Françoise Brion

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Ben Carruthers and Françoise Brion 1967

Françoise Brion , born as Françoise Alicia Rose German de Ribon (born January 29, 1933 in Paris , France ) is a French stage and film actress .

Live and act

Françoise Brion had taken acting lessons from Pierre Dux and Raymond Girard in the early 1950s and then trained at the Actors Studio in New York. Back in Paris, the pale blonde young artist has been playing theater since 1955 and has appeared in numerous performances in such diverse capital venues as the Théâtre de l'Œuvre, the Théâtre des Variétés, the Théâtre de Paris, the Théâtre de l'Atelier, de Théâtre national populaire and the Théâtre Sarah-Bernhardt. She worked with the directors Robert Lamoureux , André Barsacq , Michael Cacoyannis , Jean Tasso and her teacher Pierre Dux, among others . Brion received her most important stage roles of the early days in Oscar Wilde's An Ideal Husband , in Françoise Sagan's A Castle in Sweden , in Euripides ' Die Troerinnen , in Peter Weiss ' Marat / Sade and in Bertolt Brecht's Antigone and Mother Courage and Her Children . She was also a guest at the Avignon Theater Festival several times.

In parallel with her theater work, her work in film has also gained in importance since 1956. Françoise Brion, who had almost 100 roles in front of the camera in the following half a century - leading and major supporting roles, cinema and television - initially worked with key representatives of the Nouvelle Vague ( Jacques Doniol-Valcroze , Pierre Kast and Alain Robbe- Grillet ) as well as with directors of the classic entertainment film, including long-serving veterans such as Léonide Moguy , Robert Siodmak , Christian-Jaque and Bernard Borderie . Mostly she was used as an attractive, blue-eyed, blonde eye-catcher, who mostly had to act as a friend and lover of the hero such as Eddie Constantine or Lino Ventura , but also as a seductive and sometimes dangerous siren. As her film career gradually waned in the late 1970s, television also gained prominence in Brion's career, and she also stepped up her theater work again. In her later years, starting around the mid-1990s, the artist was offered a number of interesting character roles in plays as diverse as Thomas Bernhard , Edward Albee , Ingmar Bergman and Harold Pinter .

Françoise Brion was married to fellow actor Paul Guers .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1956: Ariane - Love in the Afternoon
  • 1957: Girl trap (Donnez-moi ma chance)
  • 1957: Natali (Nathalie)
  • 1958: The night and its price (Cette nuit-là)
  • 1959: Katja, the uncrowned Empress (Katia)
  • 1959: The murderer came at midnight (Un témoin dans la ville)
  • 1959: The cat does not let mousing (L'eau à la bouche)
  • 1960: You can give it a try (Le Bel Âge)
  • 1960: Palpitations (Le Cœur battant)
  • 1960: Eddie goes all out (Comment qu'elle est)
  • 1961: Parisian women (Les Parisiennes)
  • 1962: This is not for little girls (Lemmy pour les dames)
  • 1962: In the hand of someone stronger (Et Satan conduit le bal)
  • 1962: The Immortal (L'Immortelle)
  • 1963: Codine
  • 1963: Holidays in Portugal (Vacances portugaises)
  • 1963: Pepper sweets (Dragées au poivre)
  • 1964: Les murs (TV movie)
  • 1964: Lost Trouble ( La peine perdue , TV film)
  • 1965: Cards on the table (Cartes sur table)
  • 1965: A young world (Un mondo nuovo)
  • 1966: The blonde from Beijing
  • 1967: Alexander, the life artist (Alexandre le bienheureux)
  • 1967: To Grab the Ring
  • 1969: One day too many (Les Gommes)
  • 1971: The last dance of the blond devil (Un beau monstre)
  • 1972: La chambre Rouge
  • 1973: Duel in Vaccares (Caravan to Vaccares)
  • 1973: Al otro lado del espejo
  • 1974: Rosebud Company ( Rosebud )
  • 1975: Adieu, Bulle (Adieu poulet)
  • 1975: A Wild Weekend (La Traque)
  • 1975: Madame's chauffeur (Les Bijoux de famille)
  • 1976: Nea - A girl discovers love (Néa)
  • 1977: Le Point de mire
  • 1978: The Eerie Stranger (Attention, les enfants regardent)
  • 1979: Madame Sourdis (TV movie)
  • 1980: Tarendol (TV movie)
  • 1981: Les brus (TV movie)
  • 1982: Théâtre pour demain: L'armoire (TV film)
  • 1984: Mistral's Daughter (TV series)
  • 1985: The Frog Prince
  • 1985: The Temptation of Isabelle (La Tentation d'Isabelle)
  • 1986: A day in Paris (Suivez mon regard)
  • 1988: Blood cult (La mort mystérieuse de Nina Chéreau)
  • 1991: Rue du Bac
  • 1991: Isabelle Eberhardt
  • 1992: Vincennes Neuilly
  • 1993: Gabriel (TV movie)
  • 1994: Nelly & Monsieur Arnaud (Nelly et Monsieur Arnaud)
  • 1998: Week-end! (TV movie)
  • 1998: La dernière des romantiques (TV movie)
  • 1999: La bûche
  • 2000: L'amour prisonnier
  • 2000: Toutes les femmes sont des déesses
  • 2003: An affair in Paris (Le divorce)
  • 2003: Dangerous Liaisons (Les Liaisons dangereuses) (TV series)
  • 2005: Help, I'm renovating (Travaux, on sait quand ça commence ...)
  • 2007: All About Yvonne (short film)
  • 2008: C'est la vie - This is how we are, this is life (Le Premier Jour du reste de ta vie)

literature

  • Jean-Loup Passek: Dictionnaire du cinema, Paris 1992, p. 84 f. (wrong year of birth 1934 there)

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personal data
SURNAME Brion, Françoise
ALTERNATIVE NAMES German de Ribon, Françoise Alicia Rose (full name at birth)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French stage, film and television actress
DATE OF BIRTH January 29, 1933
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris