Suzanne Flon

French actress

Suzanne Flon

Born| (1918-01-28)28 January 1918

Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France

Died| 15 June 2005(2005-06-15) (aged 87)

Paris, France

Resting place| Père Lachaise Cemetery
Other names| Sizan Flon
Occupation| Actress
Years active| 1941–1999

Suzanne Flon (28 January 1918 – 15 June 2005) was a French stage, film, and television actress. She won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress for her performance in the 1961 film Thou Shalt Not Kill. Flon also received two César Awards and two Molière Awards in her career.

## Contents

* 1 Early life
* 2 Theatre roles
* 3 Filmography
* 4 Awards and nominations
* 4.1 César Awards
* 4.2 Molière Awards
* 4.3 Venice Film Festival
* 5 Tributes
* 6 References
* 7 External links

## Early life[edit]

Her father was a railway worker and her mother crafted jewellery. Prior to becoming an actress, Flon worked as an English translator at the Paris department store Au Printemps and then as personal secretary to Édith Piaf. The great love of her life was the legendary film director John Huston. She never married.

## Theatre roles[edit]

Flon's stage credits included plays by Jean Anouilh (L'Alouette,[1] Antigone,[2] Roméo et Jeannette[3]), André Roussin (La Petite Hutte), and Loleh Bellon (La Chambre d'amis, Les Dames du jeudi, Changement à vue, and Une Absence). Her English-language theatrical roles included Katherine (The Taming of the Shrew) and Rosalind (As You Like It).[4]

## Filmography[edit]

Year  | Title  | Role  | Director  | Notes

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1941  | Ce n'est pas moi | Petit rôle  | Jacques de Baroncelli | Uncredited
1943  | Colonel Chabert | Albertine  | René Le Hénaff | Uncredited
1947  | Captain Blomet |  | Andrée Feix |
1949  | Suzanne and the Robbers | Suzanne Seguin  | Yves Ciampi |
Last Love | Simone  | Jean Stelli |
Cage of Girls | Madame Edith  | Maurice Cloche |
1950  | Bed for Two; Rendezvous with Luck | Blanche Pidoux-Bobin  | Emil-Edwin Reinert |
1951  | The Beautiful Image | Lucienne Chenal  | Claude Heymann  |
1952  | La vie de Sainte Thérèse de Lisieux | Mother Agnès de Jésus  | André Haguet |
Moulin Rouge | Myriamme Hayam  | John Huston |
1954  | Your Favorite Story |  | Leslie Goodwins & Jacques Nahum  | TV Series (1 Episode)
1955  | Mr. Arkadin | Baroness Nagel  | Orson Welles |
1958  | Prisons de femmes |  | Maurice Cloche (2)  |
1960  | Un beau dimanche de septembre | Adriana  | Marcel Cravenne  | TV movie
1961  | Tu ne tueras point | Kordijeova's mother  | Claude Autant-Lara | Volpi Cup for Best Actress
Madame se meurt | Narrator  | Jean Cayrol & Claude Durand  | Short
Famous Love Affairs | Margravine Ursula  | Michel Boisrond | (segment "Agnès Bernauer")
1962  | Le mal court | Alcarica  | Alain Boudet  | TV movie
A Monkey in Winter | Suzanne Quentin  | Henri Verneuil |
The Trial | Miss Pittl  | Orson Welles (2)  |
1963  | The Bread Peddler | Jeanne Fortier  | Maurice Cloche (3)  |
Nutty, Naughty Chateau | Agathe  | Roger Vadim |
1964  | The Train | Mademoiselle Villard  | John Frankenheimer |
1967  | If I Were a Spy | Geneviève Laurent  | Bertrand Blier |
Le soleil des voyous | Marie-Jeanne Farrand  | Jean Delannoy |
1968  | Tante Zita | Yvette  | Robert Enrico |
Le franciscain de Bourges | Madame Toledano  | Claude Autant-Lara (2)  |
1969  | Délire à deux | Vous  | Michel Mitrani | TV movie
Under the Sign of the Bull | Christine Raynal  | Gilles Grangier |
Jeff | Mrs. de Groote  | Jean Herman |
La chasse royale | Céline  | François Leterrier |
1970  | Teresa | Teresa  | Gérard Vergez  | Taormina Film Fest - Best Acting Performance
1971  | Aussi loin que l'amour | The Captain  | Frédéric Rossif |
1973  | Les volets clos | Rosalie  | Jean-Claude Brialy |
Le silencieux | Jeanne  | Claude Pinoteau |
Au théâtre ce soir | Hélène  | Georges Folgoas  | TV Series (1 Episode)
1974  | Le tour d'écrou | Elizabeth Gridders  | Raymond Rouleau | TV movie
Les enquêtes du commissaire Maigret | Aline Callas  | Marcel Cravenne (2)  | TV Series (1 Episode)
Un amour de pluie | Madame Edith  | Jean-Claude Brialy (2)  |
Nouvelles de Henry James | Elizabeth  | Raymond Rouleau (2)  | TV Series (1 Episode)
1975  | Le voyage en province | Alain's mother  | Jacques Tréfouel  | TV movie
Le renard dans l'île | Aunt Martine  | Leïla Senati  | TV movie
1976  | Docteur Françoise Gailland | Geneviève Liénard  | Jean-Louis Bertucelli |
Monsieur Albert | Man-Louise  | Jacques Renard  |
Monsieur Klein | The concierge  | Joseph Losey |
Boomerang | Madame Grimaldi  | José Giovanni |
Hôtel Baltimore | Millie  | Arcady  | TV movie
1977  | La vérité de Madame Langlois | Thérèse  | Claude Santelli | TV movie
Black-Out | Barmaid  | Philippe Mordacq  |
1979  | Les héritiers | Jeanne  | Jean-Pierre Gallo  | TV Series (1 Episode)
1980  | Le noeud de vipères | Isa  | Jacques Trébouta  | TV movie
Une voix |  | Dominique Crèvecoeur  | Short
Le curé de Tours | Mademoiselle Gamard  | Gabriel Axel | TV movie
1981  | Quartet | Madame Hautchamp  | James Ivory |
Mon meilleur Noël | The grand mother  | Gabriel Axel (2)  | TV Series (1 Episode)
1983  | One Deadly Summer | Nine Cognata  | Jean Becker | César Award for Best Supporting Actress
1984  | Le dialogue des Carmélites | Madame de Croissy  | Pierre Cardinal | TV movie
Le coeur sur la main | Marcelle  | Hervé Baslé  | TV movie
Mademoiselle Clarisse | Mademoiselle Clarisse  | Ange Casta  | TV movie
7 d'Or for Best Actress
Le dernier civil | Mademoiselle Fabricius  | Laurent Heynemann  | TV movie
1985  | La robe mauve de Valentine | Marie  | Patrick Bureau  | TV movie
1986  | Cinéma 16 | Georgette  | Franck Apprederis  | TV Series (1 Episode)
Triple sec |  | Yves Thomas  | Short
1987  | Série noire | Renée  | Marcel Bluwal | TV Series (1 Episode)
Dagboek van een Oude Dwaas | Denise Hamelinck  | Lili Rademakers  |
Gigi | Madame Alvarez  | Jeannette Hubert  | TV movie
Chacun sa vérité | Madame Frola  | Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe  | TV movie
Noyade interdite | Hazelle  | Pierre Granier-Deferre |
1988  | En toute innocence | Clemence  | Alain Jessua |
1989  | La vouivre | Louise Muselier  | Georges Wilson | César Award for Best Supporting Actress
1990  | Gaspard et Robinson | Mamie  | Tony Gatlif |
1992  | Voyage à Rome | The mother  | Michel Lengliney  |
1999  | The Children of the Marshland | Old Cri Cri  | Jean Becker (2)  |
Je suis né d'une cigogne | The neighbor  | Tony Gatlif (2)  |
2001  | A Crime in Paradise | The mistress  | Jean Becker (3)  |
2002  | Le miroir d'Alice | Maura Le Bellec  | Marc Rivière | TV movie
Mille millièmes | Madame Chartreux  | Rémi Waterhouse  |
2003  | The Flower of Evil | Aunt Line  | Claude Chabrol |
Effroyables jardins | Marie Gerbier  | Jean Becker (4)  |
2004  | The Bridesmaid | Madame Crespin  | Claude Chabrol (2)  |
2005  | Joyeux Noël | Chatelaine  | Christian Carion |
2006  | Avenue Montaigne | Madame Roux  | Danièle Thompson | (final film role)

## Awards and nominations[edit]

### César Awards[edit]

Year | Category | Film | Result

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1984 | Best Supporting Actress | L'Été meurtrier | Won
1990 | La Vouivre | Won

### Molière Awards[edit]

Year | Category | Play | Result

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1987 | Best Actress | Léopold le bien-aimé | Won
1989 | Une absence | Nominated
1992 | L'Antichambre | Nominated
1995 | La Chambre d'amis | Won
2000 | L'Amante anglaise | Nominated

### Venice Film Festival[edit]

Year | Category | Film | Result

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1961  | Volpi Cup for Best Actress | Tu ne tueras point | Won[5]

## Tributes[edit]

Director Danièle Thompson dedicated Avenue Montaigne to Flon, who had here her last film appearance.[6] Writer-director John Huston described Flon as "the most extraordinary woman I have ever known."[7]

## References[edit]

1. ^ The title role, Jeanne d'Arc.
2. ^ Programme for original run of Antigone, 1944 on A.R.T, La Mémoire du théâtre, accessed 3 August 2019. She played Ismène in the 1944 premiere.
3. ^ She created Julia.
4. ^ Kirkup, James (3 September 2005). "Suzanne Flon". The Independent. Retrieved 2008-05-12.[dead link]
5. ^ Venice Film Festival website, http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/history/volpi.html
6. ^ French, Philip (25 February 2007). "Orchestra Seats". The Observer. Retrieved 2008-05-11.
7. ^ Playboy, "Playboy Interview", September 1985

## External links[edit]

* Biography portal

* Suzanne Flon at IMDb
* Suzanne Flon at AllMovie
* Suzanne Flon at Find a Grave
* "Obituary: Suzanne Flon (Article)"[dead link] at The Independent on 3 September 2005

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César Award for Best Supporting Actress

* 1976 Marie-France Pisier
* 1977 Marie-France Pisier
* 1978 Marie Dubois
* 1979 Stéphane Audran
* 1980 Nicole Garcia
* 1981 Nathalie Baye
* 1982 Nathalie Baye
* 1983 Fanny Cottençon
* 1984 Suzanne Flon
* 1985 Caroline Cellier
* 1986 Bernadette Lafont
* 1987 Emmanuelle Béart
* 1988 Dominique Lavanant
* 1989 Hélène Vincent
* 1990 Suzanne Flon
* 1991 Dominique Blanc
* 1992 Anne Brochet
* 1993 Dominique Blanc
* 1994 Valérie Lemercier
* 1995 Virna Lisi
* 1996 Annie Girardot
* 1997 Catherine Frot
* 1998 Agnès Jaoui
* 1999 Dominique Blanc
* 2000 Charlotte Gainsbourg
* 2001 Anne Alvaro
* 2002 Annie Girardot
* 2003 Karin Viard
* 2004 Julie Depardieu
* 2005 Marion Cotillard
* 2006 Cécile de France
* 2007 Valérie Lemercier
* 2008 Julie Depardieu
* 2009 Elsa Zylberstein
* 2010 Emmanuelle Devos
* 2011 Anne Alvaro
* 2012 Carmen Maura
* 2013 Valérie Benguigui
* 2014 Adèle Haenel
* 2015 Kristen Stewart
* 2016 Sidse Babett Knudsen
* 2017 Déborah Lukumuena
* 2018 Sara Giraudeau
* 2019 Karin Viard
* 2020 Fanny Ardant
* 2021 Émilie Dequenne
* 2022 Aissatou Diallo Sagna

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Volpi Cup for Best Actress

1932–1968|

* Helen Hayes (1932)
* Katharine Hepburn (1934)
* Paula Wessely (1935)
* Annabella (1936)
* Bette Davis (1937)
* Norma Shearer (1938)
* Luise Ullrich (1941)
* Kristina Söderbaum  (1942)
* Anna Magnani (1947)
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* Olivia de Havilland (1949)
* Eleanor Parker (1950)
* Vivien Leigh (1951)
* Ingrid Bergman (1952)
* Lilli Palmer (1953)
* Maria Schell (1956)
* Dzidra Ritenberga (1957)
* Sophia Loren (1958)
* Madeleine Robinson (1959)
* Shirley MacLaine (1960)
* Suzanne Flon (1961)
* Emmanuelle Riva (1962)
* Delphine Seyrig (1963)
* Harriet Andersson (1964)
* Annie Girardot (1965)
* Natalya Arinbasarova (1966)
* Shirley Knight (1967)
* Laura Betti (1968)

1983–2000|

* Darling Légitimus (1983)
* Pascale Ogier (1984)
* Valeria Golino (1986)
* Kang Soo-yeon (1987)
* Isabelle Huppert / Shirley MacLaine (1988)
* Peggy Ashcroft / Geraldine James (1989)
* Gloria Münchmeyer (1990)
* Tilda Swinton (1991)
* Gong Li (1992)
* Juliette Binoche / Anna Bonaiuto (1993)
* Maria de Medeiros / Vanessa Redgrave (1994)
* Sandrine Bonnaire / Isabelle Huppert / Isabella Ferrari (1995)
* Victoire Thivisol (1996)
* Robin Tunney (1997)
* Catherine Deneuve (1998)
* Nathalie Baye (1999)
* Rose Byrne (2000)

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* Sandra Ceccarelli (2001)
* Julianne Moore (2002)
* Katja Riemann (2003)
* Imelda Staunton (2004)
* Giovanna Mezzogiorno (2005)
* Helen Mirren (2006)
* Cate Blanchett (2007)
* Dominique Blanc (2008)
* Kseniya Rappoport (2009)
* Ariane Labed (2010)
* Deanie Ip (2011)
* Hadas Yaron (2012)
* Elena Cotta (2013)
* Alba Rohrwacher (2014)
* Valeria Golino (2015)
* Emma Stone (2016)
* Charlotte Rampling (2017)
* Olivia Colman (2018)
* Ariane Ascaride (2019)
* Vanessa Kirby (2020)
* Penélope Cruz (2021)

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