Jean Anouilh

Jean Anouilh

Known for: Writing
Biography: 1910-06-23
Deathday: 1987-10-03 (77 years old)

Biography

Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh (23 June 1910 – 3 October 1987) was a French dramatist whose career spanned five decades. Though his work ranged from high drama to absurdist farce, Anouilh is best known for his 1944 play Antigone, an adaptation of Sophocles' classical drama, that was seen as an attack on Marshal Pétain's Vichy government. His plays are less experimental than those of his contemporaries, having clearly organized plot and eloquent dialogue. One of France's most prolific writers after World War II, much of Anouilh's work deals with themes of maintaining integrity in a world of moral compromise.


Anouilh was born in Cérisole, a small village on the outskirts of Bordeaux, and had Basque ancestry. His father, François Anouilh, was a tailor, and Anouilh maintained that he inherited from him a pride in conscientious craftmanship. He may owe his artistic bent to his mother, Marie-Magdeleine, a violinist who supplemented the family's meager income by playing summer seasons in the casino orchestra in the nearby seaside resort of Arcachon. Marie-Magdeleine worked the night shifts in the music-hall orchestras and sometimes accompanied stage presentations, affording Anouilh ample opportunity to absorb the dramatic performances from backstage. He often attended rehearsals and solicited the resident authors to let him read scripts until bedtime. He first tried his hand at playwriting here, at the age of 12, though his earliest works do not survive.


In 1918 the family moved to Paris where the young Anouilh received his secondary education at the Lycée Chaptal. Jean-Louis Barrault, later a major French director, was a pupil there at the same time and recalls Anouilh as an intense, rather dandified figure who hardly noticed a boy some two years younger than himself. He earned acceptance into the law school at the Sorbonne but, unable to support himself financially, he left after just 18 months to seek work as a copywriter at the advertising agency Publicité Damour. He liked the work, and spoke more than once with wry approval of the lessons in the classical virtues of brevity and precision of language he learned while drafting advertising copy. ...


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Filmography

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Movies 75

Writer 63

Screenplay 4

TV Shows 2

Director 2

self 1

Writer / Original Story
The Savage

The Savage (1979)

Movie
Scenario Writer / Dialogue / Scenario Writer / Dialogue
Histoire du Chevalier Des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut

Histoire du Chevalier Des Grieux et de Manon Lescaut (1978)

TV
The cap art lover
Le Colisée

Le Colisée (1933)

Movie

Information

Known For
Writing

Gender
Male

Birthday
1910-06-23

Deathday
1987-10-03 (77 years old)

Birth Name
Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh

Birth Place
Bordeaux, France

Children
Caroline Anouilh, Colombe Anouilh, Catherine Anouilh

Citizenships
France

Residences
Lausanne, Switzerland

Also Known As
Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh

Awards
Tony Award for Best Play, Prix mondial Cino Del Duca, Grand prix du théâtre

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