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

• 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

• 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))