Louis Seigner
Louis Seigner ( born June 23, 1903 in Saint-Chef, † January 20, 1991 in Paris) was a French actor.
Life
Seigner attended the Conservatory of Lyon as well as the Paris Conservatory in 1919 and received his first engagement at the Théâtre des Célestins. From 1923 to 1939 he played at the Théâtre de l' Odéon in Paris, interspersed with detours to Stage Grand Guignol (1925) and the Théâtre de la Porte Saint -Martin. 1939 began his decades- long affiliation with the Comédie- Française.
Seigner was involved in numerous classical stage plays, including The Bourgeois Gentleman, The Imaginary Invalid, Crime and Punishment, A Florentine hat, Malatesta, The Tempest, King Lear and The Merchant of Venice. Several times, as in the plays Tartuffe, Crainquebille and Donogoo he also directed.
Go to film Seigner came reluctantly, only since the early 1940s, he appeared in a large number of most serious films. The heavyweight, bald mime played notables, upper middle class, entrepreneurs, school, prison governors, judges, mayors, bishops and men of power of all kinds in one of his last film roles he played in the political thriller special tribunal to against the German occupiers very courteous occurring French Justice Minister Joseph Barthélémy.
His daughter Françoise Seigner also seized the acting profession, the actresses Emmanuelle Seigner Mathilde Seigner and are his granddaughters.