Roger Blin

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.

Known For: Acting

Born: Neuilly-sur-Seine, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France, 1907-03-22

Died: 1984-01-20

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1933	Le Colisée	The Crowd	70
2	1934	Street Without a Name		0
3	1936	Life Is Ours	Un métallo	63
4	1936	Jenny	le malade solitaire	59
5	1937	The Life and Loves of Beethoven	De Ries	69
6	1937	The Citadel of Silence	Un officier (non crédité)	0
7	1937	Alibi		65
8	1938	The Time of the Cherries	Dupuis son	0
9	1938	The Curtain Rises	Dominique, le gardien du château de la famille de Cécilia	79
10	1938	Adrienne Lecouvreur		50
11	1939	Pasha's Wives	Mair	69
12	1939	Louise	(uncredited)	53
13	1939	The World Will Shake	Le Condamné	67
14	1940	Beating Heart		62
15	1941	Volpone	Un vénitien	67
16	1942	L'âge d'or		0
17	1942	The Trump Card	Aspirant	40
18	1942	The Devil's Envoys	The Monster Showman	69
19	1943	Captain Fracasse	Fagotin	63
20	1943	Adieu Léonard	Bohemian leader	52
21	1943	Le Corbeau	François	76
22	1943	Douce	Man of the theater (uncredited)	72
23	1943	Colonel Chabert	Cleric	69
24	1944	First in Line	Paul Moury	72
25	1945	The Bohemian Life	Man of the puppet	70
26	1945	The Last Judgment		0
27	1946	The Ideal Couple	The sleepwalker	50
28	1947	Passionnelle	Julien	65
29	1949	Strange Tales	Guillaume	70
30	1949	Wicked City	Emilio	56
31	1950	Vagabonds imaginaires	Narrator (segment 'Les amours jaunes') (voice)	0
32	1950	Orpheus	The Poet	76
33	1951	The Convict	Convict	53
34	1951	Adventures of Captain Fabian		52
35	1952	Torticola versus Frankensberg	Doctor Frankenstein	40
36	1952	Piédalu fait des miracles		0
37	1953	The Curious Adventures of Mr. Wonderbird	Blind Man (Voice)	71
38	1953	The Knight of the Night	le valet	56
39	1954	The Invitation to the Waltz	Guillaume l'égorgeur	0
40	1955	The Amazing Mr. Callaghan	Wladimir	42
41	1956	The Hunchback of Notre Dame	Mathias Hungadi	67
42	1958	Calligraphie Japonaise	Narrator	0
43	1959	Stars at Noon	Self	66
44	1959	Checkerboard	Slim, le guide	60
45	1960	Les Trois Sœurs	Verchinine	0
46	1961	Paris Blues	Fausto the Moor (uncredited)	65
47	1962	The Star Ship	Curtway	50
48	1962	Quatrevingt-treize	Tellmarc’h	0
49	1963	Egypt, oh Egypt: Images of Heaven	Narrator (voice)	0
50	1964	A Taste for Women	Larsen	34
51	1964	Marie Soleil	Karl / Boss	0
52	1964	Little Claus and Big Claus	Le grand Claus	68
53	1965	Qui donc a rêvé ?		0
54	1966	The Devil's Tricks	Monsieur de Beaurepaire	55
55	1967	The Sunday of Life	Jean Sans-Tête	53
56	1967	Law of Survival	Pao	54
57	1970	L'illusion comique	Alcandre	0
58	1970	The Companions of Baal	Dominique Marchesini	70
59	1971	Too Small My Friend	Boris	60
60	1973	The Shadow Line	Burns	60
61	1975	That Most Important Thing: Love	Servais' Father	70
62	1975	Aloïse	Le professeur de chant	56
63	1975	One Must Live Dangerously	Murdoc	45
64	1976	Jamais plus toujours	Daniel	65
65	1977	The Old Country Where Rimbaud Died	Jeanne's father	52
66	1979	The Adolescent	Romain	44
67	1980	The King and the Mockingbird	L’aveugle (voice)	78
68	1982	Five and the Skin	Récitant (voice)	64
69	1983	Vendredi ou la vie sauvage		0
70	1983	The Hospital of Leningrad	Nestor	0
71	2020	Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff	Self (archive footage)	60

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