Louis Seigner

Louis Seigner (born June 23, 1903 in Saint-Chef , † January 20, 1991 in Paris ) was a French actor .

Life

Seigner attended the Conservatory of Lyon as well as the Conservatory of Paris and received his first engagement at the Théâtre des Célestins in 1919. From 1923 to 1939 he played at the Théâtre de l'Odéon in Paris, interrupted by trips to the Grand Guignol stage (1925) and the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin . In 1939 he began to belong to the Comédie-Française for decades .

Seigner took part in numerous classic stage plays, including The Citizen as a Nobleman , The Imaginary Sick , Guilt and Atonement , A Florentine Hat , Malatesta , The Tempest , King Lear and The Merchant of Venice . He has also directed several times, such as Tartuffe , Crainquebille and Donogoo .

Seigner came to film only hesitantly, it was only since the early 1940s that he appeared in a large number of mostly serious films. The heavyweight, bald mime played dignitaries, upper-class citizens, entrepreneurs, headmasters, prison directors, judges, mayors, bishops and people of power of all kinds. In one of his last film roles, he played the French Justice Minister Joseph, who was very courteous towards the German occupiers, in the political thriller Sonder-Tribunal Barthélémy.

His daughter Françoise Seigner also took up the acting profession, the actresses Emmanuelle Seigner and Mathilde Seigner are his granddaughters.

Filmography (selection)

• 1933: Chotard & Co. (Chotard et Cie)
• 1942: Symphony of Love (La symphonie fantastique)
• 1942: Love marriage (Le Mariage de Chiffon)
• 1943: A fatal family (Goupi mains rouges)
• 1943: The Song of Songs of Love (Les Anges du péché)
• 1943: The Secret of Madame Clapain (Le Secret de Madame Clapain)
• 1943: The Raven (Le Corbeau)
• 1944: Call of the Mountains (Premier de cordée)
• 1944: A lady from the office (Service de nuit)
• 1946: The Eternal Husband (L'Homme au chapeau rond)
• 1946: Shadow of the Past (Un revenant)
• 1947: Dreams of Love (Rêves d'amour)
• 1948: The Charterhouse of Parma (La Chartreuse de Parme)
• 1948: From person to person (D'homme à hommes)
• 1949: This is how a prostitute ended (Maya)
• 1949: Singoalla - the gypsy (Singoalla)
• 1950: Marie from the port (La Marie du port)
• 1950: Miquette et sa mère
• 1951: Rhythm of the Night (Boîte de nuit)
• 1952: Pläsier (Le Plaisir)
• 1952: The Seven Sins (Les Sept péchés capitaux)
• 1952: We are all murderers (Nous sommes tous des assassins)
• 1952: Agnes Bernauer (Le Jugement de Dieu)
• 1952: lovable women? (Adorables créatures)
• 1952: A festival for Henriette (La Fête à Henriette)
• 1953: Königsmark (Koenigsmark)
• 1953: Love ends at dawn (Les Amours finissent à l'aube)
• 1953: love without mercy (L'Esclave)
• 1953: Lucrezia Borgia (Lucrèce Borgia)
• 1953: Public enemy No. 1 (L'Ennemi public n ° 1)
• 1954: The Count of Monte Christo (Le Comte de Monte-Cristo)
• 1954: Versailles - Kings and Women (Si Versailles m'était conté)
• 1954: People on the trapeze (obsession)
• 1954: The affairs of a prima donna (La bella Otero)
• 1955: Haunted by sensations (Les Dents longues)
• 1955: At night on Montmartre (Les Nuits de Montmartre)
• 1955: When girls are ripe for love (Les Premiers outrages)
• 1955: The Flower of the Night (Marguerite de la nuit)
• 1956: Paris, Palace Hotel (Paris, Palace Hotel)
• 1957: Spies at work (Les Espions)
• 1958: The citizen as a nobleman (Le Bourgeois gentilhomme)
• 1958: The big families (Les Grandes familles)
• 1959: The righteous or the ballad off the white vest (Les Affreux)
• 1959: Wiesenstrasse 10 (Rue des Prairies)
• 1959: With the eyes of love (Les Yeux de l'amour)
• 1960: Circassian uprising (I cosacchi)
• 1960: The last shirt has no pockets (À pleines mains)
• 1960: A gentleman without change (Le Baron de l'écluse)
• 1960: The Truth (La Vérité)
• 1961: The President ( Le président )
• 1962: The lift boy from the palace hotel (Le Petit garçon de l'ascenseur)
• 1962: Love 1962 (L'Eclisse)
• 1962: With ladies service (Le Massaggiatrici)
• 1964: Secret friendships (Les Amitiés particulières)
• 1966: Hot Nights (Soleil noir)
• 1968: The Bull (Le Pacha)
• 1973: The Abbé and Love (Prêtres interdits)
• 1974: Jet Set (La Race des 'seigneurs')
• 1975: Special tribunal - everyone fights for himself alone (Section spéciale)
• 1975: Beautiful kisses from the Far East (Bons baisers de Hong Kong)
• 1982: The Legion of the Damned (Les Misérables)

literature

• Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 .

Web links

• Louis Seigner in the Internet Movie Database (English)