Charles Denner Movies and Career Information

Charles Denner (29 May 1926 – 10 September 1995) was a French actor born to a Jewish family in Poland. During his 30-year career he worked with some of the greatest France's directors of his time, including Louis Malle, Claude Chabrol, Jean-Luc Godard, Costa-Gavras, Claude Lelouch and François Truffaut who gave him two of his most memorable roles, as Fergus in The Bride Wore Black (1968) and Bertrand Morane in The Man Who Loved Women (1977). He was born in 1926 in the city of Tarnów in South-eastern Poland, before immigrating with his family to France, at the age of four. During World War II, his family took refuge in Brive-la-Gaillarde, where they were helped by Rabbi David Feuerwerker. Passionate with theater from his childhood, he became a student of Charles Dullin, a famous theater teacher of his time, under whose guidance he remained until 1945. Another great personality of French theater Jean Vilar, impressed by his performance at Les mamelles de Tirésias (The Breasts of Tiresias) called him four years after he left Vilar to join the Théâtre National Populaire (TNP). It was there that he gave some of his most early stage performances in plays such as Heinrich von Kleist's