Roger Blin

ActorWriter Mar 22 (died age 76) Neuilly-sur-Seine, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France 1933–2020 (87 year career)

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Biography

Roger Blin (Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, 22 March 1907 – Évecquemont, France, 21 January 1984) was a French actor and director. He staged world premieres of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot in 1953 and Endgame in 1957. Blin was the son of a doctor; however, despite his father's wishes, Blin forged a career in the theatre. As a teenager he was 'fascinated' by the Surrealists and their conception of revolutionary art. He was initially part of the left-wing theatre collectives The Company of Five…

Known For

Film

The King and the Mockingbird

L’aveugle (voice)

Film

Orpheus

The Poet

Film

Le Corbeau

François

Film

That Most Important Thing: Love

Servais' Father

Film

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

Mathias Hungadi

Film

The Devil's Envoys

The Monster Showman

Film

Paris Blues

Fausto the Moor (uncredited)

Film

The Curtain Rises

Dominique, le gardien du château de la famille de Cécilia

Filmography

Acting (72)

Movies (72)

Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff

2020

as Self (archive footage)

6.0

Vendredi ou la vie sauvage

1983

The Hospital of Leningrad

1983

as Nestor

Five and the Skin

1982

as Récitant (voice)

6.0

The King and the Mockingbird

as L’aveugle (voice)

The Adolescent

as Romain

The Old Country Where Rimbaud Died

as Jeanne's father

Nevermore, Forever

as Daniel

That Most Important Thing: Love

1975

as Servais' Father

7.0

Aloïse

1975

as Le professeur de chant

5.6

One Must Live Dangerously

as Murdoc

The Shadow Line

as Burns

Too Small My Friend

as Boris

L'illusion comique

as Alcandre

La Plaie et le Couteau, Charles Baudelaire

The Sunday of Life

as Jean Sans-Tête

Law of Survival

as Pao

The Devil's Tricks

as Monsieur de Beaurepaire

Qui donc a rêvé?

A Taste for Women

as Larsen

Little Claus and Big Claus

1964

as Le grand Claus

6.8

Marie Soleil

1964

as Karl / Boss

Egypt, oh Egypt: Images of Heaven

1963

as Narrator (voice)

The Star Ship

1962

as Curtway

5.0

Quatrevingt-treize

1962

as Tellmarc’h

Paris Blues

1961

as Fausto the Moor (uncredited)

6.5

Les Trois Sœurs

1960

as Verchinine

Checkerboard

as Slim, le guide

Stars at Noon

as Self

Calligraphie Japonaise

1958

as Narrator

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

1956

as Mathias Hungadi

6.7

The Amazing Mr. Callaghan

1955

as Wladimir

4.2

The Invitation to the Waltz

1954

as Guillaume l'égorgeur

The Knight of the Night

1953

as le valet

5.6

The Curious Adventures of Mr. Wonderbird

1953

as Blind Man (Voice)

7.1

Torticola versus Frankensberg

1952

as Doctor Frankenstein

4.0

Piédalu fait des miracles

1952

The Convict

1951

as Convict

5.3

Adventures of Captain Fabian

Orpheus

as The Poet

Vagabonds imaginaires

1950

as Narrator (segment 'Les amours jaunes') (voice)

Wicked City

as Emilio

Unusual Tales

as Guillaume

Passionnelle

as Julien

The Ideal Couple

as The sleepwalker

The Last Judgment

The Bohemian Life

as Man of the puppet

First in Line

as Paul Moury

Douce

as Man of the theater (uncredited)

Le Corbeau

as François

Captain Fracasse

as Fagotin

Adieu Léonard

as Bohemian leader

Colonel Chabert

as Cleric

The Trump Card

as Aspirant

The Devil's Envoys

as The Monster Showman

L'âge d'or

Volpone

as Un vénitien

Beating Heart

as (credit only)

The World Will Shake

as Le Condamné

Louise

as (uncredited)

Pasha's Wives

as Mair

Adrienne Lecouvreur

The Curtain Rises

as Dominique, le gardien du château de la famille de Cécilia

7.9

The Time of the Cherries

1938

as Dupuis son

Alibi

1937

as Kretz, Winckler's henchman

6.5

The Life and Loves of Beethoven

1937

as De Ries

6.7

The Citadel of Silence

1937

as Officer (uncredited)

Under Western Eyes

1936

as Unnamed Character

6.2

Jenny

1936

as le malade solitaire

5.9

Life Is Ours

1936

as Un métallo

6.3

Street Without a Name

1934

Le Colisée

1933

as The Crowd

7.0

Crew (1)

Movies (1)

Street Without a Name

1934

Writer