Name
Jacques-Yves Cousteau
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1910-06-11
Deathday
1997-06-25 (87 years old)
Place of Birth
Saint-André-de-Cubzac, Gironde, France
Biography
Jacques-Yves Cousteau, AC (11 June 1910 – 25 June 1997) was a French naval officer, oceanographer, scientist, inventor, filmmaker, photographer, innovator, conservationist, author, and researcher who studied the sea and all forms of life in water. He co-invented the first successful open-circuit self-contained underwater breathing apparatus, ("SCUBA"), called the Aqua-Lung, which assisted him in producing some of the first underwater documentaries. He also pioneered marine conservation and was a member of the Académie française.
From 1966 to 1976, he hosted The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau, a documentary television series, presented on American commercial television stations. A second documentary series, The Cousteau Odyssey, ran from 1977 to 1982 on public television stations.
In his first book, The Silent World: A Story of Undersea Discovery and Adventure, he surmised the existence of the echolocation abilities of porpoises. The book was adapted into an underwater documentary called The Silent World. Co-directed by Cousteau and Louis Malle, it was one of the first films to use underwater cinematography to document the ocean depths in color. The film won the 1956 Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival and remained the only documentary to do so until 2004 (when Fahrenheit 9/11 received the award). It was also awarded the Academy Award for Best Documentary in 1957.
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- 1964 World Without Sun as Self (uncredited)
- 1976 Voyage to the Edge of the World as Self
- 1977 Calypso's Search for the Britannic as Self
- 1981 Cries from the Deep as Self
- 2009 Square Roots: The Story of SpongeBob SquarePants as Self (archive footage)
- 1995 30 Years of National Geographic Specials as Self (archive footage)
- 1986 Riders of the Wind as Self - Host
- 1966 The World of Jacques-Yves Cousteau as Self
- 1979 The Cousteau Odyssey: The Nile Part 1 as Self
- 1974 The Cousteau Collection N°5-1 | Life Under an Ocean of Ice as Self
- 1973 The Cousteau Collection N°9-2 | Morse's Smile as Self
- 1969 The Cousteau Collection N°7-2 | The Night of the Squid as Self
- 1971 The Cousteau Collection N°12-1 | The Dragons of the Galapagos as Self
- 1978 The Cousteau Collection N°8-2 | In Search of Atlantis (Part 2) as Self
- 1974 The Cousteau Collection N°4-2 | The Flight of the Penguin as Self
- 1972 The Cousteau Collection N°7-1 | Octopus, Little Octopus as Self
- 1978 The Cousteau Collection N°8-1 | In Search of Atlantis (Part 1) as Self
- 1978 The Cousteau Collection N°11-2 | Ultimatum Under the Sea as Self
- 1990 The Cousteau Collection N°11-1 | Scandal in Valdez as Self
- 1972 The Cousteau Collection N°2-1 | The Song of the Dolphins as Self
- 1973 The Cousteau Collection N°6-1 | Hippo, Hippo as Self
- 1969 The Cousteau Collection N°3-1 | Desert Whales as Self
- 1970 The Cousteau Collection N°15-1 | The Lagoon of Lost Ships as Self
- 1987 The Cousteau Collection N°16-1 | Strait Islands: The Waters of Discord as Self
- 1983 The Cousteau Collection N°17-2 | Amazon: The Enchanted River as Self
- 1983 The Cousteau Collection N°17-1 | Amazon: In the Land of a Thousand Rivers as Self
- 1983 The Cousteau Collection N°18-1 | Fleeing Shadows: Indians of the Amazon as Self
- 1991 The Cousteau Collection N°14-1 | Australia: The People of Water and Fire as Self
- 1985 The Cousteau Collection N°21-1 | A Reluctant Ally: The Mississippi (Part 1) as Self
- 1984 The Cousteau Collection N°19-1 | Amazon: Snowstorm in the Jungle as Self
- 1985 The Cousteau Collection N°20-1 | Alcyone: Daughter of the Wind as Self
- 1971 The Cousteau Collection N°31-1 | The Fate of Sea Otters as Self
- 1978 The Cousteau Collection N°23-1 | The Easter Island Testament as Self
- 1966 The Cousteau Collection N°32-1 | The Precontinent Adventure (Precontinent III) as Self
- 1973 The Cousteau Collection N°26-1 | 500 Million Years Under the Sea as Self
- 1967 The Cousteau Collection N°35-1 | The Sharks as Self
- 1968 The Cousteau Collection N°34-1 | The Legend of Lake Titicaca as Self
- 1967 The Cousteau Collection N°38-1 | The Coral Jungle as Self
- 1981 The Cousteau Collection N°37-1 | Warm Blood in the Sea as Self
- 1971 The Cousteau Collection N°43-1 | Sunken Caverns as Self
- 1997 Lake Baikal: Pearl of Siberia as Self
- 1980 The Cousteau Collection N°36-1 | Clipperton: Island of Solitude as Self
- 1995 The Cousteau Collection N°42-1 | Desert Diamonds: South Africa (Part 1) as Self
- 1991 The Cousteau Collection N°44-1 | Australia: Treasures of the Sea as Self
- 1956 The Silent World as Self
- 1975 The Cousteau Collection N°1-2 | Sleeper Sharks of the Yucatan as Self
- 1996 Titanic's Lost Sister as Self
- 1982 St. Lawrence: Stairway to the Sea as Self (uncredited)
- 1946 Shipwrecks as Self - Diver / Narrator
- 2011 My Father the Captain: Jacques-Yves Cousteau as Self (archive footage)
- 1979 The Cousteau Odyssey: The Nile Part 2 as Self
- 1943 At a Depth of Eighteen Meters as Self
- 1977 Lost Relics of the Sea as Self
- 2021 Becoming Cousteau as Self (archive footage)
- 1985 Jacques Cousteau: The First 75 Years as Self
- 1955 La Fontaine-de-Vaucluse as Self
- 1990 Lilliput in Antarctica as Self - Narrator
- Soon Savage World of the Coral Jungle as Himself
- 2014 Shipwrecked on a Great Lake as Self
- 1975 An Evening with John Denver as Self
- 1992 Jacques Cousteau: Rediscover the World II | Australia, Indonesia and the Danube ( 13 episodes ) as Self
- 1968 The Undersea World of Jacques Cousteau ( 36 episodes ) as Self - Host
- 1986 Jacques Cousteau: Rediscover the World | New Zealand, Tahiti, Cuba, & Cape Horn ( 40 episodes ) as Self
- 1972 Le Grand Échiquier ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 1971 Vetenskapens värld ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1948 Bambi ( 2 episodes ) as Self
- 1972 Le Grand Échiquier ( 1 episode ) as Self - Main Guest
- 1972 Midi trente ( 3 episodes ) as Self
- 1975 Numéro un ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1975 Midi Première ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1982 Champs-Elysées ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1975 Apostrophes ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1968 The Dick Cavett Show ( 6 episodes ) as Self - Guest
- 1987 Le monde est à vous ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1956 En direct de... ( 1 episode ) as self
- 1955 Was bin ich? ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1971 Samedi soir ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1962 The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson ( 1 episode ) as Self
- 1962 The Merv Griffin Show ( 1 episode ) as Self
