Pierre Brasseur
Acting
Born: 1905-12-22 in Paris, France
Biography
Pierre Brasseur, born Pierre-Albert Espinasse (22 December 1905, Paris – 16 August 1972, Bruneck, Italy) was a French actor. He was the son of actor Georges Espinasse and actress Germaine Brasseur while the latter was married to Albert Brasseur. His grandfather, Jules Brasseur, was an actor as well. The family tradition of using the name Brasseur was continued by his son Claude and his grandson Alexandre. Renowned for playing outsized characters, Brasseur is probably best known in the anglophone world for his (semi-fictionalised) portrayal of the actor Frédérick Lemaître in Les Enfants du Paradis (Children of Paradise, 1945) and as Docteur Génessier (more subdued) in the horror film Eyes Without a Face (Les Yeux sans visage, 1960) co-starring with Alida Valli. On May 30, 1927, Brasseur performed the spoken role of the Narrator in the world premiere of Igor Stravinsky's opera-oratorio Oedipus rex. Description above from the Wikipedia article Pierre Brasseur, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Les Cinq Dernières Minutes
Maurice Tardenois
Cinépanorama
Self
Rencontres
Carl Krasner
Pétrus
Rodrigue
La Joie de vivre
Self
Eyes Without a Face
Professor Génessier
Napoleon
Barras
Le Plaisir
Julien Ledentu
Children of Paradise
Frédérick Lemaître
Oasis
Antoine Vallin
Café de Paris
Le Rec
la loi
Don Cesare
The Married Couple of the Year Two
Gosselin
Il bell'Antonio
Alfio Magnano
Famous Love Affairs
le grand duc Ernest
Circulate!
Jean Dupont-Desroches
Cloportes
Demuldère aka 'Tonton le Brocanteur', receiver
Port of Shadows
Lucien
Valse éternelle
La Brigade des maléfices
Diablevert
La Brigade des maléfices
Diablegris
The Nina B. Affair
Berrera
Hercule
Bastien
Sans famille
Jeroboam Driscoll
Heartbeat
Cousine (uncredited)
The Gates of Paris
Juju
Head Against the Wall
Dr. Varmont
Second Childhood
Frossard
Spotlight on a Murderer
Comte de Kerloquen
King of Hearts
General Géranium
La Nuit blanche
Pierre Taverny
Bluebeard
Amédée de Salfère dit Barbe-Bleue
The Madman of Lab Four
Father Ballanchon
Rocambole
Rocambole
The Law
Don Cesare
The Revenge of Baccarat
Rocambole
The Life of Giuseppe Verdi
Alexandre Dumas figlio
Carthage in Flames
Sidone