Raymond Devos
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Raymond Devos (French: .
Early life
Devos was born in
Second World War he was sent, like many young men of his generation, to Germany to work. On his return to France, he took acting and mime lessons at the Étienne Ducroux school, where he met Marcel Marceau. In 1948, he was part of a burlesque trio
(in the older sense of the word burlesque).
Career
Devos's career took off in the 1950s when he began writing his own
mime adaptation of Thomas Mann's 1940 play The Transposed Heads). Perhaps his best-known international appearance is a cameo in Jean-Luc Godard's Pierrot le Fou 1965
as a man sitting on a harbourside who is obsessed with the memory of a mysterious love song.
He performed for the last time in 1999 in Paris's
Nationality
Because he was born in Belgium, the nationality of Devos was often, and still is, a source of confusion. Some media reported his death by referring to "Belgian comic Devos"[2] or "French and Belgian comic Devos".[3] He also has a Dutch/Flemish family name. Devos was born of French parents and raised in France, but was always respectful of his country of birth and once quipped that he was still, after all, a "fake Belgian".[4]
Filmography
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
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| 1957 | Ce joli monde | L'abbé | |
| 1958 | Le Sicilien | Henri | |
| 1959 | Vous n'avez rien à déclarer? | Le peintre, prix de Rome | |
| 1959 | Le travail c'est la liberté | Émile Dumoulin | |
| 1962 | Tartarin of Tarascon | Un automobiliste | |
| 1965 | Pierrot le Fou | L'homme du port | Uncredited |
| 1973 | La raison du plus fou | Le surveillant de la maison de repos |
Awards and distinctions
- In 1986 he was awarded the Grand Prix du Théâtre de l’Académie française.
- He was awarded the Académie française's Grand Prix du Théâtre.[2]
References
- ^ AFP, Raymond Devos est mort[permanent dead link], June 15, 2006
- ^ a b BBC News, Belgian comic Raymond Devos dies, June 15, 2006
- ^ "Raymond Devos a fini de jongler avec les mots[permanent dead link], Tribune de Genève en ligne, June 16, 2006, retrieved on June 19, 2006
- La Presse, June 16, 2006
External links
- RaymondDevos.com (in French)
- Raymond Devos at IMDb
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