Paul Crauchet

There is a lack of participation in the second world war, but being born on the 14 July 1920, it was not 20 years old, are of legal age to be drafted, when France capitulates to the Germans, in June 1940. Then, he refuses to participate in the STO (service of obligatory work) introduced by the Germans. He took part in some actions of the resistance, while moving in several cities. First passionate by aviation and rugby, Paul Crauchet discovered a passion for the theatre at the age of 23 years. Installed in Paris in 1945, it follows the courses of Charles Dullin for three years and began on stage in 1949. He then worked at the T. N. P avecJean Vilar. It appears at the cinema in 1959 in the first film of Éric Rohmer, the Sign of The lion, and then in 1962, in The War of buttons by Yves Robert, but it is in The les Grandes Gueules de Robert Enrico 1965 he has really been noticed. Follows a very long career during which he worked with a host of directors such as Alain Resnais, René Clément, Jacques Deray, Jean-Pierre Melville, José Giovanni. During the Algerian War, Paul Crauchet participates in the network Jeanson of support to the FLN. Arrested on march 1, 1960, he made seven months in prison before being acquitted for lack of evidence, during the sensational trial Jeanson. Generally, the fans were not holding his name, which also was not very known to the general public. On the other hand, as soon as he appeared in a film, the audience recognizes the actor, seen in a large number of films, and or its silhouette, and its presence became familiéres. The great period of Paul Crauchet in the cinema is to be placed between 1965 and 1980, or he will take part in a large number of classic films of French cinema.