Edmond Guiraud

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Occupation PlaywrightActor		Died 1961, Roquedur, France

Born 22 March 1879 Nimes Books Anna Karenina: A Play in Five Acts

Edmond Guiraud (22 March 1879 – 18 April 1961) was an 20th-century French playwright, librettist, and actor from the Cévennes region in southern France.

Biographie

Edmond Guiraud lived many years in Roquedur in the Gard department. He had a playwright career before World War I.

He became a film actor after World War II and played in two films by Jean Gehret, shot in the Cévennes.

His widow Jeannine Guiraud, donated the musée Cévenol in le Vigan the archives of her husband in order to create an "Edmond Guiraud fund".

Edmond Guiraud is buried at the cimetière protestant de Nîmes.

Libretto

1912–1914: Marie Victoire, four-act opera by Ottorino Respighi

Theatre

1904: L'Ouvrier de la dernière heure

1907: Anna Karénine: (after the novel by Leo Tolstoy)

1907: Zizi

1908: Le Poussin

1910: Le Cœur d'Angélique

1911: Moïse

1911: Marie-Victoire

1914 : La Sauvageonne, Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens, 27 May

1922: Vautrin, (after the characters by Honoré de Balzac)

1923: Le Bonheur du jour

1925: Une femme, four-act comedy, 14 March, Théâtre Fémina

1930: Une femme de mon pays

1932: Nos 20 ans

in collaboration with Félix Galipaux

1905 : La Mémoire des dates

in collaboration with Léon Hennique

1929 : Whisky

Filmography

Actor

1948: Tabusse by Jean Gehret

1948: Le Crime des justes by Jean Gehret

1951: Oriental Port by Jacques Daroy

Film adaptations

1927: Le Bonheur du jour by Gaston Ravel (piece written in 1923)

1935: Zizi by Charles-Félix Tavano - short film -

References

Edmond Guiraud Wikipedia

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