Edmond Séchan (20 September 1919 in Montpellier – 7 June 2002 in Courbevoie) was a French cinematographer and film director.
He worked with great directors (Jean Becker, Jean-Pierre Mocky, Philippe de Broca, Pierre Étaix), but most notably with Louis Malle and Jacques-Yves Cousteau on The Silent World.
On the other hand, his short films earned him a harvest of prestigious prizes: Le Haricot, (Short Film Palme d'Or at Cannes in 1963)[1] and Toine (César du meilleur court métrage in 1981).
Most especially, he belongs to the small French circle to have won Oscars in Hollywood, in 1960 with The Golden Fish, produced by Cousteau, in the category Academy Award for Best Live Action Short Film, and in 1975 with One-Eyed Men Are Kings, in collaboration with Michel Leroy, produced by Paul Claudon.
Renaud and his brother make an appearance in The Red Balloon, a movie in which Séchan worked as director of photography.