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Raymond Frau (born October 14, 1887 on the island of Gorée , † February 9, 1953 in Paris ) was a French variety artist and film actor .

Life

Wife spent his childhood in Tunisia and Marseille. From around the age of 13 he appeared in France as a circus clown in music halls and café concerts . In 1912, the Italian film company Cines hired him as a comic actor after the successful "Tontolini" actor Ferdinand Guillaume had left Cines. In his more than 130 Italian short comedies for Cines, Frau embodied the internationally popular character of "Kri Kri", in Great Britain as "Bloomer", in France and the Netherlands as "Patachon", in Spain and Portugal as "Kri-Kri" and was known in Germany as "Mucki", "Krikri" or "Bliemchen". The slapstick comedies drew their humor from numerous film tricks and weirdly surreal scenes in which people behead themselves, gravity is lifted and the protagonist is pursued by his reflection.

At the beginning of 1916, Frau returned to France, where she shot about 10 films in the character of the "dandy" in a comedy series for the film company Éclair until the mid-1920s . In addition, he appeared again in vaudeville numbers. In the 1930s, the actor, who is just 1.52 meters tall, played alongside Jean Gabin , Marie Glory , Josette Day and Raimu, among others .

Filmography (selection)

literature

  • Ivo Blom: Woman, Raymond . In: Richard Abel (Ed.): Encyclopedia of Early Cinema . New York 2010, p. 259, ISBN 0415778565

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personal data
SURNAME Wife, raymond
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Wife, Raymond François Émile Marie Pierre (real name); Kri Kri; Dandy; Dandy, Raymond
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French variety artist and film actor
DATE OF BIRTH October 14, 1887
PLACE OF BIRTH on the island of Gorée
DATE OF DEATH February 9, 1953
Place of death Paris