Michèle Watrin

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Michèle Watrin ( 1949 - August 2, 1974 ) was a French actress .

She only had a short career: alongside Jean Richard , she appeared as Janine Armenieu in the television film Maigret et la jeune morte (1973) from the film series Les Enquêtes du commissaire Maigret . In the series La mer est grande (1973) she played Virginie, the fiancée of the naval officer Hervé Lanoé ( Yves-Marie Maurin ), about whose career the series revolves. Robert Hossein's mistress has her first and last film role by his side in The Abbé and Love (1973). She plays the cousin of the heroine Françoise ( Claude Jade ), who calls the priest ( Hossein ) over when Françoise fell on her bicycle and later realizes that the two are having an affair. Michèle Wartin also played minor theater roles in productions by Robert Hossein at the Maison de la Culture André Malraux in Reims . On February 1, 1974, she played a sister in Pour qui sonne le glas based on the novel Whom the Hour by Ernest Hemingway and on April 26, 1974 Eleonor Hilliard in La Maison des otages based on the play The Desperate Hours by Joseph Hayes .

Michèle Watrin died on August 2, 1974 in a car accident on the A7 autoroute near Valence under the eyes of Hossein.

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Individual evidence

  1. La mer est grande . With photos by Michèle Watrin (French).
  2. Spectacle: Pour qui sonne le glass. Bibliothèque nationale de France (French).
  3. Spectacle: La Maison des otages. Bibliothèque nationale de France (French).
  4. Inter actualités de 19H00 du 2 août 1974. Archived by the Institut national de l'audiovisuel (INA) (audio file, French)