Gerard Séty

Gerard Séty (at the registry office, Gerard Plouviez ) is an actor, parodist and artist of Music-hall born the December 13rd 1922 with Paris and dead the 1998 in Paris.

After being itself launched very young in the imitation of high-speed motorboats in Parisian cabarets or establishments like the Head of art, the Villa of Este, the Gift Camillo, the Billionaire or the Vault of the Republic, he was the creator of a variety show - of transformism and disguise - which was worth to him to occur, during one half-century, on all the continents. As well with Las Vegas as with the the Antilles or on the steamer France.

Recognized like exceptional in the medium of the professionals of the spectacle and very appreciated of the public, this number consisted in practicing art “to change his/her colors” and to make, in a dexterity, tens of historical or strange characters and some animals.

With Bobino as with the Olympia or the Madnesses Shepherdess, this perfectionist of the disguise was thus the " high-speed motorboat américaine" of Marlène Dietrich, Joséphine Baker, Georges Brassens, Juliette Gréco, Johnny Halliday, Jacques Brel, Jean Ferrat or Mireille Mathieu.

With the theater, Gerard Séty also had a career of actor. One saw it in particular in Bye of Marc-Gilbert Sauvageon, the red fish of Jean Anouilh or the Insane one of Chaillot of Jean Giraudoux. Spectacles sometimes presented within the framework of the television program " With the theater this evening ".

With the cinema, it was one of the actors of a score of films, whose the Temptation of Barbizon of Jean Stelli in 1945, the Red and the Black of Claude Autant-Lara in 1954, the Spies of Henri-Georges Clouzot in 1957 or the war is finished Alain Resnais in 1966. But its appearances the recent ones will be perhaps most outstanding, since he played in Van Gogh of Maurice Pialat in 1991 and the Visitors of Jean-Marie Poiré in 1993.

Catalog of films

External bonds

  • Official site on Gerard Séty, worked out by his son.

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