biography
| name: |
Tati, Jacques
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popular name of Jacques Tatischeff
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pronunciation:
[tatee]
| sex:
| male
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| lived:
| (1908–82)
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| biography:
| Actor and film director, born in Le Pecq, NC France. He began in music hall, directed his first film in 1931, then wrote, directed, and acted in slapstick film comedies. After Jour de fête (1947, trans The Big Day), directed and written by himself, he made his reputation as the greatest film comedian of the post-war period, notably in Les vacances de Monsieur Hulot (1953, Mr Hulot's Holiday), Mon oncle (1958, My Uncle), and Trafic (1971) in which he presented the pipe-smoking, lugubrious Hulot, forever beset by physical mishaps and confrontations with modern technology. |
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