Gil Pérès

Gil-Pérès, real name Jules-Charles Pérès Jolin, (9 July 1822 – 30 January 1882) was a 19th-century French stage actor and vaudevilliste, who was a member of the troupe of the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris in the mid-19th century, and created several roles in Offenbach operettas.

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• Gil p r s carri re
• Some roles
• References

He was also noted for his collaboration in the plays of Labiche, often as servants.

He was buried in Passy Cemetery, where his epitaph is « le connaître, c’était l’aimer » ("to know him was to love him"); the monument was by Amédée Donatien Doublemard.

He is portrayed in the 1977 French television series 'Les Folies Offenbach' by Christian Marin.