Robert Manuel

Onstage in 1934, at the age of 19 years, for a role in Fragonard, a musical comedy from Gabriel Pierné, André Rivoire, he entered in 1936 at the Comédie-Française, of which he became a member from 1948 to 1962. His debut in cinema dates back to 1935 for a small role in a film by Jean de Limur, The Small Wild. He will be running with well-known directors such as Sacha Guitry, Julien Duvivier, Jean Meyer, Gilles Grangier, or Christian-Jaque, but most of the time to a secondary role. Jules Dassin (The there is hullaballoo among the men), Chereau (Judith Therpauve), Resnais (life is a novel) will make use of its services. He entered in 1936 at the Comédie-Française, of which he became a member emeritus, interpreting, in particular, the theater of Molière. During the German Occupation, Robert Manuel, of the jewish faith, was interned to the camp of Drancy, and participated in the September 1943 to the realization of a tunnel intended to allow for the escape of all of the internees in the camp, between the call of the evening and the call of the morning. The main activity of the actor was on the scenes of theatre where he played the role of mostly of the comedies of Molière, deCourteline, Feydeau or Marivaux. He has to his credit more than 400 scenes, all the roles. It was a figure of the theatrical life, the artistic French major with a huge popularity. From 1965 to 1978, he directed with Elvire Popesco, and Hubert de Malet the théâtre Marigny. He took part in the simple viewer at the game of Peter Sabbagh The Man of the twentieth century. The issues are primarily cultural, it came to the final and won at the end of a competition challenging under the gaze of a small bust of Molière, which he had brought (his opponent used it as a talisman, its lighter). He was, from 1966 to 1985, one of the pillars of the television show, Sabbagh, At the theatre this evening, where he spoke in more than fifty plays in exercising primarily the function of a director. He resumed with success, and almost unexpectedly (following the sudden death of Dario Moreno) the role of Sancho Panza to the side of Jacques Brel in the legendary musical the Man of la Mancha. He learns, and repeats the role and the song in 3 days, remarkable performance, which says a lot about the talent of this extraordinary artist. A first marriage to Leone Mail, a dancer at the Paris Opera, he had two daughters, both members of the Comédie française : Catherine Salviat and Christine Murillo. It was his second marriage the husband of actress Claudine Coster, also more attracted to the theatre than the cinema. He had two other children : Marie-Silvia Manuel, actress, author and director, who gives acting lessons to Traps as well as courses in association with Pleasure and Jean-Baptiste Manuel, a professor of French and dramatic author. He was the Mayor of Roquebrune-sur-Argens in the Var, from April 1971 to march 1974.