Name Andre Lorde Role Playwright | Died 1942, France | |
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Movies The Diary of a Chambermaid Books The System of Doctor Goudron and Professor Plume: A Grand Guignol Classic Similar People Octave Mirbeau, D W Griffith, Jean Renoir, Burgess Meredith | ||
André de Lorde : Contes du grand Guignol
André de Latour, comte de Lorde (1869–1942) was a French playwright, the main author of the Grand Guignol plays from 1901 to 1926. His evening career was as a dramatist of terror; during daytimes he worked as a librarian in the Bibliothèque de l'Arsenal. He wrote 150 plays, all of them devoted mainly to the exploitation of terror and insanity, and a few novels. For plays the subject matter of which concerned mental illness he sometimes collaborated with psychologist Alfred Binet, the developer of IQ testing.
During the 1920s de Lorde was elected "Prince of Fear" (Prince de la Terreur) by his peers.
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