Jean Carmet

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Jean Carmet (1991)

Jean Gabriel Edmond Carmet (born April 25, 1920 in Bourgueil , Indre-et-Loire department , † April 20, 1994 in Sèvres , Hauts-de-Seine ) was a French actor .

Life

Carmet made his film debut in 1942, directed by Marcel Carné, in The Night with the Devil . The following year he appeared in the 1945 film Children of Olympus alongside Arletty and Jean-Louis Barrault . Small roles followed until he was able to establish himself as a second hero alongside the main character, such as B. alongside Gérard Philipe in The Adventures of Till Ulenspiegel ( Les Aventures de Till L'Espiègle ).

In his almost fifty-year film career, Carmet often embodied the type of common man from the people in his most varied of manifestations: whether as a mineworker in Claude Berris Germinal after Émile Zola , as a brutal rapist in Yves Boisset's Monsieur Dupont or as the murder victim Isabelle Hupperts in Claude Chabrol's Violette Nozière . He played under renowned directors such as Jean Renoir ( The Corporal in the Sling ), Henri Verneuil ( Silent As The Night ), Claude Sautet ( The Great Residence ), Jean-Jacques Annaud ( Longing for Africa ), Robert Dhéry ( The Great American ) , Bertrand Blier ( You meet the murderer at the buffet ), Denys Arcand ( The crime of Ovide Plouffe ) and Volker Schlöndorff ( The fake ).

His role model experienced a turning point when Yves Robert cast him alongside Pierre Richard in the comedy The Big Blonde with the Black Shoe . Carmet had worked with both of them before - with Robert 1967 in the Philippe Noiret comedy Alexander, the bon vivant, and with Richard four years later in his Alfred, the crack pea . The tall blonde with the black shoe gave Carmet the opportunity to play his own physical comedy in the second lead role without slipping into slapstick . His roles in the sequel The Big Blonde Returns (also directed by Robért) were similar , alongside Louis de Funès in Louis and his extraterrestrial cabbages and again alongside Pierre Richard in The Fugitives . That he mastered the tragicomic element of such characters, he was able to prove in 1986 as an aging transvestite in Mehdi Charef Miss Mona , for which he received a César nomination for best actor .

In total, Jean Carmet took part in over 200 films and television plays. You could also see him on the theater stage at times.

Jean Carmet played his last role in 1994 in Eugénie Grandet . He died of a heart attack that same year . His grave is on the Cimetière Montparnasse in Paris .

Filmography

Awards

Jean Carmet has received several awards for his artistic work. Among other things, he was awarded the renowned César twice

and nominated three more times:

  • 1979: as best supporting actor in Le sucre
  • 1987: as best supporting actor in Les Fugitifs
  • 1988: Best Actor in Miss Mona .

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ knerger.de: The grave of Jean Carmet
personal data
SURNAME Carmet, Jean
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Carmet, Jean Gabriel Edmond (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French actor
DATE OF BIRTH April 25, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Bourgueil , Indre-et-Loire department
DATE OF DEATH April 20, 1994
Place of death Sèvres , Hauts-de-Seine