Roger Blin
Birthday
1907/03/22
Day of death
1984/01/20 (76 years old)
Gender
Male
Place of Birth
Neuilly-sur-Seine, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France
Also know as
Роже Блен
Biography
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...Read more
Acting
(2020) Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
as Self (archive footage)
(1975) That Most Important Thing: Love
as Servais' Father
(1950) Orpheus
as The Poet
(1964) A Taste for Women
as Larsen
(1943) Le Corbeau
as François
(1949) Unusual Tales
as Guillaume
(1942) The Devil's Envoys
as The Monster Showman
(1934) Street Without a Name
as ---
(1937) Alibi
as Kretz, Winckler's henchman
(1938) The Time of the Cherries
as Dupuis son
(1938) Adrienne Lecouvreur
as ---
(1938) The Curtain Rises
as Dominique, le gardien du château de la famille de Cécilia
(1939) The World Will Shake
as Le Condamné
(1942) The Trump Card
as Aspirant
(1943) Captain Fracasse
as Fagotin
(1943) Adieu Léonard
as Bohemian leader
(1942) L'âge d'or
as ---
(1959) Checkerboard
as Slim, le guide
(1943) Douce
as Man of the theater (uncredited)
(1944) First in Line
as Paul Moury
(1945) The Bohemian Life
as Man of the puppet
(1946) The Ideal Couple
as The sleepwalker
(1945) The Last Judgment
as ---
(1936) Jenny
as le malade solitaire
(1950) Vagabonds imaginaires
as Narrator (segment 'Les amours jaunes') (voice)
(1951) The Convict
as Convict
(1951) Adventures of Captain Fabian
as ---
(1952) Torticola versus Frankensberg
as Doctor Frankenstein
(1952) Piédalu fait des miracles
as ---
(1971) Too Small My Friend
as Boris
(1970) L'illusion comique
as Alcandre
(1967) Law of Survival
as Pao
(1983) Vendredi ou la vie sauvage
as ---
(1956) The Hunchback of Notre Dame
as Mathias Hungadi
(1976) Nevermore, Forever
as Daniel
(1963) Egypt, oh Egypt: Images of Heaven
as Narrator (voice)
(1962) The Star Ship
as Curtway
(1958) Calligraphie Japonaise
as Narrator
(1953) The Knight of the Night
as le valet
(1962) Quatrevingt-treize
as Tellmarc’h
(1975) One Must Live Dangerously
as Murdoc
(1937) The Life and Loves of Beethoven
as De Ries
(1980) The King and the Mockingbird
as L’aveugle (voice)
(1964) Marie Soleil
as Karl / Boss
(1943) Colonel Chabert
as Cleric
(1954) The Invitation to the Waltz
as Guillaume l'égorgeur
(1960) Les Trois Sœurs
as Verchinine
(1979) The Adolescent
as Romain
(1973) The Shadow Line
as Burns
(1940) Beating Heart
as (credit only)
(1959) Stars at Noon
as Self
(1941) Volpone
as Un vénitien
(1977) The Old Country Where Rimbaud Died
as Jeanne's father
(1967) The Sunday of Life
as Jean Sans-Tête
(1982) Five and the Skin
as Récitant (voice)
(1955) The Amazing Mr. Callaghan
as Wladimir
(1939) Pasha's Wives
as Mair
(1964) Little Claus and Big Claus
as Le grand Claus
(1949) Wicked City
as Emilio
(1936) Life Is Ours
as Un métallo
(1947) Passionnelle
as Julien
(1939) Louise
as (uncredited)
(1966) The Devil's Tricks
as Monsieur de Beaurepaire
(1983) The Hospital of Leningrad
as Nestor
(1961) Paris Blues
as Fausto the Moor (uncredited)
(1965) Qui donc a rêvé?
as ---
(1953) The Curious Adventures of Mr. Wonderbird
as Blind Man (Voice)
(1933) Le Colisée
as The Crowd
(1975) Aloïse
as Le professeur de chant
(1937) The Citadel of Silence
as Officer (uncredited)
(1936) Under Western Eyes
as Unnamed Character
(1967) La Plaie et le Couteau, Charles Baudelaire
as ---