Saturnin Fabre born April 4 1884 in Sens Yonne and died October 24 1961 in Montgeron Essonne is a French actor His paternal family was from the south of France Var and BouchesduRhône He lived in DeuillaBarre He won a first prize at the Conservatoire and played dramas boulevard comedies and operettas as well setting himself up as the thundering out of phase phrasing of French cinema He approaches the silent cinema since 1911 with Albert Capellani to whom we owe since 1909 the first French feature film LAssommoir In 1929 he switched to talking with The Road is Beautiful Robert Florey Known for his strong personality he is one of the most singular supporting roles of prewar and postwar French cinema in the tradition of Jean Tissier and Julien Carette He occupies the screen with such a presence that he often forget the many turnips in which he participates He is particularly remembered for his tremendous choppy voice and perfect diction In the film MarieMartine Albert Valentin he addresses to Bernard Blier who plays his nephew his most famous replica Hold your candle right It is said that at the third resumption of the repartee it is the public who answered He has played in almost 79 talking films mostly comedies under the direction of 57 different directors mostly prestigious In 1948 he signs from the anagram Ninrutas Erbaf perfectly wacky memories under the title Scottish Shower He was also a very good clarinetist and the author of several songs and sketches he performed on stage early in his career For the actress Danièle Delorme Saturnin Fabre was a hallucinated comedian Still according to her It was a baroque actor certainly there was a grain of madness in him But he was furiously intelligent with great lucidity He embodied excess Saturnin Fabre died in 1961 in his property in Montgeron overwhelmed by pulmonary edema He is buried in the CarrièressousPoissy cemetery in the Yvelines He never consoled himself for the death of his wife Suzanne Marie Benoist in 1957 with whom he was married on November 26 1925 in Paris XVIII The Cannes Film Festival paid him a late tribute and posthumously in 1962 From Wikipedia the free encyclopedia Description above from the Wikipedia article Saturnin Fabre licensed under CCBYSA full list of contributors on Wikipedia
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