Georges Sadoul
Georges Sadoul was a French journalist and cinema writer.
Once a surrealist, he became a communist in 1932. He was a journalist of the Lettres Françaises.
He is the author of l'Histoire générale du cinéma, a comprehensive work on world cinema. He produced an important work on the filmmaker Georges Méliès.
Sadoul was born in Nancy. He was trained at the Sorbonne and the IDHEC, a French cinema school.
He is known for writing encyclopedias of film and filmmakers, many of which have been translated into English.
He died in Paris at the age of sixty-three.
