Serge Merlin

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Serge Merlin (* 29. December 1932 in Sainte-Barbe-du-Tlélat , Algeria as Serge Merle ; † 16th February 2019 in Paris ) was a French actor .

life and career

Serge Merlin had worked as a stage actor since the early 1950s and has since performed at renowned theaters such as the Théâtre de l'Œuvre , the Odéon - Théâtre de l'Europe , the Théâtre national de Chaillot and the Théâtre de la Madeleine . In the late 1950s, he was seen in two productions on Broadway . The character actor also played in classic plays by William Shakespeare and Georg Büchner , but made a name for himself in particular through roles in works by Thomas Bernhard and Samuel Beckett .

In 1961 Merlin made his film debut as the leading actor in Samson by Andrzej Wajda , he embodied a Jew who struggled through the brutal turmoil of World War II and the Holocaust. In the following decades, however, he was only in front of the camera irregularly, as he mainly worked at the theater. Probably his best-known role was played by Merlin as Raymond Dufayel , the painter with the glass bones , in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's The Fabulous World of Amélie from 2001. Merlin had already worked with Jeunet six years earlier on his fantasy film The City of Lost Children , in which he embodied the leader of the Cyclops .

He received the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from the French Ministry of Culture . Serge Merlin died in Paris in February 2019 at the age of 86.

Filmography (selection)

  • 1961: Samson
  • 1968: The she-wolf (La louve solitaire)
  • 1978: Roland (La Chanson de Roland)
  • 1980: Tusk
  • 1983: Danton
  • 1983: A love in Germany
  • 1988: The will of a murdered Jewish poet (Le testament d'un poète juif assassiné)
  • 1991: Hellfire (Le brasier)
  • 1995: The City of Lost Children (La Cité des enfants perdus)
  • 1996: Diary of the seducer (Le journal du séducteur)
  • 1997: Little Angels, Little Sharks (Marie Baie des Anges)
  • 1998: The Count of Monte Christo ( Le Comte de Monte Christo ; TV miniseries, 4 episodes)
  • 2000: Yesterday's Snow (De l'histoire ancienne)
  • 2001: The fabulous world of Amélie (Le fabuleux destin d'Amélie Poulain)
  • 2004: Price of Desire (Sotto falso nome)
  • 2010: Suite parlée
  • 2012: L'homme qui rit
  • 2015: Me and Kaminski
  • 2017: The Witnesses ( Les témoins ; TV series, 1 episode)
  • 2018: A people and their king (Un peuple et son roi)

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ^ Fabienne Darge: Le comédien Serge Merlin est mort. In: Le Monde. Retrieved February 24, 2019 (French).
  2. ^ The Broadway League: Serge Merlin - Broadway Cast & Staff | IBDB. Retrieved April 29, 2018 .
  3. ↑ Serge MERLIN . In: Théâtres Parisiens Associés . ( Online [accessed April 29, 2018]).
  4. ↑ L'acteur Serge Merlin est décédé à l'âge de 86 ans, accessed on February 16, 2019
personal data
SURNAME Merlin, Serge
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Merle, Serge (maiden name)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION French film actor
DATE OF BIRTH December 29, 1932
PLACE OF BIRTH Sainte-Barbe-du-Tlélat
DATE OF DEATH 16th February 2019
Place of death Paris