{{Infobox person | name = Henry Chapier | image = Henry Chapier Gay Pride Paris 2008.jpg | image_size = 220px | caption = | birth_name = Henri Shapiro | birth_date = {{birth date|df=y|1933|11|14}} | birth_place = Bucharest, Romania | death_date = {{Death date and age|df=y|2019|01|27|1933|11|14}} | death_place = Paris, France | occupation = Journalist, film critic, television presenter, film director | credits = ''Le Divan'' | television = France 3 (1987–94) | years_active = | spouse = | website = {{URL|http://henry-chapier.com}} | footnotes = | children = }} '''Henry Chapier''' (14 November 1933 – 27 January 2019) was a French journalist, film critic, television presenter and feature film director.<ref name=obit>{{cite news |date=27 January 2019 |title=Le journaliste et critique Henry Chapier est mort|trans-title=Journalist and critic Henry Chapier is dead |url=https://www.lefigaro.fr/flash-actu/2019/01/27/97001-20190127FILWWW00104-henry-chapier-est-mort.php |work=Le Figaro |language=French |access-date=11 January 2020}}</ref>
== Biography == Henry Chapier was born in Bucharest, Romania, the son of an international lawyer and an actress of Austrian descent. He left Romania along with his family in 1947.<ref name=mort>{{cite news |date=27 January 2019 |title=Henry Chapier, animateur du légendaire "Divan", est mort|trans-title=Henry Chapier, host of legendary «Divan», is dead |url=https://www.liberation.fr/france/2019/01/27/henry-chapier-animateur-du-legendaire-divan-est-mort_1705727|work=La Libération |language=French |access-date=11 January 2020}}</ref>
Chapier began in 1958 a career as film critic collaborating with the weekly newspaper ''Arts'' with François Truffaut. He later became a stringer at ''L'Express'' and obtained a prize as best beginner journalist in 1959. The same year he became editor-in-chief of the Culture pages of ''Combat'' and was also the film critic of that newspaper until 1974. He got involved in the 1968 controversy over the dismissal of Henri Langlois from the Cinémathèque Française.
At the 1970 San Sebastián International Film Festival, his first film ''Sex Power'' won the Silver Shell award for best direction,<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.sansebastianfestival.com/1970/awards_and_jury_members/awards/1/63/in|title=1970 Awards |language=Spanish |website=San Sebastián International Film Festival website|access-date=11 January 2020}}</ref> from a jury that Chapier remembers<ref name=chapier>{{cite book |last=Chapier|first=Henry|title=Version originale |publisher=Fayard |date=2012 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=okgkCpgUsGkC&dq=Henry+Chapier+sex+power+fritz+lang&pg=PT52|language=French|isbn=978-2213662688}}</ref> was presided by Fritz Lang. In 1973, he directed the "semi-experimental" film ''Amore'', with a score by Vangelis Papathanassiou<ref name=vangelis>{{cite web |last=Ediriwira |first=Amar|url=https://thevinylfactory.com/news/mythical-vangelis-soundtrack-amore-vinyl-release/ |title=Mythical Vangelis soundtrack Amore surfaces on vinyl for the first time|date=25 January 2016 |website=The Vinyl Factory|access-date= 11 January 2020}}</ref> and a screenplay ostensibly by Paul Morrissey & Andy Warhol.<ref name=warhol>{{cite book |last= Griffin|first=Mark J. T. |title=Vangelis: The Unknown Man |publisher=Power of One Ltd |date=1997 |isbn=978-0952318729}}</ref>
In April 1974, Philippe Tesson created ''Le Quotidien de Paris'' and Henry Chapier was the editor-in-chief of the Culture pages. Chapier joined FR3 in 1978 as a film and cultural editorialist. In 1981, he is one of the three editors-in-chief of ''Soir 3''.<ref name=tvinfo>{{cite news |last=Bornet|first=Jacky|date=28 January 2019 |title=L'animateur de télévision et critique de cinéma Henry Chapier est mort|trans-title=Television host and critic Henry Chapier is dead|language=French|url=https://www.francetvinfo.fr/culture/musique/jazz/l-animateur-de-television-et-critique-de-cinema-henry-chapier-est-mort_3389799.html |work=France TV Info |access-date=11 January 2020}}</ref> He later created the television program ''Le Divan'' which he hosted from 1987 to 1994.<ref name=obit/> He left France 3 that year and became president of the Maison européenne de la photographie in 1996. The same year, he was a member of the jury at the Cannes Film Festival<ref name=tvinfo/> after being a member of the jury at the Caméra d'Or in 1988.<ref>See: Camera d'Or, Cannes 1988</ref>
Chapier died in his sleep at home in the early hours of Sunday 27 January 2019.<ref name=paris>{{cite news |last= Rossignol|first=Aurélie|date=27 January 2019 |title=Mort d'Henry Chapier, animateur et critique cinéma|trans-title=Death of host and cinema critic Henry Chapier|language=French|url=http://www.leparisien.fr/culture-loisirs/mort-d-henry-chapier-animateur-et-critique-cinema-27-01-2019-7997958.php |work=Le Parisien |access-date=11 January 2020}}</ref>
== Honours == *''Commandeur'' (Commander) of the Ordre national du Mérite *''Officier'' (Officer) of the Légion d'Honneur<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.legiondhonneur.fr/sites/default/files/promotion/lh20170101.pdf |title=Ordre Nationale de la Légion d'Honneur |website=Journal Officiel de la République Française|date=1 January 2017 |language=French |access-date=11 January 2020}}</ref>
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== External links == {{Portal|journalism|television}} *[http://www.henry-chapier.com Official website] {{in lang|fr}} *{{IMDb name|0152149}}
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