Roy Bosier
Roy Bosier (real name Roy Walter Bosshard ) (born March 11, 1931 in Scotland ; † September 4, 2006 in Zurich ) was a Swiss actor , acting teacher and choreographer .
Life
Bosier comes from a Swiss family, where they returned when young Roy lost his hearing from mumps at the age of four . After learning lip reading, completing his school days and a commercial diploma, he became a furrier and also took dance lessons. When he moved to Paris, Bosier found work with Pierre Cardin as an intern and later an employee of the fashion tsar, whose collections he designed. He also designed the costumes for the Folies Bergère . As a student of pantomime Étienne Decroux , he soon met well-known mimes such as Jean-Louis Barrault and Marcel Marceau as well as director Giorgio Strehler , who made it easier for him to begin as an acting teacher. Bosier's pupils included a. also Claudia Cardinale . His own appearances in films by Sergio Leone , Roman Polanski and Federico Fellini were accompanied by stage engagements at the Piccolo Teatro in Milan , which finally culminated in 1963 with the establishment of his own “Teatro Studio” in the Italian capital, Rome.
In the late 1970s, Bosier returned to Zurich; his daughter was born in 1983. From 1987 he worked at the Schauspielhaus Zurich as a choreographer (which he had been temporarily since 1954), fencing master and movement teacher, occasionally also as an actor. In his last professional phase, Bosier became a physiotherapist with his own practice in Zurich, where he died in 2006.
Filmography (selection)
- 1967: A ball for Mac Gregor (7 donne per i Mac Gregor)
- 1968: La Bambolona - the big doll (La bambolona)
- 1971: The clan that walled up its enemies alive (Confessione di un commissario di polizia al procuratore della repubblica)
- 1971: Melody of Death (Giù la testa)
- 1975: Nobody is the greatest (Un genio, due compari, un pollo)
- 1976: Hector, the knight without fear and blame (Il soldato di ventura)
- 1990: the mountain
Web links
- Roy Bosier, choreographer - shadow man of the cinematic nobility; Neue Zürcher Zeitung from October 17, 2003
- Roy Bosier in the Internet Movie Database (English)
Individual evidence
- ^ Ensemble , magazine of the Swiss Theater Association SBKV. No. 54, October-November-December 2006, p. 4
- ^ Obituary by Tom Tafel in the Altstadtkurier
| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Bosier, Roy |
| ALTERNATIVE NAMES | Bosshard, Roy Walter |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | Swiss actor, acting teacher and choreographer |
| DATE OF BIRTH | March 11, 1931 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Scotland |
| DATE OF DEATH | September 4, 2006 |
| Place of death | Zurich |