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      • Paul Mounet (5 October 1847 – 10 February 1922), born Jean-Paul Sully, was a French actor.


      Biography


      The younger brother of actor Jean Mounet-Sully, Paul was born in Bergerac, Dordogne, and studied to become a medical doctor prior to his career in acting, only making his debut in 1880 in Paris Odéon's production of Horace. It was in 1889 that he first played at the Comédie Française, of which he became sociétaire two years later. Mounet garnered acclaim for his roles in Les Érinnyes, L'Arlésienne, Othello, Patrie, Hamlet, La Furie, Anthony, Le Roi, L'Enigme, Le Dédale, and Œdipe Roi.
      Mounet appeared in a number of films, including playing the title character in a 1909 silent black-and-white version of Macbeth, directed by acclaimed French director André Calmettes.
      He served as a professor at the Paris Conservatoire, teaching, among others, Pierre Fresnay, Valentine Tessier, Hélène Dieudonné, Daniel Mendaille, Françoise Rosay, and Marioara Ventura and became a Chevalier in the Legion of Honour.
      Mounet died of heart disease on February 10, 1922.


      Filmography



      1909: Rigoletto
      1909: Macbeth as Macbeth
      1909: The Return of Ulysses as Ulysses
      1910: L'Héritière as Louis XI
      1912: Les Jacobites
      1917: Par la vérité


      Theater


      1909: La Furie by Jules Bois, Comédie-Française
      1913: Yvonic by Paul Ferrier and Jeanne Ferrier, Comédie-Française
      1920: Romeo and Juliet by William Shakespeare, Comédie-Française


      References




      External links


      Paul Mounet at IMDb
      This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Gilman, D. C.; Peck, H. T.; Colby, F. M., eds. (1905). New International Encyclopedia (1st ed.). New York: Dodd, Mead. {{cite encyclopedia}}: Missing or empty |title= (help)

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