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Jean Marsh , of his true name Jean Alfred Unpleasant-Marsh (born the December 11th 1913 with Cherbourg (Handle), dead the November 8th 1998 with Cannes in the the Alpes-Maritimes), is a Acteur French. He is also a director, writer, painter, sculptor, potter, recognized stuntman.

Biography

Jean Marais is the son of a veterinary father and a somewhat odd mother. When it is 4 years old, she decides to leave to Paris with her two sons. She will be often absent. The small Jean writes letters to him but it is his/her aunt who registers the address on the envelope. It will understand later that it was because his/her mother accomplished stays in prison. Indeed it was kleptomaniac. He was pupil with the Lycée Condorcet. Jean Marais will re-examine his father only nearly 40 years later, without being sure that he is well his father. He has an adoptive son, Serge. His/her father is Norman and his Franco-German mother, originating in Echilleuses, in Loiret.

He makes figuration as of 1933 in films of Marcel the Herbarium which will never give him its chance. In 1937, it fails the entrance examination to the Conservatoire and studies at Charles Dullin, with the Théâtre of the Workshop. It discovers the traditional parts there where it holds of the roles of figuration which enable him to finance its courses.

Its meeting with Jean Cocteau in 1937 marks the true launching of its career. The scenario writer falls in love with the young actor. A friendship in love follows which lasted until the death of Cocteau in 1963. Jean Cocteau gives him initially a non-speaking part because Marais has a very bad voice for the theater at its beginnings; to change its voice, it will start to smoke. He quickly writes a part to him to measure: terrible Parents which gives him the recognition of the profession.
In 1943, he plays modern Tristan in the Eternal return of Jean Delannoy. He has a sharp dispute with the artistic critic Alain Laubreaux, of the newspaper collaborationist I am everywhere which had qualified it " The man in Cocteau enters the dents" (this dispute besides was included in the Last Subway of François Truffaut). It owes its safety only with the high relations of Cocteau and becomes the idol of its generation.

In 1944, it assembles Arnaud and Artémide , but the part is victim of a cabal, seems it carried out by the collaborationnists, and stops very quickly. Marsh still gains in popularity and becomes a symbol of resistance to the occupant.

In 1944, Cocteau written for him the beautiful one and the animal , a film very difficult to turn and in which nobody believed. Marsh enters the legend then. In 1949, it plays in Orphée , of same Cocteau.
In the years 1950, it is detached from Cocteau. It turns for large scenario writers Luchino Visconti, Jean Renoir, Sacha Guitry inter alia.

At the end of the years 1940, it returns to the French Comédie. It is there at the same time actor, director and decorator. It is the first time that such a function is given to such a young actor. Marsh leaves the French after a dispute with the director.

In 1959, it turns last once with Cocteau, the will of Orphée . It plays Oedipus there. Marsh left Cocteau for a dancer.

In 1959, André Hunebelle proposes to him to turn Uneven the . It is the beginning of a new career. It was already popular, these films less intellectual than the precedents bring new a public.
to him It turns Capitan with Hunebelle then a series of cloak and dagger films, more or less successful and finally films more médiocres.
connects He is a new success with the series of the Fantômas (1964-1966), but these films do not have any more prestige of the precedents and especially Louis De Funès steals the vedette.
to him Indicator which the cinema is finished for him, it is withdrawn with the théâtre.
In 1970, Jacques Demy gives him his last great role in Peau of ass .

Jean Marais withdraws himself with Vallauris where it practices the pottery, the sculpture and the theater. He opens even an art gallery thanks to a couple of friends potters. About 1980, it assembles the spectacle Cocteau Marais and becomes the guard of the work of Cocteau, without having legally the droits.
of them During years 1980, he plays theater (Gift Diègue in Cid , the King Lear , Superstars ) and some roles with the cinema (in Parking of Jacques Demy and in Poor wretches of the XXe century of Claude Lelouch). He plays his last part with the cinema in stolen Beauté of Bernardo Bertolucci in 1995.

In an interview given to Bernard Pivot, Jean Marais specified never not to have made figuration in Drôle of drama and to be replaced at the last minute.

He writes some books, his Memories, the inconceivable Jean Cocteau , of the tales and the poems.

Its last role with the theater will be that of the Balthazar shepherd in Arlésienne, in 1997, with the Madnesses Shepherdess.

As sculptor, it carried out (inter alia) a very beautiful evocation of the Passe Walls which was installed in Montmartre in front of the house where Marcel Aymé lived, author of the news of the same title. Jean Marais dies in Cannes on November 8th, 1998. He is buried in the small cemetery of Vallauris, the city of the potters, where he spent the last years of his life. It should be noted that Jean Marais was potter with Vallauris and it had a store there where its potteries were sold.

Complete catalog of films

1933 - 1937

1941 - 1949

1950 - 1959

1960 - 1969

1970 - 1999

  • 1970 : Skin of Ass of Jacques Demy - the first king
  • 1975: Jean Marsh craftsman of the documentary dream , short film of Gerard Devillers - Him even
  • 1976: Let us sing under the documentary Occupation of André Halimi
  • 1981: Chirico by documentary Cocteau short film of Pascal Kané - a participation
  • 1982: Shade and secret short film of Philippe Delarbre
  • 1985: Carpark of Jacques Demy - Hadès, the Master of the hells
  • 1985: Family ties of Willy Branch - Victor Blaise, country old man
  • 1991: Children of the naufragor of Jerome Fuller - Marc-Antoine, the old hermit of the island
  • 1994: Poor wretches of the XXe century - Monseigneur Myriel
  • 1995: stolen Beauty ( Stealing Beauty ) of Bernardo Bertolucci - Mr. Guillaume
  • 1997: Militia, documentary black film of Alain Ferrari
  • 1995: Projection in Majestic short film of Yves Kovacs
  • 1999: documentary Luchino Visconti of Carlo Lizzani - Testimony of J.Marais

Television

  • 1969: Renaud and Armide of Marcel Cravenne (according to a part of Jean Cocteau - the king Renaud

  • 1971: Robert Macaire of Pierre Office (according to the part of Frédérick Lemaître) - Robert Macaire
  • 1973: Joseph Balsamo " Serial in 7 épisodes" of Andre Hunebelle - Joseph Balsamo, alias Cagliostro (in the 7 episodes)
  • 1973: Karate experts and Co " Serial in 6 épisodes" of Edmond Tyborowski - the Emperor, old diplomatic agent in the following episodes: the crown of Attila, the club of plain water, Mozart passes measurement, the night of perfect the, Two million rifles, Some share to the Mediterranean.
  • 1977 : Voyage in Olympie of Michel Subiela - Ménesthée
  • 1980: terrible parents of Yves-Andre Hubert (according to the part of Jean Cocteau) - Georges
  • 1982: Dear liar of Alexandre Tarta (according to the part of Jerome Kilty)
  • 1983: Of the wind in the branches of will sassafras of Robert Valey (according to the part of Rene de Obaldia)
  • 1996: Belmondo splendid the - Documentary - of Dominique Chammings - Testimony of J.Marais

See too

Internet sites

  • Eternal Jean Marsh

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