Didier Bezace (10 February 1946 – 11 March 2020) was a French actor.

Life and career

Theatre student at the International Dramatic University Centre in Nancy, Didier Bezace received lessons from Bernard Drot, Jean-Marie Patte, Gilles Sandier, María Casares and Henri Gourbion. Co-founder with

Jean-Louis Benoît Jean-Louis Benoît (born 22 January 1947 in Alès, Gard) is a French actor, screenwriter, theater and film director. He is co-founder with Didier Bezace and Jacques Nichet of the theatre of l'Aquarium-Cartoucherie de Vincennes. Filmography As a ...

and Jacques Nichet of the theatre of l'Aquarium-Cartoucherie de Vincennes, he participated in all the shows that the company produced as author, stager and actor. Didier Bezace was the director of the théâtre de La Commune in

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since 1997 and continued to act in cinema and television.

2005 works

* ''Avis aux intéressés'' by Daniel Keene * With Séverine Magois, he was honoured with a Molière for his production of '' La Version de Browning'' by

Terence Rattigan Sir Terence Mervyn Rattigan (10 June 191130 November 1977) was a British dramatist and screenwriter. He was one of England's most popular mid-20th-century dramatists. His plays are typically set in an upper-middle-class background.Geoffrey Wan ...

, for "best adaptation of a foreign work". He staged works by

Georges Feydeau Georges-Léon-Jules-Marie Feydeau (; 8 December 1862 – 5 June 1921) was a French playwright of the Belle Époque era, remembered for his farces, written between 1886 and 1914. Feydeau was born in Paris to middle-class parents and raised in a ...

, Emmanuel Bove, and

Molière Jean-Baptiste Poquelin (; 15 January 1622 (baptised) – 17 February 1673), known by his stage name Molière (, ; ), was a French playwright, actor, and poet, widely regarded as one of the great writers in the French language and world liter ...

whose (''

The School for Wives ''The School for Wives'' (; ) is a theatrical comedy written by the seventeenth century French playwright Molière and considered by some critics to be one of his finest achievements. It was first staged at the Palais Royal theatre on 26 Decem ...

'') opened the

Festival d'Avignon The ''Festival d'Avignon'', or Avignon Festival (), is an annual arts festival held in the France, French city of Avignon every summer in July in the courtyard of the Palais des Papes as well as in other locations of the city. Founded in 1947 by ...

in July 2001. Other work included ''La Femme changée en renard'' by

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, ''Pereira prétend'' by

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... In cinema, he worked with

Claude Miller Claude Miller (20 February 1942 – 4 April 2012) was a French film director, producer and screenwriter. Life and career Claude Miller was born to a Jewish family. A student at Paris' IDHEC film school from 1962 through 1963, Miller had his f ...

('' La Petite Voleuse''),

Bertrand Tavernier Bertrand Tavernier (; 25 April 1941 – 25 March 2021) was a French film director, screenwriter, and producer. Life and career Tavernier was born in Lyon, France, the son of Geneviève (née Dumond) and René Tavernier, a publicist and writer, ...

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and

Rémi Bezançon Rémi Bezançon (born 25 March 1971) is a French director and screenwriter. References External links * 1971 births Living people French male screenwriters French screenwriters Film directors from Paris French-language film di ...

. In television, he can be seen in ''Les Thibault'', ''Sissi'' and recently in ''Mon fils d'ailleurs''. He was also in the film ''

Le Pressentiment ''Premonition'' () is a 2006 French drama film directed by and starring Jean-Pierre Darroussin, and based on the novel ''Le Pressentiment'' by Emmanuel Bove. It won the Louis Delluc Prize for Best First Film in 2006 and the award for Best First ...

'', working with

Jean-Pierre Darroussin Jean-Pierre Darroussin (born 4 December 1953) is a French actor and filmmaker. He was born in Courbevoie, France. Theater Filmography Actor *1992: '' Riens du tout'' (directed by Cédric Klapisch starring Fabrice Luchini, Daniel Berlioux ...

based on the novel by Emmanuel Bove (Released in October 2006). 2006 pieces at the Théâtre de La Commune ''Objet perdu'': 3 short pieces from memory, crying, recital, violin by Daniel Keene, Festival of here and now by Daniel Keene.

2006-2007 season

Themes of 'Mothers' with ''

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'' based on ''

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'' by

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and

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and ''

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Hanif Kureishi Hanif Kureishi (born 5 December 1954) is a British Pakistani playwright, screenwriter, filmmaker, and novelist. He is known for his film '' My Beautiful Laundrette'' and novel '' The Buddha of Suburbia''. Early life and education Hanif Kureish ...

Filmography

* 1976 : '' Guerres civiles en France'', sketch ''Premier Empire'' by François Barat * 1988 : ''

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'' by

* 1989 : '' Dédé'' by

* 1991 : '' Sur la terre comme au ciel'' by Marion Hänsel * 1991 : '' L.627'' by

* 1992 : '' Taxi de nuit'' by

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* 1993 : '' Petits arrangements avec les morts'' by Pascale Ferran * 1993 : '' Profil bas'' by

* 1995 : '' Les Voleurs'' by

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* 1997 : '' La Femme de chambre du Titanic'' by

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* 1998 : '' Le Plus beau pays du monde'' by

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* 1998 : '' La Dilettante'' by

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* 1998 : '' Ça commence aujourd'hui'' by

* 1999 : '' Voyous voyelles'' by Serge Meynard * 1999 : '' La Face cachée de la lune'' (''La otra cara de la luna'') by Lluis Josep Comeron * 2000 : '' Ça ira mieux demain'' by

* 2001 : '' Ceci est mon corps'' by Rodolphe Marconi * 2002 : '' C'est le bouquet!'' by

* 2002 : '' Nuit noire'' by Daniel Colas (uncredited) * 2003 : '' Mariages !'' by

* 2003 : '' Ce qu'ils imaginent'' by

* 2004 : '' Cause toujours !'' by

* 2005 : '' Ma vie en l'air'' by

* 2006 : ''

'' by

* 2011 : ''

The Minister ''The Minister'' () is a 2011 French-Belgian political drama film directed by Pierre Schöller. Plot French Transport Minister Bertrand Saint-Jean arrives at the scene of a serious bus crash with many fatalities. He later attends a news inte ...

'' * 2016 : '' The Origin of Violence''

Television

* 2005 : '' La Belle et le sauvage'' by Bertrand Arthuys * 2006 : '' Les Camarades'' by François Luciani * 2007 : '' Les Liens du sang'' by Régis Musset : ''Juge Dugourd''

References

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