Pierre Renoir

For the Canadian painter, see Pierre Roland Renoir.

Pierre Renoir
Pierre Renoir in US trailer for Children Of Paradise (1945)
Born	(1885-03-21)21 March 1885 Paris, France
Died	11 March 1952(1952-03-11) (aged 66) Paris, France
Spouse	Vera Sergine

Pierre Renoir (21 March 1885 – 11 March 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.

Life and career

Pierre Renoir was born on 21 March 1885 in Paris, at 18 rue Houdon, about a hundred meters from place Pigalle, to painter Pierre-Auguste Renoir and Aline Charigot.

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)—not to be confused with Pierre's brother Claude Renoir, known as 'Coco' (1901–69).

Selected filmography

• La Digue (1911)
• The Whirlpool of Fate (1925)
• Morgane, the Enchantress (1928)
• The Agony of the Eagles (1933)
• Madame Bovary (1934)
• The Citadel of Silence (1937)
• La Marseillaise (1938)
• Mollenard (1938)
• The Lafarge Case (1938)
• The Patriot (1938)
• Personal Column (1939)
• Coral Reefs (1939)
• Serge Panine (1939)
• The Pavilion Burns (1941)
• The Trump Card (1942)
• Traveling Light (1944)
• St. Val's Mystery (1945)
• Les Enfants du paradis (1945)
• Special Mission (1946)
• The Captain (1946)
• The Farm of Seven Sins (1949)
• The Ferret (1950)
• Dr. Knock (1951)
• Judgement of God (1952)

External links

• Pierre Renoir at IMDb