Edith Ker
Encyclopedia
Édith Ker, born Édith Denise Keraudren (1910–1997) was a French
actress born in Brest
(Finistère
). She is best known to English-speaking audiences as the grandmother in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's
Delicatessen
.
France
The French Republic , The French Republic , The French Republic , (commonly known as France , is a unitary semi-presidential republic in Western Europe with several overseas territories and islands located on other continents and in the Indian, Pacific, and Atlantic oceans. Metropolitan France...
actress born in Brest
Brest, France
Brest is a city in the Finistère department in Brittany in northwestern France. Located in a sheltered position not far from the western tip of the Breton peninsula, and the western extremity of metropolitan France, Brest is an important harbour and the second French military port after Toulon...
(Finistère
Finistère
Finistère is a département of France, in the extreme west of Brittany.-History:The name Finistère derives from the Latin Finis Terræ, meaning end of the earth, and may be compared with Land's End on the opposite side of the English Channel...
). She is best known to English-speaking audiences as the grandmother in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's
Jean-Pierre Jeunet
-Life and career:Jean-Pierre Jeunet was born in Roanne, Loire, France. He bought his first camera at the age of 17 and made short films while studying animation at Cinémation Studios. He befriended Marc Caro, a designer and comic book artist who became his longtime collaborator and...
Delicatessen
Delicatessen (film)
Delicatessen is a 1991 French black comedy film, directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro, starring Dominique Pinon and Karin Viard. It is set in an apartment building in a post-apocalyptic France of an ambiguous time period. The story focuses on the tenants of the building and their desperate...
.
Filmographie
- 1957 : Fernand clochard de Pierre Chevalier
- 1962 : Les BricoleursLes bricoleursLes bricoleurs is a 1963 French thriller film directed by Jean Girault and starring Francis Blanche, Darry Cowl, Elke Sommer and Jacqueline Maillan. Two estate agents discover a body in a house they are about to sell to a customer...
de Jean GiraultJean GiraultJean Girault was a French film director and screenwriter. He directed more than thirty films between 1960 and 1982.-Filmography:Director* Les pique-assiette * Les Moutons de Panurge... - 1962 : Le Gentleman d'EpsomLe Gentleman d'EpsomLe Gentleman d'Epsom , is a French comedy film from 1962, directed by Gilles Grangier, written by Michel Audiard, starring Jean Gabin and Louis de Funès...
de Gilles Grangier - 1964 : La Fleur de l'âge de John Guillermin
- 1964 : Le Vampire de Düsseldorf de Robert HosseinRobert HosseinRobert Hossein is a French film actor of Azeri origin, director and writer. He directed the 1982 adaption of Les Misérables, and appeared in Vice and Virtue, Le Casse, Les Uns et les Autres and Venus Beauty Institute...
- 1965 : Fantômas se déchaîneFantômas se déchaîneFantômas se déchaîne is a 1965 film starring Jean Marais as the arch villain with the same name opposite Louis de Funès as the earnest but outclassed commissaire Juve and the journalist Fandor, also played by Marais. It was France's answer, with the Fantômas trilogy starting in 1964, to the James...
d'André HunebelleAndré HunebelleAndré Hunebelle was a French director born September 1, 1896 in Meudon , died 27 November 1985 in Nice .Hunebelle was a former publisher of a French newspaper called La Fleché... - 1965 : Tant qu'on a la santé de Pierre ÉtaixPierre ÉtaixPierre Étaix is a French clown, comedian and filmmaker. Étaix made a series of acclaimed short- and feature-length films in the 1960s, many of them co-written by influential screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière. He has won an Academy Award. Due to a legal dispute with a distribution company, these...
- 1967 : La mariée était en noir de François TruffautFrançois TruffautFrançois Roland Truffaut was an influential film critic and filmmaker and one of the founders of the French New Wave. In a film career lasting over a quarter of a century, he remains an icon of the French film industry. He was also a screenwriter, producer, and actor working on over twenty-five...
- 1968 : La Grande Lessive (!) de Jean-Pierre MockyJean-Pierre MockyJean-Pierre Mocky is the pseudonym of Jean-Paul Adam Mokiejewski, a French film director, actor, screenwriter and producer...
- 1969 : La Peau de Torpedo de Jean DelannoyJean DelannoyJean Delannoy was a French actor, film editor, screenwriter and film director.Although Delannoy was born in a Paris suburb, his family is from Haute-Normandie in the north of France...
- 1971 : L'Italien des roses de Charles Matton
- 1972 : Elle cause plus... elle flingue de Michel AudiardMichel AudiardPierre Michel Audiard was a French dialogue writer, screenwriter and film director. He is the father of French film director Jacques Audiard.- 1940 - 1950 :*1949 :** Mission à Tanger of André Hunebelle...
- 1973 : Les Filles de Malemort de Daniel Daërt
- 1974 : Le Futur aux trousses de Dolorès Grassian
- 1974 : Y'a un os dans la moulinette de Raoul AndréRaoul AndréRaoul André was a French director and screenwriter, He was married to actress Louise Carletti , and he is the father of Ariane Carletti.- Filmography :* 1947 : Le Village de la colère...
- 1975 : Divine de Dominique Delouche
- 1979 : Tous vedettes de Michel LangMichel LangMichel Lang is a French film and television director, best remembered for his comedy films in the late 1970s and 1980s. Since 1990 he has directed predominantly for French television.-Filmography:* 1964 : Un tout autre visage...
- 1990 : DelicatessenDelicatessen (film)Delicatessen is a 1991 French black comedy film, directed by Jean-Pierre Jeunet and Marc Caro, starring Dominique Pinon and Karin Viard. It is set in an apartment building in a post-apocalyptic France of an ambiguous time period. The story focuses on the tenants of the building and their desperate...
de Jean-Pierre JeunetJean-Pierre Jeunet-Life and career:Jean-Pierre Jeunet was born in Roanne, Loire, France. He bought his first camera at the age of 17 and made short films while studying animation at Cinémation Studios. He befriended Marc Caro, a designer and comic book artist who became his longtime collaborator and...
et Marc CaroMarc CaroMarc Caro, born April 2, 1956, is a French filmmaker and cartoonist, best known for his co-directing projects with Jean-Pierre Jeunet. The two of them met at a film festival in 1974, and directed three short and two feature length films together....