Georges Berr
Georges Berr in Paris, was a French actor and dramatist, a member and sociétaire of the Comédie-Française from 1886 to 1923.
Under the pseudonyms Colias and Henry Bott he wrote several plays, particularly in collaboration with Louis Verneuil. He was Jean-Pierre Aumont's maternal great-uncle.
Plays
Partial list of plays written or cowritten by Berr.- L'Amant de Madame Vidal
- La Pomme by Verneuil and Berr
- 1900: Moins cinq... by Paul Gavault and Berr, Théâtre du Palais-Royal
- 1901: L'Inconnue by Gavault and Berr, Théâtre du Palais-Royal
- 1901: Madame Flirt by Gavault and Berr, Théâtre de l'Athénée
- 1902: Les Aventures du capitaine Corcoran by Gavault, Berr and Adrien Vély, Théâtre du Châtelet
- 1902: La Carotte by Berr, Paul Dehere and Marcel Guillemaud, Théâtre du Palais-Royal
- 1904: La Dette by Gavault and Berr, Théâtre de l'Odéon
- 1905: Les Merlereau, 3 acts comedy, Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens
- 1905: La Marche forcée by Berr and Marc Sonal, Théâtre du Palais-Royal
- 1913: Un jeune homme qui se tue, 4 acts comedy, Théâtre Femina
- 1914: J'ose pas, 3 acts comedy, Théâtre du Palais-Royal
- 1922: Dom Juan de Molière, Comédie-Française
- 1925: Azaïs by Louis Verneuil and Berr
- 1928: Le passage de Vénus, 3 acts comedie-bouffe, Théâtre Sarah-Bernhardt
- 1930: Miss France by Berr and Verneui, Théâtre Édouard VII
- 1930: Guignol, un cambrioleur by Berr and Verneuil, Théâtre de la Potinière
- 1934: Mon crime de Georges Berr and Verneuil, Théâtre des Variétés
- 1935: Les Fontaines lumineuses by Berr and Verneuil, Théâtre des Variétés
- 1937: The Train for Venice by Louis Verneuil and Berr, Théâtre Saint-Georges
- 1946: Azaïs, 3 acts comedy by Verneuil and Berr, Théâtre Daunou
Filmography
Actor
- 1910: Le Barbier de Séville: ''Figaro''
Director
- 1909: L'Enfant prodigue, script by Henri Lavedan, with Eugène Silvain
- 1909: Les Précieuses ridicules, after Molière, with Béatrix Dussane
Writer
- The Million
- The Frisky Mrs. Johnson
- La principessa Bebè
- The World at Her Feet
- My Sister and I
- Burglars
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- Le Million
- My Cousin from Warsaw
- * My Cousin from Warsaw
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- Azaïs
- Just My Luck
- Ihre Durchlaucht, die Verkäuferin
- * Caprice de princesse
- Chourinette
- The Bread Peddler
- Arlette and Her Fathers
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- Le Bossu
- Ferdinand the Roisterer
- Speak to Me of Love
- The Squadron's Baby
- The Lover of Madame Vidal
- True Confession
- The Train for Venice
- My Life with Caroline
- Mischievous Susana
- Cross My Heart
- Ma tante d'Honfleur
- Canas al aire
- My Sister and I
- Cosas de mujer
- The Passage of Venus
- ''My Sister and I''
Career at the [Comédie-Française]
- Admitted at the Comédie-Française in 1886
- Sociétaire from 1893 to 1923
- 326th sociétaire
- Honorary sociétaire in 1923
- 1891: Thermidor by Victorien Sardou
- 1897: Mieux vaut douceur et violence by Édouard Pailleron
- 1899: Le Torrent by Maurice Donnay
- 1899: La Conscience de l'enfant by Gaston Devore
- 1902: La Grammaire by Eugène Labiche and Alphonse Jolly
- 1902: La Petite Amie by Eugène Brieux
- 1903: Business is business by Octave Mirbeau
- 1904: Le Paon by Francis de Croisset
- 1905: Don Quichotte by Jean Richepin after Miguel de Cervantes
- 1905: Il était une bergère by André Rivoire
- 1906: Les Plaideurs by Racine
- 1907: Marion de Lorme by Victor Hugo
- 1907: L'Amour veille by Robert de Flers and Gaston Arman de Caillavet
- 1908: Le Bon Roi Dagobert by André Rivoire
- 1912: Le Mariage forcé by Molière
- 1913: La Marche nuptiale by Henry Bataille
- 1915: Le Mariage forcé by Molière
- 1920: L'Amour médecin by Molière
- 1920: The Imaginary Cuckold by Molière
- 1921: Le Sicilien ou l'Amour peintre by Molière
- 1921: Les Fâcheux by Molière
- 1922: Dom Juan by Molière
- 1922: Remerciement au roi by Molière]
- 1922: L'Amour veille by Gaston Arman de Caillavet and Robert de Flers
- 1923: Le Dépit amoureux by Molière
- 1924: Les Trois Sultanes by Charles-Simon Favart