Claude Brasseur died Tuesday at the age of 84.

Coming from a line of actors, he had appeared in more than 100 films.

Guest of Isabelle Morizet on Europe 1 in 2017, he had, among other things, returned to his discovery of the theater and to a passion which, since his childhood, had never left him.

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More than 90 films, two Caesars, dozens of plays.

The actor Claude Brasseur, who marked generations with several great roles in the cinema, including

An elephant that deceives enormously

, died Tuesday at the age of 84 years.

Guest of Isabelle Morizet on Europe 1 in 2017, he returned to his discovery of the stage and the birth of his passion for comedy.

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The first time he walked into a theater he remembered it like it was yesterday.

"One day my grandmother said to me 'we're going to go see daddy work'. It pissed me off, but I finally went."

His father is none other than the actor Pierre Brasseur.

Going to see him at work is to enter the small world of the theater.

"I come across a huge golden thing with lots of empty chairs. My dad was in a suit with a tie, but he was wearing a helmet and a sword. It's the first time in my life I've been to a rehearsal. thought it was a lot funnier than reality. "

"I already played comedy well when I was a child"

Once caught, the theater bug never left him.

"It may sound pretentious, but it isn't, I swear to you: I already played comedy well when I was a kid. But I had to wait until I was 70 to play comedy like a boy. child." 

His first major role, it is on television that he obtains it, by playing François Vidocq in

Les Nouvelles Aventures de Vidocq

, from 1971 to 1973. Claude Brasseur then obtains the consecration with 

An elephant, that deceives enormously

, of Yves Robert, for whom he was crowned best supporting role at the César of 1977. Three years later, he obtained that of best actor for

 The war of the police

. 

>> Find the entire interview with Claude Brasseur at the microphone of Isabelle Morizet here:

A monument of French cinema which has never forgotten its love for boards.

"In the theater, I give everything. I don't just play for the spectator in the front row, I also play for the one who is in the last row of the fourth balcony. I have to give, that I send, that I project vocally and gesture. In the cinema, I have nothing to do. "