Jacques Charby

Jacques Charby, born Jacques Charbit, was born on 13 June 1929 in Paris. Trained at the Toulouse conservatory and in Charles Dullin's course, he co-founded the Grenier de Toulouse and acted on stage, in film and on television. A member of the Jeanson network from 1958, arrested in February 1960, he escaped and reached Tunis, where he helped open homes for war orphans and adopted a boy, Mustapha. Settled in Algiers after independence, he returned to France after the 1966 amnesty. He died in Paris on 1 January 2006.

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• CinemaSo Young a PeaceUne si jeune paixJacques Charby · 1965Cinema