Alfred Adam

A former student of Louis Jouvet at the Conservatoire, he joined his troop at the Théâtre de l'athénée, and is particularly noticed in the role of gardener of Electra by Jean Giraudoux in 1935. In the same year, after a first film shot in 1929, his film career really starts with The Kermesse héroïque by Jacques Feyder, where he found Louis Jouvet. In 1938, with Pierre Dux and Fernand Ledoux, Alfred Adam opens a theatre course in a studio on the top floor of the Théâtre Pigalle. Alternating roles at theatre and cinema, he became a well-known writer when his play Sylvie and the Phantom is represented in 1943 by André Barsacq at the Théâtre de l'atelier, and then adapted to the screen in 1946 by Claude Autant-Lara etJean Aurenche. It between for a short period at the Comédie Française (1944-1945), and a - sign or co-wrote - screenplays for movies in which he plays, which Sylvie and the ghost, by Claude Autant-Lara, Captain Slipper Guy Lefranc (1952) and The Beautiful American Robert Dhéry and Pierre Tchernia (1961). In film, he has appeared in A carnet de bal by Julien Duvivier (1937), Boule-de-Suif Christian-Jaque (1945), The President, by Henri Verneuil (1960), The Stranger by Luchino Visconti (1967), or That the party starts Bertrand Tavernier (1974). He ended his career with a film made the same year as his death (1982) for television, The Little Girl in a landscape.