Name Georges Pitoeff Movies Le Grand Jeu | Role Playwright Children Sacha Pitoeff | |
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Died 1939, Bellevue, Switzerland Spouse Ludmilla Pitoeff (m. 1915–1939) Similar People Ludmilla Pitoeff, Sacha Pitoeff, Jacques Feyder | ||
Georges Pitoeff was born on Sept. 4, 1884, in Tiflis (now Tbilisi, Georgia), then in Russia, and died on Sept. 17, 1939, in Bellevue, near Geneva, in Switzerland. Russian-born of Armenian origins, he was the son of the Director of the Tiflis Theatre. He was a close friend of Constantin Sergueievitch Stanislavski and, after studying and graduating in Law, at Paris University, became himself a theatre director and producer, noted for his popularization in France of the works of contemporary playwrights, especially Luigi Pirandello, George Bernard Shaw, Anton Chekhov, Arthur Shnitzler, Henrik Ibsen, and Eugene O'Neill. He was a founding member of the Cartel des Quatre (Group of Four), a group including Louis Jouvet, Charles Dullin, and Gaston Baty, dedicated to rejuvenating the French theatre.
One of his sons, Alexandre Pitoeff, known as Sacha Pitoeff, was himself a noted French theatre director and actor.
Among his grandchildren : - Pr Georges Dicker is Professor of Philosophy and Chair, SUNY College at Brockport, NY, USA, and a noted specialist of Descartes. - Pribislav Georges Pitoeff, is an ethnomusicologist and researcher in Eastern Oral and Musical Traditions. - Jean-Jacques Dicker, is a documentary photographer.
References : - "THEATRE DES ANNEES VINGT : GEORGES PITOEFF metteur en scene" by Pr Jacqueline Jomarron, L'AGE D'HOMME publishers, 1979, LAUSANNE, SWITZERLAND
- "LUDMILLA, MA MERE : The Life of Ludmilla and Georges Pitoeff", by Aniouta Pitoeff, JULLIARD publishers, 1955, PARIS, FRANCE.
- PITOEFF FAMILY ARCHIVES.