Paul Préboist
Paul Claude Préboist ( born February 21, 1927 in Marseille, † March 4, 1997 in Paris) was a French actor.
Life
At fourteen, Paul Préboist worked as a jockey. During the Second World War, he worked as an editor at a counter of social security. At that time he also interpreted the humorous songs by Fernandel and Lucien Noël Noël- Noël called in the brasseries and hospitals of the city. On the initiative of the comedian Henri Crémieux he went in the 1950s to Paris, attended drama school Centre dramatique de la Rue Blanche and gained his first stage experience in cabaret and theater, and said rollers on the radio on the side of Pierre Dac and Francis Blanche. Between 1948 and 1992 he played in more than 120 films. He often appeared as a comedian and in supporting roles, as well as in several films with Pierre Richard and Louis de Funès. Also in several television productions, he was seen, so in seven episodes of the popular French television series Les Cinq dernières minutes.
Paul Préboist died after a long illness in Paris, his grave is in the cemetery at Couilly -Pont -aux -Dames.
Honors
- In Quartier Croix d' Argent in Montpellier, a street is named after him.