Nicolas Battles

Course and activities

Of its true name Roger Battles, it begins with the screen under the Occupation while following dramatic teaching from Rene Simon and (with the Francœur studios) from the actress Solange Sicard. Taking down its first notable roles with the Release, the friendship of the family of Claude Autant-Lara enables him to go up, at the dawn of the Fifties, the Professional singer bald person , anti-part created with the Theater of the Night birds then taken again with Huchette, of which it remains still the alive heart, more than one half-century after having made discover Eugene Ionesco with the public.

Famous director, both in France and with the Japan where he sees himself decreeing several prices between 1969 and 1976, he moreover was a time the interpreter of predilection of Louis Malle which directed it in three of its films, in turn customer of bar of night ( Ascenseur for the scaffold ), Russian driver of a bus of tourists ( Zazie in the subway ) and director of rising theater Kleist in a theater in the open air ( Private life ). It was also crossed, always with the cinema, at Jean Dréville which does of him one of the protagonists of very beautiful the Normandy-Niémen and Jacques Tati which entrusts to the role of one of the workmen in My uncle to him.

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