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Edmond Guiraud

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Occupation
  
Playwright Actor

Died
  
1961, Roquedur, France

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Born
  
22 March 1879
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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.

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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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