Saturnin Fabre
Date of birth: 1884-04-04
Place of birth: Sens, Yonne, France
Known for: Acting
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Biography
Saturnin Fabre, born April 4, 1884 in Sens (Yonne) and died October 24, 1961 in Montgeron (Essonne), is a French actor. His paternal family was from the south of France (Var and Bouches-du-Rhône). He lived in Deuil-la-Barre. He won a first prize at the Conservatoire and played dramas, boulevard comedies and operettas as well, setting himself up as the "thundering", out of phase phrasing, of French cinema. He approaches the silent cinema since 1911 with Albert Capellani to whom we owe since 1909 the first French feature film: L'Assommoir. In 1929, he switched to talking with The Road is Beautiful Robert Florey. Known for his strong personality, he is one of the most singular supporting roles of pre-war and post-war French cinema, in the tradition of Jean Tissier and Julien Carette. He occupies the screen with such a presence that he often forget the many turnips in which he participates. He is particularly remembered for his tremendous choppy voice and perfect diction. In the film Marie-Martine Albert Valentin, he addresses to Bernard Blier, who plays his nephew, his most famous replica: "Hold your candle right! ". It is said that at the third resumption of the repartee, it is the public who answered. He has played in almost 79 talking films, mostly comedies, under the direction of 57 different directors (mostly prestigious). In 1948, he signs, from the anagram Ninrutas Erbaf, perfectly wacky memories, under the title Scottish Shower. He was also a very good clarinetist, and the author of several songs and sketches he performed on stage early in his career. For the actress Danièle Delorme, "Saturnin Fabre was a hallucinated comedian". Still according to her, "It was a baroque actor, certainly, there was a grain of madness in him. But he was furiously intelligent, with great lucidity ... He embodied excess. " Saturnin Fabre died in 1961 in his property in Montgeron, overwhelmed by pulmonary edema. He is buried in the Carrières-sous-Poissy cemetery in the Yvelines. He never consoled himself for the death of his wife, Suzanne Marie Benoist, in 1957 with whom he was married on November 26, 1925 in Paris XVIII. The Cannes Film Festival paid him a late tribute, and posthumously, in 1962. From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Description above from the Wikipedia article Saturnin Fabre, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Pépé le Moko
1937-01-28
Pépé le Moko, one of France's most wanted criminals, hides out in the Casbah section of Algiers. He
Gates of the Night
1946-12-03
In post-Liberation Paris, a man reunites with a friend and meets the woman of his dreams, only to di
Miquette
1950-04-14
A provincial ingenue leaves her mother’s tobacco shop with dreams of a life in the Parisian theater,
Nine Bachelors
1939-09-29
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Fantastic Night
1942-07-10
Denis, a poor student in philosophy, works as a night porter in the Paris market of Les Halles in or
The Improvised Son
1932-11-22
A woman who is the mistress of a well off antiquarian receives a visit from a younger man. Is her lo
Hearts Are Trumps
1931-10-06
Poor Arlette is married off by her well meaning mother to a supposed count who turns out to be a fak
The Darling of Paris
1931-10-09
In order not to compromise the great music hall star with whom he spent the night, a man is accused
The Premature Father
1933-09-29
Edouard Puma, seduced by a seamstress at the age of 18, had a son whom he raised in secret, never ha
Son autre amour
1934-02-23
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Casanova
1934-04-13
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Les Deux Canards
1934-04-19
Under two different names, a journalist writes for two newspapers with opposing political doctrines
L'enfant du carnaval
1934-04-26
A desperate mother abandons her child on the door step of a playboy.
We Found a Naked Woman
1934-05-18
A young aristocrat whose ruined father decided to marry her spends one last night as a bachelor at t
Train de plaisir
1936-03-14
Marguerite and Verdurin, both employed in l'Atout Prix, a store run by Prosper Biscoton, would like
A Hen on a Wall
1936-05-22
A little peasant girl claims to have been raped. The detective who arrives in the village discovers
Colonial Canteen
1937-07-09
Our hero is the canteen man of the regiment ;with his bossy missus,as infuriating as his military su
Toi, c'est moi
1936-01-01
Bobby Guibert and Pat Duvallon are the best of friends. They are also big party animals. Honorine, B
The Smart People of the 11th
1937-03-12
A colonel decided to be represented at the regiment festival of a tragedy in verse by the poem writt
Le Chanteur de minuit
1937-12-16
Jean Bonnefoy, who has a talent for singing, is unemployed. So he is very happy the day he is offere
The Woman Thief
1938-03-30
The woman thief evades a young lady who is onto his game, but then tries his wiles elsewhere on a ma
Golden Venus
1938-05-13
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Tricoche and Cacolet
1938-09-06
Two friends, Tricoche and Cacolet, are partners in a detective agency. Chance has it that Cacolet is
Monsieur Brotonneau
1939-08-04
A man leaves his adulterous wife for his secretary, but then the wife apologizes and wants her husba
Cavalcade of Love
1939-11-06
Cavalcade D'Amour is divided into three sections, each depicting a romance occurring within the wall
White Wings
1943-03-10
A great disappointed love once encouraged the vocation of Sister Claire, who, however, forgot nothin
Le Soleil de minuit
1943-06-30
Going to take up his post in Moukden, the forest engineer finds in a trainer from the cabaret "the m
The Most Wanted Man
1953-12-02
A nearsighted clerk gets fired after embarrassing mishaps. He mistakenly takes a gangster's raincoat
Jeannou
1943-11-10
Jeannou lives in a castle in Périgord with his father, the last man of aristocratic lineage landowne
Ignace
1937-04-30
Ignace Boitaclou, although sympathetic, is not very intelligent. Upon his arrival at the barracks to
The White Blackbird
1944-12-06
Jules Leroy, an industrial shoe polish manufacturer, on his deathbed reveals to his son Achille that
Christine se marie
1946-06-30
In order to engage in life experiences, Christine takes the civil status of her three sisters to mar
Women's Games
1946-05-13
The agency À Votre Service has the reputation of meeting all needs. This is what Stanislas observes
Désiré
1937-12-03
Sacha Guitry exchanges his usual top hat for a uniform in Désiré, playing a cavalier valet embroiled
Si jeunesse savait...
1948-04-30
Charles Vigne, a wealthy banker, frees Abdul, a good genius imprisoned in a vase. To thank him, Abdu
Ploum, ploum, tra-la-la
1947-08-22
A shy but resourceful seller of corks helps a young man get married by passing himself off as a weal
Girl from Maxim's
1950-09-15
After a crazy night spent at Maxim's, Doctor Montgicourt returns home with the Môme Shrimp. General
La Veuve et l'innocent
1949-08-24
Nicole, a spirited lawyer, must defend, for her debut in the courtroom, the accused Panoyau. It is a
The Marriage of Mademoiselle Beulemans
1950-02-02
Suzanne Beulemans's fiancé, Séraphin Meulenmeester, once tells her that he has... a mistress and a..
Les Petites Cardinal
1951-06-22
Napoleon III, the Commune, the third Republic in the background. In the foreground, two pretty, tale
Coral Reefs
1939-03-01
The adventures of a sailor from Mexico to a lagoon in the Pacific ocean, and the meeting with a lone
Holiday for Henrietta
1952-12-17
Two scriptwriters argue about the fate of Henrietta, a charming and gamine shopgirl. One favors a co
The Free Trade Hotel
1934-11-10
There's never a dull moment at the Hôtel du Libre Echange. Deceptions, hitches and other misundersta
Brasil
1950-12-31
Abandoned documentary on the country Brazil which director Clouzot wanted to make while on honeymoon
Marie-Martine
1943-05-11
The novelist Loïc Limousin knew the turbulent past of Marie-Martine and he extracted the material fo
It's the Paris Life
1954-05-28
In 1906, Viscount Paul de Barfleur fell in love with Cri-Cri delagrange, a singer at the cabaret "La
A Friend Will Come Tonight
1946-04-09
Commander Gerard and his band of guerrillas have found the ideal hideout: a nursing home in the Alps
The Bureaucrats
1936-12-15
A comedy about the petty bureaucrats who need special leather props under their posteriors because o
She Played and Paid
1920-04-16
Virgile
1953-11-18
Sweet Virgil believes himself to be a victim of the same bad luck that has pursued parents, grandpar
The Suitors Club
1941-09-26
As playboys cannot pay their debts anymore,their creditors suggest one of them marry a millionaire's
Carnival
1953-05-25
Dardamelle does not conceal the fact that his wife has made him a cuckold.How will his fellow townsp
Beating Heart
1940-02-01
Tells the story of a young woman escaping from reform school who tries to steal a foreign ambassador
Gargousse
1938-07-27
The peace of Trépigny is shattered when the new mayor Lebrennois sets out to modernise the little vi
Scandals of Clochemerle
1948-06-09
A little town erupts in turmoil about the construction of a public urinal. The army is sent in to re
We Found a Naked Woman
1934-05-18
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The Tamer
1938-12-14
A very shy person inherits a traveling circus on the express condition that he manages to present a
Dr. Laennec
1949-06-17
Breton doctor René Laennec fights tooth and nail against consumption, all the more desperately as hi
Confessions of a Newlywed
1937-02-26
A timid young man marries the daughter of the entomologist he works for. On the train for their hone
Le Roman d'un jeune homme pauvre
1935-02-21
Maxime de Champcey, a bankrupt marquis, is hired by the wealthy Laroque and falls for his daughter M
Service Entrance
1954-08-16
Walking alone and looking desperate, young Marie-Lou is taken in hand by Léo, a street photographer
Lunegarde
1946-01-16
A drifting woman hangs out in the suburbs of Marseille. A young engineer picks her up drunk and take
Generals Without Buttons
1936-10-27
Separated by an ancestral hatred, two small villages of the South see their infant population engagi
The French Way
1940-06-27
Cabaret star Zazu intervenes when young lovers are sundered by their parents' feud.
The J3
1946-04-17
During the Second World War, in occupied Paris, a group of high school students is more active at se
We Request a Household
1946-10-16
Pierre and Jacques, one of them being disguised as a woman, work for a wacky scientist to find a tre
Ne bougez plus !
1941-10-30
Are these two tramps who come to pose for an advertising agency at Patrice Farfadou, the fashionable
Seven Men, One Woman
1936-08-28
At the urging of her childhood friend Brémontier, Lucie de Kéradec, a wealthy widowed countess who w
The Road Is Fine
1929-12-20
Pasha's Wives
1939-02-18
Mireille, a Frenchwoman, marries a westernized Turkish diplomat and, thinking that she will live a d
Mam'zelle Spahi
1934-11-09
Two mistresses snubbed by their respective lovers crash a military ball and their lovers then resort
Love Songs
1930-11-21
To protect the honor of a married lady, a grammar professor pretends to be a singing teacher and fal
Rome Express
1950-01-18
A valuable painting has been stolen from an art gallery in Paris.. On a train travelling between Par
Opéra-musette
1942-02-18
The itinerant musician Lampluche, having found a musical score on the banks of a river and a full wa
Beautiful Star
1938-08-05
Meg decides to commit suicide to escape the marriage to which her father intends her. She is saved b
Mademoiselle Swing
1942-06-12
Stuck in Angoulême between her uncle, who composes classical music, and her aunt, who is a fan of co
The Mayor's Dilemma
1939-03-23
At the beginning of World War I in a village in the country of La Marne, two families are against th