Henri Garcin

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Henri Garcin (born April 11, 1929 in Antwerp , Belgium ; actually Anton Albers ) is a French theater and film actor of Dutch origin.

Life

Henri Garcin was born in Antwerp in 1929 as Anton Albers. At the age of 22 he went to Paris , where he trained as an actor at the Cours Simon . At first he tried his hand at cabaret and got to know Jacques Brel , Serge Gainsbourg , Jean Poiret and Michel Serrault . Then he turned to the theater. In 1956 he stood in front of the film camera for the first time. In the film comedy Life in the Castle by Jean-Paul Rappeneau , he appeared in 1966 as a French resistance fighter on the side of Catherine Deneuve and Philippe Noiret . In 1974 he appeared in The Wild Sheep , directed by Michel Deville, alongside Jean-Louis Trintignant and Romy Schneider . In 1981 he played Fanny Ardant's husband in François Truffaut's drama The Woman Next Door . He also appeared regularly as an actor on French television. From 1985 to 1993 he played the role of neighbor Pierre Brettevolle in over 300 episodes of the comedy series Maguy , which was a French version of the US sitcom Maude .

In addition to French , Garcin speaks fluent Dutch . He has appeared in several films by Dutch director Alex van Warmerdam , such as Noorderlingen (1992), The Mysterious Dress (1996) and the film drama Grimm (2003) based on the fairy tale Hansel and Gretel . Over the years he has appeared in more than a hundred films, mostly as a supporting actor. From the 1950s he was also seen on stage in numerous plays, including by Shaw , Pirandello , Strindberg and Oscar Wilde . A piece he wrote under the title L'Échappée belle was successfully performed under his direction in 1964 at the Théâtre La Bruyère. In 1989 he was nominated for the Molière , the most important French theater award, in the category Best Supporting Actor for his performance in a production of Alan Ayckbourn's Just Between Ourselves .

Henri Garcin lives in Paris and has a daughter. In 2018 he published his autobiography under the title Longtemps, je me suis couché tard .

Filmography (selection)

  • 1957: love, rags, passions (Le Grand bluff)
  • 1957: Mademoiselle et son gang
  • 1962: Stealing also needs to be learned (Arsène Lupine contre Arsène Lupine)
  • 1964: Mata Hari, Agent H. 21
  • 1965: Caroline and the men over forty (Moi et les hommes de 40 ans)
  • 1966: Life in the Castle (La Vie de château)
  • 1966: Our man from Interpol (Le Judoka, agent secret)
  • 1967: The million dollar duel (Fleur d'oseille)
  • 1969: Blue Gauloises (Les Gauloises bleues)
  • 1970: A bull sees red (Un condé)
  • 1971: The murderer behind the door (Quelqu'un derrière la porte)
  • 1974: When will we meet again, Grelu? (Ursule et Grelu)
  • 1974: The wild sheep (Le Mouton enragé)
  • 1974: The Persecuted (Les Guichets du Louvre)
  • 1974: The verdict (Verdict)
  • 1975: Monsieur Dupont (Dupont Lajoie)
  • 1977: The Judge They Called Sheriff (Le Juge Fayard dit Le Shériff)
  • 1978: Take it easy, Mama (Vas-y maman)
  • 1978: Trocadero (Trocadéro bleu citron)
  • 1979: An Almost Perfect Affair
  • 1980: The Policewoman (La Femme flic)
  • 1980: Two camels on a horse (C'est pas moi, c'est lui)
  • 1981: The company of super rivets (Faut s'les faire!… Ces légionnaires)
  • 1981: The woman next door (La Femme d'à côté)
  • 1985–1993: Maguy (TV series, 333 episodes)
  • 1986: Out of the blue (Les Étonnements d'un couple modern) (TV movie)
  • 1990: Moselbrück (TV series, two episodes)
  • 1990: Weekend for two (Un week-end sur deux)
  • 1992: Noorderlingen (De noorderlingen)
  • 1995: One Hundred and One Nights (Les Cent et une nuits de Simon Cinéma)
  • 1996: The mysterious dress (De jurk)
  • 1996: On the eighth day (Le Huitième jour)
  • 1996: Circus Blood (La Dame du cirque) (TV movie)
  • 1999: The Liar (No Trains No Planes)
  • 2003: Grimm
  • 2004: San Antonio
  • 2005: In dire straits (Aux abois)
  • 2005: Tortur d'amour - Forever and Single (Il ne faut jurer de rien!)
  • 2006: The Pink Panther (The Pink Panther)
  • 2006: Sweet Mud - Caught in Heaven (Adama Meshuga'at)
  • 2006: My best friend (Mon meilleur ami)
  • 2006: Henry Dunant - The Red on the Cross (Henry Dunant: Du rouge sur la croix) (TV movie)
  • 2012: The Maiden and Death (Het Meisje en de Dood)
  • 2013: It's quiet upstairs (Boven is het stil)
  • 2015: Schneider vs. Bax
  • 2016: Tonio
  • 2019: La Sainte famille

Theater appearances (selection)

Awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ cf. official website
personal data
SURNAME Garcin, Henri
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Albers, Anton (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French actor
DATE OF BIRTH April 11, 1929
PLACE OF BIRTH Antwerp , Belgium