Pierre Renoir

Pierre Renoir
Pierre Renoir
	Renoir in 1943
Born	March 21, 1885; Paris, France
Died	March 11, 1952 (aged 66); Paris, France
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1907–1952
Spouse	Véra Sergine (m. 1914; div. 1925)
Children	Claude Renoir
Parent(s)	Pierre-Auguste Renoir; Aline Charigot
Relatives	Jean Renoir (brother); Sophie Renoir (granddaughter)

Pierre Renoir (March 21, 1885 – March 11, 1952) 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 March 21, 1885, in Paris, at 18 rue Houdon, about a hundred meters from place Pigalle, to painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Aline Charigot.^[1] He was married to actress Véra Sergine from 1914 to 1925.

For his best remembered role, as Jėricho the ragman in Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du Paradis, 1945), 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 (1913–93)^[2]—not to be confused with Pierre's brother Claude Renoir, known as 'Coco' (1901–69).^[3]

Selected filmography

Pierre Renoir in the American trailer for *Children of Paradise* (1945)

La Digue (1911, Short) - Pierre Wallen
Les deux gosses (1916) - Le lieutenant Jacques d'Alboise
Marion Delorme (1918) - Le roi Louis XIII
The Whirlpool of Fate (1925) - Farmer
Morgane, the Enchantress (1928)
Night at the Crossroads (1932) - Le commissaire Maigret
The Agony of the Eagles (1933) - Montander
Madame Bovary (1934) - Charles Bovary
La Route impériale (1935) - Maj. Hudson
Tovaritch (1935) - Gorotchenko
La Bandera (1935) - Le capitaine Weller
Veille d'armes (1935) - Le commandant Brambourg
Under Western Eyes (1936) - Un Policier
Wolves Between Them (1936) - Gottfried Welter
When Midnight Strikes (1936) - Jean Verdier
De Man Zonder Hart (1937) - Sourdier
Widow's Island (1937) - Ralph Berry
Boissière (1937) - Le général baron von Hubner
The Citadel of Silence (1937) - Le colonel-comte Stepan Iporievitch
Mollenard (1938) - Bonnerot
La Marseillaise (1938) - Le Roi de France Louis XVI
Légions d'honneur (1938) - L'avocat Dumas
White Nights in Saint Petersburg (1938) - Ivan Borowsky
The Lafarge Case (1938) - Charles Lafarge
The Patriot (1938) - Le comte de Pahlen
Satan's Paradise (1938) - Paraíso de Satã (1938) - Aristophélès
La Piste du sud (1938) - Stolberg
La Maison du Maltais (1938) - L'archéologue André Chervin
The Rebel (1938) - Capitaine Yorritz
Serge Panine (1939) - Cayrol
Coral Reefs (1939) - Abboy
Nord-Atlantique (1939) - Le capitaine Jeff Cooper
Personal Column (1939) - Brémontière
Nadia la femme traquée (1940) - Daminoff
Those of the Sky (1941) - Pierron
L'embuscade (1941) - Jean Guéret
The Pavilion Burns (1941) - Jourdinsse
Foolish Husbands (1941) - Jules Donaldo
Macao, l'enfer du jeu (1942) - Werner von Krall (1942 version only)
The Law of Spring (1942) - Frédéric Villaret
The Newspaper Falls at Five O'Clock (1942) - François Marchal
The Trump Card (1942) - Rudy Score
L'appel du bled (1942) - Michaud
The Wolf of the Malveneurs (1943) - Reginald de Malveneur
Madame et le mort (1943) - Charles de Bruine
Tornavara (1943) - Sigurd Framrus
Traveling Light (1944) - Georges Renaud
Les Enfants du paradis (1945) - Jéricho
Father Goriot (1945) - Vautrin
St. Val's Mystery (1945) - Le docteur Dartignac
Marie la Misère (1945) - Pierre Desormes
Resistance (1945) - Le colonel
Special Mission (1946) - Landberg alias Moravetz - le chef du réseau d'espionnage alleman
The Captain (1946) - Le duc d'Angoulême
Coincidences (1947) - Monsieur Bardolas
Les trafiquants de la mer (1947) - Le prince Boris Mentischev
Secret Cargo (1947) - Le préfet de police
The Eleven O'Clock Woman (1948) - Le docteur Gérard Pescara
La grande volière (1948) - Vallette
Scandal on the Champs-Élysées (1949) - Dominique Airelle
The Mystery of the Yellow Room (1949) - Professeur Stangerson
The Farm of Seven Sins (1949) - Le procureur Edmond de Chancey
The Ferret (1950) - Le docteur Darvel-Juste
Death Threat (1950) - Bernier
Dr. Knock (1951) - Le pharmacien Mousquet
Judgement of God (1952) - Le duc Ernest de Bavière (final film role)

References

^ Pharisien, Bernard (November 2003). Pierre Renoir (in French). Bar-sur-Aube: Némont. ISBN 978-2-913163-10-2. OCLC 70158287. Archived from the original on December 5, 2008. Retrieved April 24, 2010.
^ Eric Pace "Claude Renoir, 79, A Cinematographer With a Painter's Eye", New York Times, 13 September 1993
^ "Renoir mss., ca. 1913-1968", Indiana University Online Archives

External links

Pierre Renoir at IMDb

[pharisien-1] Pharisien, Bernard (November 2003). Pierre Renoir (in French). Bar-sur-Aube: Némont. ISBN 978-2-913163-10-2. OCLC 70158287. Archived from the original on December 5, 2008. Retrieved April 24, 2010.

[2] Eric Pace "Claude Renoir, 79, A Cinematographer With a Painter's Eye", New York Times, 13 September 1993

[3] "Renoir mss., ca. 1913-1968", Indiana University Online Archives

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v t e Pierre-Auguste Renoir
Paintings	List of paintings Portrait of William Sisley (1864) Mother Anthony's Tavern (1866) Diana (1867) Lise with a Parasol (1867) Frédéric Bazille at his Easel (1867) A Couple (Les Fiancés) (1868) In Summer (1868) Skaters in the Bois de Boulogne (1868) Léonard Renoir, The Artist's Father (1869) La Grenouillère (1869) A Nymph by a Stream (1869-70) L'Algérienne (1870) La Promenade (1870) Bather with a Griffon Dog (1870) Woman with Parakeet (1871) The Harem (1872) Le Pont-Neuf (1872) The Gust of Wind (1872) Claude Monet Painting in His Garden at Argenteuil (1873) La Parisienne (1874) La Loge (1874) The Grand Boulevards (1875) Portrait of the Painter Claude Monet (1875) In the Garden - Under the Arbour at the Moulin de la Galette (1875) Woman with a Cat (1875) Bal du moulin de la Galette (1876) Nude woman sitting on a couch (Anna) (1876) The Swing (1876) A Girl with a Watering Can (1876) Mother and Children (1876) At the Theatre (1876–1877) Eugène Murer (1877) The Day Dream (1877) The Cup of Chocolate (1878) Madame Georges Charpentier and Her Children (1878) Portrait of Jeanne Samary (1878) Lunch at the Restaurant Fournaise (1879) Paysage Bords de Seine (1879) Portrait of Irène Cahen d'Anvers (La Petite Irène) (1880) Luncheon of the Boating Party (1881) Pink and Blue (1881) Two Sisters (On the Terrace) (1881) Young Women in Black (1880–1882) Blonde Bather (1881 and 1882) The Umbrellas (1880–81, 1885–86) By the Seashore (1883) Dance at Bougival (1883) Dance in the City (1883) Dance in the Country (1883) Les Grandes Baigneuses (1884–1887) Nature morte: fleurs (1885) The Braid (1886–1887) Young Woman with a Blue Ribbon (1888) Girls at the Piano (1892) Yvonne and Christine Lerolle at the Piano (1897) Woman Playing a Guitar (1897) Gabrielle with Open Blouse (1907) Nude (1910) After the Bath (1910) The Coast at Cagnes, Sea, Mountains (c. 1910) Portrait of Ambroise Vollard in a Red Headscarf (1911) The Farm at Les Collettes, Cagnes (c. 1908–1914) Blond Girl with a Rose (1915–1917) Portrait of Adèle Besson (1918) The Bathers (1918–19)
Sculptures	Venus Victorious (c. 1914)
Portrayals	A Studio at Les Batignolles (1870 painting) Bazille's Studio (1870 painting) The Impressionists (2006 series) Renoir (2012 film)
Family	Aline Charigot (wife) Lucienne Bisson (daughter) Pierre Renoir (son) Jean Renoir (son) Claude Renoir (son) Claude Renoir (grandson) Alain Renoir (grandson) Pierre Roland Renoir (great-grandson) Sophie Renoir (great-granddaughter)
Related	Musée de Montmartre, home and studio Gabrielle Renard (nanny, later model) Lise Tréhot Marguerite Legrand Catherine Hessling Richard Guino Jeanne Samary Suzanne Valadon Henriette Henriot Jane Henriot (child model) Raoul Rigault Jeanne Baudot (his only student) Maison Fournaise Pays des Impressionnistes Renoir (crater)

v t e Jean Renoir
Silent films	The Whirlpool of Fate (1925) Nana (1926) Marquitta (1927) The Little Match Girl (1928) Le Bled (1929)
Sound films	On purge bébé (1931) La Chienne (1931) Night at the Crossroads (1932) Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932) Chotard and Company (1933) Madame Bovary (1934) Toni (1935) Life Belongs to Us (1936) The Crime of Monsieur Lange (1936) The Lower Depths (1936) La Grande Illusion (1937) La Marseillaise (1938) La Bête Humaine (1938) The Rules of the Game (1939) Swamp Water (1941) This Land Is Mine (1943) The Southerner (1945) The Diary of a Chambermaid (1946) "Partie de campagne" (1946) The Woman on the Beach (1947) The River (1951) The Golden Coach (1952) French Cancan (1955) Elena and Her Men (1956) The Doctor's Horrible Experiment (1959) Picnic on the Grass (1959) The Elusive Corporal (1962) The Little Theatre of Jean Renoir (1970)
Related	Bibliography Louis Lumière / conversation avec Langlois et Renoir Catherine Hessling (wife) Alain Renoir (son) Pierre-Auguste Renoir (father) Aline Charigot Renoir (mother) Pierre Renoir (brother) Gabrielle Renard Marguerite Renoir

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Pierre Renoir
Renoir in 1943
Born	(1885-03-21)March 21, 1885 Paris, France
Died	March 11, 1952(1952-03-11) (aged 66) Paris, France
Occupation	Actor
Years active	1907–1952
Spouse	Véra Sergine (m. 1914; div. 1925)
Children	Claude Renoir
Parent(s)	Pierre-Auguste Renoir Aline Charigot
Relatives	Jean Renoir (brother) Sophie Renoir (granddaughter)