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Claude Laydu

Actor | * 03/10/1927 († 84, 07/29/2011) | Etterbeek (Belgium)
Claude Laydu ([klod lɛjdy]; 10 March 1927 – 29 July 2011) was a Belgian-born Swiss actor on stage and in films. He was renowned for his performance in his film debut in the role of the young priest in Robert Bresson's Diary of a Country Priest (1951), which has been described as one of the greatest in the history of film. ()
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Most frequent genres for this person: Drama | Crime | War

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Gregory Iefommovich Raspoutine is a monk with healing powers and a liking for debauchery who manages to insinuate himself into the court of the Romanoffs thanks to Princess Dikvona. Being the only per ...

Rasputin

Certification unknown

1954 | 1h 45min
Drama
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An inexperienced, sickly priest shows up in the rural French community of Ambricourt, where he joins the community's clergy. But the locals don't take kindly to the priest, and his ascetic ways and un ...

Diary of a Country Priest

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1951 | 3.8/5 | 1h 55min
Drama
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Sinfonia d'amore

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1954 | 3.3/5 | 1h 21min
Drama, Music
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Italienisches Capriccio

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1961 | 5.0/5 | 1h 46min
Drama
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Movies with Claude Laydu as Actor(16)

as Carlo Goldoni1961 Italienisches Capriccio
as Le Chevalier de la Force1960 Dialogue with the Carmelites
as Roland Pelletier1957 The Wheel
as Mario Rossi1956 Altair
as Pierre Ménard1955 Interdit de séjour
as Héliodore1954 Rasputin
as Franz Schubert1954 Sinfonia d'amore
as Valentiniano Caesar1954 Attila
1953 Good Lord Without Confession
as Pierre Marchand1953 Napoleon Road
as Andrés1953 I Was a Parish Priest
as Etienne1952 The Road to Damascus
as Philippe Arnaud1952 We Are All Murderers
1952 Heart of the Casbah
as Priest of Ambricourt1951 Diary of a Country Priest
as François Soalhat1951 Trip to America

TV Shows/Series with Claude Laydu as Actor(1)

as Le Marchand de sable (voix)1962 Bonne nuit les petits

TV Shows/Series with Claude Laydu as Crew(1)

Creator/Creator1962 Bonne nuit les petits

Citizenship: Belgium
Born: Thursday, 03/10 1927 (March) in Etterbeek (Belgium)
Died: Friday, 07/29 2011 (July) in Massy (aged: 84)
Zodiac sign: Pisces (Chinese zodiac sign: Rabbit)
Languages: French (FR, native language)
Claude Laydu frequently works together with these people:
Yvette Etiévant (4x, Actress)
Glauco Pellegrini (3x, Crew)
Georges Combret (3x, Crew)
Antoine Balpêtré (3x, Actor)
Robert Bresson (3x, Crew)
Charles Bouillaud (3x, Actor)
Henri Vilbert (3x, Actor)
Pierre Brasseur (2x, Actor)
Georges Bernanos (2x, Crew)
André Cayatte (2x, Crew)
Linette Lemercier (2x, Cast)
Jean-Marc Tennberg (2x, Actor)
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WatchPlayStream ID: PEOPLE:281636, Added: 08/09/2018, Last updated: 04/13/2024