Born August 21, 1892· Rennes, Ille-et-Vilaine, France
† Died April 15, 1989
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Emerging from a Breton seafaring family that relocated to Paris when he was twelve, he began on stage in 1908, appearing in productions such as Hamlet, and received his first screen role in the 1912 short Jim Crow. Early training under Russian producers Joseph Ermolieff and Alexandre Kamenka introduced him to Stanislavski’s method, shaping a career that spanned silent serials like The House of Mys…
