Paul Cazeneuve (actor)

Paul Cazeneuve , also Paul Cazenuve , actually Georges-Jean-François-Paul-Charles-Ludovic Alba (born May 11, 1871 in Revel , France , † June 22, 1925 in Los Angeles , California ) was a Canadian actor and theater director of French origin .

Cazeneuve is said to have been on stage in Toulouse when he was just under five . He came to the United States with his father, who had received a professorship at Harvard University , where he joined a French drama company in 1889, of which he was a member for two years. He also took acting lessons from Tomasso and Alessandro Salvini and John A. Lane . In the 1891/92 season he accompanied Hortense Barbe-Loret (Mms Rhéa) on their tours and appeared alongside actors such as Edwin Thomas Booth and Helena Modjeska .

From 1893 Cazeneuve lived in Montreal. With his own company he toured Canada and the USA between 1896 and 1897. In 1899 he performed with the Columbia Stock Company in Montreal and Quebec. In 1904 George Gavreau engaged him as actor and artistic director at his Théâtre National Français , which he successfully opened with a French adaptation of Faust based on the version by Lewis Morrison . He won the later film director Léo-Ernest Ouimet for the house as a lighting engineer. In addition to Henryk Sienkiewicz ' Quo Vadis , works by local authors such as Louis Guyon were performed.

After a break from 1904 he returned in 1906 as artistic director and now co-owner of the Théâtre National Français. With political reviews like Ohé! Ohé! Françoise! by Ernest Tremblay , Léon May and Gaston Dumestre , he put the house back on the road to success. Under his direction, actors such as Elzéar Hamel , Joseph-Philéas Filion , Antoine Bailly (known as Antoine Godeau ) and Palmièri learned their craft.

In 1909 he left the Théâtre National Français. He tried other French-speaking theaters, but could no longer build on his successes. In 1919 he went to Hollywood, where he played small roles in some silent films such as The Queen of Sheba (1921) and The French doll (1923). In 1923 he made the film Why get married? which however became a failure. Plans to collaborate as a screenwriter with Louis Hémon were not realized, and eventually his poor health forced him to retire from film.

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SURNAME	Cazeneuve, Paul
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Cazenuve, Paul; Alba, Georges-Jean-François-Paul-Charles-Ludovic (real name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	Canadian actor and theater director of French origin
DATE OF BIRTH	May 11, 1871
PLACE OF BIRTH	Revel , France
DATE OF DEATH	June 22, 1925
Place of death	Los Angeles , California