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.
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1954 | Escalier de service as Mr Delécluze, père et bourreau officiel |
1954 | C'est la vie parisienne as Comte Gontran de Barfleur |
1953 | L'Ennemi public n°1 as W.W. Stone |
1953 | Virgile as Le président |
1953 | Carnaval as Dr. Caberlot |
1952 | La Fête à Henriette as Antoine - a consumer |
1951 | Les Petites Cardinal as Horace Cardinal |
1950 | Brasil |
1950 | La Dame de chez Maxim as Le général Petypon du Grêlé |
1950 | Miquette et sa mère as Le marquis |
1950 | Le mariage de Mademoiselle Beulemans as Mr. Delpierre |
1950 | Rome Express as Le professeur |
1949 | La Veuve et l'innocent as Achille Panoyau, accused |
1949 | Docteur Laennec as Laennec Père |
1948 | Clochemerle as Alexandre Bourdillat |
1948 | Si jeunesse savait... |
1947 | Ploum, ploum, tra-la-la as Basile Samara |
1946 | Les Portes de la nuit as Monsieu Sénéchal |
1946 | On demande un ménage as Horace Rouvière |
1946 | Christine se marie as Sébastien Aurelle, the musician |
1946 | Jeux de femmes as Uncle Hubert |
1946 | Les J3 as The high school principal |
1946 | Un ami viendra ce soir... as Philippe Prunier |
1946 | Lunegarde as Monsieur de Vertumne |
1945 | Fausse Alerte as Monsieur Dalban |
1944 | Le Merle blanc as Jules Leroy |
1943 | Jeannou as Frochard |
1943 | Le Soleil de minuit as Ireniev |
1943 | Marie-Martine as l'oncle Parpain |
1943 | Les Ailes blanches as Siméon |
1942 | La Nuit fantastique as Thalès |
1942 | Mademoiselle Swing as Grégoire Dimitresco |
1942 | Opéra-musette as Monsieur Honoré |
1941 | Ne bougez plus ! as Andromaque de Miremir |
1941 | Le Club des soupirants as Cabarus |
1940 | Battement de cœur as Aristide |
1939 | Cavalcade d'amour as Monsieur Dupont-Dufort |
1939 | Ils étaient neuf célibataires as Comte Adhémar Colombinet de La Jonchère |
1939 | Monsieur Brotonneau |
1939 | Les Otages as le père Rossignol |
1939 | Le Récif de corail as Hobson |
1939 | L'Esclave blanche as Djemal Pacha |
1938 | Le Dompteur |
1938 | Le Dompteur as M. Dupont |
1938 | Belle étoile as Lemarchal |
1938 | Tricoche et Cacolet as Monsieur Van der Pouf |
1938 | Gargousse as Lebrennois, le maire |
1938 | La Vénus de l'or |
1938 | Le Voleur de femmes as Academician |
1937 | Le chanteur de minuit |
1937 | Désiré as Adrien |
1937 | Le cantinier de la coloniale |
1937 | Ignace as Le baron Gédéon des Orfrais |
1937 | Les Dégourdis de la 11e as Inspector General Burnous |
1937 | Vous n'avez rien à déclarer? as Professeur Puget |
1937 | Pépé le Moko as Le Grand Père |
1936 | Messieurs les ronds de cuir as Le tondu |
1936 | La guerre des gosses |
1936 | Sept hommes, une femme as Derain, député à la Chambre |
1936 | Une poule sur un mur |
1936 | Train de plaisir as Mr. Bring |
1936 | Toi, c'est moi |
1935 | Le Roman d'un jeune homme pauvre as Bévallan |
1934 | L'Hôtel du libre échange as M. Mathieu |
1934 | Mam'zelle Spahi as Le Colonel du 32ème Spahis |
1934 | On a trouvé une femme nue |
1934 | On a trouvé une femme nue as Le marquis |
1934 | L'enfant du carnaval |
1934 | Les Deux Canards |
1934 | Casanova |
1934 | Son autre amour as Monsieur Léopard, director |
1933 | Le Père prématuré as Puma father |
1932 | Le Fils improvisé as Mr. Brassart |
1931 | Paris-béguin |
1931 | Atout cœur |
1930 | L'amour chante as Monsieur Crespin |
1929 | La route est belle as Le professeur Pique |
1920 | La Rafale |
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