Pierre Brasseur
Biography
Pierre Brasseur, born Pierre-Albert Espinasse (22 December 1905, Paris – 16 August 1972, Bruneck, Italy) was a French actor. He was the son of actor Georges Espinasse and actress Germaine Brasseur while the latter was married to Albert Brasseur. His grandfather, Jules Brasseur, was an actor as well. The family tradition of using the name Brasseur was continued by his son Claude and his grandson Alexandre. Renowned for playing outsized characters, Brasseur is probably best known in the anglophone world for his (semi-fictionalised) portrayal of the actor Frédérick Lemaître in Les Enfants du Paradis (Children of Paradise, 1945) and as Docteur Génessier (more subdued) in the horror film Eyes Without a Face (Les Yeux sans visage, 1960) co-starring with Alida Valli. On May 30, 1927, Brasseur performed the spoken role of the Narrator in the world premiere of Igor Stravinsky's opera-oratorio Oedipus rex. Description above from the Wikipedia article Pierre Brasseur, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Movies (49)
Michel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes
as Self (archive footage)
2002
Le Dernier Mélodrame
Writer (Writing)
1979
The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life
as La Brunetière
1972
The Married Couple of the Year Two
as Gosselin
1971
Macédoine
1971
Un ange passe
as Florisse
1970
Goto, Island of Love
as Le Gouverneur-Roi Goto III
1969
À la recherche de Jean Grémillon
as Self
1969
Sous le signe de Monte-Cristo
as Faria
1968
Birds in Peru
as Husband
1968
A Little Virtuous
as Jules Polnick
1968
The Madman of Lab Four
as Father Ballanchon
1967
The Birth of Children of Paradise
as Self
1967
King of Hearts
as General Géranium
1966
Pas de panique
as Fernand Toussaint
1966
A Young World
as Le Grec
1966
A Matter of Resistance
as Dimanche
1966
Two Hours to Kill
as Laurent
1966
Fortuna
as Nissim Buzaglo
1966
L'or du duc
as Adhémar de Talois-Minet
1965
Cloportes
as Demuldère aka 'Tonton le Brocanteur', receiver
1965
Pas de caviar pour tante Olga
as Patache
1965
Black Humor
as Le guérisseur - segment 1 'La Bestiole'
1965
The Circular Triangle
as Georges Richter
1964
Lucky Jo
as Loudéac
1964
A Very Handy Man
as Simone Palumbo
1964
Josefa's Loot
as Mayor
1963
Agent of Doom
as Charlèz
1963
Don't Tempt the Devil
as Charles Cassidi, lawyer for Mrs. Dupré
1963
The Abominable Man of Customs
as Russian killer
1963
Crime Does Not Pay
as Martin Fenayrou
1962
Hitch-Hike
as Achille Pipermint, l'homme d'affaires radin à Orly
1962
Emile's Boat
as François Larmentiel
1962
Rencontres
as Carl Krasner
1962
Famous Love Affairs
as le grand duc Ernest
1961
The Nina B. Affair
as Berrera
1961
Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love!
as Constable of Montmorency
1961
Spotlight on a Murderer
as Comte de Kerloquen
1961
Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century
as Pangloss
1960
The Dialogue of the Carmelites
as Commissioner of the Republic
1960
Il bell'Antonio
as Alfio Magnano
1960
Carthage in Flames
as Sidone
1960
Eyes Without a Face
as Professor Génessier
1960
The Bureaucrats
as Monsieur Nègre
1959
Head Against the Wall
as Dr. Varmont
1959
The Law
as Don Cesare
1959
The Possessors
as Lucien Maublanc, le cousin oisif
1958
Life Together
as Pierre Carreau
1958
Sans famille
as Jeroboam Driscoll
1958
