Jean-Pierre Vincent (26 August 1942 – 5 November 2020) was a French theatrical actor and director.
He served as
Administrator of the Comédie-Française from 1983 to 1986.
Theatre
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The Broken Jug
''The Broken Jug'' (german: Der zerbrochne Krug, link=no, , also sometimes translated ''The Broken Pitcher'') is a comedy written by the German playwright Heinrich von Kleist. Kleist first conceived the idea for the play in 1801, upon looking at ...
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*''Scènes populaires'' (1963)
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A Respectable Wedding
''A Respectable Wedding'' is a short play by the German dramatist Bertolt Brecht. The German title ''Die Kleinbürgerhochzeit'' literally means ''the petit bourgeois wedding.''
Like other of Brecht’s early works (Baal, Drums in the Night, and ...
'' (1968)
*''Tambours et trompettes'' (1969)
*''Les Acteurs de bonne foi'' (1970)
*''Le Marquis de Montefosco'' (1970)
*''La Cagnotte'' (1971)
*''Capitaine Schelle, Capitaine Eçço'' (1971)
*''Le Camp du drap d'or'' (1971)
*''La Vie scélérate du noble seigneur Gilles de Rais'' (1971)
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In the Jungle of Cities
''In the Jungle of Cities'' (''Im Dickicht der Städte'') is a play by the German modernist playwright Bertolt Brecht. Written between 1921 and 1924, it received its first theatrical production under the title ''Im Dickicht'' ("In the jungle") a ...
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Woyzeck
''Woyzeck'' () is a stage play written by Georg Büchner. Büchner wrote the play between July and October 1836, yet left it incomplete at his death in February 1837. The play first appeared in 1877 in a heavily edited version by Karl Emil Fr ...
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*''A Respectable Wedding'' (1973)
*''En r'venant de l'expo'' (1973)
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The Mother'' (1975)
*''Germinal, projet sur un roman'' (1975)
*''La Bonne Vie'' (1976)
*''Don Giovanni'' (1976)
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The Misathrope'' (1977)
*''Une livre à vue et Palais de la guérison'' (1978)
*''La Mort d'Andrea Del Sarto, peintre florentin'' (1978)
*''Vichy-Fictions et Violences à Vichy'' (1980)
*''Convoi et Ruines'' (1980)
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Love's Labour's Lost'' (1980)
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Don Giovanni
''Don Giovanni'' (; K. 527; Vienna (1788) title: , literally ''The Rake Punished, or Don Giovanni'') is an opera in two acts with music by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart to an Italian libretto by Lorenzo Da Ponte. Its subject is a centuries-old Spanis ...
'' (1981)
*''Palais de Justice'' (1981)
*''Les Corbeaux'' (1982)
*''Dernières Nouvelles de la peste'' (1983)
*''Félicité'' (1983)
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The Suicide'' (1984)
*''The Misanthrope'' (1984)
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Macbeth
''Macbeth'' (, full title ''The Tragedie of Macbeth'') is a tragedy by William Shakespeare. It is thought to have been first performed in 1606. It dramatises the damaging physical and psychological effects of political ambition on those w ...
'' (1985)
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Six Characters in Search of an Author
''Six Characters in Search of an Author'' ( it, Sei personaggi in cerca d'autore, link=no ) is an Italian play by Luigi Pirandello, written and first performed in 1921. An absurdist fiction, absurdist metatheatrical, metatheatric play about th ...
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The Marriage of Figaro
''The Marriage of Figaro'' ( it, Le nozze di Figaro, links=no, ), K. 492, is a ''commedia per musica'' (opera buffa) in four acts composed in 1786 by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, with an Italian libretto written by Lorenzo Da Ponte. It premie ...
'' (1985)
*''On ne badine pas avec l'amour'' (1988)
*''Le Faiseur de théâtre'' (1988)
*''Scènes du répertoire Büchner - Courteline'' (1988)
*''La Nuit les chats'' (1989)
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Oedipus Rex
''Oedipus Rex'', also known by its Greek title, ''Oedipus Tyrannus'' ( grc, Οἰδίπους Τύραννος, ), or ''Oedipus the King'', is an Athenian tragedy by Sophocles that was first performed around 429 BC. Originally, to the ancient Gr ...
'' (1989)
*''Assainissement'' (1990)
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The Guilty Mother'' (1990)
*''Le Chant du départ'' (1990)
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Scapin the Schemer
''Scapin the Schemer'' (french: Les Fourberies de Scapin) is a three-act comedy of intrigue by the French playwright Molière. The title character Scapin is similar to the archetypical Scapino character. The play was first staged on 24 May 1671 ...
'' (1990)
*''Princesses'' (1991)
*''Fantasio'' (1991)
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The Moods of Marianne
''The Moods of Marianne'' (french: Les Caprices de Marianne) is an 1833 play by the French dramatist Alfred de Musset. It served as the basis for Jean Renoir's film ''The Rules of the Game'' (1939).
The play was first published on 15 May 1833 ...
'' (1991)
*''Un homme pressé'' (1992)
*''On ne badine pas avec l'amour'' (1993)
*''Il ne faut jurer de rien'' (1993)
*''Woyzeck'' (1993)
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Thyestes
In Greek mythology, Thyestes (pronounced , gr, Θυέστης, ) was a king of Olympia. Thyestes and his brother, Atreus, were exiled by their father for having murdered their half-brother, Chrysippus, in their desire for the throne of Olym ...
'' (1994)
*''The Marriage of Figaro'' (1994)
*''Violences à Vichy 2'' (1995)
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All's Well That Ends Well'' (1996)
*''Léo Burckart'' (1996)
*''Karl Marx Théâtre inédit'' (1997)
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The Game of Love and Chance
''The Game of Love and Chance'' (french: Le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard) is a three-act romantic comedy by French playwright Marivaux. ''The Game of Love and Chance'' was first performed 23 January 1730 by the Comédie Italienne. In this play, ...
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Tartuffe
''Tartuffe, or The Impostor, or The Hypocrite'' (; french: Tartuffe, ou l'Imposteur, ), first performed in 1664, is a theatrical comedy by Molière. The characters of Tartuffe, Elmire, and Orgon are considered among the greatest classical thea ...
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*''Pièces de guerre'' (1999)
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Man Equals Man
''Man Equals Man'' (german: Mann ist Mann), or A Man's a Man, is a play by the German people, German Modernism, modernist playwright Bertolt Brecht. One of Brecht's earlier works, it explores themes of war, human fungibility, and Personal identit ...
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Mitridate, re di Ponto
''Mitridate, re di Ponto'' ('' Mithridates, King of Pontus''), K. 87 (74a), is an opera seria in three acts by the young Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart. The libretto is by , after Giuseppe Parini's Italian translation of Jean Racine's play '' Mithrida ...
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Lorenzaccio
''Lorenzaccio'' is a French play of the Romantic period written by Alfred de Musset in 1834, set in 16th-century Florence, and depicting Lorenzino de' Medici, who killed Florence's tyrant, Alessandro de' Medici, his cousin. Having engaged in de ...
'' (2000)
*''Le Drame de la vie'' (2001)
*''L’Échange'' (2001)
*''Les Prétendants'' (2002)
*''Le Fou et sa femme, ce soir, dans Pancomedia'' (2002)
*''Katherine Barker'' (2002)
*''Onze Débardeurs'' (2003)
*''Derniers remords avant l'oubli'' (2004)
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Danton's Death
''Danton's Death'' (''Dantons Tod'') was the first play written by Georg Büchner, set during the French Revolution.
History
Georg Büchner wrote his works in the period between Romanticism and Realism in the so-called Vormärz era in German hi ...
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*''Antilopes'' (2006)
*''L’Éclipse du 11 août'' (2006)
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Oresteia
The ''Oresteia'' ( grc, Ὀρέστεια) is a trilogy of Greek tragedies written by Aeschylus in the 5th century BCE, concerning the murder of Agamemnon by Clytemnestra, the murder of Clytemnestra by Orestes, the trial of Orestes, the end o ...
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*''Le Silence des communistes'' (2007)
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The School for Wives
''The School for Wives'' (french: L'école des femmes; ) is a theatrical comedy written by the seventeenth century French playwright Molière and considered by some critics to be one of his finest achievements. It was first staged at the Palai ...
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*''Silence des communistes'' (2008)
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Ubu Roi
''Ubu Roi'' (; "Ubu the King" or "King Ubu") is a play by French writer Alfred Jarry, then 23 years old. It was first performed in Paris in 1896, by Aurélien Lugné-Poe's Théâtre de l'Œuvre at the Nouveau-Théâtre (today, the Théâtre de ...
'' (2008)
*''Paroles d'acteurs / Meeting Massera'' (2009)
*''La Trilogie de Zelinda & Lindoro'' (2010)
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Les Acteurs de bonne foi'' (2010)
*''Cancrelat'' (2012)
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Dom Juan
''Dom Juan ou le Festin de pierre'' ("Don Juan or The Feast of the Stone tatue) is a five-act 1665 comedy by Molière based upon the Spanish legend of Don Juan Tenorio. The aristocrat Dom Juan is a rake who seduces, marries, and abandons Elvir ...
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*''Iphis et Iante'' (2013)
*''Les Suppliantes'' (2013)
*''War & Breakfast'' (2014)
*''La Dame aux jambes d'Azur'' (2015)
*''En attendant Godot'' (2015)
Awards
*Prix du syndicat de la Critique for ''Capitaine Schelle, Capitaine Eçço'' (1972)
*Prix du syndicat de la Critique pour l'ensemble (1976)
*Prix Dominique for ''Vichy-Fictions'' (1979)
*Prix Georges Lherminier for ''Vichy-Fictions'' (1980)
*Prix du Syndicat de la Critique for ''Palais de Justice'' (1982)
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Molière Award for Best Director
Molière Award for Best Director. Winners and nominees.
* 1987 : Jean-Pierre Vincent for ''The Marriage of Figaro'' (''Le Mariage de Figaro'')
**Robert Hossein, for ''Kean (play), Kean''
**Jorge Lavelli, for ''A Midsummer Night's Dream'' (''Le ...
for ''Le Mariage de Figaro'' (1987)
*Grand Prix du Syndicat de la Critique for ''Le Mariage de Figaro'' (1987)
*Prix du syndicat de la Critique for ''Princesses'' (1991)
*Prix du syndicat de la Critique for ''Les Prétendants'' (2003)
*Prix Plaisir du théâtre for ''Les acteurs de bonne foi'' (2011)
References
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1942 births
2020 deaths
20th-century French actors
21st-century French actors
French male stage actors
French directors
Deaths from the COVID-19 pandemic in France