Roger Blin

Known for ActingBorn 1907-03-22Died 1984-01-20Neuilly-sur-Seine, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France

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.Read more

Movies & web series

Marie Soleil

The Last Judgment

The Citadel of Silence

Street Without a Name

The Hospital of Leningrad

Quatrevingt-treize

The Time of the Cherries

The King and the Mockingbird

Vagabonds imaginaires

L'âge d'or

The Curtain Rises

Orpheus

Le Corbeau

The Bohemian Life

Vendredi ou la vie sauvage

That Most Important Thing: Love

The Curious Adventures of Mr. Wonderbird

Unusual Tales

Pasha's Wives

Little Claus and Big Claus

Les Trois Sœurs

Douce

Checkerboard

Stars at Noon

First in Line

The World Will Shake

Colonel Chabert

The Shadow Line

Le Colisée

Nevermore, Forever

The Hunchback of Notre Dame

The Devil's Envoys

Volpone

The Life and Loves of Beethoven

Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff

Five and the Skin

Passionnelle

Qui donc a rêvé?

Too Small My Friend

Paris Blues

Aloïse

The Ideal Couple

The Star Ship

Alibi

Captain Fracasse

Life Is Ours

The Convict

Under Western Eyes