Jean Peyrière (born Marie Henri Georges Jean Vaysse, 10 October 1885 – 7 September 1965) was a French stage and film actor. He appeared in several popular
serial film
A serial film, film serial (or just serial), movie serial, or chapter play, is a motion picture form popular during the first half of the 20th century, consisting of a series of short subjects exhibited in consecutive order at one theater, gene ...
s during his career.
Biography
Jean Peyrière was born Marie Henri Georges Jean Vaysse in
Vesoul
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It is the most populated municipality of the department with inhabitants in 2014. The same year, the Communauté d'agglo ...
,
Haute-Saône
Haute-Saône (; Arpitan: ''Hiôta-Sona''; English: Upper Saône) is a department in the Bourgogne-Franche-Comté region of northeastern France. Named after the river Saône, it had a population of 235,313 in 2019.Franche-Comté. He began his career in the film industry in 1913, with an appearance in the
Henri Pouctal
Henri Pouctal (21 October 1860 – 2 February 1922) was an early France, French silent film director and actor best known for his silent films of the 1910s, notably ''Alsace (film), Alsace'' or ''Chantecoq (film), Chantecoq'', and his directorsh ...
directed short film ''Denise'' opposite actor Philippe Garnier. Following his role in ''Denise'', he would appear in the
André Calmettes
André Calmettes (1861-1942) was a French actor and film director.
Biography
After being a theatre actor for twenty years, he joined the society ', founded in 1908 by the novelist and editor, at the urging of the Sociétaires of the Comédie-Fr ...
directed two part serial ''Les trois mousquetaires'' (''The Three Muskateers''), released the following year. ''Les trois mousquetaires'' was an early film adaptation of the 1884 Alexandre Dumasnovel of the same name.
Peyrière would spend the remainder of the 1910s appearing in films directed by
Louis Mercanton
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Mercanton was born in Nyon, Vaud, Canton of Vaud, Switzerland and died in Neuilly-sur-Seine, France.
Partial filmography
Director
* '' ...
,
René Hervil
René Hervil (1881–1960) was a French actor, screenwriter and film director.Goble p.322 Most of his films were made during the silent era. He directed the ''Maud'' series of films between 1912 and 1915 starring the Anglo-French actress Aimé ...
,
Jean Kemm
Jean Kemm (15 May 1874–1939) was a French stage and theater actor and film director.
Kemm was born Jules Adolphe Félix Bécheret in the 2nd arrondissement of Paris and died in Paris in 1939.
Selected filmography
* '' André Cornélis'' (1 ...
and
René Plaissetty
René Plaissetty (1889–1955) was an American film director.
Son of Achille Plaissetty, chemist and businessman and Corinne Bonnecaze, professor of singing, René Plaissetty was born on March 7, 1889, in Chicago.
In 1907 he came to live in F ...
. In 1919, he appeared in the Henri Pouctal directed serial ''Travail'', which ran in seven installments. In 1923 he appeared in the popular
Henri Fescourt
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Filmography
* 1912 : '' Un vol a été commis''
* 1912 : '' Le Petit restaurant de l'impasse Canin''
* 1912 : '' Paris-Sa ...
directed serial ''Mandrin'', starring
Romuald Joubé
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Born in Mazères, Ariège, Romuald Jo ...
and followed with a role in the Charles Maudru directed serial '' Le roi de Paris'', starring
Jean Dax
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Select ...
. Other film serials of the 1920s Peyrière appeared in include ''Surcouf'' (1924), directed by Luitz-Morat and starring
Jean Angelo
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Filmogra ...
; ''Le Vert Galant'' (1924), directed by René Leprince; ''Fanfan la Tulipe'' (1925), directed again by René Leprince and starring Aimé Simon-Girard; and ''Le juif errant'' (1926), directed by Luitz-Morat and starring
Gabriel Gabrio
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.
Jean Peyrière's last film of the 1920s
silent film
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era was the 1929
René Barberis
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Selected filmography
Director
* ''Colette the Unwanted'' (1927)
* ''The Vein'' (1928)
* '' The Unknown Dancer'' (1929)
* ''Temptation'' ...
and René Leprince directed drama ''La tentation'' (''Temptation''), starring Lucien Dalsace. Peyrière would only make one sound film, which would also be his last appearance on screen, in the Robert Péguy directed 1937 comedy ''Monsieur Breloque a disparu'', starring
Lucien Baroux
Lucien Baroux (born Marcel Lucien Barou; 21 September 1888 in Toulouse – 21 May 1968 in Hossegor) was a French actor. He began his career working in the theatre, moving on to a long career in films from the 1930s.
In the field of musical comed ...
and
Junie Astor
Rolande Jeanne Risterucci (1911–1967), better known as Junie Astor, was a French actress.
Selected filmography
* ''Stradivarius'' (1935)
* ''The Lower Depths'' (1936)
* ''Women's Club'' (1936)
* ''Excursion Train'' (1936)
* ''27 Rue de la Paix ...
.
Following his retirement from the film industry Jean Peyrière settled in Paris where he died in 1965 at age 79.Notré Cinéma Retrieved 18 September 2016.