Acting
Saturnin Fabre
FR, XX cinema · 76 credits
Born
4 April 1884
Died
24 October 1961 (aged 77)
Birthplace
Sens, Yonne, France
Saturnin Fabre, born April 4, 1884 in Sens (Yonne) and died October 24, 1961 in Montgeron (Essonne), is a French actor. His paternal family was from the south of France (Var and Bouches-du-Rhône). He lived in Deuil-la-Barre. He won a first prize at the Conservatoire and played dramas, boulevard comedies and operettas as well, setting himself up as the "thundering", out of phase phrasing, of French cinema. He approaches the silent cinema since 1911 with Albert Capellani to whom we owe since 1909 the first French feature film: L'Assommoir. In 1929, he switched to talking with The Road is Beautiful Robert Florey. Known for his strong personality, he is one of the most singular supporting roles of pre-war and post-war French cinema, in the tradition of Jean Tissier and Julien Carette. He occupies the screen with such a presence that he often forget the many turnips in which he participates. He is particularly remembered for his tremendous choppy voice and perfect diction. In the film Marie-Martine Albert Valentin, he addresses to Bernard Blier, who plays his nephew, his most famous replica: "Hold your candle right! ". It is said that at the third resumption of the repartee, it is the public who answered. He has played in almost 79 talking films, mostly comedies, under the direction of 57 different directors (mostly prestigious). In 1948, he signs, from the anagram Ninrutas Erbaf, perfectly wacky memories, under the title Scottish Shower. He was also a very good clarinetist, and the author of several songs and sketches he performed on stage early in his career. For the actress Danièle Delorme, "Saturnin Fabre was a hallucinated comedian". Still according to her, "It was a baroque actor, certainly, there was a grain of madness in him. But he was furiously intelligent, with great lucidity ... He embodied excess. " Saturnin Fabre died in 1961 in his property in Montgeron, overwhelmed by pulmonary edema. He is buried in the Carrières-sous-Poissy cemetery in the Yvelines. He never consoled himself for the death of his wife, Suzanne Marie Benoist, in 1957 with whom he was married on November 26, 1925 in Paris XVIII. The Cannes Film Festival paid him a late tribute, and posthumously, in 1962. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Description above from the Wikipedia article Saturnin Fabre, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Filmography
It's the Paris Life
as Comte Gontran de Barfleur
Service Entrance
as Mr Delécluze, père et bourreau officiel
The Most Wanted Man
as W.W. Stone
Virgile
as Le président
Carnival
as Dr. Caberlot
Holiday for Henrietta
as Antoine - a consumer
Les Petites Cardinal
as Horace Cardinal
Miquette
as Le marquis
Girl from Maxim's
as Le général Petypon du Grêlé
The Marriage of Mademoiselle Beulemans
as Mr. Delpierre
Brasil
as Self
Rome Express
as Pofessor
La Veuve et l'innocent
as Achille Panoyau, accused
Dr. Laennec
as Laennec Père
Scandals of Clochemerle
as Alexandre Bourdillat
Ploum, ploum, tra-la-la
as Basile Samara
Gates of the Night
as Monsieu Sénéchal
Christine se marie
as Sébastien Aurelle, the musician
Women's Games
as Uncle Hubert
A Friend Will Come Tonight
as Philippe Prunier
Lunegarde
as Monsieur de Vertumne
The J3
as The high school principal
We Request a Household
as Horace Rouvière
The White Blackbird
as Jules Leroy
White Wings
as Siméon
Le Soleil de minuit
as Ireniev
Jeannou
as Frochard
Marie-Martine
as Uncle Parpain
Fantastic Night
as Professor Thalès
Opéra-musette
as Monsieur Honoré
Mademoiselle Swing
as Grégoire Dimitresco
The Suitors Club
as Cabarus
Ne bougez plus !
as Andromaque de Miremir
Beating Heart
as Aristide
The French Way
as Monsieur Dalban
Nine Bachelors
as Count Adhémar Colombinet de La Jonchère
Cavalcade of Love
as Monsieur Dupont-Dufort
Coral Reefs
as Hobson
L'Esclave blanche
1939
Pasha's Wives
as Djemal Pacha
The Mayor's Dilemma
as le père Rossignol
The Woman Thief
as Academician
Golden Venus
as Duke of Sartène
Tricoche and Cacolet
as Monsieur Van der Pouf
Gargousse
1938
Gargousse
as Lebrennois, le maire
The Tamer
as Maître Anatole Dupont
Beautiful Star
as Lemarchal
Pépé le Moko
as The Great Father
The Smart People of the 11th
as Inspector General Burnous
Ignace
as Le baron Gédéon des Orfrais
Désiré
as Adrien Corniche
Confessions of a Newlywed
as Professeur Puget
Excursion Train
as Mr. Bring
A Hen on a Wall
as Monsieur Amédée
The Bureaucrats
as 'Le tondu'
The Novel of a Poor Young Man
as Bévallan
Generals Without Buttons
as Schoolteacher Simon
Seven Men, One Woman
as Deputy Derain
Casanova
Actor
Son autre amour
as Monsieur Léopard, director
We Found a Naked Woman
Actor, as Le marquis
The Free Trade Hotel
as M. Mathieu
Mam'zelle Spahi
as Le Colonel du 32ème Spahis
The Premature Father
as Puma father
The Improvised Son
as Mr. Brassart
Hearts Are Trumps
as Lefol
The Darling of Paris
as Hector
Love Songs
as Monsieur Crespin
The Road Is Fine
as Le professeur Pique
She Played and Paid
as comte de Bréchebel