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François Darbon
Acting

François Darbon
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1915-08-15,Paris, France
Gender
Male
Biography
François Darbon is a French actor, director, and writer. In 1938, François Darbon began his first theatrical experiences in Tunis. With a company of amateur actors, he performed for three evenings at the municipal theatre. The following day, nostalgic for those nights on stage, he decided to make it his profession. In September 1939, during his military service near Biarritz, he met the man he would never leave, André Clavé, who, like him, had been mobilized as a Reserve Officer Cadet. Their friendship was born through discussions about theatre, and at a time when André Clavé had temporarily set aside the troupe he had founded in 1936, the company Les Comédiens de la Roulotte, with Geneviève Wronecki-Kellershohn, Jean Desailly—then a very young amateur beginner—and a few others. François Darbon would meet them again in September 1940 to perform La paix chez soi. The following month, the troupe joined the Jeune France movement, and they finally began a life as professional actors. They were joined in February 1941 by Jean Vilar, who agreed to come to La Roulotte “simply as a writer,” and by Hélène Gerber, both students of Charles Dullin. Thanks to financial support from Jeune France, the troupe went on a theatrical tour through central France during the summer of 1941. In the summer of 1942, La Roulotte set off again, touring Brittany and central France, but this time without subsidies, as Jeune France had been dissolved at the end of winter. For security reasons, Clavé was then forced to leave his own company a year after joining a Resistance network, the Brutus network. François Darbon used the final years of the war to study under Charles Dullin. After the war, he reunited with André Clavé. Having returned from the Nazi camps of Buchenwald and Dora, Clavé was asked in 1946 by Jeanne Laurent to reconstitute his troupe, Les Comédiens de la Roulotte, to conduct exploratory tours. She later asked him to replace Roland Piétri as director of the Centre Dramatique de l’Est in Colmar. Darbon took part in all these ventures until the end of December 1952, when Michel Saint-Denis replaced Clavé. Darbon and Clavé then founded the Clavé-Darbon Company together and performed in France and Germany until 1955, when André Clavé was forced to leave the theatre to pursue other paths. François Darbon then followed a more solitary path, working from production to production and film to film. He would nonetheless cross paths with Clavé again—both men bound by unwavering loyalty—when Clavé asked him to train African radio announcers in diction at the school he directed, the Studio-École (a school created by Pierre Schaeffer in preparation for decolonization). At 25, Darbon married the lovely Nathalie Manoyloff, of Russian origin. They had a daughter, Sophie. Sophie Darbon is an author, actress, and director like her father. She recently published a children’s tale, Sotisette Planplan et la clé des fées, with Edilivre, dedicated to her parents.

Filmography

Antoine and Colette

7.2

Antoine and Colette
1962-06-22

7.29

Stolen Kisses
1968-09-04

6.75

Love at Twenty
1962-06-22

Be Beautiful and Shut Up

5.5

Be Beautiful and Shut Up
1958-05-07

Hi-Jack Highway

6.444

Hi-Jack Highway
1955-10-18

Don't Tempt the Devil

6.2

Don't Tempt the Devil
1963-04-17

That's Show Business

6.769

That's Show Business
1975-10-24

7.594

The Fugitives
1955-05-10

5.643

The Boss
1960-05-31

5.5

Virgile
1953-11-18

Operation Abduction

6.5

Operation Abduction
1958-10-08

Les Rosenberg ne doivent pas mourir

8

Les Rosenberg ne doivent pas mourir
1975-05-24

I'll Get Back to Kandara

9

I'll Get Back to Kandara
1956-12-20

Rock or the Curse

0

Rock or the Curse
1973-02-06

More Whiskey for Callaghan

6.5

More Whiskey for Callaghan
1955-12-07

The Fabiani Affair

6.2

The Fabiani Affair
1962-01-24

10

Gypsy Law
1963-05-24

Requiem pour un caïd

6.333

Requiem pour un caïd
1964-07-25

6.611

Father's Trip
1966-09-16

10

Iphigénie
1968-07-23

The Road to Shame

6.077

The Road to Shame
1959-04-30

A Legitimate Defense

5.75

A Legitimate Defense
1958-06-11

The Mask of the Gorilla

6.145

The Mask of the Gorilla
1958-08-14

Sept hommes en enfer

8

Sept hommes en enfer
1981-01-01

7.18

Les Misérables
1958-03-12

6

The Hussars
1955-12-14

The Elusive Corporal

6.429

The Elusive Corporal
1962-05-23

Trial at the Vatican

7.5

Trial at the Vatican
1952-08-29

The Desert of Pigalle

4.7

The Desert of Pigalle
1958-04-02

Richelieu ou La journée des dupes

8

Richelieu ou La journée des dupes
1983-01-05

Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre

6.5

Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre
1967-09-15

The Accursed Kings

8

The Accursed Kings
1972-12-21

Die Schatzinsel

8.1

Die Schatzinsel
1966-12-25