André Lefaur
French postcard. Editions P.I., Paris, No. 51. Photo Studio Piaz, Paris.
André Lefaur was a French actor, born Alphonse André Lefaurichon, July 2, 1879 in Paris, and died December 4, 1952 in the same town.
Lefaur was the son of Amand Lefaurichon, masonry contractor, and Estelle Denise Lesquivin. Lefaur debuted on stage in the early 1900s at the Théâtre de l'Athéné, where he remained for years. In the 1910s he mostly acted at the Théâtre du Gymnase. In the 1920s he mostly acted at the Théâtre des Variétés, where in 1928 he created the role of Topaze in Marcel Pagnol's play.
From 1911 Lefaur also acted in cinema, first at Pathé Frères. In 1917-18 he was active in five fillms including La dixième symphonie (1918) by Abel Gance. In the 1920s he did a handful of French silent films, mostly playing aristocrats. It was however with the start of French sound cinema that his film career really set off, and particularly between 1935 and 1940 his career was most prolific, doing 7 to 9 films in 1937-1939, again often playing aristocrats or generals. Often partnered with Elvire Popesco (e.g. in Dora Nelson, 1935), and directed several times by Sacha Guitry (e.g. Ils étaient neuf célibataires, 1939) but also by Maurice Tourneur, Pierre Colombier, Christan-Jacque, André Berthomieu and Marcel L'Herbier, André Lefaur was one of those actors of great talent of 1930s French cinema. Whether drama or comedy, his technique was always sure, as the well-dressed man with his imperious eyebrows and self-assured voice. Lefaur gave a hilarious performance in Tovaritch (1935) by Jacques Deval; he took up on screen the role of a Russian prince-general turned valet, a role which he had created in the theater in Deval's own play (1933). He also played alongside Raimu in L'École des cocottes (1935) and was one of the main protagonists of Quatre heures du matin, in 1937, with Lucien Baroux and Marguerite Moreno. During the war he hardly acted on screen but he did play the male lead in Le baron fantôme (Serge de Poligny, 1943). After the war he didn't act anymore. André Lefaur died on December 4, 1952 and was buried at the Père-Lachaise cemetery.
Source: French Wikipedia, IMDb.
André Lefaur
French postcard. Editions P.I., Paris, No. 51. Photo Studio Piaz, Paris.
André Lefaur was a French actor, born Alphonse André Lefaurichon, July 2, 1879 in Paris, and died December 4, 1952 in the same town.
Lefaur was the son of Amand Lefaurichon, masonry contractor, and Estelle Denise Lesquivin. Lefaur debuted on stage in the early 1900s at the Théâtre de l'Athéné, where he remained for years. In the 1910s he mostly acted at the Théâtre du Gymnase. In the 1920s he mostly acted at the Théâtre des Variétés, where in 1928 he created the role of Topaze in Marcel Pagnol's play.
From 1911 Lefaur also acted in cinema, first at Pathé Frères. In 1917-18 he was active in five fillms including La dixième symphonie (1918) by Abel Gance. In the 1920s he did a handful of French silent films, mostly playing aristocrats. It was however with the start of French sound cinema that his film career really set off, and particularly between 1935 and 1940 his career was most prolific, doing 7 to 9 films in 1937-1939, again often playing aristocrats or generals. Often partnered with Elvire Popesco (e.g. in Dora Nelson, 1935), and directed several times by Sacha Guitry (e.g. Ils étaient neuf célibataires, 1939) but also by Maurice Tourneur, Pierre Colombier, Christan-Jacque, André Berthomieu and Marcel L'Herbier, André Lefaur was one of those actors of great talent of 1930s French cinema. Whether drama or comedy, his technique was always sure, as the well-dressed man with his imperious eyebrows and self-assured voice. Lefaur gave a hilarious performance in Tovaritch (1935) by Jacques Deval; he took up on screen the role of a Russian prince-general turned valet, a role which he had created in the theater in Deval's own play (1933). He also played alongside Raimu in L'École des cocottes (1935) and was one of the main protagonists of Quatre heures du matin, in 1937, with Lucien Baroux and Marguerite Moreno. During the war he hardly acted on screen but he did play the male lead in Le baron fantôme (Serge de Poligny, 1943). After the war he didn't act anymore. André Lefaur died on December 4, 1952 and was buried at the Père-Lachaise cemetery.
Source: French Wikipedia, IMDb.