Michel Caron (29 April 1929 in
Sèvres - 3 September 2001 in
Le Mesnil-Simon, Eure-et-Loir
Le Mesnil-Simon () is a commune in the Eure-et-Loir department in northern France.
Population
See also
*Communes of the Eure-et-Loir department
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) was a French operatic tenor and stage actor.
He sang in operettas like ''
The White Horse Inn'' (1960) and opéra-bouffe ''
La Périchole'' with
Jean Le Poulain
Jean Le Poulain (12 September 1924 – 1 March 1988) was a French stage actor and stage director.
He attended the cours Simon in Paris and won the first prize of Comedy at the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique in 1949. He was t ...
and
Roger Carel
Roger Carel (born Roger Bancharel; 14 August 1927 – 11 September 2020) was a French actor, known for his recurring film roles as Asterix, the French voice of '' Star Wars C-3PO, and the French voice of Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, and Rabbit in ...
, and ''
Barbe Bleue'' with Jean Le Poulain and
Arlette Didier
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(1968).
Biographie
From childhood, Michel Caron wanted to become an actor. He entered the René Simon class, then the
Conservatoire de Paris where he won three
first prizes: opera, comic opera and operetta.
Caron's career began at the
Théâtre du Châtelet to perform Guy Florès during a revival of ''The White Horse Inn'' (1960/1961).
He was then at the top of the bill for two plays of
opéra-bouffe, performed in 1968, ''
La Périchole'' with
Jean Le Poulain
Jean Le Poulain (12 September 1924 – 1 March 1988) was a French stage actor and stage director.
He attended the cours Simon in Paris and won the first prize of Comedy at the Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique in 1949. He was t ...
and
Roger Carel
Roger Carel (born Roger Bancharel; 14 August 1927 – 11 September 2020) was a French actor, known for his recurring film roles as Asterix, the French voice of '' Star Wars C-3PO, and the French voice of Winnie-the-Pooh, Piglet, and Rabbit in ...
and ''Barbe Bleue'' with Jean Le Poulain and Arlette Didier.
Opéra-bouffe with Michel Caron
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Filmography
* 1978: '' Les Enquêtes du commissaire Maigret'', episode: '' Maigret et le tueur'' by Marcel Cravenne
* 1981: ''Le Choix des armes
''Choice of Arms'' (French: ''Le Choix des armes'') is a 1981 French crime film directed by Alain Corneau. The main roles are played by Yves Montand, Catherine Deneuve and Gerard Depardieu. Although in structure a crime film, it is as much a c ...
'', by Alain Corneau
* 1982: '' Le Démon dans l'île'' by Francis Leroi
Bibliography
* ''Mishima n'était pas un héros'', the testimony book of his eldest daughter Laurence Caron-Spokojny on the disappearance of Michel Caron, 3 September 2001, Editions Publibook, 2013, .
References
External links
''Orphée aux enfers'' broadcast on ORTF 17 December 1958
Emission "DIM DAM DOM" broadcast 31 October 1969 on ORTF
introduced by Marie Laforêt. ''Le Ténor de la Périchole'', Michel Caron.
Video
of Arletty, Georges Van Parys and Michel Caron
''La Périchole'' by Offenbach directed by Maurice Lehmann with Michel Caron, broadcast on ORTF, 24 December 1971
Michel Caron's career, lyric artist and actor
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1929 births
People from Sèvres
Male actors from Île-de-France
20th-century French male opera singers
French operatic tenors
Artists who died by suicide
2001 suicides
2001 deaths
Suicides in France
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