Maurice Garrel

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Maurice Garrel (born February 24, 1923 in Saint-Gervais , Isère , † June 4, 2011 in Paris ) was a French actor .

Life

Education and theater

Maurice Garrel grew up in El Jadida in Morocco . At the age of 19 Garrel, who was a very good student, passed his Abitur at the Lycée Paul Valéry in Meknes and initially studied philosophy . Even then Garrel was very interested in theater and literature ; he was particularly enthusiastic about the mystical poetry of William Blake . During the Second World War Garrel fought with the Free French armed forces in Italy . After the war he decided in 1947 to go to the theater and pursue a career as an actor.

He received acting lessons from the director and actor Charles Dullin and the exiled Russian actress Tania Balachova . His acting career began in 1951. He made his theatrical debut at the Théâtre Verlaine in Paris in the play Optimistic Tragedy by Wsewolod Wischnewski (1900–1951), in a production by Clément Harari . Garrel initially worked mainly as a stage actor ; he has appeared in plays by Bertolt Brecht , Paul Claudel , Jean Genet , Georges Feydeau and Eugène Sue , among others .

He has appeared in the following plays and roles, among others: in The Fire in the Opera House by Georg Kaiser (1953, at the Théâtre de Babylone, Paris), in The Secrets of Paris by Eugène Sue (1954, at the Théâtre La Bruyère, Paris), as Court envoy Spanna in Un cas interesting by Dino Buzzati (Original: Un caso clinico ; 1955, at the Théâtre La Bruyère, Paris), in The Hero of the Western World (1956, Théâtre Gramont, Paris), as Yang Sun in The Good Man of Sezuan (1960, Théâtre Récamier, Paris), as Duchotel in Monsieur Chasse by Georges Feydeau (1961, Théâtre La Bruyère, Paris) and in The Dumb Servant by Harold Pinter (1976, Petit-Odéon , Paris).

From 1983 to 1985 he appeared as a guest at the Comédie-Française , including in the triptych by Max Frisch (1983), Maria Stuart and in the largely unknown play Is he good, is he bad? by Denis Diderot .

In 1985 he played the father Odoardo Galotti in Gotthold Ephraim Lessing's tragedy Emilia Galotti at the Avignon Festival and at the Théâtre national de Strasbourg . Other roles were: the tutor Ulrik Brendel in Rosmersholm (1987, Théâtre national de Strasbourg), the businessman Unertl (French: Benke) in Pioniere in Ingolstadt (1987, Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers), Thomas Payne in Dantons Tod (1989, Théâtre Nanterre-Amandiers; directed by Klaus Michael Grüber ) and Sigmund Freud in the world premiere of the one-act play Le Visiteur by Éric-Emmanuel Schmitt (1993, Petit Théâtre de Paris ).

Film rolls

From the beginning of the 1960s, he increasingly took on roles in movies . He shot with directors François Truffaut , Jacques Rivette , Claude Sautet , Claude Lelouch , Claude Chabrol and Costa-Gavras , among others . In total, Garrel has appeared in over 120 films. Mostly he was seen in prominent supporting roles. In these, Garrel proved to be an intense character actor, "who was able to achieve a remarkable charismatic presence even in smaller parts".

This type of role included the fence Léon Brunet in the crime film Der Bulle (1968, with Jean Gabin ), the aging, pedantic husband and scientist Julien Durras in Das Haus der Bories (1970), the aging Red Front fighter André Epaulard in the revolutionary thriller Nada (1974), the father of Edith Piaf in Edith and Marcel (1983, director: Claude Lelouch), the bookseller Jean in the romantic comedy Die Schwiegene (1990, director: Christian Vincent ), the grandfather in the comedy film Mid-season (1992; director: Daniel Schmid ), the old violin teacher Lachaume in the love drama Ein Herz im Winter (1992), the judge in the love drama Artemisia - School of Sensuality (1997) by Agnès Merlet , the crook grandpa Constantin in the film grotesque Voilà - A Beautiful Family (1992; directorial debut by Michel Piccoli ), and the old man in the drama His Brother (2003; directed by Patrice Chéreau ).

In 2005 he played the role of Louis Jenssens in the relationship drama Life is Strange by Arnaud Desplechin . He embodied in it, with "all his authority, the unwaveringly irreconcilable" father of the female lead Nora. Garrel has also appeared in numerous television productions, including the title role in a French television version of Georg Büchner's play Woyzeck in 1964 . In 1969 he took on the role of the murderer Smerdyakov in a television adaptation of the novel The Brothers Karamasov . In the late 1970s he played alongside Simone Signoret in the French crime series The Coroner .

Nominations

Garrel was nominated twice for the César , each in the category “ Best Supporting Actor ”, in 1991 for Die Schwewiegene , where he played Fabrice Luchini's confidante and friend , and in 2005 for Life is Strange .

Garrel was also nominated twice for the Molière , the French theater award, in the category “ Best Supporting Actor ” (Molière du comédien dans un second rôle) : in 1992 for his role as the aging Czech exile Pavlicek in the play Better Times by James Saunders at the Théâtre La Bruyère and in 1994 in the “ Best Actor ” category for Le Visiteur .

Private

Maurice Garrel is the father of the French filmmaker and director Philippe Garrel and the grandfather of the actors Louis Garrel and Esther Garrel . Directed by his son, he played the grandfather of the young student François in the drama Troublemaker in 2005 . He was portrayed by his real grandson, actor Louis Garrel.

Garrel died in Paris at the age of 88.

Filmography (selection)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b c d Maurice Garrel, fin d'un premier de cordée Obituary in: Liberation of June 6, 2011
  2. ↑ a b c d e French film actor Maurice Garrel dies Obituary in: Der Standard from June 7, 2011
  3. ↑ a b Biographie de Maurice Garrel EVENE.fr , accessed June 12, 2011
personal data
SURNAME Garrel, Maurice
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Garel, Maurice
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French actor
DATE OF BIRTH February 24, 1923
PLACE OF BIRTH Saint-Gervais , Isere department , France
DATE OF DEATH June 4, 2011
Place of death Paris , France