Pierre Brasseur

Pierre Brasseur is a Acteur and Réalisateur French born the December 22nd 1905 with Paris, dead the August 16th 1972 with Brunico (Italy).

Going down from the Family Brewer, his true name is Pierre-Albert Espinasse.

Married to Merry Odette, it will have a son: Claude Brasseur, it married then Lina Madrini and in third weddings the singer Catherine Sauvage.

In 1924, it makes at the same time its beginnings with the theater at Lugné-Poë with the Théâtre of Work, and with the cinema with Jean Renoir in the Girl of water . It incarnates initially mainly characters of gigolos , then it meets Jacques Prévert which will give an important turning to its career. It has receipt the popularity of the general public by its interpretation in Quai of the fogs of Marcel Carné and especially for its role of Frédérick Lemaître in the Children of the paradise , but it was already famous as actor of Théâtre.

Near to the surrealist group, it wrote several parts: the black Anchor (1927), Holy Cecile (1944), an Angel passes (1943), the Child of Poméranie (1945) and published in 1972 a biography: My life in bulk (ISBN 2859565000)

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