Antoine Vitez (French pronunciation: ​[É'̃twan vitÉ›z]; 20 December
1930 â€" 30 April 1990) was a French actor, director, and poet. He
became a central character and influence on the French theater in the
post-war period, especially in the technique of teaching drama. He was
also translator of Chekhov, Vladimir Mayakovsky and Mikhail
Sholokhov.Antoine Vitez was born in Paris and trained to be an actor,
finding his first acting job at the age of 19 in Ils attendent Lefty
at the Théâtre Maubel. He fails to enter the National Conservatory
of Dramatic Art in Paris and became a Communist activist, which he
continued until 1979, when he left the Communist Party following the
invasion of Afghanistan by the USSR.He met Louis Aragon in 1958 and
became his private secretary from 1960 to 1962. He worked in the
theater Balachova Tania, and wrote reviews published by Jean Vilar in
the magazine Théâtre populaire. Vitez also found work reading on the
radio and voice-dubbing in films. He had his first opportunity as
director with Sophocles' Electra at the Maison de la Culture de Caen
in 1966.
1930 â€" 30 April 1990) was a French actor, director, and poet. He
became a central character and influence on the French theater in the
post-war period, especially in the technique of teaching drama. He was
also translator of Chekhov, Vladimir Mayakovsky and Mikhail
Sholokhov.Antoine Vitez was born in Paris and trained to be an actor,
finding his first acting job at the age of 19 in Ils attendent Lefty
at the Théâtre Maubel. He fails to enter the National Conservatory
of Dramatic Art in Paris and became a Communist activist, which he
continued until 1979, when he left the Communist Party following the
invasion of Afghanistan by the USSR.He met Louis Aragon in 1958 and
became his private secretary from 1960 to 1962. He worked in the
theater Balachova Tania, and wrote reviews published by Jean Vilar in
the magazine Théâtre populaire. Vitez also found work reading on the
radio and voice-dubbing in films. He had his first opportunity as
director with Sophocles' Electra at the Maison de la Culture de Caen
in 1966.
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