Jean Rougerie

Of belgian origin, Jean Roland Rougerie was born march 9, 1929 in Neuilly-sur-Seine. Nothing seems to predestine him, a priori, the son of financial to opt for a career in the arts. But, his father would not oppose her vocation in theatre, young Jean is trying the entrance exam at the Conservatoire National Supérieur d'art Dramatique of Paris.... where it is recalibrated. Nevertheless, Jean Rougerie will be a career in the theatre dense, both as an actor, director and theatre director. Leader, in particular, the Theatre of the Castle of Fontainebleau and the Théâtre Firmin Gémier, he adapted Eugene Ionesco, Prosper Mérimée, Molière, Marivaux, Louis-Ferdinand Céline, Eugène Labiche, Emile Zola, Dostoevsky... For the big screen, it first looks very distantly film sets for two decades, playing for the first time in "Monsieur Vincent" (1947), with Pierre Fresnay. It is only in the seventies that it invests seriously in a career in film. In "Lacombe Lucien" (1973) he played a former cop working for the germans, during the Occupation. It is without doubt one of its most important roles, as well as one of his best films, staged with application by Louis Malle. He camps then silhouettes stealth pourLuis Buñuel with "the phantom of liberty" (1974), and for Bertrand Tavernier with "the party begins" (1974). Robert Lamoureux offers him a role as a nazi officer in "We have found the seventh company!" (1975) with Jean Lefebvre, and then we see the first minister in "reason of state" (1978) by André Cayatte. Bertrand Blier knows how to take advantage of its boiling slightly bewildered in "Prepare your handkerchiefs" (1977), where he is the father, P. D. G. of a gifted child, and then in "cold Buffet" (1978), where he holds the role of the witness. Characters sometimes hilarious, often disturbing and tinged with ambiguity, for an actor with the physical singular, perfect for the roles of bastards.