George Langelaan (born with Paris the January 19th 1908 and deceased the February 9th 1972) is a writer and Journaliste French which was agent of the British secret service Special Operations Executive during the Second world war.

Genealogy

English Parents. His/her father, of Dutch filiation, worked with the continental edition of Daily Mail

a son, William, continued some work of his father with Belline.

Biography

Second world war

George Langelaan was first of all a secret agent with the service of the British crown with the MI5 (to be checked). Number PP 751, Pompadour code. It had then entirely been made remake the face, not to be recognized in these disturbed times. Restuck ears, double chin, George Langelaan, the young English officer had become Georges Langdon, French petainist with his small moustache and its wick on the côté.
Recruited by the Special Operations Executive, section French (F), it followed the special drive and was thus parachuted in France in the night of the 6 September 7th, 1941 in the south of Chateauroux, with five other agents. Its mission consists in coming into contact with resistance. It is arranged to meet old the Edouard Herriot, which “does not wish to leave”. October 6th, while it waits to meet the operator radio operator Georges Bégué in a restaurant of Chateauroux to give him the message to be transmitted on the assessment of its mission, it is stopped by the French police force. It thus pays its freedom its categorical refusal, during its special drive, to learn how to handle itself the radio operator transmitters. July 16th, 1942, in company of several other agents of the also stopped SOE, he escapes from the camp of Mauzac (the Dordogne), where they had been gathered. With the release of Paris, it is one of the first, in British uniform, to enter the city, a team of war politique.

After the war

George Langelaan is “most naturally of the world” interested in the paranormal and the spirits, thus writing several stories on the phantoms. The double film adaptation of its news “the Fly” was a very great world success. In the Sixties', it takes an active part in the review “Planet” - and his/her little sister “Plexus” - of Louis Pauwels, apostle of the fantastic Réalisme (in company of Jacques Bergier, Aimé Michel, Remy Chauvin, Charles No5el Martin, Jean E. Charon and of good of others - Jacques Sternberg, Bernard Heuvelmans, François de Closets, Paul-Emile Victor, Jacques Mousseau, Gabriel Véraldi, Raymond de Becker, Jean Yanne, Roland Topor, Jean Gourmelin, Rene Pétillon, Pierre Clayette, Pierre-Yves Trémois…). It is also very active within the newspaper “Controls” of 1960 to 1963, transmitting to the children its memories of secret agent. From July 1970 in February 1971, he becomes collaborator of the monthly review “Espionage” of Jacques Bergier, for nine numbers with the Opta editions, in company of Northern Pierre and Gabriel Véraldi of group XXX of the review Planet.

He did not believe in a God, but in a certain form of reincarnation (its name means “Long life”!)…

Publications

Memories of the war

  • One named Langdon - memories of a secret agent , coll “Houses”, ED. Robert Laffont, 1950 * the mask of a secret agent - one named Langdon , ED. Robert Laffont, 1961 (reactualization of the first work of Langelaan)
  • special Missions , ED. Hatchet 1963, rééd. Club of the Friends of the Book, 1963. This book repend One named Langdon and the mask of a secret agent , and includes/understands two additional chapters: the big departure and Intelligence Service .

Fiction

  • Attack/Rifle/2nd , ED. Robert Laffont, 1952
  • the “Notebooks secret of agent P.P. 751” , accounts with the newspaper “Controls” of 1960 to 1963: new http://www.bdoubliees.com/journalpilote/auteurs3/langelaan.htm
  • of the Anti-World , ED. Robert Laffont, 1962, rééd. “Giant” marabout, n° 252,1966 (included “The Fly” which appeared in Playboy in June 1957 in the USA; “The lady of in addition to null-share” and “the fly” were included in many anthologies)
  • the Index with back , ED. International presses, coll “Inter-Police force Shock”, n° 12,1963
  • 20 best accounts of Science fiction , ED. “Giant” marabout, n° 207 (news), 1964
  • Torpedo the torpedo , ED. Robert Laffont, coll of pocket “Secret agent”, n° 5,1964 (the collection “Secret agent” (forty titles) was directed by Langelaan, of 1964 to 1966. All eight work of the author in the series was republished in 1992, always in the same editor)
  • the Dolphin speaks too , ED. Robert Laffont, coll of pocket “Secret agent”, n° 13,1964
  • Attack - rifle - 2nd , ED. Robert Laffont, coll of pocket “Secret agent”, n° 18,1964 (1st rééd.)
  • Zombi express train , ED. Robert Laffont, coll of pocket “Secret agent”, n° 21,1964
  • Shalom, Garnet! , ED. Robert Laffont, coll of pocket “Secret agent”, n° 25,1965
  • Death with the idle , ED. Robert Laffont, coll of pocket “Secret agent”, n° 29,1965
  • Club the Mediterranean , ED. Robert Laffont, coll of pocket “Secret agent”, n° 34,1965
  • Salad of heads , ED. Robert Laffont, coll of pocket “Secret agent”, n° 37,1965
  • the dictionary of the Cursed facts , coll “Encyclopedia Planet”, n° 28, ED. Planet, 1967
  • flight of anti “G” , novel, ED. Denoël - Planet, 1968
  • the new Parasites (+ Jean Barral), ED. Denoël, 1969
  • Thirteen phantoms (accounts), ED. Albin Michel, 1971, rééd. Culture section of France, 1972
  • invisible History (File “Planet”, 10 years of research”), of Group XXX (George Langelaan, Jacques Bergier (Jacques Verne), Luc Geslin, Francis Lacassin, Frederic Pohl, Gabriel Véraldi, Roger Wybot, Pierre Northern.), ED. Planet, 1972

Forewords

  • chief-of works of the Crime, Jacques Sternberg and Alex Gall, ED. Planet, 1965

Audio-visual

  • the “Ox on the Roof” (in connection with the Parisian café of between two-wars), France-Culture, the night of September 9th, 2000 (radio files INA). Langelaan evokes its adolescence with 03:00
  • George Langelaan, Écrivain and Agent-secrecy, emission “Side crushes, Côté face” of François-Xavier Freland, France-Information, Saturday, September 14, 2002: http://www.radiofrance.fr/chaines/france-info/chroniques/pile/index.php?m=3&chro_diff_id=991

With the cinema

Film adaptations, all exits of “News of the Anti-World”:
  • the black Fly , the USA, 1958 (had two continuations, the Return of the Fly , the USA, in 1959, and the Curse of the Fly , the USA, in 1965)
  • thinking Robots , France, 1976
  • the Fly ( The Fly ), the USA, 1986 (had a continuation, Fly 2, the USA, in 1989).

Radio

the Fly was adapted in radiophonic part on France Inter in the emission “To the Theater of Strange” at the end of the Sixties, like in the form of Roleplay (magazine “Chronicles of In addition to Monde”, n° May 7th, th and th - June 1987).

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