Simone Cousteau: Simone Cousteau. Second Unit or Assistant Director: World Without Sun. Descended from French naval officers, Simone Melchior married Jacques-Yves Cousteau in Paris on 12 July 1937. She was an integral part of the many expeditions of film-making and oceanography that made Cousteau famous. She spent years living about Calypso, the converted WWII minesweeper that Cousteau outfitted as an oceanographic vessel. Her two sons, Jean-Michel Cousteau (b. 1938) and Philippe Cousteau...
Known For: World Without Sun (Second Unit or Assistant Director), The Silent World (Self), Le grand échiquier (Self), Par dix-huit mètres de fond (Self)