A face of French theater has passed away.
The actor Roland Bertin, figure of the Comédie-Française, but also actor in around fifty films, died at the age of 93, announced Éric Ruf, general administrator of the institution in a press release on Tuesday.
“I have just learned of the death last night of Roland Bertin, member and immense figure of our House,” writes Éric Ruf, specifying that the man of the theater had “passed away slowly in his retirement home in Pont-l 'Abbot in Brittany'.
Joining French comedy in 1982, Roland Bertin, who founded the current National Drama Center of Burgundy, became a member from 1983 to 2001. During these years, “he played, among others, under the direction of Jorge Lavelli, Jean- Paul Roussillon, Jean-Luc Boutté, Jacques Lassalle, Klaus-Michaël Grüber, Claude Régy, Antoine Vitez, Jean-Louis Benoit, and even Philippe Adrien.”
A Molière in 2009
He then played many major roles including the title role of Ivanov by Chekhov, the Bishop in “Le Balcon” by Jean Genet, Monsieur Jourdain in “Le Bourgeois gentilhomme” by Molière or Christophe in “La Tragédie du roi Christophe” by Aimé Césaire, indicates the institution.
“Antoine Vitez directs him in his last production and one of his favorite roles, Galileo in
The Life of Galileo
by Bertolt Brecht, in 1990,” she adds.
He also rubbed shoulders with “more contemporary texts like
Endgame
by Samuel Beckett”.
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In 2009, he received the Molière du Comédien in a supporting role “for his monumental performance in Shakespeare’s
Coriolanus
” at the TNP Villeurbanne, underlines the Frenchman.
Roland Bertin has also made “more than fifty films” in the cinema, according to the institution.
We have seen it in particular in André Téchiné (“The Brontë Sisters”), Patrice Chéreau (“The Flesh of the Orchid”, “The Wounded Man”), and even Jean-Paul Rappeneau (“Cyrano de Bergerac”) .
On television, he played in “Les Misérables” by Marcel Bluwal.