Romuald Charles Eugène Gaudens Jean Sylve Joubé (20 June 1876 – 14 September 1949) was a French stage and film actor whose career on the stage and in films lasted approximately thirty years.

Romuald Joubé
Born
Romuald Charles Eugène Gaudens Jean Sylve Joubé

(1876-06-20)20 June 1876
Died14 September 1949(1949-09-14) (aged 73)
OccupationActor
Years active1909–1943

Career

edit

Born in Mazères, Ariège, Romuald Joubé began his stage career at the Odéon theatre under the direction of André Antoine.[1] He was in residence at the Comédie Française from 1921 to 1922. Joubé's career was spent primarily on the theatre stage. However, he managed a lengthy film career as well, beginning in 1909. Joubé got his start in films in productions made by the early French film company Studio Film d'Art. In total, Joubé appeared in over forty films during a period of more than thirty years. He appeared as the character Jean Diaz in both the 1919 Abel Gance-directed silent film drama J'accuse! and Gance's 1938 eponymously titled sound film remake.[2]

Death

edit

Romuald Joubé died in 1949 at the age of 73 in Gisors, Eure, France.

Filmography

edit
Year Title Role Notes
1911 La mégère apprivoisée
1913 Le baiser suprême
1914 La reine Margot Le comte de la Motte
1917 The Corsican Brothers
1917 Marie Tudor Gilbert
1917 Culprit Chrétien Lescuyer
1918 Les travailleurs de la mer Gilliatt
1918 Simone
1918 André Cornélis
1918 L'énigme Vivarce
1919 J'accuse! Jean Diaz
1919 Sublime offrande
1920 La faute d'Odette Maréchal Marcel Ferrat
1921 Mademoiselle de La Seiglière Bernard Stamply fils
1921 Fleur des neiges Etienne
1921 Mathias Sandorf Mathias Sandorf
1922 La fille sauvage Renaud Raigice
1922 The Black Diamond Monsieur de Fresnay
1922 Rouletabille chez les bohémiens Andréa
1924 Mandrin Mandrin
1924 Le Miracle des loups Le chevalier Robert Cottereau
1925 La fanciulla di Pompei
1926 La chèvre aux pieds d'or Marc Brégyl – un avocat qui s'éprend de Toutcha
1927 Frate Francesco
1927 The Manor House of Fear[3] The Man in Black
1928 Princess Masha Roger Lantenac
1937 The Pearls of the Crown Clouet Uncredited
1938 J'accuse! Jean Diaz
1942 Andorra ou les hommes d'Airain Joan Xiriball
1943 The Exile's Song Pedro Etcheverry
1943 Le brigand gentilhomme Don Ruiz de Torilhas (final film role)

References

edit
  1. ^ Academic: Guide to Cinema
  2. ^ Academic: Guide to Cinema
  3. ^ Workman, Christopher; Howarth, Troy (2016). "Tome of Terror: Horror Films of the Silent Era". Midnight Marquee Press. p. 317. ISBN 978-1936168-68-2.
edit