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Pierre Brasseur (22 December 1905 – 16 August 1972), born Pierre-Albert Espinasse, was a French actor.
Pierre-Albert Espinasse, dit Pierre Brasseur, né le 22 décembre 1905 à Paris et mort le 14 août 1972 à Brunico , est un acteur français. Membre d'une dynastie de comédiens célèbres , il est le père de Claude Brasseur , lui-même père d' Alexandre Brasseur .
Pierre Brasseur was born on 22 December 1905 in Paris, France. He was an actor and writer, known for Eyes Without a Face (1960), Children of Paradise (1945) and Gates of the Night (1946). He was married to Lina Magrini and Odette Joyeux.
Pierre Brasseur was a French stage and motion-picture actor. The son of an actress whose maiden name he adopted, Brasseur began his long career on the stage and, by the 1920s, had leading roles in such films as Madame Sans-Gêne (1925) and Le Sexe faible (1933; “The Weak Sex”).
I n a stage and film career spanning fifty years, with appearances in around 80 films - from the Golden Age of cinema up to the upheavals of the 1960s - Pierre Brasseur is regarded as one of the finest French actors of his generation.
