Édith Ker, born Édith Denise Keraudren (1910–1997) was a French actress born in
Brest
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Places
*Brest, Belarus
**Brest Region
**Brest Airport
**Brest Fortress
* Brest, Kyustendil Province, Bulgaria
* Břest, Czech Republic
*Brest, France
** Arrondissement of Brest
**Brest Bretagne Airport
** Château de Brest
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Finistère
Finistère (, ; br, Penn-ar-Bed ) is a department of France in the extreme west of Brittany. In 2019, it had a population of 915,090. ). She is best known to English-speaking audiences as the grandmother in
Jean-Pierre Jeunet's ''
Delicatessen
Traditionally, a delicatessen or deli is a retail establishment that sells a selection of fine, exotic, or foreign prepared foods. Delicatessen originated in Germany (original: ) during the 18th century and spread to the United States in the m ...
''.
Filmography
*1957: ''
Fernand clochard'' (de
Pierre Chevalier)
*1962: ''
Les Bricoleurs
''Les bricoleurs'' (''The Handymen'') is a 1963 French thriller film directed by Jean Girault and starring Francis Blanche, Darry Cowl, Elke Sommer and Jacqueline Maillan. It was released as ''Who Stole the Body?'' in the United States.
Premise ...
'' (de
Jean Girault
Jean Girault (; 9 May 1924 – 24 July 1982) was a French film director and screenwriter. From 1951 to 1960 he worked as a screenwriter, mainly for comedy films. He made his film debut as a director in 1960. He directed more than thirty films bet ...
)
*1962: ''
Le Gentleman d'Epsom'' (de
Gilles Grangier)
*1964: ''
La Fleur de l'âge'' (de
John Guillermin
John Guillermin (11 November 192527 September 2015) was a French-British film director, writer and producer who was most active in big-budget, action-adventure films throughout his lengthy career.
His more well-known films include ''I Was Monty ...
)
*1964: ''
Le Vampire de Düsseldorf'' (de
Robert Hossein
Robert Hossein (30 December 1927 – 31 December 2020) was a French film actor, director, and writer. He directed the 1982 adaptation of ''Les Misérables'' and appeared in '' Vice and Virtue'', '' Le Casse'', '' Les Uns et les Autres'' and '' ...
)
*1965: ''
Fantômas se déchaîne
''Fantômas se déchaîne'' (, '' en, Fantomas Unleashed'') is a 1965 film starring Jean Marais as the arch villain Fantômas opposite Louis de Funès as the earnest but outclassed commissaire Juve and the journalist Fandor, also played by Marais ...
'' (d'
André Hunebelle
André Hunebelle (1 September 1896 – 27 November 1985) was a French maître verrier (master glassmaker) and film director.
Master Glass Artist
After attending polytechnic school for mathematics, he became a decorator, a designer, and then a mas ...
)
*1965: ''
Tant qu'on a la santé'' (de
Pierre Étaix
Pierre Étaix (; 23 November 1928 – 14 October 2016) was a French clown, comedian and filmmaker. Étaix made a series of short- and feature-length films, many of them co-written by influential screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière. He won an A ...
)
*1967: ''
La mariée était en noir'' (de
François Truffaut)
*1968: ''
La Grande Lessive (!)'' (de
Jean-Pierre Mocky
Jean-Pierre Mocky (6 July 1929 – 8 August 2019), pseudonym of Jean-Paul Adam Mokiejewski, was a French film director, actor, screenwriter and producer.
Life and career
Mocky was born in Nice, France to Polish immigrant parents, Jeanne Zylinska ...
) - La bonne des Lavalette
*1969: ''
La Peau de Torpedo'' (de
Jean Delannoy)
*1971: ''
L'Italien des roses'' (de
Charles Matton)
*1972: ''
Elle cause plus... elle flingue'' (de
Michel Audiard
Paul Michel Audiard (; 15 May 1920 – 27 July 1985) was a French screenwriter and film director, known for his witty, irreverent and slang-laden dialogues which made him a prominent figure on the French cultural scene of the 1960s and 1970s. He ...
)
*1974: ''
Les Filles de Malemort'' (de
Daniel Daërt)
*1974: ''
Le Futur aux trousses'' (de
Dolorès Grassian)
*1974: ''
Y'a un os dans la moulinette'' (de
Raoul André
Raoul André (24 May 1916 in Rabat (Morocco) - 4 November 1992) was a French director and screenwriter, He was married to actress Louise Carletti (December 1955), and he is the father of Ariane Carletti.
Filmography
* '' The Village of Wrath ...
)
*1975: ''
Divine
Divinity or the divine are things that are either related to, devoted to, or proceeding from a deity.[divine< ...](_blank)
'' (de
Dominique Delouche)
*1979: ''
Tous vedettes'' (de
Michel Lang
Michel Lang (9 June 1939 – 24 April 2014) was a French film and television director, best remembered for his comedy films in the late 1970s and 1980s. After 1990, he directed predominantly for French television.
Filmography
* 1964 : '' Un tou ...
)
*1990: ''
Delicatessen
Traditionally, a delicatessen or deli is a retail establishment that sells a selection of fine, exotic, or foreign prepared foods. Delicatessen originated in Germany (original: ) during the 18th century and spread to the United States in the m ...
'' (de
Jean-Pierre Jeunet et
Marc Caro
Marc Caro (born 2 April 1956) is a French filmmaker and cartoonist best known for his projects with Jean-Pierre Jeunet.
Biography
Marc Caro was born in Nantes, the native town of Jules Verne, who made a great impact on him, influenced his love ...
) - Grandmother (final film role)
External links
1910 births
1997 deaths
French film actresses
French television actresses
Actors from Brest, France
20th-century French actresses
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