Born July 12, 1908· Saint-Malo, Ille-et-Vilaine, France
† Died May 16, 1994
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Raised in Saint-Malo and then in Boucé after a childhood split between an aunt’s care and an orphanage, he entered Paris’s École des Beaux-Arts at fifteen, where encounters with Picasso and Braque led to work as a costume and set designer for films. Persuaded by actor-manager Charles Dullin, he turned to drama in the 1930s and soon became a staple of French theatre, notably interpreting Paul Claud…
