Charles Dullin

Charles Dullin (May 8th 1885 with Yenne in Savoy - December 11th 1949 with the Hospital Saint-Anthony of Paris) is a director, actor of theater and French cinema.

Biography

The last born of a family of 19 children, it starts, afterwards studies with the small seminar of the Pont-de-Beauvoisin (Savoy), its theatrical career in Paris in 1903, is engaged with the Théâtre of the Goblins and the nimble Lapin. It enters in 1906 to the Théâtre of Odéon directed by André Antoine, creates his company in 1908, then integrates the Théâtre of Arts in 1910 pennies the direction of Jacques Rouché. There, it receives the praises of criticisms for its play in The Brothers Karamazov put in scene by Jacques Copeau in 1911. When this last creates the Théâtre of the Old Dovecote in 1913, it follows it and becomes its right-hand man. After the war, which it makes like volunteer, it continues the adventure with Copeau, with the Garrick Theater of New York, then works with Firmin Gémier.

It trains its own team in 1921 under the name of Atelier , where it transmits the received lessons of Chip: training of the actors and priority of the text. It assembles contemporary and foreign authors, like Luigi Pirandello, Marcel Achard, Armand Salacrou, without excluding traditional the such Shakespeare or Aristophane, and meets critical successes thanks to the settings in scene of Volpone of Ben Jonson (1928, adapted by Jules Romains and Stefan Zweig) and of Miserly the of Molière. With Louis Jouvet, Gaston Baty and Georges Pitoëff in 1927, it east founds the “Cartel of the Four”, aiming at making hear the nonmercantile theater.

Between 1940 and 1947, he is director of the Théâtre of the City (old Sarah-Bernhardt Theater), where he assembles the Flies of Jean-Paul Sartre in 1943. He joined then the team of the Montparnasse theater, directed by one of his former students of the Workshop, Marguerite Jamois.

With the Trust of the Four and with the sides of Andre Barsacq, Jean-Louis Barrault and Jean Vilar, Dullin belonged to the movement of French renewal which will lead to a “popular theater decentralized”. Considered for the quality of its courses, containing improvisation, of MIME and study of traditional, it had inter alia as pupils Madeleine Robinson, Jean Marais, Marcel Marceau, Jean Vilar, Jean-Louis Barrault, Roger Blin, Roland Petit, Jacques Dufilho and Alain Cuny.

Cinema (actor)

1924 - the Miracle of the wolves
1927 - the Player of failures
1928 - Maldone
1933 - the Poor wretches
1937 - the Business of the mail of Lyon
1937 - Miss doctor/Salonique nest of spies
1940 - Volpone
1947 - the Plays is made
1947 - Quai of the Goldsmiths

Homages

Places

Several theaters in France bear its name:

With Chambéry
With the Grand-Quevilly
the Rencontres Charles Dullin which become the Théâtrales Charles Dullin in the Valley-of-Marne

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