Blanchette Brunoy

{{Short description|French actress (1915–2005)}}

{{Infobox person

|image=Brunoy blanchette.jpg

|birthname=Blanche Bilhaud

|birth_date={{birth date|1915|10|5|df=y}}

|birth_place=Paris, Ile-de-France

|death_date={{death date and age|2005|4|4|1915|10|5|df=y}}

|death_place=Manosque, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence, Provence-Alpes-Côte d'Azur, France

|spouse= Robert Hommet (?–1958)
Maurice Maillot (1961–1968)

|yearsactive=1936–1998

}}

Blanchette Brunoy (5 October 1915 – 4 April 2005){{cite web |last1= |first1= |title=matchID - Blanchette Brunoy |url=https://deces.matchid.io/id/sCk7chIJ1U9c |website=Fichier des décès |publisher= |access-date=20 July 2024 |language=fr |date=}} was a French actress. She was born Blanche Bilhaud in Paris as the daughter of a physician, and died in Manosque, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence of old age.{{Cite web|url= http://en.unifrance.org/directories/person/25708/blanchette-brunoy|title= Blanchette Brunoy|publisher=unifrance.org|accessdate=2015-07-19}}

Career

Blanchette Brunoy appeared in over 90 film and television productions between 1936 and 1998. She is possibly best-remembered for her roles in such films as Jean Renoir's La Bête Humaine (1938) and Marcel Carné's La Marie du port (1950).

Private life

She was the goddaughter of writer Georges Duhamel. As a young girl she studied acting at the Conservatoire de Paris.{{cite web |url=http://dvdtoile.com/Filmographie.php?id=9340 |title=Blanchette Brunoy |work=DvdToile |first=Christian |last=Grenier |accessdate=2009-06-22}} Blanchette Brunoy was married twice to both actors Robert Hommet (?–1958) and Maurice Maillot (1961–1968) until their deaths.{{cite web |url=http://cinememorial.com/Acteur_detail.php?id=447 |title=Blanchette Brunoy |work=CineMemorial |accessdate=2009-06-22}}

Selected filmography

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1936

|Counsel for Romance

|uncredited

|Jean Boyer

1938

|La Bête humaine

|Flore

|Jean Renoir

1939

| Latin Quarter

| Michèle

| Pierre Colombier

1939

|Love Cavalcade

|Léonie de Maupré

|Raymond Bernard

1939

| The Duraton Family

|Lisette Martin

|Christian Stengel

1941

| The Chain Breaker

| Marie-Jo

|Jacques Daniel-Norman

rowspan=2|1942

| Last Adventure

|Jeanne Aubrin

|Robert Péguy

Private Life

|Sylvie

| Walter Kapps

1944

|Traveling Light

|Valentine

|Jean Anouilh

1946

| Solita de Cordoue

|Marie

| Willy Rozier

rowspan=3|1947

| Clockface Café

|Louise Couturier

|Henri Decoin

The Crowned Fish Tavern

| Maria

| René Chanas

The Other

|Vera de Santis

| Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia

rowspan=2|1948

| The Murdered Model

| Laure

|Pierre de Hérain

Memories Are Not for Sale

|Jeanne

|Robert Hennion

1949

|Vient de paraître

|Jacqueline Fournier

|Jacques Houssin

1950

|La Marie du port

|Odile Le Flem

|Marcel Carné

1954

|Tourments

|Anne-Marie Duffot

|Jacques Daniel-Norman

1963

|Les Veinards

|Madame Beaurepaire

|Jack Pinoteau

rowspan=3|1964

|Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Françoise

|rowspan=2|Suzanne Aubry

|rowspan=2|André Cayatte

Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Jean-Marc
Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno

|Clotilde

|Henri-Georges Clouzot

1982

|Toutes griffes dehors

|Francine

|Michel Boisrond

1998

|Comme elle respire

|Madeleine

|Pierre Salvadori

Notes

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