Pierre Magnier was a French actor who began on the stage in the 1890s and became a prominent silent film actor in France. He was the second actor to portray Cyrano de Bergerac in any film in 1925. He continued acting until the 1950s. He is most remembered for the role of the General in Jean Renoir

Jean Renoir

Jean Renoir was a French film director, screenwriter, actor, producer and author. As a film director and actor, he made more than forty films from the silent era to the end of the 1960s...

's La règle du jeu, where he has one of the films more poignant quotes (and the film's final line) when he praises Marcel Dalio

Marcel Dalio

Marcel Dalio was a French character actor. He had major roles in two of Jean Renoir's most famous films, Grand Illusion and The Rules of the Game.- Biography :...

's character as "one of a dying breed."

Selected filmography

• Lady Killer
  Lady Killer (1937 film)
  Lady Killer is a 1937 drama film directed by Jean Grémillon and starring Jean Gabin.-Cast:* Jean Gabin - Lucien Bourrache, 'Gueule d'Amour'* Mireille Balin - Madeleine* Pierre Etchepare - Le patron de l'hôtel* Henri Poupon - Monsieur Cailloux...
  
  (1937)
• Monsieur Leguignon Lampiste
  Monsieur Leguignon Lampiste
  Monsieur Leguignon lampiste , is a French comedy film from 1952, directed by Maurice Labro, written by Claude Boissol, starring Yves Deniaud and Louis de Funès.- Cast :* Yves Deniaud : Diogène Leguignon* Roland Armontel : Mr. Maltestu...
  
  (1952)

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