Roger Karl

Roger Karl , born in Roger Trouvé , (born April 29, 1882 in Bourges , France , † May 4, 1984 in Paris ) was a French actor with a career spanning decades in the stage, film and, most recently, television.

Life

Born in Roger Trouvé, he attended the Conservatory in Paris, where he completed his studies with a first prize. Shortly after the turn of the century, Roger Karl received an engagement as a stage partner from Sarah Bernhardt , with whom he went on tour. In the following decade and a half he played at various capital city theaters such as the Théâtre des Arts and the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier, and also worked with the then famous theater director and director Jacques Copeau . The artist first came into contact with film at the end of the first decade of the 20th century. There the "declared misanthropist" appeared in later years mainly in the roles of unpleasant types, villains and unsympaths, in the 1930s also repeatedly in French versions of German originals: Karl played scheming characters like Prince Ramigani in the French version of Richard Eichberg's “ The Tiger of Eschnapur ” and cold-hearted husbands like Alfredo Zubaran in Gerhard Lamprecht's French version of “ Barcarole ” . Karl has been cast several times in highly descriptive portrayals of Germans such as Commissioner Welter in the espionage adventure “ Un homme à abattre ” and as a Prussian colonel in Christian-Jaques Maupassant's adaptation “ Boule de suif ”.

Above all, however, Roger Karl was entrusted with the portrayal of rulers and people in power: he was Pope Alexander VI. in “ Lucrezia Borgia ” (1935), Chancellor Lang in “ Le golem ” (1936), the Grand Duke in “ Au service du tsar ” (1936), Colonel Bourget in “ Mademoiselle Docteur ”, Prince Radziwill in “ Rivalin der Zarin ”, the Marquis de la Noue in“ Un seul amour ”and General Kiriloff in Gerhard Lamprecht's French version of his film adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's novel ' The Player ',“ Le joueur ” . Occasionally his depraved characters underwent a purification at the end of the film (such as Karl's role of the medic Jacques Grandval in " Cas de Conscience "). Roger Karl played one of his few main roles in the "cinematic anti-Hitler snap shot" " Après 'Mein Kampf', mes crimes ". Despite this film, Karl did not suffer any professional disadvantages during the German occupation of France (1940 to 1944) and continued to do well in film. Since the late 1940s he appeared again more often in the theater. At the age of over 90, Karl was standing in front of (television) cameras. Roger Karl, who was temporarily married to his colleague Paule Andral (1879–1956), had also worked as a playwright under the pseudonym Michel Balfort.

Filmography

• 1909: Cyrano de Bergerac (short film)
• 1909: Mireille (short film)
• 1910: L'assassinat de l'amiral de Coligny (short film)
• 1912: Le mystère de Notre-Dame de Paris (short film)
• 1917: Phantasmes (short film)
• 1918: Le siège des trois (short film)
• 1920: L'Homme du large - A man of the sea ( L'homme du large )
• 1921: L'ombre déchirée
• 1922: Jocelyn
• 1922: La femme de nulle part
• 1923: The Courier of Lyon ( L'affaire du courrier de Lyon )
• 1924: La goutte de sang
• 1925: Le calvaire de Doña Pia
• 1925: L'espionne aux yeux noirs
• 1926: Sonja ( Le vertige )
• 1927: Le diable au cœur
• 1927: Maldonne
• 1928: money! Money!! Money !!! ( L'argent )
• 1928: Le désir
• 1929: Cagliostro
• 1931: Fantômas
• 1932: Stupéfiants
• 1933: L'étoile de Valencia
• 1933: The Battle ( La bataille )
• 1933: Le miroir aux alouettes
• 1934: Le diable en bouteille
• 1934: Natascha ( Les nuits moscovites )
• 1934: Le prince Jean
• 1935: Barcarolle
• 1935: Les mystères de Paris
• 1935: Lucrezia Borgia ( Lucrèce Borgia )
• 1936: Le golem
• 1936: Sous les yeux d'occident
• 1936: L'or
• 1936: Au service du tsar
• 1937: Mademoiselle Docteur
• 1937: L'homme à abattre
• 1937: A Vénise une nuit
• 1937: Le tigre du Bengale
• 1938: Rival of the Tsarina ( Tarakanova )
• 1938: Le joueur
• 1938: Fort-Dolorès
• 1939: Cas de conscience
• 1940: Après 'Mein Kampf', mes crimes / Mein Kampf, My Crimes
• 1941: Le valet maître
• 1942: Le camion blanc
• 1942: Le voyageur de la Toussaint
• 1943: Un seul amour
• 1943: La vie de plaisir
• 1945: Boule de suif
• 1946: Misson spéciale
• 1946: Rumeurs
• 1952: In the vortex of Marseille ( tourbillon )
• 1956: Dr. Laurent ( Le cas du docteur Laurent )
• 1961: La poupée
• 1964: Mademoiselle Molière (TV movie)
• 1964: Girls who sell themselves ( L'amour à la chaîne )
• 1967: Vidocq (TV series)
• 1969: Marie Walewska (TV movie)
• 1971: Bloody wages ( Le part de lions )
• 1973: Fin de Saison (TV movie)
• 1974: La mort d'un enfant (TV movie)

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 4: H - L. Botho Höfer - Richard Lester. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 305.

Web links

• Roger Charles in the Internet Movie Database (English)

Individual evidence

1. ↑ 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 4: H - L. Botho Höfer - Richard Lester. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 305.
2. ↑ 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 4: H - L. Botho Höfer - Richard Lester. Schwarzkopf & Schwarzkopf, Berlin 2001, ISBN 3-89602-340-3 , p. 306.