Gil-Pérès

Gil-Pérès

Gil-Pérès in the role of Cascaro (Les trois fils de Cadet-Roussel) : portrait by Lhéritier (1860)
Born Jules-Charles Pérès Jolin
9 July 1822
Paris
Died 30 January 1882(1882-01-30) (aged 59)
Vanves
Occupation Stage actor

Gil-Pérès, real name Jules-Charles Pérès Jolin, (9 July 1822 – 30 January 1882) was a 19th-century French stage actor and vaudevilliste, who was a member of the troupe of the Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris in the mid-19th century, and created several roles in Offenbach operettas.

He was also noted for his collaboration in the plays of Labiche, often as servants.

He was buried in Passy Cemetery, where his epitaph is « le connaître, c’était l’aimer » ("to know him was to love him"); the monument was by Amédée Donatien Doublemard.[1]

He is portrayed in the 1977 French television series 'Les Folies Offenbach' by Christian Marin.

Some roles

References

  1. Cimetières de France page for GIL-PERÈS accessed 20 May 2016
  2. Henri Meilhac et Ludovic Halévy, Théâtre vol. V, Calmann-Lévy, 1900 (p. 367-424).
  3. Henri Meilhac and Ludovic Halévy, Théâtre vol. VII, Calmann-Lévy, 1902.
  4. Yon, Jean-Claude. Jacques Offenbach. Editions Gallimard, Paris, 2000, p297.
  5. Henri Meilhac et Ludovic Halévy, La Vie parisienne, Michel Lévy frères, 1867 (2nd edition).
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