Albert Lamorisse

Albert Lamorisse 13 January 1922 2 June 1970 was a French filmmaker film producer and writer who is best known for his award winning short films which he began making in the late 1940s and also for inventing the famous strategic board game Risk in 1957 He was born in Paris France He first came into prominence just after Bim for directing and producing White Mane 1953 an award winning short film that tells a fable of how a young boy befriends an untamable wild white stallion in the marshes of Camargue the Petite Camargue His best known work is the short film The Red Balloon 1956 which earned him the Palme dOr Grand Prize at the Cannes Film Festival and an Oscar for writing the best original screenplay in 1956 Lamorisse also wrote directed and produced the wellregarded films Stowaway in the Sky 1960 and Circus Angel as well as the documentaries Versailles and Paris Jamais Vu In addition to films he created the popular strategy board game Risk in 1957 Lamorisse and his wife had three children Pascal a son and two daughters named Sabine and Fanny Pascal and Sabine were featured in The Red Balloon Albert Lamorisse died in a helicopter crash while filming the documentary Le Vent des amoureux The Lovers Wind during a helicoptertour of Iran in 1970 His son and his widow completed the film based on his production notes and released the film eight years later in 1978 It was nominated for a posthumous Oscar for best documentary Description above from the Wikipedia article Albert Lamorisse licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia