Pierre Renoir
Pierre Renoir was a French stage and film actor. He was the son of the impressionist painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir and elder brother of the film director Jean Renoir. He is also noted for being the first actor to play Georges Simenon's character Inspector Jules Maigret in
Night at the Crossroads, directed by his brother.
Life and career
Pierre Renoir was born on 21 March 1885 in Paris, at 18 rue Houdon, about a hundred meters from place Pigalle, to painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Aline Charigot. He was married to actress Véra Sergine from 1914 to 1925.
For his best remembered role, as Jėricho the ragman in Children of Paradise, he was cast at short notice to replace the collaborator Robert Le Vigan; Jėricho's scenes had to be reshot after Le Vigan fled. Renoir was briefly the director of the Théâtre de l'Athénée in Paris, taking over after the death of Louis Jouvet in 1951. Pierre Renoir's son was the cinematographer Claude Renoir not to be confused with Pierre's brother Claude Renoir, known as 'Coco'.
Selected filmography
La Digue – Pierre WallenLes deux gosses – Le lieutenant Jacques d'AlboiseMarion Delorme – Le roi Louis XIIIThe Whirlpool of Fate – FarmerMorgane, the Enchantress Night at the Crossroads – Le commissaire MaigretThe Agony of the Eagles – MontanderMadame Bovary – Charles BovaryLa Route impériale – Maj. HudsonTovaritch – GorotchenkoLa Bandera – Le capitaine WellerVeille d'armes – Le commandant BrambourgUnder Western Eyes – Un PolicierWolves Between Them – Gottfried WelterWhen Midnight Strikes – Jean VerdierDe Man Zonder Hart – SourdierWidow's Island – Ralph BerryBoissière – Le général baron von HubnerThe Citadel of Silence – Le colonel-comte Stepan IporievitchMollenard – BonnerotLa Marseillaise – Le Roi de France Louis XVILégions d'honneur – L'avocat DumasWhite Nights in Saint Petersburg – Ivan BorowskyThe Lafarge Case – Charles LafargeThe Patriot – Le comte de PahlenSatan's Paradise – Paraíso de Satã – AristophélèsLa Piste du sud – StolbergLa Maison du Maltais – L'archéologue André ChervinThe Rebel – Capitaine YorritzSerge Panine – CayrolCoral Reefs – AbboyNord-Atlantique – Le capitaine Jeff CooperPersonal Column – BrémontièreNadia la femme traquée – DaminoffThose of the Sky – PierronL'embuscade – Jean GuéretThe Pavilion Burns – JourdinsseFoolish Husbands – Jules DonaldoMacao, l'enfer du jeu – Werner von Krall The Law of Spring – Frédéric VillaretThe Newspaper Falls at Five O'Clock – François MarchalThe Trump Card – Rudy ScoreL'appel du bled – MichaudThe Wolf of the Malveneurs – Reginald de MalveneurMadame et le mort – Charles de BruineTornavara – Sigurd FramrusTraveling Light – Georges RenaudLes Enfants du paradis – JérichoFather Goriot – VautrinSt. Val's Mystery – Le docteur DartignacMarie la Misère – Pierre DesormesResistance – Le colonelSpecial Mission – Landberg alias Moravetz – le chef du réseau d'espionnage allemanThe Captain – Le duc d'AngoulêmeCoincidences – Monsieur BardolasLes trafiquants de la mer – Le prince Boris MentischevSecret Cargo – Le préfet de policeThe Eleven O'Clock Woman – Le docteur Gérard PescaraLa grande volière – ValletteScandal on the Champs-Élysées – Dominique AirelleThe [Mystery of the Yellow Room (1949 film)|The Mystery of the Yellow Room] – Professeur StangersonThe Farm of Seven Sins – Le procureur Edmond de ChanceyThe Ferret – Le docteur Darvel-JusteDeath Threat – BernierDr. Knock – Le pharmacien MousquetJudgement of God – Le duc Ernest de Bavière