As a young man interested in aviation and rugby, Paul Crauchet discovered a passion for the theatre at the age of 23.

He settled in Paris in 1945, he studied under Charles Dullin for three years and began on stage in 1949.

Crauchet appeared in the first film by Éric Rohmer, The Sign of Leo, in 1959, and then in 1962 in The War of the Buttons of Yves Robert.

He had a very long career during which he worked with many directors, such as Alain Resnais, René Clément, Jean-Pierre Melville, Jacques Deray and José Giovanni.

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