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Sacha Pitoëff‌

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Sacha Pitoëff

Genève, Switzerland

Sacha Pitoëff

Genève, Switzerland

Gender

Male

Birthday

calendar1920-03-11

Popularity

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Biography

Sacha Pitoëff (born Alexandre Pitoëff; 11 March 1920 – 21 July 1990) was a Swiss-born French actor and stage director. Pitoëff was born in Geneva, Switzerland, on 11 March 1920, the son of Russian-born parents Ludmilla (née Smanova) and Georges Pitoëff. Both of his parents were born in the city of Tbilisi (in modern-day Georgia), then a part of the Russian Empire. The Pitoëffs were prominent actors in France, Georges was a founding member of the Cartel des Quatre (Group of Four), a group including Louis Jouvet, Charles Dullin, and Gaston Baty, dedicated to rejuvenating the French theatre. Sacha graduated from Lycée Pasteur in Neuilly-sur-Seine, outside Paris. He studied acting and stage direction under Jouvet at the Théâtre de l'Athénée. During World War II, the younger Pitoëff followed his mother back to Switzerland, where he played his earliest roles. After the war he returned to Paris, becoming general manager at the Théâtre des Bouffes du Nord. He made his directorial debut with a 1950 staging of Uncle Vanya, which proved both a critical and commercial success. He became a fixture of Parisian theatre in the 1960s, becoming the director of his own troupe. His repertoire included works by Jean Genet, Eugène Ionesco, Hugo Claus, Robert Musil, Anna Langfus and Anton Chekhov. With Romy Schneider, he staged The Seagull, Uncle Vanya and Three Sisters at Théâtre de l'Œuvre. In 1967, he achieved his greatest success with a well-regarded production of Luigi Pirandello's Henry IV, which he directed and starred in, with Claude Jade. Pitoëff played his first film role in 1952, in the omnibus film The Seven Deadly Sins. Appearing in over 50 films, he is probably best known for his performance in Alain Resnais's enigmatic Last Year at Marienbad (1960), as the unnamed man who may or may not be Delphine Seyrig's husband. He was featured in roles of various sizes in such films as Henri-Georges Clouzot's Les Espions (1957), Peter Ustinov's Lady L (1965), René Clément's Is Paris Burning? (1966), and Jacques Demy's Donkey Skin (1970). He also appeared in several Hollywood productions, including Anatole Litvak's Anastasia (1956) and The Night of the Generals (1967), Mark Robson's The Prize (1963) and Dick Clement's To Catch a Spy (1971). Toward the end of his acting career, he began appearing in horror films. His final role was as the bookseller Kazanian in Dario Argento's Inferno (1980). For the last ten years of his life, Pitoëff was a professor at the National School of Theatre Arts and Techniques (ENSATT) in Lyon, where his students included Gérard Depardieu, Jean-Roger Milo and Niels Arestrup. Pitoëff was married to French actress Luce Garcia-Ville, until her death by suicide in 1975. He had two siblings, actress Svetlana Pitoëff and writer Aniouta Pitoeff. His height and distinctively-gaunt, lanky appearance may have been a consequence of Marfan syndrome. Having suffered from depression in the final years of his life, he died in Paris at Pitié-Salpêtrière Hospital on 21 July 1990, at the age of 70. Source: Article "Sacha Pitoëff" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Movie Credits

The Prize

The Prize‌
star6.8
calendar 1963

A Tale of Two Cities

A Tale of Two Cities‌
star6.8
calendar 1958

Is Paris Burning?

Is Paris Burning?‌
star7.2
calendar 1966

Captain Fracasse

Captain Fracasse‌
star5.6
calendar 1961

Donkey Skin

Donkey Skin‌
star7.2
calendar 1970

The Doll

The Doll‌
star5.0
calendar 1962

Anastasia

Anastasia‌
star6.8
calendar 1956

Inferno

Inferno‌
star6.7
calendar 1980

The Denunciation

The Denunciation‌
star4.8
calendar 1962

The Seven Deadly Sins

The Seven Deadly Sins‌
star6.0
calendar 1952

Subversion

Subversion‌
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calendar 1979

Patrick Still Lives

Patrick Still Lives‌
star5.4
calendar 1980

The Golden Claws of the Cat Girl

The Golden Claws of the Cat Girl‌
star1.0
calendar 1968

Lagardère

Lagardère‌
star6.3
calendar 1968

The Spies

The Spies‌
star6.5
calendar 1957

Vengeance of the Three Musketeers

Vengeance of the Three Musketeers‌
star6.8
calendar 1961

The Oil War Will Not Happen

The Oil War Will Not Happen‌
star0.0
calendar 1974

That Night

That Night‌
star5.0
calendar 1958

Le Bal du comte d'Orgel

Le Bal du comte d'Orgel‌
star5.0
calendar 1970

Catch Me a Spy

Catch Me a Spy‌
star4.6
calendar 1971

Mum's the Word

Mum's the Word‌
star4.0
calendar 1960

Diary of a Suicide

Diary of a Suicide‌
star5.9
calendar 1973

Katmandu

Katmandu‌
star4.6
calendar 1969

The Carpathian Castle

The Carpathian Castle‌
star6.0
calendar 1976

Lancelot of the Lake

Lancelot of the Lake‌
star0.0
calendar 1970

The Night of the Generals

The Night of the Generals‌
star6.8
calendar 1967

Spray of the Days

Spray of the Days‌
star4.7
calendar 1968

Last Year at Marienbad

Last Year at Marienbad‌
star7.4
calendar 1961

Barry of the Great St. Bernard

Barry of the Great St. Bernard‌
star0.0
calendar 1977

La ville en haut de la colline

La ville en haut de la colline‌
star0.0
calendar 1969

The Gambler

The Gambler‌
star6.3
calendar 1958

Dossier 51

Dossier 51‌
star6.5
calendar 1978

Lady L

Lady L‌
star5.9
calendar 1965

Rasputin

Rasputin‌
star5.0
calendar 1954

Antigone

Antigone‌
star0.0
calendar 1974

Le système Fabrizzi

Le système Fabrizzi‌
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calendar 1967

Les salons de Baudelaire

Les salons de Baudelaire‌
star0.0
calendar 1970

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Sherlock Holmes

Sherlock Holmes‌
star7.1
calendar 1954

The New Avengers

The New Avengers‌
star6.9
calendar 1976

Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre

Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre‌
star6.1
calendar 1967

Bonne nuit les petits

Bonne nuit les petits‌
star6.3
calendar 1962

Graf Luckner

Graf Luckner‌
star0.0
calendar 1973

Les Grands Détectives

Les Grands Détectives‌
star9.0
calendar 1975

La Poupée sanglante

La Poupée sanglante‌
star8.7
calendar 1976

Samedi soir

Samedi soir‌
star6.0
calendar 1971

Lagardère

Lagardère‌
star0.0
calendar 1967