Antonin Artaud
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Antonin Artaud (September 4, 1896, in Marseille – March 4, 1948 in Paris) was a French playwright, poet, actor and theatre director. Antonin is a diminutive form of Antoine "little Anthony", and was among a list of names which Artaud used throughout his writing career. Description above from the Wikipedia article Antonin Artaud licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- 1896-09-04 · Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
- Died
- 1948-03-04
Known for
- The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) — Jean Massieu
- Napoleon (1927) — Jean-Paul Marat
- The Seashell and the Clergyman (1928) — Writer
- Wooden Crosses (1932) — Soldat Vieublé
- Despair (1978) — In Memory Of
- L'Argent (1928) — Mazaud
- Liliom (1934) — Le rémouleur (The Knife Grinder)
- The Threepenny Opera (1931) — Un mendiant
- Lucrezia Borgia (1935) — Girolamo Savonarola
- News Item (1923) — M. Deux
- Mathusalem (1927)
- Around the End of the World (1930) — Self
- The Torture of Silence (1917)
- Verdun: Visions of History (1928) — The intellectual
- Faubourg Montmartre (1931) — Follestat (as Artaud)
- Crimson Dynasty (1935) — Cyrus Back