Roger Blin
Born in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France — Mar 22 1907• Died Jan 20 1984
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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 Artau…
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Roger Blin's Credits
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The Adolescent
Romain
Orpheus
The Poet
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
Mathias Hungadi
Paris Blues
Fausto the Moor (uncredited)
Le Corbeau
François
The King and the Mockingbird
L’aveugle (voice)
The Devil's Envoys
The Monster Showman
Douce
Man of the theater (uncredited)
Aloïse
Le professeur de chant
That Most Important Thing: Love
Servais' Father
Alibi
Kretz, Winckler's henchman
Volpone
Un vénitien
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
Self (archive footage)
Adieu Léonard
Bohemian leader
The Bohemian Life
Man of the puppet
The Curtain Rises
Dominique, le gardien du château de la famille de Cécilia
The Last Judgment
Beating Heart
(credit only)
Jenny
le malade solitaire
Little Claus and Big Claus
Le grand Claus
The Curious Adventures of Mr. Wonderbird
Blind Man (Voice)
Louise
(uncredited)
The Ideal Couple
The sleepwalker
One Must Live Dangerously
Murdoc
Les Trois Sœurs
Verchinine
Captain Fracasse
Fagotin
Stars at Noon
Self
The Trump Card
Aspirant
Five and the Skin
Récitant (voice)
The Hospital of Leningrad
Nestor
Under Western Eyes
Unnamed Character
The Shadow Line
Burns
Adventures of Captain Fabian
The Citadel of Silence
Officer (uncredited)
Unusual Tales
Guillaume
The Sunday of Life
Jean Sans-Tête
The World Will Shake
Le Condamné
A Taste for Women
Larsen
Too Small My Friend
Boris
Le Colisée
The Crowd
Adrienne Lecouvreur
The Life and Loves of Beethoven
De Ries
Life Is Ours
Un métallo
Checkerboard
Slim, le guide
Marie Soleil
Karl / Boss
Piédalu fait des miracles
First in Line
Paul Moury
The Amazing Mr. Callaghan
Wladimir
L'illusion comique
Alcandre
Torticola versus Frankensberg
Doctor Frankenstein
Vagabonds imaginaires
Narrator (segment 'Les amours jaunes') (voice)
The Old Country Where Rimbaud Died
Jeanne's father
The Knight of the Night
le valet
Quatrevingt-treize
Tellmarc’h
Pasha's Wives
Mair
Street Without a Name
The Convict
Convict
Wicked City
Emilio
The Devil's Tricks
Monsieur de Beaurepaire
La Plaie et le Couteau, Charles Baudelaire
L'âge d'or
Qui donc a rêvé?
Vendredi ou la vie sauvage
Passionnelle
Julien
Law of Survival
Pao
The Time of the Cherries
Dupuis son
The Star Ship
Curtway
Colonel Chabert
Cleric
Nevermore, Forever
Daniel
Calligraphie Japonaise
Narrator
The Invitation to the Waltz
Guillaume l'égorgeur
Egypt, oh Egypt: Images of Heaven
Narrator (voice)