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Georges-Léon-Jules-Marie Feydeau (French: [ʒɔʁʒ fɛ.do]; 8 December 1862 – 5 June 1921) was a French playwright of the Belle Époque era, remembered for his farces, written between 1886 and 1914.
Feydeau was born in Paris to middle-class parents and raised in an artistic and literary environment. From an early age he was fascinated by the theatre, and as a child he wrote plays and organised his schoolfellows into a drama group. In his teens he wrote comic monologues and moved on to writing longer plays. His first full-length comedy, Tailleur pour dames ('Ladies' tailor'), was well received, but was followed by a string of comparative failures. He gave up writing for a time in the early 1890s and studied the methods of earlier masters of French comedy, particularly Eugène Labiche, Alfred Hennequin and Henri Meilhac. With his technique honed, and sometimes in collaboration with a co-author, he wrote seventeen full-length plays between 1892 and 1914, many of which have become staples of the theatrical repertoire in France and abroad. They include L'Hôtel du libre échange ('The Free Exchange Hotel', 1894), La Dame de chez Maxim ('The lady from Maxim's', 1899), La Puce à l'oreille ('A flea in her ear', 1907) and Occupe-toi d'Amélie! ('Look after Amélie', 1908).
The plays of Feydeau are marked by closely observed characters, with whom his audiences could identify, plunged into fast-moving comic plots of mistaken identity, attempted adultery, split-second timing and a precariously happy ending. After the great success they enjoyed in his lifetime they were neglected after his death, until the 1940s and 1950s, when productions by Jean-Louis Barrault and the Comédie-Française led a revival of interest in his works, at first in Paris and subsequently worldwide.
Feydeau's personal life was marred by depression, unsuccessful gambling and divorce. In 1919 his mental condition deteriorated sharply and he spent his final two years in a sanatorium at Rueil (now Rueil-Malmaison), near Paris. He died there in 1921 at the age of fifty-eight.
Filmography
all 84
Movies 78
Writer 71
TV Shows 6
Creator 1
Screenplay 1
Director 1
Un fil à la patte (2023)
On purge bébé (2022)
Klopjacht (2021)
Brouk v hlavě (2020)
La Dame de chez Maxim (2020)
Replay (2020)
The Fool (2019)
A Finada Mãe da Madame (2017)
L'hôtel du libre échange (2015)
Le Système Ribadier (2013)
Ohnsorg Theater - Der Floh im Ohr (2012)
Occupe-toi d'Amélie (2012)
Le dindon (2012)
Un fil à la patte (2010)
Chat en Poche (2009)
Le Système Ribadier (2008)
Tailleur pour dames (2008)
Un fil à la patte (2005)
The Art of Breaking Up (2005)
Le Dindon (2003)
A Key to the Bedroom (2003)
Chevallier et Laspalès - Monsieur chasse ! (2003)
Brouk v hlavě (2003)
Un fil à la patte (2002)
Le ruban (1998)
La puce à l'oreille (1996)
Paradise Hotel (1995)
Un fil à la patte (1989)
Tak sa na mňa prilepila (1989)
Le Dindon (1986)
La pulga en la oreja (1981)
Der nächste, bitte (1981)
Per favore, occupati di Amelia (1981)
La Dame de chez Maxim (1981)
Der Floh im Ohr (1980)
Räkan från Maxim (1980)
L'Hôtel du libre échange (1979)
On purge bébé (1979)
La Puce à L'oreille (1978)
Feu la mère de Madame (1978)
Chat en poche (1975)
Le Système Ribadier (1975)
In Fashion (1974)
Ako ostrihať manžela (1973)
Monsieur Chasse (1972)
La Main passe (1972)
Monday's Theater (1972)
Einer muß der Dumme sein (1971)
Un fil à la patte (1970)
Alta comedia (1970)
Brouk v hlavě (1970)
Die Dame vom Maxim (1969)
A Flea In Her Ear (1968)
Le Dindon (1968)
Feu la mère de madame (1968)
Ooh La La! (1968)
At Theatre Tonight (1966)
Der Floh im Ohr (1966)
Hotel Paradiso (1966)
The Marriage Wrestler (1964)
On purge bébé (1961)
Spökhotellet (1960)
The Flea in the Ear (1956)
My Husband and My Boyfriend (1955)
Le Fil à la patte (1954)
The Turkey (1951)
Girl from Maxim's (1950)
La vida en broma (1950)
Keep an Eye on Amelia (1949)
Monsieur chasse (1947)
Ceniza al viento (1942)
Akasya Palas (1940)
Mais n'te promène donc pas toute nue (1936)
The Free Trade Hotel (1934)
A Fly in the Ointment (1934)
Champignol malgré lui (1933)
The Girl from Maxim's (1933)
La Dame de chez Maxim's (1933)
Take Care of Amelie (1932)
Baby's Laxative (1931)
Die Königin von Moulin Rouge (1926)
La dama de chez Maxim's (1923)
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GenderMale
Birthday1862-12-08
Deathday1921-06-05 (58 years old)
Birth NameGeorges Léon Jules Marie Joseph Feydeau
Birth PlaceParis, France
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ChildrenJean-Pierre Feydeau, Michel Feydeau
FatherErnest-Aimé Feydeau
MotherLeocadia Zelewska
RelativesHenry Fouquier
CitizenshipsFrance
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