Sacha Pitoëff

Sacha Pitoëff (11 March 1920 – 21 July 1990) was a French film actor and theatre director.Born in Geneva, Switzerland, the son of Georges and Ludmilla Pitoëff, Sacha Pitoëff played his first film role in 1952. Appearing in over 50 films, he is probably best known for his performance in Alain Resnais enigmatic Last Year at Marienbad (1960), as a character known simply as M. He was also featured in roles of various sizes in such films as René Cléments Is Paris Burning? (1967) and Jacques Demys Donkey Skin (1970). Toward the end of his career, he began appearing in horror films, including Dario Argentos Inferno (1980) and the low budget Patrick Still Lives (1980).

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