Jean Piat
Jean Piat was a French actor and writer.Life
Piat was born in Lannoy, Nord. He enlisted in the Comédie-Française on 1 September 1947, and became a member on 1 January 1953. He left the Comédie-Française on 31 December 1972, and became an honorary member the following day. He was an officer in the Légion d'honneur and the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and a grand officer in the Ordre national du Mérite. He was married to actress Françoise Engel, and was a professor in the dramatic arts of the Simon Course.
He died on 18 September 2018, five days before his 94th birthday.Theater
Roles in the Comédie-Française
- Victor Hugo's Ruy Blas
- Man of LaMancha
- Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac
- Molière's The Miser
- Eugène Marin Labiche's The Voyage of Mister Perrichon
- Pierre de Marivaux's Le Jeu de l'Amour et du Hasard
- William Shakespeare's Othello
- William Shakespeare's As You Like It
- William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
- Molière's Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme
Filmography
Acting
- 1947: Rouletabille joue et gagne as Joseph Rouletabille
- 1948: The Lame Devil as Figaro in The Barber of Seville
- 1948: Rouletabille contre la dame de pique as Joseph Rouletabille
- 1951: Clara de Montargis as Jean Claude
- 1953: The Porter from Maxim's as André de Velin
- 1955: Napoléon as Junot
- 1958: Le bourgeois gentilhomme as Cléonte, amoureux de Lucile
- 1959: Le mariage de Figaro as Figaro
- 1961: Les moutons de Panurge as Serge
- 1968: Der Turm der verbotenen Liebe as Bouridan
- 1969: The Milky Way as The Jansenist
- 1970: Rider on the Rain as M. Armand
- 1972-1973: Les Rois maudits as Robert d'Artois
- 1974: La rivale as Pierre
- 1979: Ciao, les mecs as L'avocat
- 1999: A Monkey's Tale as Sebastian
- 2003: as Le grand prêtre
- 2007: Go West! A Lucky Luke Adventure as Spike Goodfellow
Voice acting
- Lawrence of Arabia
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- The Lion King
- The Hunchback of Notre Dame
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- The Golden Compass
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