Person Details

Birthday: 1884-04-04 10:54:47

Death: 1961-10-24 10:54:47

Aliases: No known aliases

Gender: Male

Place of birth: Sens, Yonne, France

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Movie Involvements: 22

TV Involvements: 0


Most Famous Work

Biography

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. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Description above from the Wikipedia article Saturnin Fabre, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Most Famous Work

Pépé le Moko
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7

Pépé le Moko

(1937) Le Grand Père
Beating Heart
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6

Beating Heart

(1940) Aristide
Gates of the Night
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7

Gates of the Night

(1946) Monsieu Sénéchal
Coral Reefs
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6

Coral Reefs

(1939) Hobson
The Mayor's Dilemma
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8

The Mayor's Dilemma

(1939) le père Rossignol
Ploum, ploum, tra-la-la
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0

Ploum, ploum, tra-la-la

(1947) Basile Samara
Dr. Laennec
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6

Dr. Laennec

(1949) Laennec Père
Service Entrance
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6

Service Entrance

(1954) Mr Delécluze, père et bourreau officiel

Acting

Year Character Movie/Tv
1954 Mr Delécluze, père et bourreau officiel
Comte Gontran de Barfleur
1953 W.W. Stone
Le président
1952 Antoine - a consumer
1951 Horace Cardinal
1950 N/A
N/A
Le général Petypon du Grêlé
Le marquis
Le professeur
1949 Achille Panoyau, accused
Laennec Père
1948 Alexandre Bourdillat
N/A
1947 Basile Samara
1946 Monsieu Sénéchal
Horace Rouvière
Sébastien Aurelle, the musician
Uncle Hubert
The high school principal
Philippe Prunier
Monsieur de Vertumne
1945 Monsieur Dalban
1944 N/A
1943 Frochard
Ireniev
l'oncle Parpain
Siméon
1942 Thalès
Grégoire Dimitresco
Monsieur Honoré
1941 Andromaque de Miremir
Cabarus
1940 Aristide
1939 Monsieur Dupont-Dufort
Comte Adhémar Colombinet de La Jonchère
N/A
le père Rossignol
Hobson
Djemal Pacha
1938 N/A
M. Dupont
Lemarchal
Monsieur Van der Pouf
Lebrennois, le maire
N/A
Academician
1937 N/A
Adrien
N/A
Le baron Gédéon des Orfrais
Inspector General Burnous
Professeur Puget
Le Grand Père
1936 Le tondu
N/A
Derain, député à la Chambre
N/A
N/A
N/A
1935 Bévallan
1934 M. Mathieu
Le Colonel du 32ème Spahis
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Le marquis
N/A
N/A
N/A
Monsieur Léopard, director
1933 Puma father
1932 Mr. Brassart
1931 N/A
N/A
1930 Monsieur Crespin
1929 Le professeur Pique
1920 N/A
Year Character Movie/Tv

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