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CULTURE – The actor and theater man Claude Evrard, who was in the 70s the accomplice on stage of Philippe Avron, died Monday at the age of 86, announced his family this Thursday, April 23 in the Daily Notebook The world.
He died in Clamart, in the Paris region, of the coronavirus, his family told AFP.
Pupil of Jacques Lecoq, master of physical theater, Claude Evrard was the accomplice of Philippe Avron, with whom he wrote a number of humorous sketches and shot in tandem (“Avron and Evrard”) successfully in the years 1970-1975, in the cabarets on the left bank, then at Bobino, at the Olympia and on television.
The two started their careers with Jean Vilar and operated in tandem until 1975, before taking separate paths.
The opportunity for Claude Evrard (born Claude Thébaud) to play under the direction of Peter Brook in “La cerisaie” by Tchekhov in the early 1980s or by Maurice Bénichou for a “Dom Juan” alongside Niels Arestrup.
His career was also punctuated by small roles in cinema, in “Le Distrait” by Pierre Richard (1970) or more recently in “What binds us” by Cédric Klapisch (2017).
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