Jean Piat
- Birth Date:
- 23.09.1924
- Death date:
- 18.09.2018
- Length of life:
- 93
- Days since birth:
- 36608
- Years since birth:
- 100
- Days since death:
- 2281
- Years since death:
- 6
- Categories:
- Actor, Writer
- Nationality:
- french
- Cemetery:
- Set cemetery
Jean Piat (23 September 1924 - 18 September 2018) was a French actor and writer.
Life
Piat was born in Lannoy, Nord. He enlisted in the Comédie-Française on 1 September 1947, and became a member on 1 January 1953. He left the Comédie-Française on 31 December 1972, and became an honorary member the following day. He is an officer in the Légion d'honneur and the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and a grand officer in the Ordre national du Mérite. He was married to actress Françoise Engel (who died in 2005), and is a professor in the dramatic arts of the Simon Course.
He died on 18 September 2018, five days before his 94th birthday.
Theater
Roles in the Comédie-Française- Victor Hugo's Ruy Blas (An usher, Gudiel, an alguazil, Don Manuel Aeias, Don César de Bazan)
- Man of LaMancha (Don Quixote)
- Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac (A guard, Bellerose, a musketeer, Cadet, Brissaille, Jodelet, Cyrano
- Pierre Beaumarchais's The Barber of Seville (Figaro)
- Molière's The Miser (La Flèche)
- Eugène Marin Labiche's The Voyage of Mister Perrichon (Daniel Savary, Joseph)
- Pierre de Marivaux's Le Jeu de l'Amour et du Hasard (Pasquin)
- William Shakespeare's Othello (Gentleman)
- William Shakespeare's As You Like It (Amiens)
- William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (Benvolio)
- Molière's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (Covielle)
Filmography
Acting- 1948. The Lame Devil (Le Diable boiteux) as Figaro in The Barber of Seville
- 1951. Clara de Montargis as Jean Claude
- 1969. The Milky Way (La Voie lactée) as The Jansenist
- 1969. Rider on the Rain (Le Passager de la pluie) as M. Armand
- 1972. Les Rois maudits as Robert d'Artois
- Lawrence of Arabia (Thomas Edward Lawrence (Peter O'Toole))
- Kaena: The Prophecy (Grand Priest (Gary Martin))
- The Lion King (Scar (Jeremy Irons))
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Judge Claude Frollo (Tony Jay))
- The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Gandalf the Grey (Ian McKellen))
- The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Gandalf the White (Ian McKellen))
- The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Gandalf the White (Ian McKellen))
- The Golden Compass (Iorek Byrnison (Ian McKellen))
- The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (Gandalf the Grey (Ian McKellen))
- The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (Gandalf the Grey (Ian McKellen))
- The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (Gandalf the Grey (Ian McKellen))
Source: wikipedia.org
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Relations
Relation name | Relation type | Description | ||
---|---|---|---|---|
1 | Maurice Barrier | Coworker | ||
2 | Édith Scob | Coworker | ||
3 | Jean Gaven | Coworker | ||
4 | Gabriele Tinti | Coworker | ||
5 | Jill Ireland | Coworker | ||
6 | Charles Bronson | Coworker |
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