Edmond Guiraud
Edmond Guiraud was a 20th-century French playwright, librettist, and actor from the Cévennes region in southern France.
Biographie
Edmond Guiraud lived many years in Roquedur in the Gard department. He had a career as a playwright before World War I.He became a film actor after World War II, and acted in two films by Jean Gehret, shot in the Cévennes.
His widow, Jeannine Guiraud, donated the musée Cévenol in le Vigan the archives of her husband in order to create an "Edmond Guiraud fund".
Edmond Guiraud is buried at the.
Libretto
- 1912–1914: Marie Victoire, four-act opera by Ottorino Respighi
Theatre
- 1904: L'Ouvrier de la dernière heure
- 1907: Anna Karénine:
- 1907: Zizi
- 1908: Le Poussin
- 1910: Le Cœur d'Angélique
- 1911: Moïse
- 1911: Marie-Victoire
- 1914 : La Sauvageonne, Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens, 27 May
- 1922: Vautrin,
- 1923: Le Bonheur du jour
- 1925: Une femme, four-act comedy, 14 March, Théâtre Fémina
- 1930: Une femme de mon pays
- 1932: Nos 20 ans
- 1905 : La Mémoire des dates
- 1929 : ''Whisky''
Filmography
- 1948: Tabusse by Jean Gehret
- 1948: Le Crime des justes by Jean Gehret
- 1951: Oriental Port by Jacques Daroy
Film adaptations
- 1927: Le Bonheur du jour by Gaston Ravel
- 1935: Zizi by Charles-Félix Tavano - short film -