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Pierre Richard-Willm
Pierre Richard-Willm (3 November 1895 – 12 April 1983) was a French actor during the 1930s and 1940s.
Biography.
Richard-Willm was born in south-western France in the city of Bayonne. His mother, Elisabeth-Fanny Willm, died at the age of thirty-one, and he was raised by his maternal grandmother. He attended the "Beaux-Arts School", in Nantes between 1913 and 1914, then in 1916 he joined the army, and
He is the grandson of Léopold Defays who was the director of the company Escaut-et-Meuse. His name comes from the stage name of Pierre Richard-Willm who was his mother's favorite actor. Pierre Richard spent his childhood and a part of his teenage years in his native city where he was a student at the Henri-Wallon high school.
Skipping classes regularly to go to the cinema, it was Danny Kaye in "Up in Arms" that revealed his vocation. This being received with only a