ACTOR

Étienne Decroux

1898 - 1991

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Étienne Decroux (19 July 1898 in Paris, France – 12 March 1991 in Boulogne-Billancourt, France) was a French actor who studied at Jacques Copeau's École du Vieux-Colombier, where he saw the beginnings of what was to become his life's obsession–corporeal mime. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Étienne Decroux has received more than 120,704 page views. His biography is available in 20 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 19 in 2019). Étienne Decroux is the 2,161st most popular actor (down from 1,714th in 2019), the 2,980th most popular biography from France (down from 2,463rd in 2019) and the 163rd most popular French Actor.

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Among ACTORS

Among actors, Étienne Decroux ranks 2,161 out of 13,578Before him are Sonny Landham, Lau Kar-leung, Teresa Wright, Yūsaku Matsuda, Vijay, and Robert Donat. After him are Haluk Bilginer, Stuart Wilson, Brenda Vaccaro, Francesca Annis, Jim Davis, and Jana Brejchová.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1898, Étienne Decroux ranks 118Before him are Eric Hoffer, Ernst Wollweber, Marcel Griaule, Tian Han, Helmut Hasse, and Albert Lutuli. After him are Tadeusz Dołęga-Mostowicz, Irene Dunne, Benjamin Fondane, Vilhelm Moberg, José María Gil-Robles y Quiñones, and Warren Sturgis McCulloch. Among people deceased in 1991, Étienne Decroux ranks 100Before him are André Pieyre de Mandiargues, Mikheil Meskhi, Schubert Gambetta, Artur Lundkvist, Luigi Zampa, and Yasushi Inoue. After him are Franco Maria Malfatti, Metin Oktay, Hitoshi Igarashi, Mario Scelba, Dead, and Rufino Tamayo.

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In France

Among people born in France, Étienne Decroux ranks 2,980 out of 6,770Before him are Jules Armand Dufaure (1798), Francis Ponge (1899), Walter V, Count of Brienne (1278), Antoine de Chézy (1718), Honoré V, Prince of Monaco (1778), and Albert Robida (1848). After him are Roberto Alagna (1963), Constance of France, Princess of Antioch (1078), Sophie Calle (1953), Charles Joshua Chaplin (1825), Pierre Vernier (1580), and Charles, Prince Napoléon (1950).

Among ACTORS In France

Among actors born in France, Étienne Decroux ranks 163Before him are Gérard Blain (1930), Dany Boon (1966), Daniel Gélin (1921), Jean-Pierre Marielle (1932), Pierre Barouh (1934), and Marie-José Nat (1940). After him are Henri Vidal (1919), Irène Jacob (1966), Édith Scob (1937), Vernon Dobtcheff (1934), Sabine Azéma (1949), and Pierre Étaix (1928).