Raimu - Toulon, France - Statues of Historic Figures on Waymarking.com

This head and shoulders bust on a stone base shows Raimu wearing a suit and bow tie, his head turned to his right.

Raimu was the stage name for the French actor Jules Auguste Muraire (18 December 1883 – 20 September 1946). He is most famous for playing César in the Marseille trilogy (Marius, Fanny and César).

Born in Toulon, he made his stage debut there in 1899. After coming to the attention of the then great music hall star Félix Mayol who was also from Toulon, in 1908 he was given a chance to work as a secondary actor in the Paris theater scene. Primarily a comedian, in 1916 writer/director Sacha Guitry gave him significant parts in productions at the Folies Bergère and other major venues. In addition to his appearances on stage, Raimu also developed a successful career in films sometimes under the name Jules Raimu.

He starred in the premiere of Messager's operetta "Coups de roulis" in 1928. In 1929, already a leading actor, he gained wide acclaim for his starring role in the stage production of the Marcel Pagnol play Marius. Although reluctant because of his disappointment over his first film role many years before, he agreed to act in Guitry's film Le Blanc et le Noir and then reprised his Marius role on film a year later. By his late forties, Raimu had become one of his country's most respected actors and was considered the ultimate actor by luminaries such as Alec Guinness, Marlene Dietrich, and Orson Welles.

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