Jacques Thévoz was born in 1918 in Fribourg, Canton Fribourg, Switzerland. He was a director, known for Un peuple jeune, un vieux pays (1964), Des transports peu communs: De l'homme-fourmi à l'homme-oiseau (1977) and Rose de Pinsec (1978). He died on March 1, 1983 in Geneva, Switzerland.