David Dewaele
David Dewaele (born March 19, 1976 in Hazebrouck , Nord-Pas-de-Calais as David Sébastien Dewaele ; † February 27, 2013 ibid) was a French actor .
life and career
David Dewaele was born in Hazebrouck in northern France in 1976 , 16 km from the Belgian border. Dewaele grew up as a working class child in poor circumstances and a socially difficult environment. He found support only with his grandmother. As a teenager, drug and alcohol problems arose and a life began between youth prisons and extravagant adventures in bars and pubs. Mostly cut by French society until the mid-1990s, he converted to Islam .
Dewaele gained his first short camera experience in 1985 when he was nine years old in the short film De boot by Jaco Van Dormael and a year later he was able to work in the TV miniseries Adriaen Brouwer .
In 2006 he met the French director Bruno Dumont at the employment office in Hazebrouck, who offered him a small role in his film Flanders . Dewaele mastered his brief appearance brilliantly and so Dumont engaged him again in 2009, this time for the supporting role of David in his drama Hadewijch . Impressed by the intense portrayal of his film character, he entrusted David Dewaele with the male lead in his film Hors Satan in 2011 . There he embodied the antihero and outsider Le Gars. The film received very benevolent reviews in the press, including The New York Times and The Guardian, and Dewaele's performance as a social antihero was highly praised.
In 2012, he starred in the documentary Shut Up and Play the Hits by directors Will Lovelace and Dylan Southern.
Before there could be a new movie offer, David Dewaele died on February 27, 2013 in his hometown of the consequences of a stroke. He was only 37 years old.
Filmography
movie theater
- 2006: Flanders (Flandres)
- 2009: Hadewijch
- 2011: Hors Satan
Short film
- 1985: De boot
documentary
- 2012: Shut Up and Play the Hits
watch TV
- 1986: Adriaen Brouwer
Web links
- David Dewaele in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Obituary for David Dewaele (PDF; 363 kB)
- Filmography by David Dewaele in: The New York Times
- Films by David Dewaele with German distribution titles
Individual evidence
- ^ David Dewaele in: The New York Times
- ^ David Dewaele in: The Guardian
- ^ Obituary for David Dewaele in: Allocine
personal data | |
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SURNAME | Dewaele, David |
ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Dewaele, David Sébastien (maiden name) |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French actor |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 19, 1976 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Hazebrouck , Nord-Pas-de-Calais , France |
DATE OF DEATH | February 27, 2013 |
Place of death | Hazebrouck , Nord-Pas-de-Calais , France |