Claude Laydu

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Claude Laydu (born March 10, 1927 in Etterbeek ; † July 29, 2011 in Massy ) was a Belgian- Swiss actor who mainly worked in France .

Live and act

Claude Laydu, who was born and raised in the greater Brussels area , came to France in 1947 and settled in Paris. Here the young artist took acting courses at the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique . He then joined the acting troupe of Jean-Louis Barrault at the Théâtre Marigny and also appeared at other theaters in the capital such as the Théâtre La Bruyère, the Théâtre de l'Alliance française and the Théâtre de Paris. In March 1950, Robert Bresson gave Laydu the leading and title role of the young priest who was at the center of the action in his first film, the ascetic masterpiece Diary of a Country Pastor . Two years later, André Cayatte took on the next leading role, that of the lawyer Philippe Arnaud in the no less serious legal drama We are all murderers . Laydu appeared in a number of other films by the end of the decade, but they made little impact.

Claude Laydus' grave in the Cimetière du Montparnasse

In 1960 Laydu accepted an invitation to the GDR to play the Italian comedy writer Carlo Goldoni in a DEFA film biography . The result, “Italian Capriccio” , was an artistic fiasco and was unanimously panned by film reviews. After all, Laydu's stay immediately before the building of the wall had something good: The French-by-choice saw Das Sandmännchen der GDR on Ostfernsehen and was so enthusiastic about this bedtime program for the little ones that he decided to do something similar when he returned to France to set up and produce on French television for toddlers. The result was called “ Bonne Nuit les Petits ” (Good night, you little ones), ran for five minutes evening after evening from 1962 to 1966 and established the dolls Nounours, Pimprenelle and Nicolas as favorites of the youngest TV viewers. Laydu himself was not only responsible as the producer of the French sandman, but also provided the voice for it. In 1995, after around three decades, Laydu and his wife Christine put together a new version of this bedtime program under the title “ Nounours ”.

Filmography

  • 1950: Diary of a country pastor (Journal d'un curé de Campagne)
  • 1951: Le Voyage en Amérique
  • 1951: Au cœur de la Casbah
  • 1952: We are all murderers (Nous sommes tous des assassins)
  • 1952: The road to Damascus (Le Chemin de Damas)
  • 1953: Le Bon Dieu sans confession
  • 1953: La Route Napoléon
  • 1954: Rasputin (Raspoutine)
  • 1954: Attila, the scourge of God ( Attila, il flagello di Dio )
  • 1954: Interdit de séjour
  • 1955: Altair
  • 1955: Your is my heart - Schubert's great love ( Sinfonia d'amore )
  • 1956: The Wheel (La Roue)
  • 1958: En votre âme et conscience (TV series, one episode)
  • 1959: Sacrifice of a nun (Le Dialogue des carmélites)
  • 1961: Italian capriccio
  • 1963: Mafia a la sbarra
  • 1979: Le destin de Priscilla Davies (TV movie)

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Bonne nuit les petits: Claude Laydu, père de Nicolas, Pimprenelle et Nounours, est décédé. In: Premiere. September 16, 2015, accessed June 28, 2020 (French).
  2. ↑ cf. The great lexicon of Defa feature films. Schwarzkopf and Schwarzkopf. S. 277, Berlin 2000, ISBN 3-89602-349-7

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personal data
SURNAME Laydu, Claude
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian-Swiss actress in stage, film and television
DATE OF BIRTH March 10, 1927
PLACE OF BIRTH Etterbeek
DATE OF DEATH July 29, 2011
Place of death Massy