1. Marcel Dalio had major roles in two films directed by Jean Renoir, La Grande Illusion and The Rules of the Game.
22 Facts About Marcel Dalio
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Marcel Dalio trained at the Paris Conservatoire and performed in revues from 1920.
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Marcel Dalio followed them with two films for Jean Renoir, La Grande Illusion and The Rules of the Game.
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All other members of Marcel Dalio's family died in Nazi concentration camps.
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In Hollywood, although Marcel Dalio was never quite able to regain the profile he had in France, he appeared in 19 American films during the Second World War, in stereotypical roles as a Frenchman.
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Marcel Dalio remained busy, appearing in Flight Lieutenant starring Pat O'Brien and Glenn Ford.
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Marcel Dalio next portrayed a Frenchman, Focquet, in the film The Pied Piper.
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Marcel Dalio then appeared among the star-studded cast in Tales of Manhattan.
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Marcel Dalio was cast in some larger roles, for example in the war dramas Tonight We Raid Calais and Paris After Dark, in the latter his ex-wife Lebeau appeared.
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Marcel Dalio played a French policeman in The Song of Bernadette.
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Marcel Dalio appeared in ten more movies in France and one in England through the late 1940s.
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In Sabrina, the bearded Marcel Dalio played one of Hepburn's fellow cooking students in Paris.
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Marcel Dalio portrayed the Claude Rains character, Captain Renault, in the short-lived television series Casablanca.
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Marcel Dalio had the role of a French sergeant in the war drama Jump into Hell about the French defeat at the Battle of Dien Bien Phu in Vietnam.
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Marcel Dalio appeared in the musical comedy Ten Thousand Bedrooms starring Dean Martin, with Paul Henreid in the supporting cast.
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Marcel Dalio appeared as a French priest in a war movie, again about the French involvement in Vietnam, called China Gate which features the acting of Nat King Cole.
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Finally that year, Marcel Dalio played Zizi in The Sun Also Rises his third movie based on an Ernest Hemingway novel, this time starring Tyrone Power and Ava Gardner.
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Marcel Dalio continued making movies for Hollywood, but he appeared in many French productions.
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Marcel Dalio appeared in numerous television shows both in the United States and in France.
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Marcel Dalio married Hollywood based French journalist Madeleine [Alena] Prime in Los Angeles, in 1981.
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Marcel Dalio, who appeared in almost 150 movies, died in Paris on 18 November 1983, just 5 days shy of his 84th birthday.
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Marcel Dalio is buried in Cimetiere parisien de Montrouge in Hauts de Seine, France.