Félix Galipaux

Félix Galipaux (12 December 1860 – 7 December 1931) was a French actor, playwright, and humorist; known for his comic stage monologues, such as Communication Telephonique (Paris, 1906). A few of these monologues were recorded.

Biography Galipaux was born in Bordeaux, and educated in Bordeaux and Paris.

He wrote some forty plays produced in Parisian theatres. Galipaux was also one of the founding members of the Cercle Funambulesque and was linked to the Incoherents movement. Galipaux later acted in films by Ferdinand Zecca and by Georges Méliès, such as An Adventurous Automobile Trip. The historian Georges Sadoul reported that Pathé Frères featured Galipaux in some of the first French sound films, such as La Lettre and Au Telephone (1905). Méliès also reported that it was the monologues of Galipaux and Coquelin that inspired the comic style of his own productions. Galipaux himself said about the art of comic pantomime: "the mime certain of pleasing the public is the one whose means are simple and varied, his gestures restrained, hardly perceptible, but extraordinarily suggestive!" For his work, Galipaux was awarded the title of Officier de l'Instruction Publique in the Ordre des Palmes Académiques. thumb