Christian Le Guillochet (20 September 1933 in Albi – 10 February 2011 in Paris) was a French actor, playwright and theatre director.
With his wife Luce Berthommé, he created the cultural center Lucernaire in Paris.
Biography
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Born in Albi in 1933 from a railway father and a nursing mother, he was a worker when he was summoned to fight in Algeria. Back in France, he attended evening classes and obtained a degree in technical and commercial engineering. He took drama classes to cure his shyness. In 1963, Robert Dhéry noticed and engaged him in Grosse Valse. He learned much by observing the star of the show, Louis de Funès.
In 1964, he founded a first café-théâtre, then "Le Lucernaire" in 1968, near the Montparnasse métro station, rue d'Odessa. Ten years later, expelled because of the construction of the Montparnasse Tower, he installed "Le Lucernaire" at 53 rue Notre-Dame des Champs.
In the 1970s, he began a long-term friendship with Laurent Terzieff to whom he entrusted the artistic direction of the Lucernaire for five years.[2]
On 5 November 2003, on the evening of the premiere of Subvention, a play by Jean-Luc Jeener in which he embodied a theater director, he started a hunger strike[3][4][5] so that the city of Paris and the Ministry of Culture did not cut subsidies to the "Lucernaire". In 2004, his wife died, and, at age 70, he sold the "Lucernaire" to the group owner of the publishing house L'Harmattan.
Filmography
edit- 1964: Heaven on One's Head, by Yves Ciampi
- 1966: Le Solitaire passe à l'attaque, by Ralph Habib
- 1968: Le Débutant, by Daniel Daert
- 1969: Ciné-Girl, by Francis Leroi - Michaël
- 1971: The Lion's Share, by Jean Larriaga
- 1976: Monsieur Sade, by Jacques Robin
Television
edit- 1966: Illusions perdues, by Maurice Cazeneuve - Horace Bienchon
- 1967: The Flashing Blade, by Yannick Andréi - episodes 6 to 9 and 12 - Robiro
- 1968: Le Tribunal de l'Impossible : Nostradamus prophète en son pays, by Pierre Badel
- 1969: Que ferait donc Faber ? byt Dolorès Grassian
- 1970: Quentin Durward, by Gilles Grangier - Le Glorieux
- 1972: Vassa Geleznova, by Pierre Badel - Piaterkine
- 1980: Façades, by Jacques Robin - Angelo Sordi
- 1981: Mon meilleur Noël - episode : L'Oiseau bleu, by Gabriel Axel - Le Peuplier
Books
edit- 1995: L'oiseau éventail, ISBN 9782905262912, Prix Emmanuel Roblès 1996
- 2006: 50 ans de Théâtre, depuis l'impasse Odessa jusqu'à la rue Notre-Dame des Champs, Éditions L'Harmattan
- 2008: Le Chien citoyen, L'Harmattan
References
edit- ^ See 50 ans de Théâtre, depuis l'impasse Odessa jusqu'à la rue Notre-Dame des Champs, Christian le Guillochet, Éditions L'Harmattan, 2006.
- ^ France Culture, 15 July 1997, Interview of Laurent Terzieff.
- ^ Le Monde, 8 novembre 2003.
- ^ Le Point, 7 November 2013 Archived 24 September 2016 at the Wayback Machine.
- ^ Le Parisien, 20 novembre 2013.
External links
edit- Christian Le Guillochet at IMDb
- Vidéo : « Démolition du Lucernaire »: 10 July 1976, José Artur interroge Christian Le Guillochet sur la démolition du Lucernaire. Les comédiens détruisent le théâtre à coup de masse.
- Adieu à Christian Le Guillochet on Le Figaro théâtre (17 February 2011)
- Christian Le Guillochet, fondateur du Lucernaire on Le Monde (2 March 2011)
- Christian Le Guillochet, le fondateur du Théâtre du Lucernaire est décédé on Scène web
- Christian Le Guillochet on the site of Éditions L'Harmattan
