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He appeared in 3 movies with Jean Marais: Le pavillon brûle (1941), Les chouans (1947) and Ruy Blas (1948). Both Herrand and Marais played the role of Fantômas on the screen.

Lifetime companion of Jean Marchat. Together, they founded their own theatre company, 'Le rideau gris' (the grey curtain). In 1939, they were put in charge of directing the 'Théâtre des Mathurins' by Georges Pitoëff and Ludmilla Pitoëff, who were the owners of the theatre. They carried on their job very successfully for many years.

He's responsible for launching the stage career of María Casares, whom he noted at Béatrix Dussane's acting classes because of the great passion she used to inject into her acting. She consequently hired her for a stage production of 'Deirdre of the Sorrows' and made her his muse. They also worked together in one film, Marcel Carné's masterpiece, Les enfants du paradis (1945). Despite his open homosexuality, there were rumors about Marcel falling in love with María.

He passed away after a brief illness which forced him on a wheelchair. Circumstances of his death remain obscure to these days, with some sources stating that he perished in a fire. He was buried in Suresnes next to his mother.

He has an entry in Jean Tulard's Dictionnaire du Cinéma/Les Acteurs published in Paris in 2007 by Robert Laffont/Bouquins, page 551 (ISBN: 978-2-221-10895-6).

Accomplished stage actor and director. Having been lured to theatre since his childhood, he first tread the boards in 1917 at the Maubel theatre in the play 'Les Mamelles de Tirésias'. He later attended the acting courses of Jacques Copeau (as well as working on the stage under his direction) before Georges Pitoëff and Ludmilla Pitoëff would offer him to join their theatre company.

Theatre was always his primary love. He was never too fond of cinema for depriving him of the direct contact with the audience.

First artistic director of the theater festival d'Angers, he was succeeded by Albert Camus then Jean Marchat.