Henri Guisol

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Henri Guisol (born October 12, 1904 in Aix-en-Provence , † May 11, 1994 in Saint-Raphaël ), also Henry Guisol , was a French actor who was best known for productions of the genre Whodunit and film noir .

life and career

After studying acting at the Toulouse Conservatory, Henri Guisol moved to Paris, where he began his theater career in the late 1920s, which took him from Charles Dullin to Patrice Chéreau over a period of 50 years .

He made his film debut in 1931 with Jean Renoir in The Bitch as a waiter Amedée. His Max Perez alongside Danielle Darrieux in Henri Decoins Le domino vert (1933) was followed by another work by Renoir in 1935 in Das Verbrechen des Herr Lange . In Marc Allégret's Noël Coward adaptation Les amants terribles (1936) and alongside Lilian Harvey in Les gais lurons (1936), he solidified his career with major supporting roles in important works such as Marcel Carné's A Curious Case (Drole de drame) and entertainment films such as Drei Walzer . Guisol also played leading roles in Madame et le mort (1943) during the Second World War. In post-war cinema , leading roles followed in Tierce à coeur (1947) and Ces dames aux chapeaux verts (1949), among others . Subscribed to entertainment cinema in the 1950s, he and Gaby Morlay played the leading roles in André Hunebelle's Junge Rosen im Wind (1957). As a representative of Papa's cinema , his Abbé Faria in Claude Autant-Lara's The Count of Monte Christo in 1961 remains his last film role. Guisol went to television, where he had great success as Maxence in the family saga Mauregard . He only returned to the cinema in 1976 with a supporting role in La situation est grave ... mais pas désespérée and ended his career in 1980 with the miniseries La fortune des Rougon .

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Individual evidence

  1. ↑ John Howard Reid: Mystery, Suspense, Film Noir and Detective Movies on DVD: A Guide to the best in Cinema Thrills . lulu.com, 2009, ISBN 0-557-12223-6 (English, limited preview in Google Book Search).
personal data
SURNAME Guisol, Henri
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Guisol, Henry
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French actor
DATE OF BIRTH October 12, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Aix-en-Provence
DATE OF DEATH May 11, 1994
Place of death Saint-Raphaël