Roger Karl (29 April 1882 – 4 May 1984) was a French actor. Karl was born Roger Trouvé in

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Biography

A friend of Paul Léautaud he long hesitated between literary career, painting and theater. He first published his Journal under the name of Michel Balfort with the title ''Journal d'un homme de nulle part'' (Diary of a Man out of Nowhere). He tried theater before 1914 with the cast of

Jacques Copeau Jacques Copeau (; 4 February 1879 – 20 October 1949) was a French Theatre, theatre director, producer, actor, and dramatist. Before he founded the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier in Paris, he wrote theatre reviews for several Parisian journ ...

, he also published with

Mercure de France The () was originally a French gazette and literary magazine first published in the 17th century, but after several incarnations has evolved as a publisher, and is now part of the Éditions Gallimard publishing group. The gazette was publis ...

a novel, ''Une mère'' (A Mother), using the pseudonym PR Carle. Hired by Antoine at the Odeon Theater, he still participated in tours with

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and played the role of Dmitri Karamazov in The Brothers Karamazov, an adaptation of Jean Jacques Copeau and Croué. Member of the first troupe of the

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in 1913-1914, he did not appreciate the ascetic atmosphere or gymnastic methods and became postwar interpreter of Porche Francis and

Henry Bataille Félix-Henri "Henry" Bataille (4 April 1872, in Nîmes – 2 March 1922, in Rueil-Malmaison) was a French dramatist and poet. His works were popular between 1900 and the start of World War I. Bataille's parents died when he was young. He attend ...

. He then turned to film, where he played great supporting roles, notably in 1920 in ''

L'Homme du large ''L' Homme du large'' (English: ''Man of the Sea'' or ''Man of the Open Seas'') is a 1920 French silent film directed by Marcel L'Herbier and based on a short story by Honoré de Balzac. It was filmed on the rugged southern coast of Brittany crea ...

'' (Man of the Open Seas) by

Marcel L'Herbier Marcel L'Herbier (; 23 April 1888 – 26 November 1979) was a French filmmaker who achieved prominence as an avant-garde theorist and imaginative practitioner with a series of silent films in the 1920s. His career as a director continued unti ...

, after ''Un drame au bord de la mer'' (A Drama on the Seashore) by

Honoré de Balzac Honoré de Balzac ( , more commonly ; ; born Honoré Balzac; 20 May 1799 – 18 August 1850) was a French novelist and playwright. The novel sequence ''La Comédie humaine'', which presents a panorama of post-Napoleonic French life, is ...

, and '' La Femme de nulle part'' (The Woman from Nowhere) under the direction of Louis Delluc. He then toured with

Julien Duvivier Julien Duvivier (; 8 October 1896 – 29 October 1967) was a French film director and screenwriter. He was prominent in French cinema in the years 1930–1960. Amongst his most original films, chiefly notable are ''La Bandera (film), La Bandera'', ...

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, but he did not appreciate the constraints of film any more than those of theater and hide his talents in routine jobs. Raymond Chirat, dictionnaire du cinéma, Larousse, 1986, p. 357 Karl died in 1984 at the age of 102.

Selected filmography

* '' Misdeal'' (1928) * '' Little Devil May Care'' (1928) * ''

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'' (1929) * ''

Fantômas Fantômas () is a fictional character created by French writers Marcel Allain (1885–1969) and Pierre Souvestre (1874–1914). One of the most popular characters in the history of French crime fiction, Fantômas was created in 1911 and appeared ...

'' (1932) * '' The Star of Valencia'' (1933) * '' The Case of Doctor Brenner'' (1933) * ''

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'' (1934) (French-language version) * ''

Narcotics The term narcotic (, from ancient Greek ναρκῶ ''narkō'', "I make numb") originally referred medically to any psychoactive compound with numbing or paralyzing properties. In the United States, it has since become associated with opiates ...

'' (1934) * '' Prince Jean'' (1934) * ''

Moscow Nights "Moscow Nights", originally titled "Leningrad Nights", is a Soviet patriotic song written by Mikhail Matusovsky and composed by Vasily Solovyov-Sedoy. It was later covered as "Midnight in Moscow" by Kenny Ball. Composition and initial succ ...

'' (1934) * '' The Mysteries of Paris'' (1935) * ''

Lucrezia Borgia Lucrezia Borgia (18 April 1480 – 24 June 1519) was an Italian noblewoman of the House of Borgia who was the illegitimate daughter of Pope Alexander VI and Vannozza dei Cattanei. She was a former governor of Spoleto. Her family arranged ...

'' (1935) * '' The Decoy'' (1935) * '' The Devil in the Bottle'' (1935) * '' The Legend of Prague'' (1936) * '' When Midnight Strikes'' (1936) * '' In the Service of the Tsar'' (1936) * ''

The Phantom Gondola ''The Phantom Gondola'' () is a 1936 French-Italian drama film directed by Augusto Genina and starring Marcelle Chantal, Henri Rollan and Paul Bernard (actor), Paul Bernard. The film was a co-production (filmmaking), co-production between the two ...

'' (1936) * '' Street of Shadows'' (1937) * '' Mademoiselle Docteur'' (1937) * '' In Venice, One Night'' (1937) * '' A Man to Kill'' (1937) * '' Princess Tarakanova'' (1938) * '' Fort Dolores'' (1939) * '' Case of Conscience'' (1939) * '' My Crimes After Mein Kampf'' (1940) * ''

The Master Valet ''The Master Valet'' (French: ''Le valet maître'') is a 1941 French comedy film directed by Paul Mesnier and starring Elvire Popesco, Henri Garat and Marguerite Deval.Siclier p.178 It was based on the 1938 play of the same title by Paul Armo ...

'' (1941) * '' Strange Inheritance'' (1943) * '' The White Truck'' (1943) * '' Boule de suif'' (1945) * '' The Faceless Enemy'' (1946) *'' Rumours'' (1947) * '' The Case of Doctor Laurent'' (1957) * ''

La Poupée LA most frequently refers to Los Angeles, the second most populous city in the United States of America. La, LA, or L.A. may also refer to: Arts and entertainment Music * La (musical note), or A, the sixth note *"L.A.", a song by Elliott Smi ...

'' (1962)

References

External links

* 1882 births 1984 deaths French male film actors French male silent film actors French men centenarians Actors from Bourges 20th-century French male actors {{france-film-actor-1880s-stub