Jean Tourane
Male, Deceased Person
1919 – 1986
Who was Jean Tourane?
Jean Tourane was a French filmmaker known for his footage of small animals. His birth name was Jean Briel. Among others he filmed a television series about a small duck named "Saturnin" during the 1960s. In the 1990s, clips from this series were merged into a new series called The Adventures of Dynamo Duck, which aired on Fox Kids in the United States.
Tourane started his professional career as a painter and photographer of small animals, and moved from photography into film. After making a number of shorts, he made the first full length Saturnin movie, and was in 1964 awarded a contract for 78 television episodes with French television.
He was also for a time the mayor of the commune of Le Val-Saint-Germain in Essonne department, France.
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