Christian Le Guillochet

Christian Le Guillochet (20 September 1933 in Albi – 10 February 2011 in Paris) was a French actor, playwright and theatre director.

With his wife , he created the cultural center in Paris.

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Born in Albi in 1933 from a railway father and a nursing mother, he was a worker when he was summoned to fight in Algeria. Back in France, he attended evening classes and obtained a degree in technical and commercial engineering. He took drama classes to cure his shyness. In 1963, Robert Dhéry noticed and engaged him in Grosse Valse. He learned much by observing the star of the show, Louis de Funès.

In 1964, he founded a first café-théâtre, then "Le Lucernaire" in 1968, near the Montparnasse métro station, rue d'Odessa. Ten years later, expelled because of the construction of the Montparnasse Tower, he installed "Le Lucernaire" at 53 rue Notre-Dame des Champs.

In the 1970s, he began a long-term friendship with Laurent Terzieff to whom he entrusted the artistic direction of the Lucernaire for five years.

On 5 November 2003, on the evening of the premiere of Subvention, a play by in which he embodied a theater director, he started a hunger strike so that the city of Paris and the Ministry of Culture did not cut subsidies to the "Lucernaire". In 2004, his wife died, and, at age 70, he sold the "Lucernaire" to the group owner of the publishing house L'Harmattan.

Filmography 1964: Heaven on One's Head, by Yves Ciampi 1966: Le Solitaire passe à l'attaque, by Ralph Habib 1968: Le Débutant, by Daniel Daert 1969: Ciné-Girl, by Francis Leroi - Michaël 1971: La Part des lions, by Jean Larriaga 1976: Monsieur Sade, by Jacques Robin

Television 1966: Illusions perdues, by Maurice Cazeneuve - Horace Bienchon 1967: The Flashing Blade, by Yannick Andréi - episodes 6 to 9 and 12 - Robiro 1968: Le Tribunal de l'Impossible : Nostradamus prophète en son pays, by Pierre Badel 1969: Que ferait donc Faber ? byt Dolorès Grassian 1970: Quentin Durward, by Gilles Grangier - Le Glorieux 1972: Vassa Geleznova, by Pierre Badel - Piaterkine 1980: Façades, by Jacques Robin - Angelo Sordi 1981: Mon meilleur Noël - episode : L'Oiseau bleu, by Gabriel Axel - Le Peuplier

Books 1995: L'oiseau éventail, , Prix Emmanuel Roblès 1996 2006: 50 ans de Théâtre, depuis l'impasse Odessa jusqu'à la rue Notre-Dame des Champs, Éditions L'Harmattan 2008: Le Chien citoyen, L'Harmattan