Roger Blin
Acting • Born 1907-03-22 – Died 1984-01-20
Biography
Roger Blin (Neuilly-sur-Seine, France, 22 March 1907 – Évecquemont, France, 21 January 1984) was a French actor and director. He staged world premieres of Samuel Beckett's Waiting for Godot in 1953 and Endgame in 1957. Blin was the son of a doctor; however, despite his father's wishes, Blin forged a career in the theatre. As a teenager he was 'fascinated' by the Surrealists and their conception of revolutionary art. He was initially part of the left-wing theatre collectives The Company of Five and The October Group. In 1935 Blin served as Antonin Artaud's assistant director for his production of Les Cenci [The Cenci] at the Folies-Wagrams theatre in 1935. Following his work with Artaud, Blin focused on 'political street-theatre.' During the war, Blin was a liaison between the Resistance and the French Army. His extensive career as both director and actor in both film and theatre has been largely defined by his work and relationship with Artaud, Samuel Beckett and Jean Genet. In addition to being a close friend and confidant of Artaud during the latter's nine years of internment, he directed the first performances of Beckett's Waiting For Godot, Happy Days and Endgame as well as directing the initial performance of Genet's The Blacks and the controversial The Screens. Genet's key correspondences to Blin have been published by Editions Gallimard. The 1986 Faber and Faber publication, "Samuel Beckett: The Complete Dramatic Works" carries only three dedications from Beckett: "Endgame" is dedicated to Blin, while "Come and Go" is for John Calder, and "Catastrophe" is for Václav Havel. Source: Article "Roger Blin" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Filmography
72 credits
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
Movie • 2020
Self (archive footage)
That Most Important Thing: Love
Movie • 1975
Servais' Father
Orpheus
Movie • 1950
The Poet
A Taste for Women
Movie • 1964
Larsen
Le Corbeau
Movie • 1943
François
Unusual Tales
Movie • 1949
Guillaume
The Devil's Envoys
Movie • 1942
The Monster Showman
Street Without a Name
Movie • 1934
Alibi
Movie • 1937
Kretz, Winckler's henchman
The Time of the Cherries
Movie • 1938
Dupuis son
Adrienne Lecouvreur
Movie • 1938
The Curtain Rises
Movie • 1938
Dominique, le gardien du château de la famille de Cécilia
The World Will Shake
Movie • 1939
Le Condamné
The Trump Card
Movie • 1942
Aspirant
Captain Fracasse
Movie • 1943
Fagotin
Adieu Léonard
Movie • 1943
Bohemian leader
L'âge d'or
Movie • 1942
Checkerboard
Movie • 1959
Slim, le guide
Douce
Movie • 1943
Man of the theater (uncredited)
First in Line
Movie • 1944
Paul Moury
The Bohemian Life
Movie • 1945
Man of the puppet
The Ideal Couple
Movie • 1946
The sleepwalker
The Last Judgment
Movie • 1945
Jenny
Movie • 1936
le malade solitaire
Vagabonds imaginaires
Movie • 1950
Narrator (segment 'Les amours jaunes') (voice)
The Convict
Movie • 1951
Convict
Adventures of Captain Fabian
Movie • 1951
Torticola versus Frankensberg
Movie • 1952
Doctor Frankenstein
Piédalu fait des miracles
Movie • 1952
Too Small My Friend
Movie • 1971
Boris
L'illusion comique
Movie • 1970
Alcandre
Law of Survival
Movie • 1967
Pao
Vendredi ou la vie sauvage
Movie • 1983
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Movie • 1956
Mathias Hungadi
Nevermore, Forever
Movie • 1976
Daniel
Egypt, oh Egypt: Images of Heaven
Movie • 1963
Narrator (voice)
The Star Ship
Movie • 1962
Curtway
Calligraphie Japonaise
Movie • 1958
Narrator
The Knight of the Night
Movie • 1953
le valet
Quatrevingt-treize
Movie • 1962
Tellmarc’h
One Must Live Dangerously
Movie • 1975
Murdoc
The Life and Loves of Beethoven
Movie • 1937
De Ries
The King and the Mockingbird
Movie • 1980
L’aveugle (voice)
Marie Soleil
Movie • 1964
Karl / Boss
Colonel Chabert
Movie • 1943
Cleric
The Invitation to the Waltz
Movie • 1954
Guillaume l'égorgeur
Les Trois Sœurs
Movie • 1960
Verchinine
The Adolescent
Movie • 1979
Romain
The Shadow Line
Movie • 1973
Burns
Beating Heart
Movie • 1940
(credit only)
Stars at Noon
Movie • 1959
Self
Volpone
Movie • 1941
Un vénitien
The Old Country Where Rimbaud Died
Movie • 1977
Jeanne's father
The Sunday of Life
Movie • 1967
Jean Sans-Tête
Five and the Skin
Movie • 1982
Récitant (voice)
The Amazing Mr. Callaghan
Movie • 1955
Wladimir
Pasha's Wives
Movie • 1939
Mair
Little Claus and Big Claus
Movie • 1964
Le grand Claus
Wicked City
Movie • 1949
Emilio
Life Is Ours
Movie • 1936
Un métallo
Passionnelle
Movie • 1947
Julien
Louise
Movie • 1939
(uncredited)
The Devil's Tricks
Movie • 1966
Monsieur de Beaurepaire
The Hospital of Leningrad
Movie • 1983
Nestor
Paris Blues
Movie • 1961
Fausto the Moor (uncredited)
Qui donc a rêvé?
Movie • 1965
The Curious Adventures of Mr. Wonderbird
Movie • 1953
Blind Man (Voice)
Le Colisée
Movie • 1933
The Crowd
Aloïse
Movie • 1975
Le professeur de chant
The Citadel of Silence
Movie • 1937
Officer (uncredited)
Under Western Eyes
Movie • 1936
Unnamed Character
La Plaie et le Couteau, Charles Baudelaire
Movie • 1967