Pierre Fresnay was a French stage and film actor.
12 Facts About Pierre Fresnay
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Pierre Fresnay joined the company at what later was the Theatre de Paris, only to shortly after at the Conservatoire, becoming a pensionnaire of the Comedie-Francaise in early 1915, returning to it after three years military service in 1919.
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Pierre Fresnay produced a play in which Fresnay delivered his lines in French.
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Pierre Fresnay took the title role of Marcel Pagnol's Marius, which ran for over 500 performances, taking this role in the 1931 film adaptation of the play.
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Pierre Fresnay reprised the character in the next two parts of Marcel Pagnol's Marseilles Trilogy, Fanny and Cesar.
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Pierre Fresnay took over the lead role in Noel Coward's Conversation Piece when the author moved on in April 1934.
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Pierre Fresnay won excellent reviews, and his stage partnership with Printemps was greatly admired.
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Pierre Fresnay's portrayal was described in Sight and Sound as "one of the most perfect pieces of work to be seen for many years in any clime".
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Pierre Fresnay portrayed Nobel Peace Prize laureate Albert Schweitzer in Il est minuit, Docteur Schweitzer.
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Printemps and Pierre Fresnay starred in Oscar Straus's Drei Waltzer, given in French as Trois valses on the Parisian stage and on film.
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Pierre Fresnay continued to perform regularly in film and on stage through to the 1960s.
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Pierre Fresnay died of respiratory problems, aged 77, on 9 January 1975, at Neuilly-sur-Seine and he is interred alongside Printemps in the local cemetery.