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A friend of French writer Louis-Ferdinand Céline, in 1946 he was sentenced in absentia to ten years n prison for collaboration with the Nazis during their occupation of France World War II. He died in Argentina.

Paris, France 1946: Sentenced to ten years imprisonment with hard labour for his open collaboration with the enemy and its anti-Semitic propaganda on Radio Paris.

Has an entry in Jean Tulard's "Dictionnaire du Cinéma/Les Acteurs" published in Paris in 2007 by Robert Laffont/Bouquins (ISBN: 978-2-221-10895-6), page 688. 2 biographies have been written about him.

He was cast in the role of Jericho in the film Les enfants du paradis (1945), but was replaced during filming when he was arrested for being a Nazi collaborator. Pierre Renoir took over the role.