Louis Velle, young primero of the 1960s and ’70s who starred in and co-wrote many successful soap operas (The Lady of Avignon) with his wife Frédérique Hébrard, died on Thursday at the age of 96, his family announced on Friday to AFP.
He “died at home, surrounded by his family, on February 2, 2023,” his daughter Catherine said in a press release sent to AFP. The actor who did theater, television series and acted in the cinema was one of the deans of French cinema.
Born in 1926 in Paris, Louis Velle began his acting career very early. It was at the conservatory that he met his future wife, with whom he would live for more than 70 years.
Star of “La Demoiselle d’Avignon”
After making his film debut in the 1950s (I had 7 daughterswith Maurice Chevalier, The Quiet Corner with Dany Robin), began writing for the small screen with his wife, a novelist.
One of his great successes was The Lady of Avignon (1972), with Marthe Keller, a soap opera that narrated in six episodes the love of a mysterious northern princess and a diplomat, as well as The ambassador’s husband (1990) or even The Castle of the Olives (1993) with Brigitte Fossey…
Widely present in the theater, where he has created and acted in more than 25 plays, he has also participated in the show on numerous occasions. at the theater tonight. He also wrote for the theater and in particular a novel entitled my little wife which won him the Alphonse Allais prize for humor in 1954.
Source: BFM TV
