Biography
Jules Borkon was a film producer. Born Julius Ilyich Borku on 25 January 1896 in Daugavpils, then part of the Russian Empire, he later became a naturalised French citizen and died on 10 January 1968 in Sainte-Geneviève-des-Bois, France.
He began his career as an impresario organising live spectacles across Europe before moving into film production in the 1950s. Borkon produced Eyes Without a Face (1960, also known as Les Yeux sans visage), directed by Georges Franju, as well as Neither Seen Nor Recognized (1958) and The Adventures of Arsène Lupin (1957). He also produced The Dialogue of the Carmelites (1960) and gave Louis de Funès early leading film roles in Like a Hair in the Soup (1957) and Neither Seen Nor Recognized.
