Raymond Gérôme

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Raymond Gérôme (born May 17, 1920 in Koekelberg ( Brussels ), † February 3, 2002 in Les Lilas ) was a Franco - Belgian actor and director .

Life

The son of the Belgian industrialist Léon de Backer and the Dutchwoman Marie Fiekers studied at the University of Brussels and took acting lessons from Charles Dullin .

He began his career at the Belgian youth theater and was artistic director of the Théâtre national de Belgique until 1954.

In 1954 Raymond Gérôme went to Paris, where he worked with the greats of French theater and film. He staged a. a. his favorite piece Phèdre by Jean Racine . Stars played under his direction: Don Juan aux enfers with Pierre Brasseur and Paul Meurisse , Colette with Jean-Pierre Aumont , Les Amants terribles by Noel Coward with Danielle Darrieux , Dix petites nègres with Henri Garcin , Il ya longtemps que je t'aime by Jacques Deval with Claude Jade and Jean Barney , Libres sont les papillons with Pierre Malet and Lise Delamare , Un jour j'ai rencontre la vérité with Michel Duchaussoy .

As an actor in the cinema he played since the mid-1950s, a. a. as Jean Carmet's lawyer in Mademoiselle et son gang (1957), alongside Danielle Darrieux as Commissioner in Murder at 45 Tours (1960), alongside Curd Jürgens in Colonel Strogoff (1961), as Jimmy in Anatole Litvak's Love Brahms? (1962), as Commissioner in Das Superhirn (1969), as Flavigny in Fred Zinnemann's Der Schakal (1973), General Pontaubert in Philippe de Broca's Le Magnifique - I am the greatest (1973), as Lord Henry Walton in Le Portrait de Dorian Gray (1977), as Comte de Saint-Prix in A Crazy Type (1977), as Head of the Secret Service in Der Umrermmord (1980) and as Director Cazalières in Panther II - Ice Cold as Fire (1988).

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SURNAME Gérôme, Raymond
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Franco-Belgian actor and director
DATE OF BIRTH May 17, 1920
PLACE OF BIRTH Koekelberg
DATE OF DEATH February 3, 2002
Place of death Les Lilas