Christian Casadesus, (26 December 1912 – 6 March 2014), was a French actor and theatre director who worked professionally in both movies and in theater.
His father, Henri Casadesus, was a musician and composer, and his mother, Marie-Louise Beetz, a harpist.
He studied acting at the CNSAD with Louis Jouvet and gave his debut at the theater in 1937.
He was briefly married with the singer Micheline Ramette and had a son with her, Frédérick Casadesus, born in 1959.
His sister, was theatre and film actress Gisèle Casadesus, who died 3 years later in 2017, aged 103.