Jules Auguste Muraire dit Raimu is a French theater and film actor featured on stamp
Birth : 18/12/1883 – Deceased : 20/09/1946
Jules Auguste Muraire dit Raimu is a French theater and film actor, born on 18 December 1883 in Toulon (Var) and died on 20 September 1946 in Neuilly-sur-Seine (Hauts -de-Seine).
From his youngest age, Jules, closed to all discipline, comes to life only during the revelations where, for his comrades, he improvises as storyteller, singer or comic trooper. But when he dares to say to his father: “Later, I’ll do like Mayol, I’ll sing on stage!”, It’s to be answered: “Never in life. I do not want you to starve!” Giving pledges to his family by getting acquainted with the tapestry, the teenager, every weekend, puts on cafes-concerts under the pseudonym of Rallum. Rodant his cabaret numbers, he runs the stamp and is forced to play the blowers when a replacement actor is worth his first triumph. Now a member of a company, the one who renamed himself Raimu is noticed by his idol, Mayol, who is a troupe of southern artists in Paris.
Mobilized in 1914 and reformed, he met Georges FEYDEAU in a bar near the Saint-Lazare station. The playwright hires him for a cover of “Monsieur chasse!” who decides on his career. At 32, the comedian becomes a star of the boards. Miss SPINELLY, the glory of light journals, makes her her lover and the greatest writers tear her off.
In the image of Sacha GUITRY, who says of him:”Raimu is an admirable instinctive actor, he can do anything on stage, assured that he is not to be mistaken, being of the great lineage of natural actors.” Dressed in the latest fashion, dining at Maxim’s but counting his money, Jules, uneducated, cunning, big mouth sensitive and intuitive, begins to be wrong when he receives, in 1928, the visit of a author of Aubagne. Marcel PAGNOL tells Raimu the story of his last creation,”Marius”, which he hopes to ride with him. Repetitive to the idea of interpreting”a gossip”, the comedian deceives. The immense success of”Topaz”sees him re-examine his judgment. Raimu agrees to play in”Marius”, but on his terms. Thus he refuses the role of Panisse, which was destined for him, in favour of that of Caesar.
Soon married to Esther who made her father a little Paulette, Jules becomes a star thanks to the adaptation, in 1931, of the play of PAGNOL on big screen.
A music hall star at the beginning, he became one of the”sacred monsters”of the French cinema of the 1930s and the first half of the 1940s, becoming especially the interpreter-fetiche of Marcel PAGNOL. Raimu thus remained in the memories for his interpretation of the role of Cesar, father of Marius, in the”trilogy of Marseilles”(Marius (1931), Fanny (1932) and CÃ? © © sar (1936)) 1 and that of the baker deceived in La Femme du boulanger (1938).
Never has any director been able to change the personality of Raimu. It was always him who imposed his presence and his game which did not prevent him from writing pages which are among the most important of the French cinema. For Orson Welles, he personified the greatest French actor. Also at ease in the troubled and cold character of the strange Mr. Victor (1938) as alcoholic lawyer of the Unknown in the house (1941). His passage during the war to the Comédie Française shows that he knows no limit. Except the one fixed by fate. Who could have predicted that a banal anesthesia following a tibia operation in 1946 would be fatal to him?
RAIMU appeared in :
1946 – L’Homme au chapeau rond
1946 – Les Gueux au paradis
1943 – Untel père et fils
1943 – Le Colonel Chabert
1942 – Monsieur La Souris
1942 – Le Bienfaiteur
1942 – Les Petits riens
1942 – L’Arlésienne
1941 – Les Inconnus dans la maison
1941 – Parade en 7 nuits
1940 – La Fille du puisatier
1940 – L’Homme qui cherche la vérité
1939 – Dernière jeunesse
1939 – Le Duel
1939 – Monsieur Brotonneau
1938 – La Femme du boulanger
1938 – Noix de coco
1938 – Le Héros de la Marne
1937 – Gribouille
1937 – Les Rois du sport
1937 – Un carnet de bal
1937 – Les Perles de la couronne
1937 – La Chaste Suzanne
1937 – L’Étrange Monsieur Victor
1937 – Le Fauteuil 47
1937 – Vous n’avez rien à déclarer ?
1936 – Le Roi
1936 – César
1936 – Les Nouveaux riches
1936 – Faisons un rêve
1936 – Le Secret de Polichinelle
1936 – Les Jumeaux de Brighton
1935 – L’École des cocottes
1935 – Gaspard de Besse
1934 – Tartarin de Tarascon
1934 – Ces messieurs de la santé
1934 – J’ai une idée
1933 – Théodore & Cie
1933 – Charlemagne
1932 – Fanny
1932 – La Petite chocolatière
1932 – Les Gaîtés de l’escadron
1931 – Mam’zelle Nitouche
1931 – Marius
1930 – Le Blanc et le Noir
