Jérôme Deschamps (born 5 October 1947 in
Neuilly-sur-Seine)[1] is an actor, director and stage author, as well as a cinema actor and director associated with the Famille Deschiens troupe founded by Macha Makeïeff in 1978. In 2003 he was appointed artistic director of the Théâtre national de Nîmes, leaving that post for the equivalent at the
Théâtre national de l'Opéra-Comique in June 2007, where he remained until 2015.[2]
Life
Deschamps is the nephew of
Hubert Deschamps and his mother was the distant half cousin to Micheline Winter who married
Jacques Tati,[3] Upon the release of the animated film The Illusionist this non-biological relationship to Tati has been openly challenged by the grandchildren of Jacques Tati in a published letter to
Roger Ebert.[4]
He studied at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand where he met
Patrice Chéreau and Jean-Pierre Vincent with whom he made his first stage appearances, before moving toward a professional career in theatre, at the École nationale supérieure des arts et techniques du théâtre and the
Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique de Paris. He joined the
Comédie-Française under
Antoine Vitez and directed his first play in 1977.
In 1979 Jérôme Deschamps was advised by
Jacques Tati on Les Oubliettes and created a play Les Deschiens from Antoine Vitez's commission for the Ivry spring. In 1981, with Makeieff he founded the Les Deschiens company, which in 1993 became a television series on
Canal+ with
Yolande Moreau.
He was the director of the 6th Festival du court-métrage de
Saint Maur in 2008. He died in his sleep Thursday, 16 February 2023.
Fabienne Pascaud, Claire David, Deschamps Makeieff le sens de la tribu..., Arles : Actes Sud, 2010.
Bernard Morlino, Jean-Paul Donadi, Le Reste du monde : Ets Deschamps, Makeieff & Tati, Séguier/ Archimbaud, 2003.
Macha Makeieff, Frédéric Mitterrand, Deschamps Deschiens : le théâtre de Jérôme Deschamps, Librairie Séguier Archimbaud, 1989.
Jérôme Deschamps, Macha Makeieff, Frédéric Pugnière-Saavedra, Le Phénomène "Deschiens" à la télévision : de la genèse d'un programme sériel à la manifestation de l'humour, l'Harmattan, 2000.
Jérôme Deschamps (born 5 October 1947 in
Neuilly-sur-Seine)[1] is an actor, director and stage author, as well as a cinema actor and director associated with the Famille Deschiens troupe founded by Macha Makeïeff in 1978. In 2003 he was appointed artistic director of the Théâtre national de Nîmes, leaving that post for the equivalent at the
Théâtre national de l'Opéra-Comique in June 2007, where he remained until 2015.[2]
Life
Deschamps is the nephew of
Hubert Deschamps and his mother was the distant half cousin to Micheline Winter who married
Jacques Tati,[3] Upon the release of the animated film The Illusionist this non-biological relationship to Tati has been openly challenged by the grandchildren of Jacques Tati in a published letter to
Roger Ebert.[4]
He studied at the Lycée Louis-le-Grand where he met
Patrice Chéreau and Jean-Pierre Vincent with whom he made his first stage appearances, before moving toward a professional career in theatre, at the École nationale supérieure des arts et techniques du théâtre and the
Conservatoire national supérieur d'art dramatique de Paris. He joined the
Comédie-Française under
Antoine Vitez and directed his first play in 1977.
In 1979 Jérôme Deschamps was advised by
Jacques Tati on Les Oubliettes and created a play Les Deschiens from Antoine Vitez's commission for the Ivry spring. In 1981, with Makeieff he founded the Les Deschiens company, which in 1993 became a television series on
Canal+ with
Yolande Moreau.
He was the director of the 6th Festival du court-métrage de
Saint Maur in 2008. He died in his sleep Thursday, 16 February 2023.
Fabienne Pascaud, Claire David, Deschamps Makeieff le sens de la tribu..., Arles : Actes Sud, 2010.
Bernard Morlino, Jean-Paul Donadi, Le Reste du monde : Ets Deschamps, Makeieff & Tati, Séguier/ Archimbaud, 2003.
Macha Makeieff, Frédéric Mitterrand, Deschamps Deschiens : le théâtre de Jérôme Deschamps, Librairie Séguier Archimbaud, 1989.
Jérôme Deschamps, Macha Makeieff, Frédéric Pugnière-Saavedra, Le Phénomène "Deschiens" à la télévision : de la genèse d'un programme sériel à la manifestation de l'humour, l'Harmattan, 2000.