Jean Forest (actor)

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Jean Forest (born September 25, 1912 in Paris , † March 27, 1980 in Sauvigny-le-Bois ) was a French child actor and radio play author .

life and career

Jean Forest was discovered on the streets of Paris by the film director Jacques Feyder , who gave him leading roles in three of his silent films: The Man from the Street (1922), Children's Faces (1925) and Homesickness for the Alley (1925). For these performances Jean Forest was later recognized by critics as "one of the most touching child actors of the silent film era" and as "absolutely worth seeing (...) natural and rousing". Forest turned with other directors and he managed the jump to the sound film the end of the 1920s, as a young adult, he played supporting roles in under false suspicion with Kathe von Nagy and the Passion drama The cross of Calvary alongside Robert Le Vigan and Jean Gabin .

After he could no longer build on earlier successes and made his last film in 1935, Forest turned to radio work with success. In the 1950s and 1960s he wrote and produced award-winning radio plays, among other things.

Jean Forest died in 1980 at the age of 67 in the French village of Sauvigny-le-Bois.

Filmography

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ Information on Gribiche at Arte
  2. ↑ Gribiche at SilentFilm
  3. ↑ The beautiful luxury life in "Gribiche". Retrieved January 17, 2018 .
  4. ^ Radio plays by Jean Forest in the radio play database
  5. ^ Jean Forest in the Find a Grave database . Retrieved January 28, 2017 (English).
  6. ↑ Jean Forest at L'ENCINEMATHEQUE
personal data
SURNAME Forest, Jean
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French child actor
DATE OF BIRTH September 25, 1912
PLACE OF BIRTH Paris
DATE OF DEATH March 27, 1980
Place of death Sauvigny-le-Bois