Jacques Mayol

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Jacques Mayol

Born 1927-04-01 Shanghai, China 6 films

Jacques Mayol, born April 1, 1927, in Shanghai, China, and died December 22, 2001, in Capoliveri, on the island of Elba, Italy, was a French freediver whose story inspired the film The Big Blue (1988). Jacques Mayol grew up in Shanghai, in the French Concession, where his father was an architect. In the summer, the family would often travel to Karatsu, Japan, via the Shanghai-Nagasaki shipping line. It was there that he learned to dive at the age of six. …

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Filmography

6 films
Dolphin Man poster

As well as providing the subject for Luc Besson’s The Big Blue, Jacques Mayol did more than anyone…

Dolphin Man

★ 7.8 2017