Philippe Clévenot was born in 1942 in Paris, France. Philippe Clévenot is one of the greatest actors of a generation that, in the 1960s and 1970s, embarked on the adventure of collective creations and intended to reach a new public, popul... (Full Biography Below)
We found 38 films starring Philippe Clévenot.
Philippe Clévenot was born in 1942 in Paris, France. Philippe Clévenot is one of the greatest actors of a generation that, in the 1960s and 1970s, embarked on the adventure of collective creations and intended to reach a new public, popular, like Jean Vilar or Ariane Mnouchkine. From 1962 to 1965, he attended the drama Centre of the Is then under the direction of Hubert Gignoux, Paul Lefèvre and Claude Petitpierre. At the same time, he continued the study of the organ, the harpsichord and the piano. After the two years of his military service (1965-1967), during which he learned German, he became a member of the house of Culture deBourges, directed by Gabriel Monnet. In 1971, he participated in the beginnings of the Theatre of Hope with Jean Jourdheuil etJean-Pierre Vincent, and then, in 1976, joined the TNS school (the upper school of dramatic art of Strasbourg), directed by the same Jean-Pierre Vincent. From 1985 to 1987, he was a resident at the Comédie-Française. Philippe Clévenot plays both the classical repertoire as contemporary theatre. We can see him in The Misanthropede Molière or Shakespeare's Macbeth (two productions of Jean-Pierre Vincent) ; in The Prince of Homburg deKleist (directed by Matthias Langhoff), The Pitcher broken at the same Kleist (directed by Bernard Sobel) ; in the School for wives by Molière (directed by Bernard Sobel), The Nephew of Rameau " by Diderot (directed by Jean-Marie Simon), in Artaud Mômo or the conference of the Vieux Colombier, and the true Story of Artaud Mômo of Antonin Artaud, where it plays the author, in A dam against the Pacific, by Marguerite Duras, or even In the jungle of villesde Brecht (staged by Stéphane Braunschweig), in the Life of the selfish Fätzer, the same Brecht (under the direction of Bernard Sobel), in Rumor on Wall Street from Bernard Chatellier, according to the Bartleby of Melville (staging deBérangère Bonvoisin), or Pioneers in Ingolstadt by Marieluise Fleisser. As a director, it must, in particular, Anna Christie by Eugene O'neill, in Geneva, in 2000 — show that is revived at the Théâtre Gérard Philipe, in Villeurbanne, in 2001. In addition, he has also written the One who lies, according to the famous Italian mystic Angela of Foligno. His first film role is offered to him by René Allio in 1970, in The Camisards. He then worked with many filmmakers, including Bertrand Blier, Patrice Leconte and Jean-Jacques Beineix. One of his latest movies at the cinema estDisparus (1998), the first feature film of history and politics by a young director, Gilles Bourdos. Having always shared his time between Paris and Normandy, with his partner actress, Bérangère Bonvoisin, Philippe Clévenot died at the age of fifty-nine years, October 18, 2001, following a long illness. He is buried in the cemetery of Villerville.
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