Saturnin Fabre
Acting • Born 1884-04-04 – Died 1961-10-24
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.
Filmography
77 credits
Pépé le Moko
Movie • 1937
The Great Father
Gates of the Night
Movie • 1946
Monsieu Sénéchal
Miquette
Movie • 1950
Le marquis
Nine Bachelors
Movie • 1939
Count Adhémar Colombinet de La Jonchère
Fantastic Night
Movie • 1942
Professor Thalès
The Improvised Son
Movie • 1932
Mr. Brassart
Hearts Are Trumps
Movie • 1931
Lefol
The Darling of Paris
Movie • 1931
The Premature Father
Movie • 1933
Puma father
Son autre amour
Movie • 1934
Monsieur Léopard, director
We Found a Naked Woman
Movie • 1934
L'enfant du carnaval
Movie • 1934
Casanova
Movie • 1934
Les Deux Canards
Movie • 1934
Train de plaisir
Movie • 1936
Mr. Bring
A Hen on a Wall
Movie • 1936
Monsieur Amédée
Colonial Canteen
Movie • 1937
Toi, c'est moi
Movie • 1936
The Smart People of the 11th
Movie • 1937
Inspector General Burnous
Le Chanteur de minuit
Movie • 1937
The Woman Thief
Movie • 1938
Academician
Golden Venus
Movie • 1938
Duke of Sartène
Tricoche and Cacolet
Movie • 1938
Monsieur Van der Pouf
Monsieur Brotonneau
Movie • 1939
Cavalcade of Love
Movie • 1939
Monsieur Dupont-Dufort
White Wings
Movie • 1943
Siméon
Le Soleil de minuit
Movie • 1943
Ireniev
The Most Wanted Man
Movie • 1953
W.W. Stone
Jeannou
Movie • 1943
Frochard
Ignace
Movie • 1937
Le baron Gédéon des Orfrais
The White Blackbird
Movie • 1944
Jules Leroy
Christine se marie
Movie • 1946
Sébastien Aurelle, the musician
Women's Games
Movie • 1946
Uncle Hubert
Désiré
Movie • 1937
Adrien
Si jeunesse savait...
Movie • 1948
Abdul
Ploum, ploum, tra-la-la
Movie • 1947
Basile Samara
Girl from Maxim's
Movie • 1950
Le général Petypon du Grêlé
La Veuve et l'innocent
Movie • 1949
Achille Panoyau, accused
The Marriage of Mademoiselle Beulemans
Movie • 1950
Mr. Delpierre
Les Petites Cardinal
Movie • 1951
Horace Cardinal
Coral Reefs
Movie • 1939
Hobson
Holiday for Henrietta
Movie • 1952
Antoine - a consumer
The Free Trade Hotel
Movie • 1934
M. Mathieu
Brasil
Movie • 1950
Self
Marie-Martine
Movie • 1943
Uncle Parpain
It's the Paris Life
Movie • 1954
Comte Gontran de Barfleur
A Friend Will Come Tonight
Movie • 1946
Philippe Prunier
The Bureaucrats
Movie • 1936
'Le tondu'
She Played and Paid
Movie • 1920
comte de Bréchebel
Virgile
Movie • 1953
Le président
The Suitors Club
Movie • 1941
Cabarus
Carnival
Movie • 1953
Dr. Caberlot
Beating Heart
Movie • 1940
Aristide
Gargousse
Movie • 1938
Lebrennois, le maire
Scandals of Clochemerle
Movie • 1948
Alexandre Bourdillat
We Found a Naked Woman
Movie • 1934
Le marquis
The Tamer
Movie • 1938
Maître Anatole Dupont
Dr. Laennec
Movie • 1949
Laennec Père
Confessions of a Newlywed
Movie • 1937
Professeur Puget
Le Roman d'un jeune homme pauvre
Movie • 1935
Bévallan
Service Entrance
Movie • 1954
Mr Delécluze, père et bourreau officiel
Lunegarde
Movie • 1946
Monsieur de Vertumne
Generals Without Buttons
Movie • 1936
Schoolteacher Simon
The French Way
Movie • 1940
Monsieur Dalban
The J3
Movie • 1946
The high school principal
We Request a Household
Movie • 1946
Horace Rouvière
Ne bougez plus !
Movie • 1941
Andromaque de Miremir
Seven Men, One Woman
Movie • 1936
Deputy Derain
The Road Is Fine
Movie • 1929
Le professeur Pique
Pasha's Wives
Movie • 1939
Djemal Pacha
Mam'zelle Spahi
Movie • 1934
Le Colonel du 32ème Spahis
Love Songs
Movie • 1930
Monsieur Crespin
Rome Express
Movie • 1950
Pofessor
Opéra-musette
Movie • 1942
Monsieur Honoré
Beautiful Star
Movie • 1938
Lemarchal
Mademoiselle Swing
Movie • 1942
Grégoire Dimitresco
The Mayor's Dilemma
Movie • 1939
le père Rossignol