · 1 votes

  • Movie8.0
  • Movie
  • Movie5.5

    La collection Cousteau N°19 | Tempête de neige sur la jungle | Un avenir pour l'Amazonie

    The Cousteau Collection N°19-1 | Amazon: Snowstorm in the Jungle

    1984 · 1 votes

  • Movie10.0

    Saint-Laurent : Escalier vers la mer

    St. Lawrence: Stairway to the Sea

    1982 · 1 votes

  • Movie9.0

    Épaves

    Shipwrecks

    1946 · 1 votes

  • Movie6.0
  • Movie6.6

    Le monde sans soleil

    World Without Sun

    1964 · 17 votes

  • Movie9.0

    Par dix-huit mètres de fond

    At a Depth of Eighteen Meters

    1943 · 1 votes

  • Movie

    L'Odyssée Cousteau: Le Nil Partie 2

    The Cousteau Odyssey: The Nile Part 2

    1979

  • Movie

Series17

  • TV7.5
  • TV6.7

    Vetenskapens värld

    1971 · 10 votes

  • TV6.8

    The Merv Griffin Show

    1962 · 12 votes

  • TV6.8

    The Dick Cavett Show

    1968 · 22 votes

  • TV6.8

    Champs-Elysées

    1982 · 9 votes

  • TV8.5

    Apostrophes

    1975 · 4 votes

  • TV7.5

    Numéro un

    1975 · 2 votes

  • TV9.0

    Midi Première

    1975 · 2 votes

  • TV
  • TV8.0

    Le Grand Échiquier

    1972 · 3 votes

  • TV6.0

    Midi trente

    1972 · 1 votes

  • TV7.3

    Was bin ich?

    1955 · 3 votes

  • TV6.0

    Samedi soir

    1971 · 1 votes

  • TV7.9

    L’Odyssée sous-marine de l'équipe Cousteau

    The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau

    1968 · 19 votes

  • TV
  • TV6.0
  • TV