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22
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Consistent number of acting credits.
Actor
Franz-Olivier Giesbert
Acting
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Movies: 12Series: 13Crew credits: 3
TMDB ID: 1689412
IMDb ID: nm1118181
Known for: Acting
Born: January 18, 1949
Age: 77
Place of birth: Wilmington, Delaware, USA
Gender: Male
Adult content flag: No
Career span: 1975 - 2025
Years active: 51
Average TMDB rating: 7.01
Wikidata: Q1237718
Also known as
FOG
Other jobs
Novel (1)Screenplay (1)Writer (1)
Biography
Franz-Olivier Giesbert (born January 18, 1949, in Wilmington, Delaware) is an American-born French journalist, author, and television presenter. Giesbert worked for Le Figaro from 1988 to 2000 and for Le Point starting in 2000. In 2013, he wrote the scenario of a documentary about his relationship with the former president, Nicolas Sarkozy, secrets d’une présidence. ("Nicholas Sarkozy, secrets of a presidency"). Giesbert hosts the cable television, weekly, literary show Le Gai Savoir on Paris Première. In 1999, the show won the Richelieu price of the Association for the Defense of French Language. Since October 2011, he hosts Les Grandes Questions on France 5. And starting in 2012, he also hosts on France 3 the monthly show Le Monde d'après ("The world after"). In 2007, he wrote the biography of Marseille's mobster Jacky le Mat, l'Immortel, adapted by Richard Berry. In 2018, he is attacked by Asia Argento and Marlène Schiappa, for explaining actresses presented as crucified and raped by Harvey Weinstein had to know what happened than, analyzed as Gaslighting, Slut shaming and Victim blaming. In 2021, the pedophile writer Gabriel Matzneff, describes him as an unwavering support. He was criticized byt Laure Adler for regretting that people didn't speak french, at the train station of Marseille. Source: Article "Franz-Olivier Giesbert" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Movies
Movie credits linked with Franz-Olivier Giesbert.
Laïcité, l'exception française - 120 ans, et maintenant ?
as Self
2025 Movie
7.8
« Je ne suis pas chinetoque » : Histoire du racisme anti-asiatique
as Himself : ex Director of Publication of newspaper Le Point / Author / Editorialist / Journalist / Writer
2024 Movie
8.0
214, rue de Rivoli : Le dîner spécial 20 ans
as Self
2023 Movie
Mitterrand, président culturel
as Self
2021 Movie
Juppé, le ressuscité
2016 Movie
Ministre ou rien
as Self
2014 Movie
7.4
The New Watchdogs
as Self
2012 Movie
9.0
François Mitterrand, à bout portant : 1993-1996
as Self
2011 Movie
10.0
François Mitterrand et la guerre d'Algérie
as Self
2010 Movie
6.7
22 Bullets
Novel
2010 Movie
4.0
Who Is Bernard Tapie?
as Self - Editor-in-Chief, Le Figaro
2001 Movie
4.0
Les Guignols, les 10 premières années
as Self, Directeur des Redactions du Figaro
1999 Movie
Series
Series
Series credits linked with Franz-Olivier Giesbert.
5.0
Quelle époque !
as Self - Guest • 2 eps
2022 Series
Élysée, la solitude du pouvoir
as Self • 2 eps
2017 Series
5.4
Quotidien
as Self - Guest • 1 eps
2016 Series
6.0
Folie passagère
as Self • 1 eps
2015 Series
6.5
Lanester
Writer • 3 eps
2014 Series
8.5
The Unexpected Getaway
as Self • 1 eps
2012 Series
2.5
28 minutes
as Self • 2 eps
2012 Series
10.0
Histoire Immédiate
Screenplay • 2 eps
2011 Series
6.1
C à vous
as Self - Guest • 1 eps
2009 Series
3.7
Salut les Terriens !
as Self - Guest • 3 eps
2006 Series
5.1
On n'est pas couché
as Self - Guest • 1 eps
2006 Series
3.0
Vivement dimanche
as Self • 1 eps
1998 Series
9.0
Apostrophes
as Self • 4 eps
1975 Series