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Gender

Male

Birthday

1905-12-22 (119 years old)

Place of Birth

Paris, France

Pierre Brasseur

Biography:

Pierre Brasseur, born Pierre-Albert Espinasse (22 December 1905, Paris – 16 August 1972, Bruneck, Italy) was a French actor.

He was the son of actor Georges Espinasse and actress Germaine Brasseur while the latter was married to Albert Brasseur. His grandfather, Jules Brasseur, was an actor as well. The family tradition of using the name Brasseur was continued by his son Claude and his grandson Alexandre.

Renowned for playing outsized characters, Brasseur is probably best known in the anglophone world for his (semi-fictionalised) portrayal of the actor Frédérick Lemaître in Les Enfants du Paradis (Children of Paradise, 1945) and as Docteur Génessier (more subdued) in the horror film Eyes Without a Face (Les Yeux sans visage, 1960) co-starring with Alida Valli.

On May 30, 1927, Brasseur performed the spoken role of the Narrator in the world premiere of Igor Stravinsky's opera-oratorio Oedipus rex.

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Known For

Acting

1972

1971

1970

Un ange passe as Florisse

1969

Goto, Island of Love as Le Gouverneur-Roi Goto III

1968

A Little Virtuous as Jules Polnick
Birds in Peru as Husband

1967

The Madman of Lab Four as Father Ballanchon

1966

King of Hearts as General Géranium
Fortuna as Nissim Buzaglo
A Young World as Le Grec
Pas de panique as Fernand Toussaint

1965

Black Humor as Le guérisseur - segment 1 'La Bestiole'
L'or du duc as Le Maharadjah (l'oncle)
Cloportes as Demuldère aka 'Tonton le Brocanteur', receiver

1964

Lucky Jo as Loudéac
The Circular Triangle as Georges Richter
A Very Handy Man as Simone Palumbo

1963

Don't Tempt the Devil as Charles Cassidi, lawyer for Mrs. Dupré
Josefa's Loot as Mayor
Agent of Doom as Charlèz

1962

Emile's Boat as François Larmentiel
Hitch-Hike as Achille Pipermint, l'homme d'affaires radin à Orly
Crime Does Not Pay as Martin Fenayrou
Rencontres as Carl Krasner

1961

Spotlight on a Murderer as Comte de Keraudren
Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love! as Constable of Montmorency
Famous Love Affairs as le grand duc Ernest

1960

Eyes Without a Face as Professor Génessier
Handsome Antonio as Alfio Magnano
The Dialogue of the Carmelites as Commissioner of the Republic

1959

The Law as Don Cesare
Head Against the Wall as Dr. Varmont
The Bureaucrats as Monsieur Nègre

1958

The Possessors as Lucien Maublanc, le cousin oisif
Life Together as Pierre Carreau
Sans famille as Jeroboam Driscoll
Les Cinq Dernières Minutes as Maurice Tardenois

1957

1956

1955

Napoleon as Barras
Tower of Lust as Jehan Buridan
Oasis as Antoine Vallin

1954

Clothing the Naked as Console Grotti
Rasputin as Gregory Iefimovich Raspoutine

1953

The Drunkard as Maître Pierre Renneville

1952

Le Plaisir as Julien Ledentu
Crimson Curtain as Ludovic Arn / Macbeth
Torticola versus Frankensberg as Invisible Man's Friend

1951

Skipper Next to God as Captain Joris KnAipper
Dirty Hands as Hoederer
Bluebeard as Amédée de Salfère dit Barbe-Bleue

1950

Julie de Carneilhan as Hubert Espivant
Lost Souvenirs as Philippe (segment "Une statuette d'Osiris")
Jamaican Man as Jacques Mervel

1949

Portrait of a Murderer as Fabius / Jean

1948

Cruise for the Unknown One as Emile Fréchisse
Rocambole as Rocambole
The Secret of Monte-Cristo as François Picault
La Nuit blanche as Pierre Taverny

1947

Noah's Ark as Bitru
Love Around the House as 'Douze Apôtres'

1946

La Femme fatale as Jean Pleyard
Pétrus as Rodrigue
Behind These Walls as Jean-César Morin
Land Without Stars as Jean-Thomas Pellerin / François-Charles Talacayud

1945

Children of Paradise as Frédérick Lemaître

1943

Summer Light as Roland
Two Shy Ones as Vancouver
Adieu Léonard as Prosper Bonenfant

1942

La Croisée des chemins as Hubert Epervans

1941

1940

Sixième étage as Jonval, the young cynic

1939

Visages de femmes as Georges Legrand
The Path of Honor as Philippe
Le père Lebonnard as Alfredo Lebonnard
Second Childhood as Frossard
Last Desire as Frossard

1938

Port of Shadows as Lucien
Café de Paris as Le Rec
Gosse de riche as Pierre Mougins
Grisou as Hagnauer
Heartbeat as Cousine (uncredited)
Hercule as Bastien
The Life of Giuseppe Verdi as Alexandre Dumas figlio

1937

Claudine at School as Doctor Dubois
The Virgin Bride as Georges Letournel, le fils du mari de Jacqueline
Confessions of a Newlywed as Edmond Trivelin

1936

1935

A Rare Bird as Jean Berthier
Little One as Georges Darnetal
Le Miroir aux alouettes as Jean Forestier
Quadrille d'amour as Robert Lanclot

1934

Incognito as Marcel
Caravane as Lt. de Tokay
L'Oncle de Pékin as Philippe
The Amorous Garrison as (Pierre, un "deuxième classe")

1933

Tell Me Tonight as Koretzky

1932

The Winner as Hunter
Quick as Maxime

1931

My Friend Victor as Edgar Flachon
Circulate! as Jean Dupont-Desroches

1927

Feu! as Frémiet's ordinance

1925

Writing

1979

1970

Un ange passe as Writer

1938

Grisou as Dialogue
Grisou as Theatre Play

Sound