Raymond Dandy

Raymond woman (* October 14, 1887 on the island of Gorée, † February 9, 1953 in Paris) was a French vaudeville artist and film actor.

Life

Woman spent his childhood in Tunisia and Marseille. He went from about the age of 13 years in France as a circus clown in music halls and cafés -concerts on. In 1912 he was engaged by the Italian film company Cines as a comedy performer is given after the successful " Tontolini " actor Ferdinand Guillaume Cines had left. Woman embodied in its more than 130 Italian short comedies for Cines, the internationally popular figure of the "Kri Kri" that and " Bloomer " in France and the Netherlands as " Patachon " in Spain and Portugal as "Kri - Kri" in United Kingdom was in Germany known as " Mucki ", " krikri " or " Bliemchen ". The slapstick comedies attracted their humor from numerous film tricks and oblique surreal scenes in which man himself beheaded, gravity is repealed and the protagonist is haunted by his reflection.

Early 1916 returned wife returned to France and turned there until the mid-1920s about 10 films in the figure of the " Dandy" in a comedy series, the film company Éclair. In addition, he stepped back into vaudeville numbers. In the 1930s, played only 1.52 meters tall actor among others in addition to Jean Gabin, Marie Glory, Josette Day and Raimu.