The actor who made theater, series for television and acted in the cinema was one of the deans of French cinema.
Louis Velle, young first of the 60s and 70s who played and co-wrote many successful television soap operas (The Lady of Avignon) with his wife Frédérique Hébrard, died Thursday at the age of 96, his family announced Friday to AFP.
He “died at home, surrounded by his family, on February 2, 2023,” said his daughter Catherine in a press release sent to AFP. The actor who made theater, series for television and acted in the cinema was one of the deans of French cinema.
Born in 1926 in Paris, Louis Velle started his acting career very early. It was at the conservatory that he met his future wife, with whom he would live for more than 70 years.
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Star of “La Demoiselle d’Avignon”
After debuting in the cinema in the 1950s (I had 7 daughterswith Maurice Chevalier, The Quiet Corner with Dany Robin), he started writing for the small screen alongside his wife, a novelist.
One of their great successes was The Lady of Avignon (1972), with Marthe Keller, a soap opera which told in six episodes the loves of a mysterious princess from the North and a diplomat, as well as The Ambassador’s Husband (1990) or even The Castle of Olives (1993) with Brigitte Fossey…
Widely present in the theater, where he has created and played in more than 25 plays, he has also participated in the show many times. At the theater tonight. He also wrote for the theater as well as, in particular, a novel entitled My little wife which earned him the Alphonse Allais humor prize in 1954.
