Pierre Renoir

For other people named Renoir, see Renoir (surname).
Pierre Renoir

Pierre Renoir in US trailer for "Children Of Paradise" (1945)
Born (1885-03-21)21 March 1885
Paris, France
Died 11 March 1952(1952-03-11) (aged 66),
Paris, France
Spouse(s) Vera Sergine

Pierre Renoir (21 March 1885 – 11 March 1952) was a French stage and film actor. He was the son of the impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir and elder brother of the film director Jean Renoir. He is also noted for being the first actor to play Georges Simenon's character Inspector Jules Maigret.

Life and career

Pierre Renoir was born on 21 March 1885 in Paris, on 18 rue Houdon, about a hundred meters from place Pigalle, to painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir.[1]

For his best remembered role, as Jėricho the ragman in Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du Paradis,1945), he was cast at short notice to replace the collaborator Robert Le Vigan; Jėricho's scenes had to be reshot after Le Vigan fled. Renoir was briefly the director of the Théâtre de l'Athénée in Paris, taking over after the death of Louis Jouvet in 1951. Pierre Renoir's son was the cinematographer Claude Renoir (1913–93), who is not to be confused with another brother, also called Claude Renoir,[2] known as 'Coco', (1901–69).[3]

Selected filmography

References

  1. Pharisien, Bernard (November 2003). Pierre Renoir (in French). Bar-sur-Aube: Némont. ISBN 978-2-913163-10-2. OCLC 70158287. Retrieved 2010-04-24.
  2. Eric Pace "Claude Renoir, 79, A Cinematographer With a Painter's Eye", New York Times, 13 September 1993
  3. "Renoir mss., ca. 1913-1968", Indiana University Online Archives

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