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Saturnin Fabre

Actor
Born April 4, 1884Died October 24, 1961 (77 years)
Saturnin Fabre, born April 4, 1884 in Sens (Yonne) and died October 24, 1961 in Montgeron (Essonne), is a French actor.

His paternal family was from the south of France (Var and Bouches-du-Rhône). He lived in Deuil-la-Barre. He won a first prize at the Conservatoire and played dramas, boulevard comedies and operettas as well, setting himself up as the "thundering", out of phase phrasing, of French cinema. He approaches the silent cinema since 1911 with Albert Capellani to whom we owe since 1909 the first French feature film: L'Assommoir. In 1929, he switched to talking with The Road is Beautiful Robert Florey. Known for his strong personality, he is one of the most singular supporting roles of pre-war and post-war French cinema, in the tradition of Jean Tissier and Julien Carette. He occupies the screen with such a presence that he often forget the many turnips in which he participates. He is particularly remembered for his tremendous choppy voice and perfect diction.

In the film Marie-Martine Albert Valentin, he addresses to Bernard Blier, who plays his nephew, his most famous replica: "Hold your candle right! ". It is said that at the third resumption of the repartee, it is the public who answered. He has played in almost 79 talking films, mostly comedies, under the direction of 57 different directors (mostly prestigious). In 1948, he signs, from the anagram Ninrutas Erbaf, perfectly wacky memories, under the title Scottish Shower.

He was also a very good clarinetist, and the author of several songs and sketches he performed on stage early in his career.

For the actress Danièle Delorme, "Saturnin Fabre was a hallucinated comedian". Still according to her, "It was a baroque actor, certainly, there was a grain of madness in him. But he was furiously intelligent, with great lucidity ... He embodied excess. " Saturnin Fabre died in 1961 in his property in Montgeron, overwhelmed by pulmonary edema. He is buried in the Carrières-sous-Poissy cemetery in the Yvelines. He never consoled himself for the death of his wife, Suzanne Marie Benoist, in 1957 with whom he was married on November 26, 1925 in Paris XVIII.

The Cannes Film Festival paid him a late tribute, and posthumously, in 1962.

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Known For

  • Pépé le Moko
  • Gates of the Night
  • Fantastic Night
  • Miquette
  • The Mayor's Dilemma
  • Désiré
  • Ignace
  • The Most Wanted Man
  • Nine Bachelors
  • Coral Reefs
  • Marie-Martine
  • A Friend Will Come Tonight
  • Scandals of Clochemerle
  • The French Way
  • Pasha's Wives
  • Jeannou
  • Le club des soupirants
  • Tricoche et Cacolet

Filmography

1954
Service Entrance · as Mr Delécluze, Père Et Bourreau Officiel
1953
The Most Wanted Man · as W.w. Stone
1953
Carnaval · as Dr. Caberlot
1952
Holiday for Henrietta · as Antoine - A Consumer
1950
Miquette · as Le Marquis
1948
Scandals of Clochemerle · as Alexandre Bourdillat
1946
Gates of the Night · as Monsieu Sénéchal
1946
A Friend Will Come Tonight · as Philippe Prunier
1943
Jeannou · as Frochard
1943
Marie-Martine · as L'oncle Parpain
1942
Fantastic Night · as Thalès
1941
1940
The French Way · as Monsieur Dalban
1940
Beating Heart · as Aristide
1939
Love Cavalcade · as Monsieur Dupont-Dufort
1939
Nine Bachelors · as Count Adhémar Colombinet De La Jonchère
1939
1939
The Mayor's Dilemma · as Le Père Rossignol
1939
Coral Reefs · as Hobson
1939
Pasha's Wives · as Djemal Pacha
1939
Le corsaire · as Cast
1938
Tricoche et Cacolet · as Monsieur Van Der Pouf
1938
1938
The Woman Thief · as Academician
1937
Désiré · as Adrien
1937
Ignace · as Le Baron Gédéon Des Orfrais
1937
Les dégourdis de la 11ème · as Inspector General Burnous
1937
Confessions of a Newlywed · as Professeur Puget
1937
Pépé le Moko · as Le Grand Père
1936
1934
1931
Ma cousine de Varsovie · as Saint-Hilaire

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