Gérard Buhr
(COMÉDIENS)
68 Rue Damrémont, 75018 Paris, France
Multilingual actor with a physique like Kirk Douglas (according to Cinémonde), Gérard Buhr was destined for a varied and hard-hitting career in cinema, theatre and television. On the silver screen his performance as a pimp in Jean-Pierre Melville’s Bob le flambeur (1956) earned him rave reviews. The 1960s was a good decade for Buhr, taking the role of Marlon Brando’s partner in The Night of the Following Day (1969), and portraying Claus von Stauffenberg in The Night of the Generals (1966), with Peter O’Toole and Omar Sharif. In 1965, under the pseudonym of Victor Harter, he published Fleuve Noir, his first spy novel. He wrote about ten in this series, and also a number of pulp fiction noir novels. He could be seen in minor roles in blockbuster films, including appearances in A View to a Kill (1985) and The Day of the Jackal (1973). Regular visitors to this website won’t be surprised that he popped up in the TV cop series, Les cinq dernières minutes and Allô police. A badge of honour for all Montmartre thespians.

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Jean-Roger Caussimon
(COMÉDIENS)
52 Rue Damrémont, 75018 Paris, France
Jean-Roger Caussimon was a singer-songwriter and film actor who appeared in 90 films between 1945 and 1985, but is best known for his work with poet-singer Léo Ferré. At 18, he won first prize at the Conservatoire de Bordeaux. Charles Dullin hired him at the Théâtre de la Cité after WW2. He was a prisoner of war during the hostilities, and wrote poems during his captivity. He performed his poems and songs regularly in the cabarets of Paris, including nine years at the Lapin Agile. His career in the theatre ran alongside all his other pursuits, on stage he worked under the directorship of Jean Mercure, Roger Planchon, and many more.

Mady Mesple
(ARTISTES LYRIQUES)
41 Rue Damrémont, 75018 Paris, France
Soprano Mady Mesplé sang in the great operas around the world, including in Madrid , Lisbon, Porto, Barcelona, ​​London, Amsterdam, Vienna, Munich, Montreal, Seattle, Chicago , the Met in New York, Buenos Aires, Rio de Janeiro, the Bolshoi in Moscow,etc. She made her debut in Liege, in Lakmé (1953). From 1956, she sang at the Paris Opera, and then the the Opéra-Comique. In the 1980s, Mesplé began teaching at the Nice Academy. Around the same time, she left the stage (opera) to devote herself to recitals and concerts. She has released a significant number of records, encompassing operas, comic operas, operettas and contemporary works.

Lyne Dourian
Mezzo-Soprano
(ARTISTES LYRIQUES)
103 Rue Lamarck, 75018 Paris, France
Opera singer Lyne Dourian (1933-2014, real name Nevarte Jocelyne Diradourian), was from a family of artists, with a soprano mother, an actor father and a violinist brother. Considered one of the most powerful mezzo-sopranos, Dourian rose to prominence in the mid 1960s, catapulted from her role as a chorister in a Spanish troupe, to the stage of the Paris Opera in Carmen. International stages would follow in Buenos Aires, London, Saint Petersburg, Italy, the Netherlands, Belgium, and the United States.

Youly Algaroff
Opera de Paris
(DANSEURS)
30 Rue Eugène Carrière, 75018 Paris, France
Youly Algaroff was a Russian-French dancer of exceptional charm, possessing a singular purity of style. His career is intertwined with dancer and choreographer Serge Lifar, who he joined at the Nouveau Ballet de Monte-Carlo in 1946. After joining the Ballets des Champs-Élysées he moved to the l’Opéra de Paris in 1952, hired as a danseur etoile, and reuniting with Serge Lifar. In 1960 he toured the Soviet Union, the land of his birth, with the Paris Opera Ballet. He retired from dancing at the end of the 1960s, devoted his time to teaching and organised touring ballet troupes in Europe and South America.

Ricardo
(CHANTEURS ET CHANTEUSES)
17 Rue Eugène Carrière, 75018 Paris, France
Despite releasing more than 20 singles between 1964 and 1968, singer Ricardo (Ricardo Canova) quickly slipped into obscurity. He was a finalist at the Rose d’or d’Antibes song contest in 1967, held in Antibes, Juan-les-Pins from 1962 to 1979. Ricardo was injured in a car accident on the Villefranche motorway just before the contest, but was still able to sing his entry, Pourquoi Se Dire Adieu. Singers who graced the Rose d’or stage included Nana Mouskouri, Nicoletta, Olivia Newton-John, Michel Polnareff, Cliff Richard and Michel Sardou.

Robert Merchez
(CHEFS D’ORCHESTRES)
6 Rue Armand Gauthier, 75018 Paris, France
Robert Merchez was a saxophonist with Django Reinhardt’s orchestra, and the orchestras of Jerry Mengo and Maurice Moufflard, who recorded with Charlie Parker in 1950. He was a bandleader in his own right, leading a dance orchestra at the Champs-Elysées dance hall amongst others. A lynchpin of the Parisian jazz scene, he directed the orchestra at the Jazz-Club Francais in the Rue du Ranelagh during WW2. After the war his orchestra played at La Roulotte, the jazz club owned by Django Reinhardt.