Jacques Ledoux (1921 in
Warsaw
Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officia ...
– 6 June 1988 in
Brussels
Brussels (french: Bruxelles or ; nl, Brussel ), officially the Brussels-Capital Region (All text and all but one graphic show the English name as Brussels-Capital Region.) (french: link=no, Région de Bruxelles-Capitale; nl, link=no, Bruss ...
) was a 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.
Awards and honors
Ledoux received the
Erasmus Prize
The Erasmus Prize is an annual prize awarded by the board of the Praemium Erasmianum Foundation to individuals or institutions that have made exceptional contributions to culture, society, or social science in Europe and the rest of the world. I ...
, a Dutch award for contributions to art in 1988.
References
External links
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Cinémathèque, son doux souci (interview), ''Cinergie'', vol. 0, 1993.
1921 births
1988 deaths
Film curators
Belgian archivists
Polish emigrants to Belgium
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