Georges Pitoëff, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death

Georges Pitoëff

French actor

Date of Birth: 17-Sep-1884

Place of Birth: Tbilisi, Georgian Soviet Socialist Republic, Georgia

Date of Death: 17-Sep-1939

Profession: actor, translator, costume designer, stage actor, theater director, film actor, stage management

Nationality: France

Zodiac Sign: Virgo

Georges Pitoëff was born on 4 September 1884 in Tiflis (now Tbilisi, Georgia), then in Russia, and died on 17 September 1939 in Bellevue, near Geneva, Switzerland.
Russian-born of Armenian origins, he was the son of the Director of the Tiflis Theatre.
After studying and graduating in Law at Paris University, he became a theatre director and producer, noted for his popularization in France of the works of contemporary playwrights, especially Luigi Pirandello, George Bernard Shaw, Anton Chekhov, Arthur Shnitzler, Henrik Ibsen, and Eugene O'Neill.
He was a founding member of the Cartel des Quatre (Group of Four), a group including Louis Jouvet, Charles Dullin, and Gaston Baty, dedicated to rejuvenating the French theatre.