Gaston Modot
Gaston Modot ( born December 31, 1887 in Paris, † February 20, 1970 ) was a French actor. More than 50 years he was active as an actor and worked with almost all the major directors of his country.
Life
Modot lived in the early 20th century in Montmartre and met Picasso and Modigliani. At Gaumont, he began in 1909 and was to be seen in the following 20 years of silent movies in all genres. In 1917 he played the lead role in Mater dolorosa by Abel Gance. Also in vanguard films Germaine Dulac's La Fête espagnole and Louis Delluc (1919) and Fièvre ( 1921) he worked with. In addition to Max Linder, he played again in 1924, directed by Abel Gance in Au secours! . Towards the end of the 1920s he appeared in German - French co - productions.
His portrayal of the "man " in Luis Buñuel's The Golden Age ( L'Age d'or, 1930) today guaranteed him lasting fame. Under René Clair debuted Modot the year before (1929 ) in the sound film in Under the Roofs of Paris ( Sous les Toit de Paris). In addition to Jean Gabin, he took a supporting role in Julien Duvivier's Pépé le Moko - In the dark of Algiers ( Pépé le Moko, 1937). In The Grand Illusion (La Grande illusion, 1937) and Rules of the Game (La Règle du jeu, 1939), the classics of Jean Renoir, he played as well as in the poetic Three hours of film Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du paradis, 1945) by Marcel Carné.
1962 ended Gaston Modot his acting work. He appeared in over 100 films.