Guy Tréjan

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Guy Tréjan , actually Guy Alexandre Maurice Treichler , (born September 18, 1921 in Paris , † January 25, 2001 ibid), was a French actor .

Life

After the death of his father in 1937, Guy Tréjan went to his aunt in Switzerland and studied in Geneva. In 1939 he went back to Paris and began taking acting classes with Charles Dullin . He went to the Sarah Bernhardt Theater, where his teachers were Jean-Louis Barrault and Fernand Ledoux . He played in Dullin's troupe at the Théâtre de la Cité.

At the beginning of 1944, Guy Tréjan, hardly married and the father of one child, had to leave for compulsory labor service (STO) in Germany. However, before the arrival of the Germans who wanted to pick him up, he fled to Belgium with false papers and later to Geneva, Switzerland. He worked in this city for eight years, where he played theater, radio, operetta and cabaret. During this time he took the stage name "Tréjan".

In 1953 he played TS Eliot's Cocktail Party at the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier in Paris. From then on he played the most prestigious roles in theater, cinema and television. One of his first film roles was Marc Rétaux de Villette in Sacha Guitry's Versailles - Kings and Women (1954). He was very popular in the 1960s when he played the lead role of Commissioner Lambert in the Allô Police series . In the cinema, one of his most famous roles was King Louis XIII. in Bernard Borderie's The Three Musketeers .

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SURNAME Tréjan, Guy
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Treichler, Guy Alexandre Maurice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French actor
DATE OF BIRTH September 18, 1921
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH January 25, 2001
Place of death Paris