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Date of Birth
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27-October-1943
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Place of Birth
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Villefranche-sur-Mer
(Alpes-Maritimes, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, French Riviera)
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Nationality
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France
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Profession
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Screenwriter, Animator, Film director, Television Producer, Actor, Television Director, Film Art Director, Voice Actor
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Michel Ocelot is a French writer, character designer, storyboard artist and director of animated films and television programs and a former president of the International Animated Film Association. Though best known for his 1998 début feature Kirikou and the Sorceress, his earlier films and television work had already won Césars and British Academy Film Awards among others and he was made a chevalier of the Légion d'honneur on 23 October 2009, presented to him by Agnès Varda who had been promoted to commandeur earlier the same year.
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