Louis Baron fils
French postcard in the series 'Nos artistes dans leurs expressions' by Paris sur Scène, no. 1016.
Louis Bouchêne, known as Louis Baron, fils or just Baron fils (1870-1939), was an actor and singer, who performed in many operettas and comédie-musicales, and also in some 50 films between 1910 et 1938. He was the son of Louis Baron often associated with the works of Jacques Offenbach.
Baron, born 24 December 1870 in Paris, began studies at the Conservatoire in 1890 in the class of Got, winning a first prize for comedy in 1893, and being engaged at the Théâtre de l'Odéon, making his debut that year in Les Plaideurs. In 1894 he appeared in Fleur de Vertu at the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens and the following year in several plays at the Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques. His career continued over the next years at other Parisian theatres. Appearing in operettas before the First World War, including François les bas-bleus in 1896, he also performed in many comedies at the Théâtre du Vaudeville. Baron was mobilized in 1914–1916. After the war he appeared in comic and romantic plays such as Dédé (1921, Leroydet) - he would also appear in its filmic adaptation - J'adore ça (1925, Monseigneur Spaghetto), Le Temps d'aimer (1926) and Il est charmant (1932, Poitou).
Baron fils debuted in film at Pathé Frères in the early 1910s, acting in films directed by Michel Carré (Deux vieux garçons, 1910), Georges Denola (La ruse de Miss Plumcake, 1911, with Mistinguett), Joséphine vendue par ses sœurs (Denola, 1913), and Charles Prince (Le Contrôleur des wagons-lits, 1913), the latter an adaptation of a popular and often filmed play. Between 1917 and 1920 he had an intense film career in films by in particular Jacques Baroncelli ( Le Roi de la mer, 1917; Le Siège des trois K, 1918; Le Retour aux champs, 1918; L'Héritage, 1920). He was also reunited in two feature comedies by Prince and Georges Monca: Madame et son filleul (1919) and Les Femmes collantes (1920). He started again film acting from 1926, in three French comedies by Louis Mercanton, two with British silent star Betty Balfour, La petite bonne du palace (Louis Mercanton, 1927) and Croquette (1928), and one with American star Constance Talmadge, Vénus (1929).
In the early sound era Baron fils reduced his stage work and was extremely busy in French cinema, starting with L'Amour chante (Robert Florey, 1930). He had the lead in Nos maîtres les domestiques ( Hewitt Claypoole Grantham-Hayes, 1930), which was the French version of Our Masters, the Servants and was shot in the UK at the Twickenham studios. Baron's co-actors were Henri Garat, René Ferté, Georges Tréville and Madeleine Guitty. He then acted in Flagrant délit (Hanns Schwarz, Georges Tréville, 1931), the French version of Schwarz's film Einbrecher. After Le blanc et le noir (1931), Baron did various films at the Paris Paramount studios: Un Homme en habit (1931), Le Cordon bleu (1932), Il est charmant (1932), Monsieur Albert (1932), Passionnément (1932), and Le Fils improvisé (1932), often playing third lead. From 1933 Baron acted in comedies opposite Grazia del Rio, Tramel, Georges Milton, Henri Garat, Michel Simon, Armand Bernard, Victor Boucher, Albert Préjean, Robert Arnoux, Danielle Darieux, Frédéric Duvallès, and the duo Pills & Tabet. Baron's most regular director in the 1930s was René Guissart, with whom he worked on Un Homme en habit, Le Fils improvisé, Passionément, L'École des contribuables (1934), Dédé (1934), Bourrachon (1935), and Toi, c'est moi (1936). Other directors Baron worked with in the thirties were e.g. Léo Joannon, Sacha Guitry and Christian Jaque. Rarely, he acted in dramatic films. An exception is Pierre Billon's Courrier Sud (1937), based on the novel by Antoine de St. Exupéry, who also collaborated on the script. Baron played the father of the hero's love interest (Jany Holt), while Pierre Richard Willm played the protagonist, the pilot Jacques Bernis. Baron's last film was Trois artilleurs à l'opéra (André Chotin, 1938).
Louis Baron fils died in Dieppe in 30 November 1939.
Sources: IMDB, French and English Wikipedia.
Louis Baron fils
French postcard in the series 'Nos artistes dans leurs expressions' by Paris sur Scène, no. 1016.
Louis Bouchêne, known as Louis Baron, fils or just Baron fils (1870-1939), was an actor and singer, who performed in many operettas and comédie-musicales, and also in some 50 films between 1910 et 1938. He was the son of Louis Baron often associated with the works of Jacques Offenbach.
Baron, born 24 December 1870 in Paris, began studies at the Conservatoire in 1890 in the class of Got, winning a first prize for comedy in 1893, and being engaged at the Théâtre de l'Odéon, making his debut that year in Les Plaideurs. In 1894 he appeared in Fleur de Vertu at the Théâtre des Bouffes-Parisiens and the following year in several plays at the Théâtre des Folies-Dramatiques. His career continued over the next years at other Parisian theatres. Appearing in operettas before the First World War, including François les bas-bleus in 1896, he also performed in many comedies at the Théâtre du Vaudeville. Baron was mobilized in 1914–1916. After the war he appeared in comic and romantic plays such as Dédé (1921, Leroydet) - he would also appear in its filmic adaptation - J'adore ça (1925, Monseigneur Spaghetto), Le Temps d'aimer (1926) and Il est charmant (1932, Poitou).
Baron fils debuted in film at Pathé Frères in the early 1910s, acting in films directed by Michel Carré (Deux vieux garçons, 1910), Georges Denola (La ruse de Miss Plumcake, 1911, with Mistinguett), Joséphine vendue par ses sœurs (Denola, 1913), and Charles Prince (Le Contrôleur des wagons-lits, 1913), the latter an adaptation of a popular and often filmed play. Between 1917 and 1920 he had an intense film career in films by in particular Jacques Baroncelli ( Le Roi de la mer, 1917; Le Siège des trois K, 1918; Le Retour aux champs, 1918; L'Héritage, 1920). He was also reunited in two feature comedies by Prince and Georges Monca: Madame et son filleul (1919) and Les Femmes collantes (1920). He started again film acting from 1926, in three French comedies by Louis Mercanton, two with British silent star Betty Balfour, La petite bonne du palace (Louis Mercanton, 1927) and Croquette (1928), and one with American star Constance Talmadge, Vénus (1929).
In the early sound era Baron fils reduced his stage work and was extremely busy in French cinema, starting with L'Amour chante (Robert Florey, 1930). He had the lead in Nos maîtres les domestiques ( Hewitt Claypoole Grantham-Hayes, 1930), which was the French version of Our Masters, the Servants and was shot in the UK at the Twickenham studios. Baron's co-actors were Henri Garat, René Ferté, Georges Tréville and Madeleine Guitty. He then acted in Flagrant délit (Hanns Schwarz, Georges Tréville, 1931), the French version of Schwarz's film Einbrecher. After Le blanc et le noir (1931), Baron did various films at the Paris Paramount studios: Un Homme en habit (1931), Le Cordon bleu (1932), Il est charmant (1932), Monsieur Albert (1932), Passionnément (1932), and Le Fils improvisé (1932), often playing third lead. From 1933 Baron acted in comedies opposite Grazia del Rio, Tramel, Georges Milton, Henri Garat, Michel Simon, Armand Bernard, Victor Boucher, Albert Préjean, Robert Arnoux, Danielle Darieux, Frédéric Duvallès, and the duo Pills & Tabet. Baron's most regular director in the 1930s was René Guissart, with whom he worked on Un Homme en habit, Le Fils improvisé, Passionément, L'École des contribuables (1934), Dédé (1934), Bourrachon (1935), and Toi, c'est moi (1936). Other directors Baron worked with in the thirties were e.g. Léo Joannon, Sacha Guitry and Christian Jaque. Rarely, he acted in dramatic films. An exception is Pierre Billon's Courrier Sud (1937), based on the novel by Antoine de St. Exupéry, who also collaborated on the script. Baron played the father of the hero's love interest (Jany Holt), while Pierre Richard Willm played the protagonist, the pilot Jacques Bernis. Baron's last film was Trois artilleurs à l'opéra (André Chotin, 1938).
Louis Baron fils died in Dieppe in 30 November 1939.
Sources: IMDB, French and English Wikipedia.