Antonin Artaud
Highest Rated: 98% The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928)
Lowest Rated: 87% Napoleon (1927)
Birthday: Sep 4, 1896
Birthplace: Marseille, France
Avant-garde theorist whose book "The Theater and Its Double" (1938) expresses his ideas on the "theater of cruelty." Artaud also wrote on the cinema as well as scripting and acting in several films. He turned in a memorable cameo as Marat in Abel Gance's "Napoleon" (1927) and was similarly striking in Carl Dreyer's "The Passion of Joan of Arc" (1928).
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Antonin Artaud
Filmography
Movies
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98% |
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The Passion of Joan of Arc | Jean Massieu (Character) | $6.4K | 1928 |
No Score Yet |
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L'argent | Mazaud (Character) | - | 1928 |
87% |
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Napoleon | Marat (Character) | - | 1927 |
No Score Yet | No Score Yet | Seashell and the Clergyman | Writer | - | 1927 |