Georges Flamant

Georges Flamant — Biography

Over roughly thirty years on screen, from 1931 to 1959, Georges Flamant worked as a French film and stage actor; he was born in Tunis. He is remembered above all for playing the pimp in Jean Renoir's La Chienne (1931), while his last film performance was in François Truffaut's New Wave drama The 400 Blows (1959), where he played Mr. Bigey, René's father.

He found regular work in French productions through the 1930s: The Faceless Voice (1933), The Dying Land (1936) and The Kings of Sport (1937) were followed in 1938 by Women's Prison, Gibraltar, The Puritan and The Strange Monsieur Victor. During the war years he appeared in films such as Vénus aveugle (1941) and A Woman in the Night (1943), and in the following decade in Eleven Men and a Ball (1948), Operation Magali (1953) and Three Days to Live (1958), in which he played Inspector Segalier.

On the set of La Chienne he began a relationship with his co-star Janie Marèse; while the two were on holiday in the south of France their car crashed and Marèse was killed. Flamant was heavily criticised in the press over the tragedy and was shunned by parts of the film community for years. He later married the star Viviane Romance and appeared alongside her in several productions. He died in 1990.