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Jean Piat

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Birth Date:
23.09.1924
Death date:
18.09.2018
Categories:
Actor, Writer
Nationality:
 french
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Jean Piat (23 September 1924 - 18 September 2018) was a French actor and writer.

Life

Piat was born in Lannoy, Nord. He enlisted in the Comédie-Française on 1 September 1947, and became a member on 1 January 1953. He left the Comédie-Française on 31 December 1972, and became an honorary member the following day. He is an officer in the Légion d'honneur and the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and a grand officer in the Ordre national du Mérite. He was married to actress Françoise Engel (who died in 2005), and is a professor in the dramatic arts of the Simon Course.

He died on 18 September 2018, five days before his 94th birthday.

Theater

Roles in the Comédie-Française
  • Victor Hugo's Ruy Blas (An usher, Gudiel, an alguazil, Don Manuel Aeias, Don César de Bazan)
  • Man of LaMancha (Don Quixote)
  • Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac (A guard, Bellerose, a musketeer, Cadet, Brissaille, Jodelet, Cyrano
  • Pierre Beaumarchais's The Barber of Seville (Figaro)
  • Molière's The Miser (La Flèche)
  • Eugène Marin Labiche's The Voyage of Mister Perrichon (Daniel Savary, Joseph)
  • Pierre de Marivaux's Le Jeu de l'Amour et du Hasard (Pasquin)
  • William Shakespeare's Othello (Gentleman)
  • William Shakespeare's As You Like It (Amiens)
  • William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet (Benvolio)
  • Molière's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme (Covielle)

Filmography

Acting
  • 1948. The Lame Devil (Le Diable boiteux) as Figaro in The Barber of Seville
  • 1951. Clara de Montargis as Jean Claude
  • 1969. The Milky Way (La Voie lactée) as The Jansenist
  • 1969. Rider on the Rain (Le Passager de la pluie) as M. Armand
  • 1972. Les Rois maudits as Robert d'Artois
Voice acting
  • Lawrence of Arabia (Thomas Edward Lawrence (Peter O'Toole))
  • Kaena: The Prophecy (Grand Priest (Gary Martin))
  • The Lion King (Scar (Jeremy Irons))
  • The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Judge Claude Frollo (Tony Jay))
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring (Gandalf the Grey (Ian McKellen))
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers (Gandalf the White (Ian McKellen))
  • The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King (Gandalf the White (Ian McKellen))
  • The Golden Compass (Iorek Byrnison (Ian McKellen))
  • The Hobbit: An Unexpected Journey (Gandalf the Grey (Ian McKellen))
  • The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug (Gandalf the Grey (Ian McKellen))
  • The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies (Gandalf the Grey (Ian McKellen))

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