Léo Campion
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Léo Campion (born ''Léon Louis Octave Campion''; 24 March 1905 in
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– 6 March 1992 in Paris) was a French actor and active
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Biography

Léo Campion's father was Belgian and his mother French (from Montmartre, Belgian at birth). In 1923, Léo Campion was expelled from France following a campaign waged against him by Action Française: he still held Belgian nationality. He settled in Brussels, where he met the anarchist bookseller and freemason Marcel Dieu, alias Hem Day. It was a meeting that marked his life. He became secretary of the Brussels Libre Pensée and secretary of the Belgian section of the War Resistance International (IRG-WRI).


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Pataphysicians 1905 births 1992 deaths Male actors from Paris French anarchists French male film actors French male television actors 20th-century French male actors French Freemasons {{Anarchist-stub