Jean Dasté
Dasté (left) in 1974
Born
Jean Georges Gustave Dasté

(1904-09-18)18 September 1904
Paris, France
Died15 October 1994(1994-10-15) (aged 90)

Jean Dasté, born Jean Georges Gustave Dasté, (18 September 1904 – 15 October 1994)[1] was a French actor and theatre director.

Although Jean Dasté is best known for his career on stage as both an actor and director in a variety of works including those by Shakespeare and Molière, he made his first appearance on screen in a 1932 Jean Renoir film (Boudu sauvé des eaux), and 57 years later appeared in his final film at the age of 85. He played also the main character in two Jean Vigo movies, L'Atalante and Zéro de conduite. Later, he worked also with Alain Resnais and François Truffaut.

He married Danish-born actress Marie-Hélène Copeau (1902–1994), the daughter of the influential French writer, editor, and drama critic Jacques Copeau (1879–1949) and Agnès Thomsen.

In 1947, he became the founding director of the Comedie de St.-Etienne stage company in the town of Saint-Étienne in the Loire département. The success of his theatre was such that there is a college and a theatre in Saint-Étienne named in his honour.

Filmography as actor

References

  1. Les gens du cinéma for birth and death certificates

Adapted from the article Jean Dasté, from Wikinfo, licensed under the GNU Free Documentation License.

Additional resources

  • Dasté, Jean. Voyage d'un comédien. Paris: Stock, 1977. ISBN 9782234006737
  • Mignon, Paul-Louis. Jean Dasté. Paris: Les Presses Littéraires de France, 1953.
  • Rousset, Hughues, editor. Jean Dasté: un homme de théâtre dans le siècle. L'Etrat: Actes graphiques, 2015. ISBN 9782368830147
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