Pierre Brasseur profile
Actor profile

Pierre Brasseur

22nd December 1905 Paris, France Acting

Pierre Brasseur, born Pierre-Albert Espinasse (22 December 1905, Paris – 16 August 1972, Bruneck, Italy) was a French actor. He was the son of actor Georges Espinasse and actress Germaine Brasseur while the latter was married to Albert Brasseur. His grandfather, Jules Brasseur, was an actor as well. The family tradition of using the name Brasseur was continued by his son Claude and his grandson Alexandre. Renowned for playing outsized characters, Brasseur is probably best known in the anglophone world for his (semi-fictionalised) portrayal of the actor Frédérick Lemaître in Les Enfants du Paradis (Children of Paradise, 1945) and as Docteur Génessier (more subdued) in the horror film Eyes Without a Face (Les Yeux sans visage, 1960) co-starring with Alida Valli. On May 30, 1927, Brasseur performed the spoken role of the Narrator in the world premiere of Igor Stravinsky's opera-oratorio Oedipus rex. Description above from the Wikipedia article Pierre Brasseur, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

126 Movies 5 TV Shows 145 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

Fortuna poster
Fortuna 2nd January 1966 as Nissim Buzaglo
L'Or du duc poster
L'Or du duc 23rd September 1965 as Adhémar de Talois-Minet
Cloportes poster
Cloportes 8th September 1965 as Demuldère aka 'Tonton le Brocanteur', receiver
Black Humor poster
Black Humor 12th April 1965 as Le guérisseur - segment 1 'La Bestiole'
Hitch-Hike poster
Hitch-Hike 16th March 1962 as Achille Pipermint, l'homme d'affaires radin à Orly
The Law poster
The Law 25th January 1959 as Don Cesare
Oasis poster
Oasis 18th March 1955 as Antoine Vallin
Rasputin poster
Rasputin 19th July 1954 as Gregory Iefimovich Raspoutine
Bluebeard poster
Bluebeard 27th September 1951 as Amédée de Salfère dit Barbe-Bleue
Lost Souvenirs poster
Lost Souvenirs 11th November 1950 as Philippe (segment "Une statuette d'Osiris")
Heartbeat poster
Heartbeat 15th April 1938 as Cousine (uncredited)
Quick poster
Quick 23rd August 1932 as Maxime
Circulate! poster
Circulate! 20th November 1931 as Jean Dupont-Desroches
Backbiters poster
Backbiters 9th November 1927 as Le type de l'appareil à sous