André Roussin, (22 January 1911 – 3 November 1987), was a
French
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playwright
A playwright or dramatist is a person who writes plays.
Etymology
The word "play" is from Middle English pleye, from Old English plæġ, pleġa, plæġa ("play, exercise; sport, game; drama, applause"). The word "wright" is an archaic English ...
. Born in
Marseille
Marseille ( , , ; also spelled in English as Marseilles; oc, Marselha ) is the prefecture of the French department of Bouches-du-Rhône and capital of the Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur region. Situated in the camargue region of southern Fra ...
, he was elected to the
Académie française
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on 12 April 1973.
Bibliography
*1933 ''Patiences et impatiences''
*1944 ''Am Stram Gram''
*1945 ''Une grande fille toute simple''
*1945 ''Jean Baptiste le mal aimé''
*1945 ''La Sainte Famille''
*1947 ''La petite hutte''
*1948 ''Les Œufs de l'autruche''
*1949 ''Nina''
*1950 ''Bobosse''
*1951 ''La main de César''
*1951 ''Lorsque l'enfant paraît''
*1952 ''Hélène ou la joie de vivre''
*1953 ''Patience et impatiences''
*1954 ''Le Mari, la Femme et la Mort''
*1955 ''L'Amour fou ou la première surprise''
*1957 ''La Mamma''
*1960 ''Les Glorieuses et une femme qui dit la vérité''
*1962 ''La Coquine''
*1963 ''La Voyante''
*1963 ''Un amour qui ne finit pas''
*1965 ''Un contentement raisonnable''
*1966 ''La Locomotive''
*1969 ''On ne sait jamais''
*1972 ''La Claque''
*1974 ''La boîte à couleurs''
*1982 ''Le rideau rouge, portraits et souvenirs''
*1982 ''La vie est trop courte''
*1983 ''Rideau gris et habit vert''
*1987 ''La petite chatte est morte''
*1987 ''Mesdames, Mesdemoiselles, Messieurs''
*1987 ''Treize comédies en un acte''
Filmography
*', directed by
Jacques Manuel
Jacques Manuel (1897–1968) was a French costume designer and occasional film editor and director.Goble p.784
Selected filmography Costume designer
* '' La Route impériale'' (1935)
* ''Woman of Malacca'' (1937)
* ''The Citadel of Silence'' (193 ...
(France, 1948, based on the play ''Une grande fille toute simple'')
*', directed by
Michel Boisrond
Michel Jacques Boisrond (9 October 1921, Châteauneuf-en-Thymerais – 10 November 2002, La Celle-Saint-Cloud) was a French film director and screenwriter. His work spanned five decades, from the 1950s to the 1990s.
Career
A former apprentice ...
(France, 1956, based on the play ''Lorsque l'enfant paraît'')
*''
The Little Hut'', directed by
Mark Robson (1957, based on the play ''La petite hutte'')
* ''
The Ostrich Has Two Eggs
''The Ostrich Has Two Eggs'' (French: ''Les oeufs de l'autruche'') is a 1957 French comedy film directed by Denys de La Patellière and starring Pierre Fresnay, Simone Renant and Georges Poujouly.Goble p.892 It was based on a play by André Roussi ...
'', directed by
Denys de La Patellière
Denys de La Patellière (8 March 1921 in Nantes, France–21 July 2013) was a French film director and scriptwriter. He also directed Television series.
of 92.
Filmography as director
* 1955 : '' Les Aristocrates'', with Pierre Fresnay
* ...
(France, 1957, based on the play ''Les Œufs de l'autruche'')
*''Nina'', directed by
Jean Boyer (France, 1959, based on the play ''Nina'')
*', directed by
Étienne Périer (France, 1959, based on the play ''Bobosse'')
External links
*
L'Académie française
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1911 births
1987 deaths
Writers from Marseille
Members of the Académie Française
20th-century French dramatists and playwrights