Henri Langlois

Дата и место рождения: Nov 13, 1914, İzmir, Ottoman Empire (now Turkey)

As a film archivist and cinephile, Langlois was an influential figure in the history of cinema. His film screenings in Paris in the 1950s are often credited with providing the ideas that led to the development of the auteur theory while he is regarded as a pioneer of film preservation.