Nationality French Role Actor Name Roger Blin | Years active 1925-1983 Occupation Film director, Actor | |
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Born March 22, 1907 ( 1907-03-22 ) Neuilly-sur-Seine, France Died January 21, 1984, Evecquemont, France Books Letters to Roger Blin: Reflections on the Theater Movies That Most Important Thing: Lo, Orpheus, The Shepherdess and the C, Le Corbeau, The Hunchback of Notre Similar People Samuel Beckett, Paul Grimault, Jacques Becker, Raymond Rouleau, Robert Dhery | ||
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Roger Blin (Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, 22 March 1907 – Évecquemont, France, 21 January 1984) was a French actor and director notable for staging world premieres of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot in 1953 and Endgame (play) in 1957.
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Biography
Blin was the son of a doctor; however, despite his father's wishes, Blin forged a career in the theatre. Initially part of the left-wing theatre collectives The Company of Five and The October Group, Blin assisted Antonin Artaud in producing the latter's The Cenci at the Folies-Wagrams theatre in 1935. During the war, Blin was a liaison between the Resistance and the French Army.
His extensive career as both director and actor in both film and theatre has been largely defined by his work and relationship with Artaud, Samuel Beckett and Jean Genet. In addition to being a close friend and confident of Artaud during the latter's nine years of internment, he directed the first performances of Beckett's Waiting For Godot, Happy Days and Endgame as well as directing the initial performance of Genet's The Blacks and the controversial The Screens. Genet's key correspondences to Blin have been published by Editions Gallimard.
The 1986 Faber and Faber publication, "Samuel Beckett: The Complete Dramatic Works" carries only three dedications from Beckett: "Endgame" is dedicated to Blin, while "Come and Go" is for John Calder, and "Catastrophe" is for Václav Havel.
Filmography
Actor
1983
L'hôpital de Leningrad (TV Movie) as
Nestor
1983
Vendredi ou la vie sauvage (TV Movie) as
Capitaine Van Deyssel
1982
La neige et la cendre (TV Movie) as
Laurent
1982
Cinq et la peau as
Récitant (voice)
1980
The King and the Mockingbird as
L'aveugle (voice)
1979
Dimanche après-midi après 17 heures (Short)
1979
Les petits soirs (TV Movie) as
Le père Fruchard (segment "Alexandra")
1979
The Adolescent as
Romain / le forgeron-the blacksmith
1977
Solveig et le violon turc
1977
Le vieux pays où Rimbaud est mort as
Le père de Jeanne
1976
Nevermore, Forever as
Daniel
1975
Il faut vivre dangereusement as
Murdoc
1975
Que voyez-vous Miss Ellis? (TV Movie) as
Manheim
1975
Lily, aime-moi as
Le père de Lily
1975
Aloïse as
Le professeur de chant
1975
La croisée (TV Movie) as
Dr. Piéplu
1975
That Most Important Thing: Love as
Le père de Servais
1974
Dada au coeur as
Max
1973
La ligne d'ombre (TV Movie) as
Burns
1973
Coeur à cuir (TV Movie)
1971
Mesure pour mesure (TV Movie) as
Le duc Vincentio
1971
Traîté du rossignol as
Lars Larsen
1970
Trop petit mon ami as
Boris
1970
L'illusion comique (TV Movie) as
Alcandre
1968
Les compagnons de Baal (TV Mini Series) as
Dominique Marchesini, Frère Chardonnere
- L'Héritage de Nostradamus (1968) - Dominique Marchesini, Frère Chardonnere
- La nuit du huit de trèfle (1968) - Dominique Marchesini, Frère Chardonnere
- L'inquiétant Professeur Lomer (1968) - Dominique Marchesini, Frère Chardonnere
1968
Bouclage (TV Movie) as
Malicorne
1967
La plaie et le couteau, Charles Baudelaire (TV Movie)(voice)
1967
La loi du survivant as
Pao
1967
The Sunday of Life as
Jean Sans-Tête
1966
Voilà l'ordre (Short)
1966
Les ruses du diable (Neuf portraits d'une jeune fille) as
Monsieur de Beaurepaire
1965
Le dernier matin d'Arthur Rimbaud (Short)
1965
Le dernier matin d'Edgar Allan Poe (Short) as
Récitant / Narrator (voice)
1965
Qui donc a rêvé? (Short)
1964
Le petit Claus et le grand Claus (TV Movie) as
Le grand Claus
1964
Marie Soleil as
Karl / Boss
1964
A Taste for Women as
Larsen
1962
Quatre-vingt-treize (TV Movie) as
Tellmarc'h
1962
Le navire étoile (TV Movie) as
Curtway
1961
Paris Blues as
Guitarist Fausto the Moor (uncredited)
1960
Les trois soeurs (TV Movie) as
Verchinine
1959
Checkerboard as
Slim, le guide
1957
Calligraphie Japonaise (Short) as
Narrator
1956
The Hunchback of Notre Dame as
Mathias Hungadi
1955
Beside Murder as
Wladimir
1954
L'invitation à la valse (Short) as
Guillaume l'égorgeur
1953
The Knight of the Night as
Le domestique
1952
Piédalu fait des miracles
1952
The Curious Adventures of Mr. Wonderbird as
L'aveugle (voice)
1952
Torticola contre Frankensberg (Short) as
Le docteur Frankensberg
1951
Adventures of Captain Fabian as
Philippe
1951
Le bagnard as
Un bagnard
1950
Vagabonds imaginaires as
Le récitant (segment 'Les amours jaunes') (voice)
1950
Orpheus as
The Poet
1949
Histoires extraordinaires à faire peur ou à faire rire... as
Guillaume
1949
Wicked City as
Emilio
1947
Passionnelle as
Julien
1946
Le couple idéal as
Le somnambule
1945
Le jugement dernier
1945
La vie de bohème as
L'homme du guignol
1944
Premier de cordée as
Paul Moury
1943
Le colonel Chabert as
Un clerc
1943
Douce as
L'homme du théâtre (uncredited)
1943
The Raven as
François - le cancéreux du 13
1943
Adieu Léonard as
Le chef bohémien
1943
Le Capitaine Fracasse as
Fagotin / Fagottino
1942
Les Visiteurs du Soir as
Le montreur de monstres
1942
Dernier atout as
Un aspirant
1942
L'âge d'or
1941
Volpone as
Un vénitien (uncredited)
1940
Battement de coeur (credit only)
1939
The World Will Shake as
Le Condamné
1939
Louise as
Un rapin (uncredited)
1939
Pasha's Wives as
Maïr (as R. Blin)
1938
Adrienne Lecouvreur as
L'alchimiste (uncredited)
1938
The Curtain Rises as
Dominique
1938
The Lafarge Case as
Le journalier
1938
Rasputin as
Le jeune paysan (uncredited)
1938
Le temps des cerises as
Le fils Dupuis
1937
The Alibi as
Kretz, l'homme de main de Winckler
1937
Pique Dame (uncredited)
1937
The Citadel of Silence as
Un officier (uncredited)
1936
The Life and Loves of Beethoven as
de Ries
1936
Jenny as
Le malade solitaire (uncredited)
1936
Life Is Ours as
Un métallo
1936
Under Western Eyes (uncredited)
1936
Les mutinés de l'Elseneur as
Un marin (as Blin)
1934
Zouzou as
Le témoin du meurtre (uncredited)
1934
La rue sans nom
Director
1970
Oh! Les beaux jours (TV Movie)
Writer
1934
La rue sans nom
Assistant Director
1934
La rue sans nom (assistant director)
Self
1981
Jean Genet: An Interview with Antoine Bourseiller (TV Movie documentary) as
Narrator (voice)
1977
À perte de vie... Jacques Prévert (TV Movie documentary) as
Self
1970
Au cinéma ce soir (TV Series) as
Self
- Entrée des artistes (1970) - Self
1967
Disorder Is 20 Years Old (Documentary) as
Self
1966
Pour le plaisir (TV Series documentary) as
Self
- Derrière les paravents (1966) - Self
1963
Les heures chaudes de Montparnasse (TV Series documentary) as
Récitant du poème d'Antoine Artaud / Récitant du texte d'Antonin Artaud
- La voix des poètes (1963) - Récitant du poème d'Antoine Artaud
- Journal de voyage au temps des années folles ou la fureur de vivre des années vingt (1963) - Récitant du texte d'Antonin Artaud
1963
Egypte o Egypte: Images du ciel (Documentary short) as
Récitant / Narrator (voice)
1959
La belle saison est proche (Documentary short) as
Self
1959
Les étoiles de midi (Documentary)
1952
L'invention du monde (Documentary short)(voice)
Archive Footage
2016
Les Nuits de France Culture (Podcast Series) as
Self
- "La Chanson du mal-aimé" d'Apollinaire: lecture à plusieurs voix (2023)
- "Pour en finir avec le jugement de Dieu" avec Antonin Artaud et Maria Casarès (2023)
- Michel Leiris, aspect autobiographique de son oeuvre - Recherche de la France, Anthologie vivante (1ere diffusion: 05/12/1962 France III Nationale) (2023)
- Le bon plaisir - Marthe Robert (1ere diffusion: 07/06/1986) (2022) - Self
- Le livre de chevet - Ligéia: Parties 1 à 4 (1ère diffusion: 23, 24, 25 et 28/02/1966) (2019)
- Littérature russe: Fiodor Dostoïevski (2016)
2023
Rembob'Ina (TV Series documentary) as
Le grand Claus
- 'Le Petit Claus et le Grand Claus', un conte d'Andersen à la sauce Prévert (2023) - Le grand Claus
2020
Le fantôme de Laurent Terzieff (Documentary) as
Self
2002
Das Jahrhundert des Theaters (TV Series) as
Self
- Planspiel oder Endspiel - Brecht und Beckett (2002) - Self
References
Roger Blin Wikipedia(Text) CC BY-SA