Charles Denner

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Charles Denner (born May 29, 1926 in Tarnów , † September 10, 1995 in Dreux ) was a French actor .

Life

Charles Denner was born into a Jewish family in Tarnów, Poland. When he was four years old, his family emigrated to Paris as a result of the global economic crisis. During the Second World War, his family found refuge in Brive-la-Gaillarde . He took part - together with his brother Alfred - in the partisan battles in the Vercors massif and was awarded the Croix de guerre for this.

He learned acting from 1945 among others with Charles Dullin . In the meantime, he earned his living by working at night as a porter in the Parisian market halls . He played his first roles in one of the numerous “jeunes compagnies” in Paris in the post-war period; a “jeune compagnie” (“young company”) was a free, often short-term ensemble of young actors who performed in different locations. He found his first engagement in 1949 at the Théâtre National Populaire under Jean Vilar . His appearance at the Avignon Festival, also directed by Jean Vilar, caused a sensation in 1951 in the drama Prinz Friedrich von Homburg or the Battle of Fehrbellin by Heinrich von Kleist .

Charles Denner had his first major success as a film actor in Claude Chabrol's The Woman Killer of Paris in the title role of the woman killer Henri Désiré Landru . Here he played with Danielle Darrieux , Michèle Morgan and Chabrol's wife at the time, Stéphane Audran . He himself became a murder victim in François Truffaut's The Bride Wore Black . In Truffaut's comedy A Beautiful Girl Like Me , he played a Catholic rat fighter. He also played the title role in Truffaut's The Man Who Loved Women .

Filmography (selection)

Awards

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literature

  • Gianni Canova (ed.): Enciclopedia del cinema (in the Le garzantine series ). Garzanti, Milan 2002, ISBN 88-11-50498-8 , p. 293.

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Alan Riding: Charles Denner, 69, French Star Of Truffaut and Lelouch Films (obituary). In: The New York Times, September 12, 1995, accessed April 22, 2016.
  2. ↑ a b Marina Trubaitschuk: Шарль Деннер. День рождения (biography, Russian).
  3. ↑ a b Dimitri Vezyroglou: DENNER Charles . In: Pascal Ory (ed.) Dictionnaire des étrangers qui ont fait la France . Laffont, Paris 2013, ISBN 978-2-221-11316-5 .
  4. ↑ a b Denner, Charles . In: Gianni Canova (ed.): Enciclopedia del cinema . Garzanti, Milan 2002, p. 293.
personal data
SURNAME Denner, Charles
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French actor
DATE OF BIRTH May 29, 1926
PLACE OF BIRTH Tarnów
DATE OF DEATH September 10, 1995
Place of death Dreux