Pierre Fresnay

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Biography

French stage and film actor

  • Primary profession
  • Actor·writer·director
  • Country
  • France
  • Nationality
  • French
  • Gender
  • Male
  • Birth date
  • 04 April 1897
  • Place of birth
  • Paris
  • Death date
  • 1975-01-09
  • Death age
  • 78
  • Place of death
  • Neuilly-sur-Seine
  • Knows language
  • French language

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Trivia

Sir Alec Guinness states in his autobiography My Name Escapes Me that Fresnay was his favorite actor.

Distinguished French leading actor, in films from 1915. Gained a solid reputation on stage as a member of the Comedie Francaise for eleven years. Trained at the Conservatoire National dArt Dramatique in Paris. Co-founded (with his wife, the actress Yvonne Printemps ) the Theatre de la Michodiere in Paris in 1937, and starred in most of its plays. On screen, first came to the fore in Marcel Pagnol s Marseilles trilogy. Also seen in British films, notably Hitchcocks The Man Who Knew Too Much . His most acclaimed performance was as an aristocratic officer in Jean Renoir s La grande illusion .

Uncle of Roland Laudenbach and Philippe Laudenbach.

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