Edmond Guiraud (22 March 1879 – 18 April 1961) was a 20th-century French playwright, librettist, and actor from the Cévennes region in southern France.
Biographie Edmond Guiraud lived many years in Roquedur in the Gard department. He had a career as a playwright before World War I.
He became a film actor after World War II, and acted in two films by Jean Gehret, shot in the Cévennes.
His widow, Jeannine Guiraud, donated the musée Cévenol in le Vigan the archives of her husband in order to create an "Edmond Guiraud fund".Fonds Edmond Guiraud, Musée Cévenol, Le Vigan
Edmond Guiraud is buried at the .
Libretto 1912–1914: Marie Victoire, four-act opera by Ottorino Respighi
Theatre 1904: L'Ouvrier de la dernière heure 1907: Anna Karénine: (after the novel by Leo Tolstoy) 1907: Zizi 1908: Le Poussin 1910: Le Cœur d'Angélique 1911: Moïse 1911: Marie-Victoire 1914 : La Sauvageonne, Théâtre des Bouffes Parisiens, 27 May 1922: Vautrin, (after the characters by Honoré de Balzac) 1923: Le Bonheur du jour 1925: Une femme, four-act comedy, 14 March, Théâtre Fémina 1930: Une femme de mon pays 1932: Nos 20 ans
in collaboration with Félix Galipaux 1905 : La Mémoire des dates
in collaboration with Léon Hennique 1929 : Whisky
Filmography Actor 1948: Tabusse by Jean Gehret 1948: Le Crime des justes by Jean Gehret 1951: Oriental Port by Jacques Daroy
Film adaptations 1927: Le Bonheur du jour by Gaston Ravel (piece written in 1923) 1935: Zizi by Charles-Félix Tavano - short film -
References
External links
11 shows by Edmond Guiraud on Les archives du spectacle.net