René Dupuy (17 May 1920 – 1 August 2009) was a French
actor
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,
theater director
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and theater manager.
A student at the
Conservatoire national d'art dramatique in Paris, René Dupuy was later theater manager of:
* the
Théâtre Gramont
The théâtre Gramont was a theatre venue located at 30 rue de Gramont in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris.
René Dupuy was the managing director from 1954 to 1973. The place was transformed into a movie theatre (Le Gramont) in April 1974 then chan ...
from 1954 to 1973,
* the
Théâtre de l'Athénée
The Théâtre de l'Athénée is a theatre at 7 rue Boudreau, in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. Renovated in 1996 and classified a historical monument, the Athénée inherits an artistic tradition marked by the figure of Louis Jouvet who direc ...
from 1966 to 1972,
* the
Théâtre Fontaine from 1972 to 1985.
He was professor of dramatic art at the .
Theatre
Comedian
* 1950: ''
Henri IV
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'' by
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare ( 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's nation ...
, directed by
Jean Vilar
Jean Vilar (25 March 1912– 28 May 1971) was a French actor and theatre director.
Vilar trained under actor and theatre director Charles Dullin, then toured with an acting company throughout France. His directorial career began in 1943 in a sma ...
,
Festival d'Avignon
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* 1950: ''
Le Cid
''Le Cid'' is a five-act French tragicomedy written by Pierre Corneille, first performed in December 1636 at the Théâtre du Marais in Paris and published the same year. It is based on Guillén de Castro's play ''Las Mocedades del Cid''. Castro ...
'' by
Corneille
Pierre Corneille (; 6 June 1606 – 1 October 1684) was a French tragedian. He is generally considered one of the three great seventeenth-century French dramatists, along with Molière and Racine.
As a young man, he earned the valuable patronag ...
, directed by Jean Vilar, Festival d'Avignon
* 1950: ''
Le Bal des voleurs'' by
Jean Anouilh
Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh (; 23 June 1910 – 3 October 1987) was a French dramatist whose career spanned five decades. Though his work ranged from high drama to absurdist farce, Anouilh is best known for his 1944 play ''Antigone'', an a ...
, directed by
André Barsacq
André Barsacq (24 January 1909 – 8 July 1973) was a French theatre director, producer, scenic designer, and playwright. From 1940 to 1973 he was the director of the Théâtre de l'Atelier. He was the brother of Russian production designer Léo ...
,
Théâtre des Arts
* 1951: ''
The Prince of Homburg'' by
Heinrich von Kleist
Bernd Heinrich Wilhelm von Kleist (18 October 177721 November 1811) was a German poet, dramatist, novelist, short story writer and journalist. His best known works are the theatre plays '' Das Käthchen von Heilbronn'', ''The Broken Jug'', ''Amph ...
, directed by Jean Vilar, Festival d'Avignon
* 1956: ''
Irma la douce
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'' by
Marguerite Monnot
Marguerite Monnot (28 May 1903 – 12 October 1961) was a French songwriter and composer best known for having written many of the songs performed by Édith Piaf ("Milord", " Hymne à l'amour") and for the music in the stage musical '' Irma La ...
, directed by René Dupuy,
Théâtre Gramont
The théâtre Gramont was a theatre venue located at 30 rue de Gramont in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris.
René Dupuy was the managing director from 1954 to 1973. The place was transformed into a movie theatre (Le Gramont) in April 1974 then chan ...
* 1958: ''Édition de midi'' by
Mihail Sebastian
Mihail Sebastian (; born Iosif Mendel Hechter; October 18, 1907 – May 29, 1945) was a Romanian playwright, essayist, journalist and novelist.
Life
Sebastian was born to a Jewish family in Brăila, the son of Mendel and Clara Hechter. After ...
, directed by René Dupuy, Théâtre Gramont
* 1963: ''
You never can tell'' by
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from ...
, directed by René Dupuy, Théâtre Gramont
* 1965: ''Pantagleize'' by
Michel de Ghelderode
Michel de Ghelderode (born Adémar Adolphe Louis Martens, 3 April 1898 – 1 April 1962) was an avant-garde Belgian dramatist, from Flanders, who spoke and wrote in French. His works often deal with the extremes of human experience, from death an ...
, directed by René Dupuy, Théâtre Gramont
* 1966: ''La Convention de Belzébir'' by
Marcel Aymé
Marcel Aymé (29 March 1902 – 14 October 1967) was a French novelist and playwright, who also wrote screenplays and works for children.
Biography
Marcel André Aymé was born in Joigny, in the Burgundy region of France, the youngest of si ...
, directed by René Dupuy,
Théâtre de l'Athénée
The Théâtre de l'Athénée is a theatre at 7 rue Boudreau, in the 9th arrondissement of Paris. Renovated in 1996 and classified a historical monument, the Athénée inherits an artistic tradition marked by the figure of Louis Jouvet who direc ...
* 1966: ''
Exit the King
''Exit the King'' (french: Le Roi se meurt) is an absurdist drama by Eugène Ionesco that premiered in 1962. It is the third in Ionesco's "Berenger Cycle", preceded by '' The Killer'' (1958) and ''Rhinocéros'' (1959), and followed by ''A Str ...
'' by
Eugène Ionesco, directed by
Jacques Mauclair
Jacques Mauclair (12 January 1919 – 21 December 2001) was a French film actor. He appeared in 30 films between 1950 and 2000. He was born in Paris
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, Théâtre de l'Athénée
* 1970: ''Exit the King'' by Eugène Ionesco, directed by
Jacques Mauclair
Jacques Mauclair (12 January 1919 – 21 December 2001) was a French film actor. He appeared in 30 films between 1950 and 2000. He was born in Paris
Paris () is the Capital city, capital and List of communes in France with over 20,00 ...
, Théâtre de l'Athénée
* 1977: ' : ''
Les Petits Oiseaux'' d'
Eugène Labiche
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Pierre Sabbagh (18 July 1918 – 30 September 1994) was a major personality in French television, as a journalist, producer and director.
Pierre Alain Sabbagh was born in Lannion (Côtes-d'Armor) and died in Paris. He was the younger son of ...
,
Théâtre Marigny
The Théâtre Marigny is a theatre in Paris, situated near the junction of the Champs-Élysées and the Avenue Marigny in the 8th arrondissement.
It was originally built to designs of the architect Charles Garnier for the display of a panora ...
* 1984: ''Au théâtre ce soir'' : ''La Pomme'' by
Louis Verneuil
Louis Jacques Marie Collin du Bocage (14 May 1893 – 3 November 1952), better known by the pen name Louis Verneuil, was a French playwright, screenwriter, and actor.
Biography
Born in Paris, Verneuil wrote approximately sixty plays and was be ...
and
Georges Berr
Georges Berr (30 July 1867 – 21 July 1942) in Paris, was a French actor and dramatist, a member and sociétaire of the Comédie-Française from 1886 to 1923.
Under the pseudonyms Colias and Henry Bott he wrote several plays, particularly in c ...
, directed by René Dupuy, TV director Pierre Sabbagh, Théâtre Marigny
Theatre director
* 1948: ''La Vengeance d'une orpheline russe'' by
Henri Rousseau
Henri Julien Félix Rousseau (; 21 May 1844 – 2 September 1910)
at the Théâtre de l'Œuvre
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* 1949: ''La Vengeance d'une orpheline russe'' by Henri Rousseau,
Studio des Champs-Élysées
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* 1951: ''
La calandria'' by
Bernardo Dovizi da Bibbiena
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Biography
He received a substantial literary training, ...
,
Festival d'Avignon
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* 1954: ''Le Héros et le soldat'' by
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from ...
,
Théâtre Gramont
The théâtre Gramont was a theatre venue located at 30 rue de Gramont in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris.
René Dupuy was the managing director from 1954 to 1973. The place was transformed into a movie theatre (Le Gramont) in April 1974 then chan ...
* 1955: ''Le Quai Conti'' by , Théâtre Gramont
* 1956: ''À la monnaie du Pape'' by
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* Louis (surname)
* Louis (singer), Serbian singer
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See also
Derived or associated terms
* Lewis ( ...
, Théâtre Gramont
* 1956: ''
Irma la douce
''Irma la Douce'' (, "Irma the Sweet") is a 1963 American romantic comedy film directed by Billy Wilder from a screenplay he co-wrote with I. A. L. Diamond, based on the 1956 French stage musical of the same name by Marguerite Monnot and Alexa ...
'' by
Alexandre Breffort
Alexandre Breffort (1901–1971) was a French screenwriter.
Selected filmography
* '' Follow That Man'' (1953)
1901 births
1971 deaths
French male screenwriters
20th-century French screenwriters
20th-century French male writers
{ ...
and
Marguerite Monnot
Marguerite Monnot (28 May 1903 – 12 October 1961) was a French songwriter and composer best known for having written many of the songs performed by Édith Piaf ("Milord", " Hymne à l'amour") and for the music in the stage musical '' Irma La ...
, Théâtre Gramont
* 1956: ''
The Playboy of the Western World
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'' by
John Millington Synge
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, Théâtre Gramont
* 1957: ''
Pericles, Prince of Tyre
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'' by
William Shakespeare
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,
Théâtre de l'Ambigu
* 1958: ''Édition de midi'' by
Mihail Sebastian
Mihail Sebastian (; born Iosif Mendel Hechter; October 18, 1907 – May 29, 1945) was a Romanian playwright, essayist, journalist and novelist.
Life
Sebastian was born to a Jewish family in Brăila, the son of Mendel and Clara Hechter. After ...
, Théâtre Gramont
* 1959: ''
La Double Vie de Théophraste Longuet'' by
Jean Rougeul after
Gaston Leroux
Gaston Louis Alfred Leroux (6 May 186815 April 1927) was a French journalist and author of detective fiction.
In the English-speaking world, he is best known for writing the novel '' The Phantom of the Opera'' (french: Le Fantôme de l'Opéra, ...
,
Théâtre Gramont
The théâtre Gramont was a theatre venue located at 30 rue de Gramont in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris.
René Dupuy was the managing director from 1954 to 1973. The place was transformed into a movie theatre (Le Gramont) in April 1974 then chan ...
* 1960: ''La Petite Datcha'' by Vasiliei Vasil'evitch Chkvarkin,
Théâtre Daunou
The théâtre Daunou is a Parisian theater with 450 seats, located at 7 rue Daunou in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris.
History
The theatre was a command from the actress Jane Renouardt to the architect Auguste Bluysen. The building is in an ...
* 1961: ''Visa pour l'amour'' by
Raymond Vinci and
Francis Lopez,
Gaîté lyrique
* 1961: ''Un certain monsieur Blot'' by
Robert Rocca after
Pierre Daninos
Pierre Daninos (26 May 1913 – 7 January 2005) was a French writer and humorist.
Life
Daninos was born in Paris. He wrote ''Les carnets du Major Thompson'', which was published in 1954, and was followed by many sequels. The books in the series ...
, Théâtre Gramont
* 1962: ''À notre âge on a besoin d'amour'' and ''La Cloison'' by
Jean Savy,
Théâtre de l'Alliance française
* 1962: ''Le Timide au palais'' by
Tirso de Molina
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, Théâtre Gramont
* 1963: ''
You never can tell'' by
George Bernard Shaw
George Bernard Shaw (26 July 1856 – 2 November 1950), known at his insistence simply as Bernard Shaw, was an Irish playwright, critic, polemicist and political activist. His influence on Western theatre, culture and politics extended from ...
, Théâtre Gramont
* 1964: ''
Les Fausses Confidences
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'' de
Marivaux
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He is considered one of the most important French playwrights of the 18th century, writing num ...
,
Théâtre de l'Ambigu
* 1965: ''Pantagleize'' by
Michel de Ghelderode
Michel de Ghelderode (born Adémar Adolphe Louis Martens, 3 April 1898 – 1 April 1962) was an avant-garde Belgian dramatist, from Flanders, who spoke and wrote in French. His works often deal with the extremes of human experience, from death an ...
, Théâtre Gramont
* 1965: ''Du vent dans les branches de sassafras'' by
René de Obaldia, Théâtre Gramont
* 1966: ''La Convention de Belzébir'' by
Marcel Aymé
Marcel Aymé (29 March 1902 – 14 October 1967) was a French novelist and playwright, who also wrote screenplays and works for children.
Biography
Marcel André Aymé was born in Joigny, in the Burgundy region of France, the youngest of si ...
,
Théâtre de l'Athénée-Louis-Jouvet
* 1967: ''
A Report to an Academy
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'' by
Franz Kafka
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, Théâtre Gramont
* 1968: ''
After the Rain'' by
John Griffith Bowen
John Griffith Bowen (5 November 1924 – 18 April 2019) was a British playwright and novelist.
Early life
John Bowen was born in Calcutta, India, to Ethel (née Cook) and Hugh Bowen; his father was the manager of the Shalimar Print Works in Goba ...
, Théâtre de l'Athénée-Louis-Jouvet
* 1969: ''Les Grosses Têtes'' by
Jean Poiret and
Michel Serrault
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Life and career
His first professional job was in a touring production in Germany of Molière's '' Les ...
, directed by and with
Jean Poiret, Théâtre de l'Athénée-Louis-Jouvet
* 1969: ''Popaul et Juliette'' by André Maheux and
Mireille Hartuch
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Biography
Mirei ...
,
Théâtre Gramont
The théâtre Gramont was a theatre venue located at 30 rue de Gramont in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris.
René Dupuy was the managing director from 1954 to 1973. The place was transformed into a movie theatre (Le Gramont) in April 1974 then chan ...
* 1971: ''
Fortune and Men's Eyes
''Fortune and Men's Eyes'' is a 1967 play and 1971 film written by John Herbert about a young man's experience in prison, exploring themes of homosexuality and sexual slavery.
Plot of the play
The plot follows Smitty, a 17-year-old, after he ...
'' by
John Herbert, Théâtre de l'Athénée
* 1972: ''Le Roi des cons'' by
Georges Wolinski
Georges David Wolinski (; 28 June 19347 January 2015) was a French cartoonist and comics writer. He was killed on 7 January 2015 in a terrorist attack on ''Charlie Hebdo'' along with other staff.
Early life
Georges David Wolinski was born on 28 ...
,
Théâtre Fontaine
* 1973: ''Chante, Papa, chante'' by
Marcel Moussy,
Théâtre des Nouveautés
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* 1974: ' : ''Le Vison à cinq pattes'' by Constance Coline after
Peter Coke
Peter John Coke ( "cook"; 3 April 1913 – 30 July 2008) was an English actor, playwright and artist.
Early life
Peter John Coke was born in Southsea, Hampshire on 3 April 1913. , TV director Jean Royer,
Théâtre Marigny
The Théâtre Marigny is a theatre in Paris, situated near the junction of the Champs-Élysées and the Avenue Marigny in the 8th arrondissement.
It was originally built to designs of the architect Charles Garnier for the display of a panora ...
* 1977: ''Au théâtre ce soir'': ''
Les Petits Oiseaux'' by
Eugène Labiche
Eugene is a common male given name that comes from the Greek εὐγενής (''eugenēs''), "noble", literally "well-born", from εὖ (''eu''), "well" and γένος (''genos''), "race, stock, kin".Pierre Sabbagh
Pierre Sabbagh (18 July 1918 – 30 September 1994) was a major personality in French television, as a journalist, producer and director.
Pierre Alain Sabbagh was born in Lannion (Côtes-d'Armor) and died in Paris. He was the younger son of ...
,
Théâtre Marigny
The Théâtre Marigny is a theatre in Paris, situated near the junction of the Champs-Élysées and the Avenue Marigny in the 8th arrondissement.
It was originally built to designs of the architect Charles Garnier for the display of a panora ...
* 1979: ''
Troilus and Cressida
''Troilus and Cressida'' ( or ) is a play by William Shakespeare, probably written in 1602.
At Troy during the Trojan War, Troilus and Cressida begin a love affair. Cressida is forced to leave Troy to join her father in the Greek camp. Meanwh ...
'' by
William Shakespeare
William Shakespeare ( 26 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor. He is widely regarded as the greatest writer in the English language and the world's pre-eminent dramatist. He is often called England's nation ...
,
Théâtre Fontaine
* 1982: ''Lili Lamont'' by Arthur Whithney, Théâtre Fontaine
* 1984: ''Au théâtre ce soir'': ''La Pomme'' by
Louis Verneuil
Louis Jacques Marie Collin du Bocage (14 May 1893 – 3 November 1952), better known by the pen name Louis Verneuil, was a French playwright, screenwriter, and actor.
Biography
Born in Paris, Verneuil wrote approximately sixty plays and was be ...
and
Georges Berr
Georges Berr (30 July 1867 – 21 July 1942) in Paris, was a French actor and dramatist, a member and sociétaire of the Comédie-Française from 1886 to 1923.
Under the pseudonyms Colias and Henry Bott he wrote several plays, particularly in c ...
, TV director
Pierre Sabbagh
Pierre Sabbagh (18 July 1918 – 30 September 1994) was a major personality in French television, as a journalist, producer and director.
Pierre Alain Sabbagh was born in Lannion (Côtes-d'Armor) and died in Paris. He was the younger son of ...
,
Théâtre Marigny
The Théâtre Marigny is a theatre in Paris, situated near the junction of the Champs-Élysées and the Avenue Marigny in the 8th arrondissement.
It was originally built to designs of the architect Charles Garnier for the display of a panora ...
* 1988: ''
Exit the King
''Exit the King'' (french: Le Roi se meurt) is an absurdist drama by Eugène Ionesco that premiered in 1962. It is the third in Ionesco's "Berenger Cycle", preceded by '' The Killer'' (1958) and ''Rhinocéros'' (1959), and followed by ''A Str ...
'' by
Eugène Ionesco
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