François Chaumette

François Chaumette was born on Sep 08, 1923 in France. François Chaumette's big-screen debut came with Les Visiteurs du Soir directed by Marcel Carné in 1942, strarring Gillaume - Un page (uncredited). François Chaumette is known for The Masters of Time directed by René Laloux, Jean Valmont stars as Jaffar and Michel Elias as Silbad. The upcoming new movie François Chaumette plays is My Nights Are More Beautiful Than Your Days which will be released on Apr 19, 1989.

Very effective as the villain of the piece, the faithless Philippe de Gonzague, in André Hunebelle's entertaining version of Paul Féval's 'Le Bossu' (1959), François Chaumette worked wonders with his cruel look, his predatory smile and his coldly threatening manner. Unfortunately this brilliant thespian did not often appear on the big screen afterward. Indeed after making the respectable number of eleven films between 1957 and 1961, he would only appear in sixteen others until his death from cancer in 1996, among which shorts, unreleased feature films and one segment of 'Parano' in 1994. In spite of everything, François Chaumette did manage to land a few interesting roles in works by Robbe Grillet, Sautet and Zulawski. The reason why Chaumette worked so little for the cinema is simply due to the success he met at the theater in a long career that spanned five decades, from 1943 when he debuted in Giraudoux's 'Sodome et Gomorrhe' until his demise. He was also a fixture of French television where he appeared in filmed plays, serials, TV movies and historical dramas, including Claude Barma's famous series 'Belphégor' in which he shone as the arch villain (what else?) Boris Williams.