Claude Pierre Edmond Giraud (French pronunciation: [klod pjɛʁ ɛdmɔ̃ ʒiʁo]; 5 February 1936 in Chamalières – 3 November 2020 in Saint-Priest-des-Champs) was a French actor.
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Career
editClaude Giraud studied with Tania Balachova at the Théâtre du Vieux-Colombier; Berthe Bovy and Jean Meyer at the École de la rue Blanche (École nationale supérieure des arts et techniques du théâtre, ENSATT). In November 1957 he was accepted as a student[1] at CNSAD Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique, where he studied with Jean Debucourt and Fernand Ledoux. Upon his graduation he was the first male student to win all three categories during the Concourse (Classical Comedy, Modern Comedy, Tragedy).[2][3] In 1962 he was the first recipient of the newly created Prix Gérard Philipe. He was engaged at the Comédie Française in 1962 as a pensionnaire.[4] Besides his debut role as Valère in Molière's The Miser, he played Arsace in Corneille's Bérénice, and the narrator in the stage adaptation of André Gide's short story Le retour de l'enfant prodigue (The Return of the Prodigal Son). Disappointed that he was only cast in small roles, he left the Comédie Française after a few months to start his film career. He played the leading role as Capitaine Langlois in François Leterrier's movie adaptation of Jean Giono's novel A King Without Distraction in 1962.[5] He was Oedipus in the film adaptation of Jean Cocteau's The Infernal Machine. He joined the Compagnie Marie Bell to play a US tour in New York City, Boston, Washington D.C., and Princeton in October–November 1963.[6] For his presentation of Hippolite in Phèdre and Titus in Bérénice at The Brooks Atkinson Theatre on Broadway,[7] he was awarded the Theater World Award.[8][9] He played the role of the soldier Georges in Roger Vadim's Circle of Love,[10] a film adaptation of Arthur Schnitzler's scandalous play La Ronde (play). Between 1964 and 1966, Claude Giraud played the part of Philippe de Plessis-Bellières beside Michèle Mercier in three Angélique films: Angélique, Marquise des Anges, Marvelous Angelique, and Angelique and the King. He returned to the Comédie Française in 1972 and became the 460th sociétaire in 1976.[11] He left again in 1982 to join Jean-Laurent Cochet's newly created Théâtre Hébertot.
Giraud gained fame in TV series as hero Morgan/Jacques de Saint-Hermine in the adventure series Les Compagnons de Jéhu by Michel Drach[12][13] adapted from the eponymous novel by Alexandre Dumas. Bernard Toublanc-Michel engaged him in 1967 for the role of d'Aulnay in Adolphe ou l'âge tendre. The TV series Les rois maudits, where he played the role of Sir Roger Mortimer, was another huge success. In 1973, he played the fictional Arab revolutionary leader Mohamed Larbi Slimane, who poses as Rabbi Zeiligman in The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob with Louis de Funès. In the TV movie Mamie Rose (1976) he played Claude Jade's husband Régis, whose marriage is saved by an au-pair granny played by Gisèle Casadesus.
Other TV series include Mathias Sandorf (1979), in which he played corrupt banker Silas Toronthal, based on Jules Verne's eponymous novel.
Personal life and death
editGiraud married Catherine Marquand (1943-2012),[14] a fellow acting student at the Conservatoire, in 1963.[15][16] They had a son, Louis (*1963),[17] and a daughter, Marianne (*1966), who is also an actress and married to French actor and director Jean Martinez.
Since 1987, he lived in Vernadel near Saint-Priest-des-Champs in Auvergne, where he owned a Connemara stud farm, Haras du Boissis.[18]
Claude Giraud died age 84 on 3 November 2020 in Saint-Priest-des-Champs and was buried there on 7 November 2020.[19]
Theater
editFilmography
editTV films and series
edit- 1963: La Machine infernale by Jean Cocteau, directed by Claude Loursais: Œdipe[45]
- 1964: Le Commandant Watrin, adapted from the eponymous novel by Armand Lanoux, directed by Jacques Rutman: François Soubeyrac[46]
- 1965: Cinna by Pierre Corneille, directed by Jean Kerchbron: Cinna[47]
- 1966: Les Compagnons de Jéhu, adapted from the eponymous novel by Alexandre Dumas, directed by Michel Drach : Morgan (Jacques de Saint-Hermine)[48]
- 1967: Sébastien parmi les hommes (Belle, Sebastian and the Horses (TV Mini-series) by Cécile Aubry: Pierre Maréchal[49]
- 1971: Tartuffe by Molière, directed by Marcel Cravenne: Cléante[50]
- 1972: Les Rois maudits by Claude Barma : Lord Roger Mortimer (2 episodes, 1973: Le lis et le lion; La louve de France)[51]
- 1974: Madame Bovary by Pierre Cardinal : Rodolphe Boulanger[52]
- 1975: Mamie Rose (TV film) by Pierre Goutas : Régis[53]
- 1976: Milady after the eponymous novel by Paul Morand, directed by François Leterrier: Grumbach[54]
- 1977: Le Loup blanc after the eponymous novel by Paul Féval, directed by Jean-Pierre Decourt: Hervé de Vaunoy[55]
- 1977: Richelieu, le cardinal de velours by Jean-Pierre Decourt: La Valette (4 episodes)[56]
- 1979: Mathias Sandorf by Jean-Pierre Decourt: Silas Toronthal[57]
- 1979: La Trilogie de la villégiature by Carlo Goldoni, directed by Giorgio Strehler: Leonardo[58]
- 1981: Les Fiancées de l'Empire by Jacques Doniol-Valcroze: Maxime d'Aurillac[59]
- 1982: Venise en hiver by Jacques Doniol-Valcroze: André Merrest[60]
- 1983: L'Homme de la nuit by Juan Luis Buñuel: Franck[61]
- 1986: À nous les beaux dimanches by Robert Mazoyer: Charles-Edgar Moreau[62]
- 1988: Les Cinq Dernières Minutes, by Gilles Combet, 1 episode (Un modèle de genre): Paul[63]
- 1992: La Cavalière (TV film in 2 parts) by Philippe Monnier (part 2): William Gordon-Thomas[64]
- 1993: Des héros ordinaires by Yvan Butler (1 episode, Les Saigneurs): Plessis[65]
- 1994: Les Cordier, juge et flic (Une mort programmée): Ackmann[66]
- 2000: Julie Lescaut (Soupçon d'euthanasie): Danteille[67]
- 2000: Une femme d'honneur by Philippe Monnier: Michel Durieux[68]
- 2005: Le Fantôme du lac by Philippe Niang: Victor Lanzi[69]
Recordings (selected)
edit1965, La Compagnie Marie Bell, Phèdre (Racine)[70]
References
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- ^ Ina.fr, Institut National de l’Audiovisuel-. "Engagement de Claude Giraud et Paule Noëlle à la Comédie Française". Ina.fr.
- ^ "Un roi sans divertissement". bifi.fr (in French). Cinémathèque Française. Retrieved September 23, 2015.
- ^ "LE GALLIENE SETS 8-MONTH U.S. TOUR; She Will Star in and Direct Chekhov's 'The Seagull' Marie Bell to Broadway New Delay for Theater". timesmachine.nytimes.com.
- ^ Pic, Howard Taubmanphoto (October 21, 1963). "The Theater: Marie Bell as Phedre; Racine's Drama Done in the Grand Manner (Published 1963)". The New York Times.
- ^ a b "Theatre World Awards - Theatre World Awards". www.theatreworldawards.org.
- ^ "Phedre - 1963 Broadway - Backstage & Production Info". www.broadwayworld.com.
- ^ Archer, Eugene (March 25, 1965). "' Circle of Love,' Vadim's Remake of 'La Ronde,' at DeMille (Published 1965)". The New York Times.
- ^ "Claude Giraud". comedie-francaise.fr.
- ^ "Still photo from the production of the television series Les Compagnons de Jéhu". presse.studio-hamburg-enterprises.de.
- ^ "Still photo from the production of the television series Les Compagnons de Jéhu". presse.studio-hamburg-enterprises.de.
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- ^ "Marquand, Marquant, Lemarquant, Lemarquand, Marcan, Marcant et alii". www.marquant.fr.
- ^ "Avis de décès et d'obsèques de Catherine Giraud".
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- ^ "Haras du Boissis". www.facebook.com.
- ^ "Avis de décès et d'obsèques de Claude Giraud".
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- ^ "Performance Of The Theater Play 'Qui A Peur De Virginia Woolf'..." Getty Images.
- ^ "Raymond Gérôme, Pascale Audret, Madeleine Robinson et Claude Giraud..." Getty Images.
- ^ "Inside Playbill Gallery".
- ^ "Affiches de Théâtre - Phèdre de Jean RACINE - Théâtre du Gymnase 1962". www.regietheatrale.com. Archived from the original on 2022-10-04. Retrieved 2020-04-30.
- ^ "Phèdre – Broadway Play – 1963 Revival | IBDB". www.ibdb.com.
- ^ Le Gardien (PDF). Les Galas Karsenty-Herbert. 1970.
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- ^ "Un roi sans divertissement". August 30, 1963 – via IMDb.
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- ^ "La Machine infernale". madelen.ina.fr.
- ^ "Cinna". madelen.ina.fr.
- ^ "Angélique (1964) - IMDb" – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "La ronde (1964) - IMDb" – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Angelique: The Road to Versailles (1965) - IMDb" – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Angelique and the King (1966) - IMDb" – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "The Tender Age (1968) - IMDb" – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Phèdre (1968) - IMDb" – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Les aventures de Rabbi Jacob". October 18, 1973 – via IMDb.
- ^ "Les aventures de Rabbi Jacob - IMDb" – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "1975 :: 34th Moscow International Film Festival". January 16, 2013. Archived from the original on 2013-01-16.
- ^ "La folle journée ou Le mariage de Figaro (1989) - IMDb" – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Suivez cet avion (1989) - IMDb" – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "L'ange noir (1994) - IMDb" – via www.imdb.com.
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- ^ "Les compagnons de Jehu (TV Series 1966– ) - IMDb" – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Little Gems - Belle and Sebastien". www.thechestnut.com.
- ^ "Tartuffe (TV Movie 1971) - IMDb" – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Les rois maudits (TV Mini-Series 1972– ) - IMDb" – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Madame Bovary (TV Movie 1974) - IMDb" – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Mamie Rose (TV Movie 1976) - IMDb" – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Milady (TV Movie 1977) - IMDb" – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Le loup blanc (TV Movie 1977) - IMDb" – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Richelieu (TV Mini-Series 1977– ) - IMDb" – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Mathias Sandorf (TV Mini-Series 1979– ) - IMDb" – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Ina - Trilogie de la villégiature . DVD INA / Comédie-Française - Institut National de l'Audiovisuel". institut.ina.fr.
- ^ "Les fiancées de l'empire (TV Mini-Series 1981– ) - IMDb" – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Venise en hiver". October 20, 1982 – via IMDb.
- ^ "L'homme de la nuit". September 9, 1983 – via IMDb.
- ^ "À nous les beaux dimanches". February 7, 1986 – via IMDb.
- ^ "Les cinq dernières minutes (TV Series 1958–1996) - IMDb" – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "La cavalière (TV Mini-Series 1993– ) - IMDb" – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ ""Des héros ordinaires" Les saigneurs (TV Episode 1993) - IMDb" – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ ""Les Cordier, juge et flic" Une mort programmée (TV Episode 1995) - IMDb" – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Julie Lescaut (TV Series 1992– ) - IMDb" – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "Claude Giraud". AlloCiné.
- ^ "Le fantôme du lac (TV Movie 2007) - IMDb" – via www.imdb.com.
- ^ "La Compagnie Marie Bell, Racine* - Phèdre". Discogs.
External links
edit- Base La Grange sur le site de la Comédie-Française
- Les Gens du cinéma
- Les Archives du spectacle
- Media collection at the Bibliothèque nationale de France Claude Giraud
- Claude Giraud at IMDb