Philippe Clay
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Philippe Clay (7 March 1927 – 13 December 2007), born Philippe Mathevet, was a French mime artist, singer and actor.
He was known for his tall and slim silhouette (he was 1.90 m tall) and for performing songs by Charles Aznavour, Claude Nougaro, Jean-Roger Caussimon, Boris Vian, Serge Gainsbourg, Jean Yanne, Léo Ferré, Jacques Datin, Jean-Claude Massoulier or Bernard Dimey. He sang “La Complainte des Apaches” for the TV series Les Brigades du Tigre, written by Henri Djian and composed by Claude Bolling.
As an actor, he appeared in several films (Bell, Book and Candle) and television movies. One of his famous roles is in the Jean Renoir film, French Cancan, where he played Casimir le Serpentin[1] (a character inspired by Valentin le désossé). His largest role in an American film was in Shanks, making particular use of his mime background co-starring with the master mime Marcel Marceau (as Marceau's brother-in-law who spends much of the film re-animated from the dead as a pantomime figure, moving like a marionette).
Death
[edit]Philippe Clay died of a heart attack on December 13, 2007. He was survived by his wife, actress María Riquelme, and their son.[2]
Filmography
[edit]| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 | Rome Express | Un employé des wagons-lits | |
| 1952 | Le crime du Bouif | ||
| 1955 | French Cancan | Casimir le Serpentin | |
| 1956 | La vie est belle | Le pasteur | |
| 1956 | The Hunchback of Notre Dame | Clopin Trouillefou | |
| 1957 | C'est arrivé à 36 chandelles | Himself | Uncredited |
| 1957 | Nathalie | Adolphe Faisant, dit "Coco la Girafe" | |
| 1958 | En bordée | Bailladrisse / Yves Biadrix | |
| 1958 | Toto in Prias | Il maître d'hotel | |
| 1958 | Bell, Book and Candle | French Singer at the Zodiac Club | |
| 1959 | Drôles de phénomènes | La maître d'hôtel Barns | |
| 1959 | The Road to Shame | Tom | |
| 1959 | The Bureaucrats | Letondu | |
| 1959 | La Nuit des traqués | Taretta | |
| 1960 | Les Canailles | Carlo Sarotti | |
| 1960 | Touchez pas aux blondes | L'inspecteur Al Wheeler | |
| 1961 | Dans l'eau qui fait des bulles | Jean-Louis Preminger | Voice |
| 1962 | Musketeers of the Sea | Gosselin | |
| 1965 | Man from Cocody | Renaud Lefranc | |
| 1966 | Sale temps pour les mouches | Pierre Mazaud, dit 'Félix' | |
| 1967 | Les têtes brûlées | Prêcheur | |
| 1970 | Pour un sourire | Nicolas | |
| 1971 | Armiamoci e partite! | Generale McMaster | |
| 1972 | Pas folle la guêpe | Jack Bromfield | |
| 1972 | Les joyeux lurons | L'abbé Larivière | |
| 1973 | L'insolent | Dargnac | |
| 1974 | The Three Musketeers | Richelieu | Voice |
| 1974 | Shanks | Mr. Barton | |
| 1982 | Deux heures moins le quart avant Jésus-Christ | Le héraut | |
| 1983 | Salut la puce | Rigodo-Cartecolin, un marionnettiste | |
| 1983 | A Good Little Devil | Le juge | |
| 1986 | Catherine | Barnabé | TV series |
| 1993 | Die Wildnis | Peasant | |
| 1995 | Krim | Eugène | |
| 1995 | La Rivière Espérance | Majordome | TV mini-series |
| 1998 | Les cachetonneurs | The Aristocrat | |
| 1998 | Lautrec | Auguste Renoir | |
| 1999 | Tuvalu | Karl | |
| 2003 | Là-haut, un roi au-dessus des nuages | L'aumônier de Saint-Louis-des-Invalides |
References
[edit]- ^ "Le Bien public", Wikipédia (in French), 2023-02-03, retrieved 2023-04-13
- ^ Clayson, Alan (15 January 2008). "Philippe Clay". The Guardian. Retrieved 17 August 2015.
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