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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
March 22, 1907
Died
January 20, 1984
Place of Birth
Neuilly-sur-Seine, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France
Also Known As
- Роже Блен
Roger Blin
3.7 Popularity
Biography
Roger Blin (Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, 22 March 1907 – Évecquemont, France, 21 January 1984) was a French actor and director. He staged world premieres of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot in 1953 and Endgame in 1957. Blin was the son of a doctor; however, despite his father's wishes, Blin forged a career in the theatre. As a teenager he was 'fascinated' by the Surrealists and their conception of revolutionary art. He was initially part of the left-wing theatre collectives The Company of Five and The October Group. In 1935 Blin served as Antonin Artaud's assistant director for his production of Les Cenci [The Cenci] at the Folies-Wagrams theatre in 1935. Following his work with Artaud, Blin focused on 'political street-theatre.' During the war, Blin was a liaison between the Resistance and the French Army. His extensive career as both director and actor in both film and theatre has been largely defined by his work and relationship with Artaud, Samuel Beckett and Jean Genet. In addition to being a close friend and confidant of Artaud during the latter's nine years of internment, he directed the first performances of Beckett's Waiting For Godot, Happy Days and Endgame as well as directing the initial performance of Genet's The Blacks and the controversial The Screens. Genet's key correspondences to Blin have been published by Editions Gallimard. The 1986 Faber and Faber publication, "Samuel Beckett: The Complete Dramatic Works" carries only three dedications from Beckett: "Endgame" is dedicated to Blin, while "Come and Go" is for John Calder, and "Catastrophe" is for Václav Havel. Source: Article "Roger Blin" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Known For
6.0
Self (archive footage)
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
2020
0.0
Nestor
The Hospital of Leningrad
1983
0.0
Vendredi ou la vie sauvage
1983
6.0
Récitant (voice)
Five and the Skin
1982
7.8
L’aveugle (voice)
The King and the Mockingbird
1980
4.3
Romain
The Adolescent
1979
5.2
Jeanne's father
The Old Country Where Rimbaud Died
1977
6.5
Daniel
Nevermore, Forever
1976
4.3
Murdoc
One Must Live Dangerously
1975
5.6
Le professeur de chant
Aloïse
1975
Credits
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
as Self (archive footage)
2020
6.0
The Hospital of Leningrad
as Nestor
1983
0.0
Vendredi ou la vie sauvage
1983
0.0
Five and the Skin
as Récitant (voice)
1982
6.0
The King and the Mockingbird
as L’aveugle (voice)
1980
7.8
The Adolescent
as Romain
1979
4.3
The Old Country Where Rimbaud Died
as Jeanne's father
1977
5.2
Nevermore, Forever
as Daniel
1976
6.5
One Must Live Dangerously
as Murdoc
1975
4.3
Aloïse
as Le professeur de chant
1975
5.6
That Most Important Thing: Love
as Servais' Father
1975
7.0
The Shadow Line
as Burns
1973
6.0
Too Small My Friend
as Boris
1971
6.0
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L'illusion comique
as Alcandre
1970
0.0
La Plaie et le Couteau, Charles Baudelaire
1967
0.0
Law of Survival
as Pao
1967
5.4
The Sunday of Life
as Jean Sans-Tête
1967
5.3
The Devil's Tricks
as Monsieur de Beaurepaire
1966
5.5
Qui donc a rêvé?
1965
0.0
Little Claus and Big Claus
as Le grand Claus
1964
6.8
Marie Soleil
as Karl / Boss
1964
0.0
A Taste for Women
as Larsen
1964
3.2
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Egypt, oh Egypt: Images of Heaven
as Narrator (voice)
1963
0.0
Quatrevingt-treize
as Tellmarc’h
1962
0.0
The Star Ship
as Curtway
1962
5.0
Paris Blues
as Fausto the Moor (uncredited)
1961
6.5
Les Trois Sœurs
as Verchinine
1960
0.0
Checkerboard
as Slim, le guide
1959
6.0
Stars at Noon
as Self
1959
6.6
🎬
Calligraphie Japonaise
as Narrator
1958
0.0
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
as Mathias Hungadi
1956
6.7
The Amazing Mr. Callaghan
as Wladimir
1955
4.2
🎬
The Invitation to the Waltz
as Guillaume l'égorgeur
1954
0.0
The Knight of the Night
as le valet
1953
5.6
The Curious Adventures of Mr. Wonderbird
as Blind Man (Voice)
1953
7.1
Piédalu fait des miracles
1952
0.0
🎬
Torticola versus Frankensberg
as Doctor Frankenstein
1952
4.0
Adventures of Captain Fabian
1951
5.2
The Convict
as Convict
1951
5.3
Orpheus
as The Poet
1950
7.7
Vagabonds imaginaires
as Narrator (segment 'Les amours jaunes') (voice)
1950
0.0
Wicked City
as Emilio
1949
4.8
Unusual Tales
as Guillaume
1949
7.0
Passionnelle
as Julien
1947
6.5
The Ideal Couple
as The sleepwalker
1946
5.0
The Last Judgment
1945
0.0
The Bohemian Life
as Man of the puppet
1945
7.0
First in Line
as Paul Moury
1944
7.2
Colonel Chabert
as Cleric
1943
6.9
Douce
as Man of the theater (uncredited)
1943
7.2
Le Corbeau
as François
1943
7.5
Adieu Léonard
as Bohemian leader
1943
5.2
Captain Fracasse
as Fagotin
1943
6.3
The Devil's Envoys
as The Monster Showman
1942
6.8
The Trump Card
as Aspirant
1942
4.2
L'âge d'or
1942
0.0
Volpone
as Un vénitien
1941
6.7
Beating Heart
as (credit only)
1940
6.0
The World Will Shake
as Le Condamné
1939
6.7
Louise
as (uncredited)
1939
5.3
Pasha's Wives
as Mair
1939
6.9
Adrienne Lecouvreur
1938
5.0
The Curtain Rises
as Dominique, le gardien du château de la famille de Cécilia
1938
7.9
The Time of the Cherries
as Dupuis son
1938
0.0
Alibi
as Kretz, Winckler's henchman
1937
6.5
The Citadel of Silence
as Officer (uncredited)
1937
0.0
The Life and Loves of Beethoven
as De Ries
1937
6.7
Jenny
as le malade solitaire
1936
5.9
Life Is Ours
as Un métallo
1936
6.3
Under Western Eyes
as Unnamed Character
1936
6.2
Street Without a Name
1934
0.0
Le Colisée
as The Crowd
1933
7.0