Trivia

His career as a showman began at the Université libre de Bruxelles, where he attended and then directed the Jeune Théâtre. It was there that a group of young actors was formed, who, like him, would become pillars of audiovisual creation in the French Community of Belgium.

He was also the founder of the Rideau de Bruxelles theatre troupe.

Henri Billen was one of the creators of television in the French speaking part of Belgium.

He had orchestrated the very first French speaking Belgian television broadcast, on October 31, 1953.

He had been sent on a mission to French television to see how to create one in Belgium.

He was a sort of mentor for a series of actors, journalists, television men in the French Community. Characters who, just like him, later left their mark on the Belgian French speaking media landscape.