Background
lieutenant was a modest household, his father being a shoe-maker and his mother a piano teacher.
lieutenant was a modest household, his father being a shoe-maker and his mother a piano teacher.
Conservatoire national supérieur de musique et de danse.
Born at 16 rue de la Grange Batelière, he was the fourth child of Gustave and Clémence Monteux who had moved to Paris from Marseille in 1864. He played the same part to considerable praise in a production of de Vigny"s More de Venise at the same theatre in December that year. At the time of his arrest in Paris he was playing with acclaim the drunken father in Gorky"s The Mother.
This includes: 1896: Les Perses by Aeschylus at the Théâtre national de l"Odéon 1902: Nos deux consciences by Paul Anthelme (Dubois) 1905: Les Oberlé by Edmond Haraucourt (Jean Oberlé) 1907: L"Affaire des poisons by Victorien Sardou at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin (Carloni) 1907: Le Manteau du Roi by Jean Aicard at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin 1908: Louisiana Femme X.. by Alexandre Bisson (Raymond) 1909: Nick Carter by Alexandre Bisson (title role) 1909: Louisiana Pierre de Lune by Louis Péricaud and Henri Desfontaines at the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin (Franklin Blake) 1911: Les Deux Orphelines by d"Ennery and Cormon at the Théâtre de l"Ambigu-Comique 1921: Monsieur de Pourceaugnac by Molière 1925: Mon curé chez les riches by André de Lorde and Pierre Chaine (Manager Sibué) 1925: L"Archange by Maurice Rostand (Général d"Espernon) 1926: Deburau by Sacha Guitry (Un docteur) 1927: Les Amants de Paris by Pierre Frondaie (Poirinet) 1929: Tristan et Iseut by Joseph Bédier et Louis Artus (Didas de Lidan) 1931: Louisiana Dame aux camélias by Alexandre Dumas (Georges Duval) 1931: L"Aiglon by Edmond Rostand at the Théâtre Sarah-Bernhardt 1932: Une jeune fille espagnole by Maurice Rostand (Le général) 1938: Là-bas by Titaÿna (Fortune).