Jacques Duby

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Jacques Duby (born May 7, 1922 in Toulouse , † February 15, 2012 in Paris ) was a French actor .

Life

Education and theater

Duby was born under the full real name of Jacques Charles Stanislas Duby . His father was a doctor ; he sent Duby to speaking lessons in his youth to overcome his shyness.

Duby completed an acting training at the Conservatoire de Paris . In the early 1950s Duby began his career as a stage actor ; one of his first appearances in 1950 was his participation in the comedy L'Etranger au théâtre by André Roussin at the Paris cabaret Chez Gilles. 1950/1951 he appeared in several smaller roles (English nobleman, servant) at the Center dramatique de l'Ouest in Rennes in Shakespeare's late work Cymbeline ; his partner in the title role was Georges Wilson . He became a member of the Grenier-Hussenot theater company founded by Jean-Pierre Grenier and Olivier Hussenot. Duby appeared there in plays by Marcel Aymé : as Vicomte Octave de Clérambard in Clérambard (1954, Comédie des Champs-Elysées) and as Valentin in Les Oiseaux de lune (1955, Théâtre de l'Atelier).

In the 1960s Duby played mainly in tabloid comedies , mainly by Marc Camoletti , including Semiramis (1963, Théâtre Édouard VII) and Secretissimo (1965, Théâtre des Ambassadeurs). He also took on various musical roles, such as the window cleaner Finch in the musical How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying by Frank Loesser (1964, Théâtre de Paris ) and the insurance agent Oscar in the musical Sweet Charity (1970, Théâtre de la Gaîté with Sydney Chaplin and Magali Noël , Duby also recorded both roles in French for vinyl .

In 1972 he played the role of Bérenger (Behringer) in the play The Rhinos at the Théâtre des Célestins in Lyon . In 1973 he appeared with the theater company Les Branquignols, founded by Robert Dhéry and Colette Brosset , in Paris at the Théâtre La Bruyère. In the late 1980s, Duby ended his career as a stage actor. His last theater roles in 1989 included his role in the tabloid comedy L'Œuf à la première personne by Félicien Marceau at the Théâtre de la Potinière in Paris; Duby also directed this production .

Movie and TV

In the cinema , Duby usually took on the second leading role, often supporting roles. He mostly played ridiculous, marginal characters on the screen. Dubys often interpreted naive, fragile characters. Dubys film debut took place in 1952, largely unnoticed, as Antoine Boitelle in the episodic film Trois femmes by André Michél . His breakthrough came in 1953, under the direction of Marcel Carné , in the role of the Lyon merchant Camille Raquin in the literary film adaptation of Thérèse Raquin . In it he embodied, at the side of Simone Signoret , the betrayed and abandoned husband who loses his wife Thérèse Raquin to the Italian truck driver Laurent ( Raf Vallone ).

He then received roles in the comedies Courte-tête (1955) by Norbert Carbonnaux with Fernand Gravey and in Der Mann im Regenmantel ( L'homme à l'imperméable , 1957) by Julien Duvivier with Fernandel . Under the direction of Duvivier, he also directed the films Whenever the Lights Go Out ( Pot-Bouille , 1957) and Lights from Paris ( Boulevard , 1960). In the film drama Always when the light goes out , he played the role of Auguste Fabre . He played, alongside Danielle Darrieux and Gérard Philipe , who was the easy-going womanizer Octave Mouret , the second son of the house owner and the husband betrayed by his wife Marie ( Dany Carrel ). In the film drama Lights of Paris he played the homosexual Italian painter Giuseppe Amato , whom the young leading actor, the 16-year-old Georges 'Jojo' Castagnier, played by Jean-Pierre Léaud, is both repulsed and fascinated by. In the Franco-Italian melodrama Christine (1958), a free film adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's play Liebelei , he took on the role of the composer Joseph Binder . As a rejected lover, he loses his lover Christine ( Romy Schneider ) to the attractive Dragoon Lieutenant Fritz Lobheimer ( Alain Delon ).

Duby was rarely cast by the directors of the Nouvelle Vague . As his cinema career stagnated, Duby turned back to the theater in the 1960s.

He had later cinema roles, almost exclusively supporting roles, under the direction of Henri Verneuil , as Raymond Robel in the gangster film The Clan of Sicilians (1969) alongside Jean Gabin , Alain Delon and Lino Ventura and as a real estate agent in the drama Le Coup de sirocco ( 1978) by Alexandre Arcady with Roger Hanin . He had an important role as Julien in the film The Sparrow of Paris (1973), the first biopic about Édith Piaf , shot by Guy Casaril with Brigitte Ariel in the title role. He had his last film role in 2003 in the comedy Je reste! by Diane Kurys . In it he played, at the side of Sophie Marceau and Vincent Perez as lovers, the old neighbors who showed themselves in underwear.

On television , he had a continuous series role as Mayor Paul Crochon (Maire Crochon) in the French sitcom Maguy . Television gave his talent a big stage when, in 1973 - almost twenty years after the premiere - he played Valentin again in André Barsacq's TV adaptation of Marcel Aymés Die Mondvögel , this time in love with Claude Jade (as Sylvie ), 26 years his junior . He had episode roles in the television series Claudine (1978) by Édouard Molinaro , Navarro (1991, with Roger Hanin in the title role) and Maître Da Costa (1997, also with Hanin in the title role). He also worked in two episodes of the crime series Les Enquêtes du commissaire Maigret , with Jean Richard as Commissioner Maigret.

In a total of five television commercials (first in October 1968) he worked as an advertising actor for the French cheese brand Boursin .

Speaker activity

In the 1960s Duby recorded numerous records of works by Walt Disney , such as 101 Dalmatians (1961), Pinocchio (1968), The Three Little Pigs ( Les Trois Petits Cochons , 1968) and The Jungle Book (1968).

Duby also made a name for himself as a reciter ; he spoke and recorded poetry, especially by Guillaume Apollinaire , so Les Colchiques . He also recorded the poem Si je mourais là-bas from the Poèmes à Lou by Apollinaire .

death

Duby died in Paris at the age of 89. The funeral services took place on February 23, 2012 in the Église Saint-Roch in Paris. Duby was buried in the Montmartre Cemetery on February 23, 2012 .

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Jacques Duby Vita at CinéArtistes.com
  2. ↑ a b c d e f g DIAPORAMA: Après la mort de Jacques Duby, sa carrière en images Obituary (with pictures) in: France Soir of February 16, 2012
  3. ↑ Cymbeline cast
  4. ↑ a b c d Décès du comédien Jacques Duby obituary in: Le Figaro from February 16, 2012
personal data
SURNAME Duby, Jacques
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Duby, Jacques Charles Stanislas (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French actor
DATE OF BIRTH May 7, 1922
PLACE OF BIRTH Toulouse
DATE OF DEATH February 15, 2012
Place of death Paris