Philippe Petit (French pronunciation: [filip pəti]; born 13 August 1949) is a French highwire artist who gained fame for his unauthorized highwire walks...
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high-wire artist Philippe Petit's walk between the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center in 1974. The film stars Joseph Gordon-Levitt as Petit, alongside Ben...
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French actor Philippe Petit, French performer and tightrope artist Philippe Petitcolin (born 1952/53), French businessman, CEO of Safran Philippe Russo, French...
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estimate was depicted in 472 films. The Twin Towers were also used in Philippe Petit's tightrope-walking performance on August 7, 1974. Following the September...
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Knight Rises (2012), Looper (2012), and Lincoln (2012). He portrayed Philippe Petit in the Robert Zemeckis-directed film The Walk (2015) and whistleblower...
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chess master Paul Petit (aviator) (1890-1918), French flying ace Philippe Petit (born 1949), French high-wire artist Pierre Petit (photographer) (1832–1909)...
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Mordicai Gerstein. Published in 2003, the book recounts the achievement of Philippe Petit, a French man who walked on a tightrope wire between the roofs of the...
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film chronicles Philippe Petit's 1974 high-wire walk between the Twin Towers of New York's World Trade Center. It is based on Petit's 2002 book, To Reach...
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on May 26, 1977, about two and a half years after tightrope walker Philippe Petit walked between the tops of the two towers. Before the stunt, Willig...
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2008, IGN revealed in an interview with Philippe Petit that Zemeckis was working with Petit to turn Petit's memoir To Reach the Clouds into a feature...
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