Jean Anouilh
Personal Info
Know For
Writing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1910-06-23 (77 years old)
Deathday
1987-10-03
Place of Birth
Bordeaux, Gironde, France
Also known As
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Jean Anouilh
Biography
Jean Marie Lucien Pierre Anouilh (23 June 1910 – 3 October 1987) was a French dramatist whose career spanned five decades. Though his work ranged from high drama to absurdist farce, Anouilh is best known for his 1944 play Antigone, an adaptation of Sophocles' classical drama, that was seen as an attack on Marshal Pétain's Vichy government. His plays are less experimental than those of his contemporaries, having clearly organized plot and eloquent dialogue. One of France's most prolific writers after World War II, much of Anouilh's work deals with themes of maintaining integrity in a world of moral compromise. Anouilh was born in Cérisole, a ...
Acting
1933
as The cap art lover
Production
1948
as Writer
1972
as Writer
1947
as Writer
1964
as Theatre Play
1939
as Dialogue
1952
as Dialogue
1951
as Writer
1966
as Theatre Play
1974
as Writer
1968
as Theatre Play
1944
as Director
1944
as Writer
1945
as Screenplay
1965
as Screenplay
2008
as Writer
1939
as Screenplay
1964
as Screenplay
1964
as Theatre Play
1972
as Writer
1961
as Writer
1957
as Writer
1937
as Screenplay
1973
as Writer
1986
as Author
1981
as Writer
1957
as Writer
1949
as Scenario Writer
1953
as Writer
1972
as Theatre Play
2012
as Theatre Play
1951
as Director
1951
as Dialogue
1968
as Writer
1952
as Theatre Play
1979
as Writer
1943
as Screenplay
2004
as Book
2003
as Writer
1962
as Theatre Play
1937
as Dialogue
1961
as Screenplay
1979
as Original Story
2003
as Author
1958
as Writer
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