Sacha Pitoëff
Actor
Born March 11, 1920 in Genève, Switzerland
Sacha Pitoëff (born Alexandre Pitoëff; 11 March 1920 – 21 July 1990) was a Swiss-born French actor and stage director. Pitoëff was born in Geneva, Switzerland, on 11 March 1920, the son of Russian-born parents Ludmilla (née Smanova) and Georges Pitoëff. Both of his parents were born in the city of Tbilisi (in modern-day Georgia), then a part of the Russian Empire. The Pitoëffs were prominent actors in France, Georges was a founding member of the Cartel des Quatre (Group of Four), a group including Louis Jouvet, Charles Dullin, and Gaston Baty, dedicated to rejuvenating the French theatre.
Filmography
Patrick Still Lives
Dr. Herschell
Inferno
Kazanian
Subversion
Le Président
Dossier 51
Minerve 1 (voice)
Barry of the Great St. Bernard
Sergeant
The Carpathian Castle
Gortz
The New Avengers
Kerov
La Poupée sanglante
Doctor Sahib Khan
Les Grands Détectives
Arkabad
Antigone
Tiresias
The Oil War Will Not Happen
Essaan
Diary of a Suicide
Le geôlier
Escape to the Sun
Schulmeister, l'espion de l'Empereur
Dangberg
Catch Me a Spy
Stefan
Graf Luckner
Doktor Morgan
Lancelot of the Lake
l'ennemi (voice)
Donkey Skin
The Prime Minister
Le Bal du comte d'Orgel
Prince Naroumof
Les salons de Baudelaire
Narrator
Katmandu
Head of the organization
Le Bossu
Spray of the Days
Pharmacist
Les Aventures de Lagardère
Philippe de Gonzague
The Golden Claws of the Cat Girl
Saratoga
Le système Fabrizzi
Antonio Fabrizzi
Lagardère
Gonzague
Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre
Prof. Ourbiche
The Night of the Generals
Doctor
Is Paris Burning?
Joliot-Curie
Lady L
Bomb-throwing revolutionary
The Prize
Dranyi
The Doll
Sayas
The Immoral Moment
Malferrer
Bonne nuit les petits
Dada (voice)
Vengeance of the Three Musketeers
Felton
Last Year at Marienbad
M – The Other Man with the Lean Face, The Husband
Captain Fracasse
Matamore
Mum's the Word
Jo
The Gambler
Afpley
That Night
Shakespearean man (uncredited)
A Tale of Two Cities
Gaspard
The Spies
Leon
Anastasia
Piotr Ivanovich Petrovin
Sherlock Holmes
Rasputin
Le chef de la police
The Seven Deadly Sins
The pianist (segment "L'Orgueil") (uncredited)