Victor Boucher
{{Short description|French actor (1877–1942)}}
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Victor Louis Armand Boucher (24 August 1877 – 21 February 1942) was a French actor.British Film Institute website: [https://web.archive.org/web/20121022230122/http://ftvdb.bfi.org.uk/sift/individual/69452 Victor Boucher]
Biography
Victor Boucher was born, on 24 August 1877, in Rouen, in a house on the rue Saint-Étienne-des-Tonneliers. His parents had a café-restaurant in Bihorel. Educated at the école Bellefonds in Rouen, he began acting in youth groups.
He worked as an accountant in Rouen.André Page, [http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k5511319x/f6.item.r=1938.zoom "Dans la vie et sur l'écran"]Ric et Rac, n°468, 23 February 1938, p.6 {{in lang|fr}} After his military service, he moved to Paris. He married Mariotta Claire in Neufchâtel-en-Bray in 1902.Archives départementales de Seine-Maritime, état-civil de Rouen, acte de naissance de Victor Boucher He had the luck, one day, to replace a sick actor in the Théâtre des Mathurins in Paris, and made a name for himself with his comic performance based on his stammering.
In 1927, he became a director of the Théâtre de la Michodière in Paris. He was president of the Association des artistes dramatiques.[http://gallica.bnf.fr/ark:/12148/bpt6k510265t/f1.item.zoom "LA MORT DE VICTOR BOUCHER"], Journal des débats politiques et littéraires, 24 February 1942, p.1 {{in lang|fr}}
He died in Ville-d'Avray, on 21 February 1942, from a heart attack.
Filmography
Source: IMDbInternet Movie Database: [https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0099042/ Victor Boucher (1877–1942)]
- La petite chocolatière (1913)
- L'idée de Françoise (1914)
- La douceur d'aimer (English release: The Sweetness of Loving) (1930)
- Gagne ta vie (1931)
- Les vignes du seigneur (English release: Our Lord's Vineyard) (1932)
- Le sexe faible (English release: The Weaker Sex) (1933)
- Votre sourire (1934)
- La banque Nemo (English release: Nemo's Bank) (1934)
- Bichon (1935)
- Faisons un rêve (English: Let's Make a Dream) (1936)
- L'amant de Madame Vidal (English release: The Lover of Madame Vidal (1936)
- L'habit vert (English release: The Green Jacket) (1937)
- Chipée (1937)
- Le train pour Venise (English release: The Train for Venice) (1938)
- Ils étaient neuf célibataires (English release: Nine Bachelors) (1939)
- Le bois sacré (English release: Sacred Woods) (1939)
- Parade en sept nuits (1941)
- Ce n'est pas moi (1941)
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Category:French male film actors
Category:French male silent film actors
Category:Male actors from Rouen
Category:20th-century French male actors
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