Saturnin Fabre

Saturnin Fabre

1884-04-04 – 1961-10-24 (age 77) Sens, Yonne, France
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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 Bouches-du-Rhône). He lived in Deuil-la-Barre. 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: L'Assommoir. 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 pre-war and post-war 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 Marie-Martine 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 Carrières-sous-Poissy 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.

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Known For

We Found a Naked Woman
We Found a Naked Woman

1934

as Le marquis

She Played and Paid
She Played and Paid

1920

as comte de Bréchebel

The Smart People of the 11th
The Smart People of the 11th

1937

as Inspector General Burnous

Jeannou
Jeannou

1943

as Frochard

Casanova
Dr. Laennec
Dr. Laennec

1949

as Laennec Père

Désiré
Désiré

1937

as Adrien Corniche

The French Way
The French Way

1940

as Monsieur Dalban

Beautiful Star
Beautiful Star

1938

as Lemarchal

The Mayor's Dilemma
The Mayor's Dilemma

1939

as le père Rossignol

Pépé le Moko
Pépé le Moko

1937

as The Great Father

The Tamer
The Tamer

1938

as Maître Anatole Dupont

The J3
The J3

1946

as The high school principal

Hearts Are Trumps
Hearts Are Trumps

1931

as Lefol

Tricoche and Cacolet
Tricoche and Cacolet

1938

as Monsieur Van der Pouf

The Woman Thief
The Woman Thief

1938

as Academician

Miquette
Miquette

1950

as Le marquis

Service Entrance
Service Entrance

1954

as Mr Delécluze, père et bourreau officiel

Ignace
Ignace

1937

as Le baron Gédéon des Orfrais