Fred Personne
Fred Personne (born August 20, 1932 in Auchel , Pas-de-Calais department as Alfred Célestin Personne ; † November 17, 2014 in Marmande , Lot-et-Garonne department ) was a French actor who worked between 1965 and 2013 in played over 150 film, television and short film productions, including in Kleine Fluchten , Forget Venice , Save yourself, who can (life) , Mein Fall or Willkommen bei den Sch'tis .
life and career
Fred Personne was born in 1932 in the small town of Auchel in northern France, the son of a grocer in the Pas-de-Calais department. Personne first studied literature in Béthune and Lille and then worked as a teacher before meeting the actor, theater director and theater manager Jean Vilar , who brought him to the stage of the National Theater of Flanders in 1958. This time was formative for Personne and so he switched from teaching to acting. Fred Personne has appeared in over 100 plays since the late 1950s.
Fred Personne began his television career in the mid-1960s with minor roles in television films and episodes of television series. In 1968 he made his film debut as an actor in Philippe Fourastié's crime drama La bande à Bonnot with Jacques Brel , Bruno Cremer and Annie Girardot in the leading roles. In the following decades, numerous prominent supporting roles followed in films such as Marcel Moussy's comedy Three Men on a Horse (1969), in Joseph Losey's crime film Monsieur Klein (1976), in Claude Zidi's comedy An Irrer Typ (1977), in Yves Yersin's award-winning one Film drama Kleine Fluchten (1979), where he played the role of John, in Jean-Luc Godard's drama Save yourself who can (life) (1980), in Manoel de Oliveira's cinema production Mein Fall (1986), in Nadine Trintignant's romantic drama Das Jadehaus (1988) or Monsieur Vasseur in Dany Boon's successful comedy Willkommen bei den Sch'tis (2008).
He made his last appearance in the French short film Le tableau by director Laurent Achard in 2013. Fred Personne died on November 17, 2014 at the age of 82 in Marmande, in the Lot-et-Garonne department.
Filmography (selection)
movie theater
- 1969: Three men on a horse (Trois hommes sur un cheval)
- 1974: The tall blonde with the blue eye (Juliette et Juliette)
- 1976: Love Story of a Nun (Les mal partis)
- 1976: Monsieur Klein (Mr. Klein)
- 1976: Don't bite, you are loved (Mords pas, on t'aime!)
- 1977: A Crazy Guy (L'animal)
- 1979: Little escapes (Les petites fugues)
- 1979: Forget Venice (Dimenticare Venezia)
- 1979: Who holds the reins (Le mors aux dents)
- 1980: The Policewoman (La femme flic)
- 1980: Save yourself who can (life) (Sauve qui peut (la vie))
- 1981: Don't marry me, Chérie (L'année prochaine ... si tout va bien)
- 1982: Flirting with Death (L'indiscrétion)
- 1983: Curse of the Pink Panther (Curse of the Pink Panther)
- 1986: My case (Mon cas)
- 1988: The Jade House (La maison de jade)
- 1992: Small fish, big fish (Riens du tout)
- 1993: Germinal
- 2008: Welcome to the Sch'tis (Bienvenue chez les Ch'tis)
watch TV
- 1970: The lily in the valley (Le lys dans la vallée)
- 1970–1984: The Falls of Monsieur Cabrol ( Les cinq dernières minutes , TV series, 4 episodes)
- 1971: The adventures of Monsieur Vidocq ( Les nouvelles aventures de Vidocq , TV series, 1 episode)
- 1978: With rose and revolver ( Les brigades du Tigre , TV series, 1 episode)
- 1979: The Count of Monte Christo ( Le Comte de Monte-Cristo , television multi-parter )
- 1980: Julien Fontanes, examining magistrate ( Julien Fontanes, magistrate , TV series, 1 episode)
- 1980: Commissioner Moulin ( Commissaire Moulin , TV series, 1 episode)
- 1980: The funeral of Monsieur Bouvet (L'enterrement de Monsieur Bouvet)
- 1981: Under the tricolor ( Blanc, bleu, rouge , TV series, 1 episode)
- 1981: Fat floats up ( Au bon beurre , TV series, 2 episodes)
- 1983: The Man from Suez ( L'homme de Suez , TV miniseries)
- 1993: Teachers on Demand ( L'instit , TV series, 1 episode)
- 1997: The missing son (L'Enfant perdu)
Web links
- Fred Personne in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Obituary for Fred Personne in: Pure People
- Filmography by Fred Personne in: The New York Times
- Films by Fred Personne with German distribution titles
Individual evidence
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Personne, Fred |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Personne, Alfred Célestin (maiden name) |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French actor |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 20, 1932 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Auchel |
| DATE OF DEATH | 17th November 2014 |
| Place of death | Marmande |