Yves Brainville

The son of a French nobleman, Albert de La Chevardière, viscount deLa Grandville, and of a rich American, Sophronia Reed-Williams, Yves de La Chevardière de La Grandville was born in a middle-income, and having studied among the Jesuits, completed his secondary studies at the lycée Janson-de-Sailly and gets lebaccalauréat. He is preparing at the École normale supérieure where, irresistibly attracted by the theatre, he attended the course in dramatic art Julien Bertheau and Raymond Rouleau. Therefore, and under the pressure of his family he takes the pseudonym of Yves Brainville, formed of the English word brain (brain) and the suffix city to remind both its american origins and French. The following year, in 1938, he became already the wizard Roll. From then on, his career is divided between the cinema and the theatre with a clear predilection for the latter. Mobilized in 1940, he was taken prisoner by the Germans in the Saar and is imprisoned near Dresden. Shortly after his return to France, in 1946, he married an actress Leone Nogarède, who had collaborated in the design of the Avignon Festival with Jean Vilar. The couple had three daughters, who will become all artists (a painter, an actress and choreographer). He will also sign several stagings, including, among others, the Genius of The forest, a piece of little-known Anton Chekhov(Théâtre Mouffetard) and The Musica by Marguerite Duras (Studio des Champs-Élysées). Author, he is The Obstacle for which he also composes the stage at the Vieux-Colombier (march 1951). He confides to Marc Cassot et Louis Velle care to defend his piece. Adapter, it is a sign of the Queen and The rebels Ugo Betti, represented by Edwige Feuillère, Michel Vitold, Maria Pacôme and Laurent Terzieff (Renaissance). In film, he appeared in fifty films, such as the role of the captain in a Last Refuge after a novel by Georges Simenon; the doctor Jégou in If all the guys in the world who, in the bush of togo, saves the breton fishermen victims of poisoning; the reverend Hale in The crucible; of Liesowski in The Night of the generals as well as numerous appearances by commissioner or inspector of police, if it is not in the investigating judge. On television, many television dramas, often historical, the last of which is Me, general de Gaulle, where directed by Denys de La Patellière he is the embodiment of marshal Pétain to the sides of Henri Serre in the title role; Foch to defeat Jean-François Delassus, which is seen rather in the Clemenceau since it assigns its Petain to Jean Davy; Mers el-Kebir, in admiral pourPierre Cardinal; The Bunker George Schaefer, who offers him the uniform of the famous German general Hans Guderian, etc. - He was made a chevalier of the Légion d'honneur by François Mitterrand and died in 1993.