Roger Blin
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- Mar 22, 1907
- Died
- Jan 20, 1984 (aged 76)
- Place of birth
- Neuilly-sur-Seine, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France
- Credits
- 74
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.
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Known for
The King and the Mockingbird
1980Movie
L’aveugle (voice)
Le Corbeau
1943Movie
François
Orpheus
1950Movie
The Poet
That Most Important Thing: Love
1975Movie
Servais' Father
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1956Movie
Mathias Hungadi
The Devil's Envoys
1942Movie
The Monster Showman
Filmography
Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
2020Movie
Self (archive footage)
The Hospital of Leningrad
1983Movie
Nestor
Vendredi ou la vie sauvage
1983Movie
Five and the Skin
1982Movie
Récitant (voice)
The King and the Mockingbird
1980Movie
L’aveugle (voice)
The Adolescent
1979Movie
Romain
The Old Country Where Rimbaud Died
1977Movie
Jeanne's father
Nevermore, Forever
1976Movie
Daniel
One Must Live Dangerously
1975Movie
Murdoc
Aloïse
1975Movie
Le professeur de chant
That Most Important Thing: Love
1975Movie
Servais' Father
The Shadow Line
1973Movie
Burns
Too Small My Friend
1971Movie
Boris
Mesure pour Mesure
1971Movie
Le Duc Vincentio
L'illusion comique
1970Movie
Alcandre
La Plaie et le Couteau, Charles Baudelaire
1967Movie
Law of Survival
1967Movie
Pao
The Sunday of Life
1967Movie
Jean Sans-Tête
The Devil's Tricks
1966Movie
Monsieur de Beaurepaire
Qui donc a rêvé?
1965Movie
Little Claus and Big Claus
1964Movie
Le grand Claus
Marie Soleil
1964Movie
Karl / Boss
Pour le plaisir
1964TV
Self
A Taste for Women
1964Movie
Larsen
Egypt, oh Egypt: Images of Heaven
1963Movie
Narrator (voice)
Quatrevingt-treize
1962Movie
Tellmarc’h
The Star Ship
1962Movie
Curtway
Paris Blues
1961Movie
Fausto the Moor (uncredited)
Les Trois Sœurs
1960Movie
Verchinine
Checkerboard
1959Movie
Slim, le guide
Stars at Noon
1959Movie
Self
Calligraphie Japonaise
1958Movie
Narrator
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1956Movie
Mathias Hungadi
The Amazing Mr. Callaghan
1955Movie
Wladimir
The Invitation to the Waltz
1954Movie
Guillaume l'égorgeur
The Knight of the Night
1953Movie
le valet
The Curious Adventures of Mr. Wonderbird
1953Movie
Blind Man (Voice)
Piédalu fait des miracles
1952Movie
Torticola versus Frankensberg
1952Movie
Doctor Frankenstein
Adventures of Captain Fabian
1951Movie
The Convict
1951Movie
Convict
Orpheus
1950Movie
The Poet
Vagabonds imaginaires
1950Movie
Narrator (segment 'Les amours jaunes') (voice)
Wicked City
1949Movie
Emilio
Unusual Tales
1949Movie
Guillaume
Passionnelle
1947Movie
Julien
The Ideal Couple
1946Movie
The sleepwalker
The Last Judgment
1945Movie
The Bohemian Life
1945Movie
Man of the puppet
First in Line
1944Movie
Paul Moury
Colonel Chabert
1943Movie
Cleric
Douce
1943Movie
Man of the theater (uncredited)
Le Corbeau
1943Movie
François
Adieu Léonard
1943Movie
Bohemian leader
Captain Fracasse
1943Movie
Fagotin
The Devil's Envoys
1942Movie
The Monster Showman
The Trump Card
1942Movie
Aspirant
L'âge d'or
1942Movie
Volpone
1941Movie
Un vénitien
Beating Heart
1940Movie
(credit only)
The World Will Shake
1939Movie
Le Condamné
Louise
1939Movie
(uncredited)
Pasha's Wives
1939Movie
Mair
Adrienne Lecouvreur
1938Movie
The Curtain Rises
1938Movie
Dominique, le gardien du château de la famille de Cécilia
The Time of the Cherries
1938Movie
Dupuis son
Alibi
1937Movie
Kretz, Winckler's henchman
The Citadel of Silence
1937Movie
Officer (uncredited)
The Life and Loves of Beethoven
1937Movie
De Ries
Jenny
1936Movie
le malade solitaire
Life Is Ours
1936Movie
Un métallo
Under Western Eyes
1936Movie
Unnamed Character
Street Without a Name
1934Movie
Le Colisée
1933Movie
The Crowd