Lee Payant (born 1924 in
Seattle, Washington – died 14 December 1976 in
Paris, France), was an
actor and film director also known for voicing the title role of the 1960s TV serial ''
The Adventures of Robinson Crusoe
''Robinson Crusoe'' ( es, Aventuras de Robinson Crusoe; also released as ''Adventures of Robinson Crusoe'') is a 1954 adventure film directed by Luis Buñuel, based on the 1719 novel of the same name by Daniel Defoe. It stars Dan O'Herlihy as Cr ...
'' in English.
From 1949 until his death in 1976, he and his musical associate and lover (actor and theatrical director)
Gordon Heath ran a cafe and nightclub named L'Abbaye on the
Rive Gauche in Paris. Here they both regularly played American and French
folk,
gospel and
blues
Blues is a music genre and musical form which originated in the Deep South of the United States around the 1860s. Blues incorporated spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts, chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads from the Afr ...
songs - being the only performers at the Abbaye. L'Abbaye was the namesake of their duet albums titled ''Songs Of The Abbaye'' (1954), ''Encores From The Abbaye'' (1955), and ''
An Evening at L'Abbaye'' (1957) on the
Elektra
Electra was a daughter of Agamemnon and Clytemnestra in Greek mythology.
Electra or Elektra may also refer to:
Greek mythology
*Electra (Pleiad), one of the Pleiades
* Electra, one of the Danaids, daughter of Danaus and Polyxo
* Electra (Oc ...
label.
Payant died of cancer in Paris in 1976.
Filmography
References
External links
*
Illustrated Gordon Heath & Lee Payant discography
1924 births
1976 deaths
American male film actors
American film directors
20th-century American male actors
Deaths from cancer in France
American gay actors
20th-century American LGBT people
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