Sacha Pitoëff
Sacha Pitoëff (born March 11, 1920 in Geneva , Switzerland , † July 21, 1990 in Paris ) was a French director and actor .
Life
Sacha Pitoëff was born in Geneva as the son of the legendary theater couple Georges and Ludmilla Pitoëff . Between 1951 and 1981 he appeared in almost 60 film and television productions, most of which are remembered for Alain Resnais ' film Last Year in Marienbad . Other film works include The Prize and Is Paris Burning? . His lean figure with serious charisma set him in the cinema mainly for supporting roles of a gloomy nature. He had one of his last cinema appearances in 1980 as a mysterious antiques dealer in Dario Argento's horror film Horror Infernal .
As a theater director, he was considered an institution in France, especially with the staging of plays by the authors Luigi Pirandello and Anton Chekhov . In addition to his wife Luce Garcia-Ville, who died in 1975, he also cast Romy Schneider ("The Seagull") and Claude Jade ("Heinrich IV") at the Théâtre Moderne .
Filmography (selection)
- 1951: Le paradis retrouvé (short film)
- 1956: Anastasia
- 1957: Spies at work (Les espions)
- 1958: A Tale of Two Cities
- 1958: The game was his bane
- 1961: Last year in Marienbad (L'Année dernière à Marienbad)
- 1961: Fracass, the cheeky cavalier (Le capitaine Fracasse)
- 1963: The prize (The Prize)
- 1966: is Paris on fire? (Paris brûle-t-il?)
- 1967: The Night of the Generals (The Night of the Generals)
- 1970: Donkey skin (Peau d'âne)
- 1974: The great detectives (Les grands détectives) (TV series, an episode)
- 1974: Count Yoster does the honors (TV series, one episode)
- 1976: La poupée sanglante (TV series, six episodes)
- 1980: Horror Infernal (Inferno)
- 1980: Patrick is alive! (Patrick vive ancora)
Web links
- Sacha Pitoëff in the Internet Movie Database (English)
- The Pitoëffs in the French Wikipedia
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SURNAME | Pitoëff, Sacha |
BRIEF DESCRIPTION | French director and actor |
DATE OF BIRTH | March 11, 1920 |
PLACE OF BIRTH | Geneva , Switzerland |
DATE OF DEATH | July 21, 1990 |
Place of death | Paris |