Georges Wilson

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Georges Wilson

Georges Wilson (born October 16, 1921 in Champigny-sur-Marne , † February 3, 2010 in Rambouillet ) was a French actor .

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Wilson was considered a monstre sacré in France , a theater legend. In the film, he had his first major role in 1954 as Binet in Claude Autant-Lara's Stendhal film adaptation of Red and Black ( Le rouge et le noir ). Philippe de Broca cast him in 1960 as a counterpart to the then sex symbol Jean-Pierre Cassel in Where is morality, sir? This was followed by the sacrifice of a nun (1960) with Jeanne Moreau and the role as Fernandel's counterpart in Der Boss und seine Engel (1961). Georges Wilson played his most important role in 1961 in Henri Colpis Still after a year and a day with Alida Valli . Occasionally he was also seen in more commercial productions, for example as Alexandre Renaud in The Longest Day , in The beautiful Isabella with Sophia Loren and in Lucio Fulci's Beatrice Cenci .

In the 1970s, Wilson was seen as Michel Piccoli's boss in The Girl and the Commissioner , as Monsieur de Treville in Richard Lester's The Three Musketeers and as Lourceuil in The Wild Sheep . On German television he played in Fritz Umgelter's series The involuntary journeys of Moritz August Benjowski . Georges Wilson had one of his strongest roles in 1982 , when the character he played in Pierre Schoendoerffer's L'honneur d'un capitaine fights a military attorney ( Charles Denner ) for the honor of a man who died in the Algerian war ( Jacques Perrin ), supported by a lawyer ( Claude Jade ) and the dead man's widow ( Nicole Garcia ). Wilson made his last major film under the direction of Fernando E. Solanas : in 1985 he played Jean-Marie in Tangos . In 2005 he appeared in front of the camera as the father of Patrick Chesnais in You don't have to love me .

Among the many theater productions Wilson include a performance in Cat on a Hot Tin Roof by Tennessee Williams , for which he received the French theater prize 2001 Molière as Best Supporting Actor won.

Wilson's sons are saxophonist and composer Jean-Marie Willson and actor and singer Lambert Wilson .

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SURNAME Wilson, Georges
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French actor
DATE OF BIRTH October 16, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Champigny-sur-Marne , France
DATE OF DEATH February 3, 2010
Place of death Rambouillet