Raymond Rouleau

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Edgard Marie Raymond Rouleau (born June 4, 1904 in Brussels , Belgium , † December 11, 1981 in Paris , France ) was a Belgian actor and director with his main field of activity in France.

Live and act

Rouleau attended the Conservatory of his hometown Brussels at the age of 14 and then went to Paris, where he began to play theater in the 1920s. He has been seen in numerous classical and modern roles; In five decades, from 1931 to his death in 1981, Rouleau also repeatedly switched to directing and staged an abundance of plays at various Parisian venues. On Broadway in New York in the winter of 1951/52 he directed Colette's Gigi at the Fulton Theater with Audrey Hepburn in the title role. Rouleau not only worked in classic spoken theater such as Arthur Miller's witch hunt with Yves Montand - a play that he adapted for cinema in 1956 with the same leading actor in collaboration with DEFA in Potsdam - Babelsberg - but also the opera " Carmen " and a " Holiday " on Ice "-Revue.

In the cinema, where Raymond Rouleau made his debut in a late silent film with Brigitte Helm - his appearance in Marcel L'Herbier's “ Money! Money!! Money !!! “ Fell victim to the scissors - from 1930, Rouleau found regular employment. Initially, in numerous pre-war films, he was given roles of youthful heroes and lovers and thus developed into a half-star of French cinema. Rouleau made the transition to the character subject during the Second World War without major problems. Since directing the film for Die Hexen von Salem , Raymond Rouleau concentrated more on his theatrical activities - directing as well as acting - and neglected the film business. His last artistic work was the staging and adaptation of Émile Zola's Thérèse Raquin for the Théâtre de Boulogne-Billancourt in 1981 .

Filmography

as an actor

  • 1928: money! Money!! Money !!! (L'argent)
  • 1930: Ce soir à huit heures
  • 1931: Idylle à La plage
  • 1932: Suzanne
  • 1932: La femme nue
  • 1932: Le jugement de minuit
  • 1933: Une vie perdue
  • 1933: Incognito
  • 1934: The False Tsar of Kazan (Volga en flammes)
  • 1934: Vers l'abîme
  • 1935: The beautiful days ( Les beaux jours )
  • 1936: Donogoo
  • 1936: Le coeur disposé
  • 1936: Trois-six-neuf
  • 1937: L'affaire Lafarge
  • 1938: Conflit
  • 1938: Le drame de Shanghai
  • 1939: The white slave (L'esclave blanche)
  • 1939: Coups de feu
  • 1939: Le duel
  • 1940: Documents secrets
  • 1941: Murder on Christmas Eve (L'assassinat du Père Noël)
  • 1941: The first ball (Premier bal)
  • 1941: Mam'zelle Bonaparte
  • 1942: The last trump card (Le dernier atout)
  • 1942: Monsieur de Lourdines
  • 1942: My greatest love (La femme que j'ai le plus aimée)
  • 1943: Le secret de Madame Clapin
  • 1944: The Fashion King ( Falbalas )
  • 1945: Le couple idéal
  • 1946: Last Refuge (Dernier refuge)
  • 1946: Look into the Dark (Vertiges)
  • 1947: Tomorrow begins the adventure (L'aventure commence demain)
  • 1947: L'inconnu d'un soir
  • 1949: Mission à Tangier
  • 1950: Les femmes sont folles
  • 1950: The gallant adventurer (Méfiez-vous des blondes)
  • 1951: Adventure in Venice (Massacre en dentelles)
  • 1952: It's midnight, Dr. Schweitzer (Il est minuit, Dr. Schweitzer)
  • 1952: Brelan d'as
  • 1954: Les intrigantes
  • 1955: Une fille épatante
  • 1956: The Witches of Salem (Les sorcières de Salem)
  • 1958: No business for the faint of heart (Le fric)
  • 1964: Fear in the City (La grande frousse)
  • 1965: Deux heures à tuer

as director:

  • 1931: Une idyll à la plage
  • 1932: Suzanne
  • 1933: Une vie perdue
  • 1935: Rose
  • 1936: Trois-six-neuf
  • 1937: Le messager
  • 1945: Le couple idéal
  • 1956: The Witches of Salem
  • 1961: Les amants de Teruel (also screenplay)

literature

  • Kay Less : The film's great personal dictionary . The actors, directors, cameramen, producers, composers, screenwriters, film architects, outfitters, costume designers, editors, sound engineers, make-up artists and special effects designers of the 20th century. Volume 6: N - R. Mary Nolan - Meg Ryan. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 657.

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personal data
SURNAME Rouleau, Raymond
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Rouleau, Edgard Marie Raymond (full name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Belgian actor and director with his main field of activity in France
DATE OF BIRTH June 4, 1904
PLACE OF BIRTH Brussels , Belgium
DATE OF DEATH December 11, 1981
Place of death Paris , France