Gaston Modot, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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1887-1970 French actor
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Place of Birth: Paris, Île-de-France, France
About Gaston Modot
- Gaston Modot (31 December 1887 – 20 February 1970) was a French actor.
- For more than 50 years he performed for the cinema working with a number of French directors. Modot lived in Montmartre at the beginning of the 20th century where he met Picasso and Modigliani.
- In 1909 he started his career with Gaumont and for the following 20 years he covered all silent film genres.
- In 1917 he was the main actor in Abel Gance's Mater dolorosa.
- He played in Germaine Dulac and Louis Delluc's avant-garde films La fête espagnole (1919) and Fièvre (1921).
- With Max Linder, Modot played in Abel Gance's Au secours! (1924).
- Towards the end of the 1920s he performed in German-French co-productions. He is still famous for his role of "Manns" in Luis Buñuel's L'Âge d'Or (1930). He had his first role in a sound film with René Clair's Sous les toits de Paris (1930).
- He and Jean Gabin are main characters in Julien Duvivier's Pépé le Moko (1937).
- He acted in the Jean Renoir classics La grande illusion and La règle du jeu as well as the three-hour poetic film Les enfants du paradis (1945) for Marcel Carné. In 1962 Modot ended his acting career.
- He had acted in more than 100 films.
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