Jean Piat


Jean Piat was a French actor and writer.

Life

Piat was born in Lannoy, Nord. He enlisted in the Comédie-Française on 1 September 1947, and became a member on 1 January 1953. He left the Comédie-Française on 31 December 1972, and became an honorary member the following day. He was an officer in the Légion d'honneur and the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and a grand officer in the Ordre national du Mérite. He was married to actress Françoise Engel, and was a professor in the dramatic arts of the Simon Course.
He died on 18 September 2018, at age 93, of a heart attack, five days before his 94th birthday.

Theater

Roles in the Comédie-Française

  • Victor Hugo's Ruy Blas
  • Man of LaMancha
  • Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac
  • Molière's The Miser
  • Eugène Marin Labiche's The Voyage of Mister Perrichon
  • Pierre de Marivaux's Le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard
  • William Shakespeare's Othello
  • William Shakespeare's As You Like It
  • William Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet
  • Molière's ''Le Bourgeois gentilhomme''

    Filmography

Acting