Known For
Acting
Born
Dec 22, 1905
Died
Aug 16, 1972
Place of Birth
Paris, France
Credits
143 titles
Pierre Brasseur
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Michel Audiard et le mystère du triangle des Bermudes
Self (archive footage)
Le Dernier Mélodrame
Writer
The Most Wonderful Evening of My Life
La Brunetière
La Brigade des maléfices
Diablevert
The Married Couple of the Year Two
Gosselin
Macédoine
Un ange passe
Goto, Island of Love
Le Gouverneur-Roi Goto III
À la recherche de Jean Grémillon
Self
Sous le signe de Monte-Cristo
Faria
Birds in Peru
Husband
A Little Virtuous
Jules Polnick
The Madman of Lab Four
Father Ballanchon
The Birth of Children of Paradise
Self
King of Hearts
General Géranium
Pas de panique
Fernand Toussaint
A Young World
Le Grec
A Matter of Resistance
Dimanche
Two Hours to Kill
Laurent
Fortuna
Nissim Buzaglo
L'Or du duc
Adhémar de Talois-Minet
Cloportes
Demuldère aka 'Tonton le Brocanteur', receiver
Pas de caviar pour tante Olga
Patache
Black Humor
Le guérisseur - segment 1 'La Bestiole'
The Circular Triangle
Georges Richter
Lucky Jo
Loudéac
A Very Handy Man
Simone Palumbo
Josefa's Loot
Mayor
Agent of Doom
Charlèz
Don't Tempt the Devil
Charles Cassidi, lawyer for Mrs. Dupré
The Abominable Man of Customs
Russian killer
Crime Does Not Pay
Martin Fenayrou
Hitch-Hike
Achille Pipermint, l'homme d'affaires radin à Orly
Emile's Boat
François Larmentiel
Rencontres
Carl Krasner
Famous Love Affairs
le grand duc Ernest
The Nina B. Affair
Berrera
Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love!
Constable of Montmorency
Spotlight on a Murderer
Comte de Kerloquen
Candide or The Optimism in the 20th Century
Pangloss
The Dialogue of the Carmelites
Commissioner of the Republic
Il bell'Antonio
Alfio Magnano
Carthage in Flames
Sidone
Eyes Without a Face
Professor Génessier
The Bureaucrats
Monsieur Nègre
Head Against the Wall
Dr. Varmont
The Law
Don Cesare
The Possessors
Lucien Maublanc, le cousin oisif
Life Together
Pierre Carreau
Les Cinq Dernières Minutes
Maurice Tardenois