Suzanne Flon
Suzanne Flon (28 January 1918 – 15 June 2005) was a French stage, film, and television actress. She won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress for her performance in the 1961 film Thou Shalt Not Kill. Flon also received two César Awards and two Molière Awards in her career.
Also recorded as Anne Lancel
Suzanne Flon

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- Name
- Suzanne Flon
- Born
- 28 January 1918
- Birthplace
- Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France
- Died
- 15 June 2005
- Place of death
- Paris, France
- Occupation
- Actor
- Nationality
- France.
- Honours
- Molière Award for Best Actress and Volpi Cup for Best Actress.
- Languages
- French, English and Italian.
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Suzanne Flon (28 January 1918 – 15 June 2005) was a French stage, film, and television actress. She won the Volpi Cup for Best Actress for her performance in the 1961 film Thou Shalt Not Kill. Flon also received two César Awards and two Molière Awards in her career.
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Suzanne Flon (1918–2005) was a French actor, actress and film actor, among other activities. The actor was born in Le Kremlin-Bicêtre. Suzanne Flon was also known as Anne Lancel. Suzanne Flon worked for Édith Piaf.
Languages used include English, French and Italian. The actor received Molière Award for Best Actress and Volpi Cup for Best Actress.
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• Name — Suzanne Flon • Born — 28 January 1918 • Birthplace — Le Kremlin-Bicêtre, France • Died — 15 June 2005 • Place of death — Paris, France • Resting Place — Père Lachaise Cemetery • Other Names — Sizan Flon • Occupation — Actor • Years Active — 1941–2005
Early life
Early life
Her father was a railway worker and her mother crafted jewellery. Prior to becoming an actress, Flon worked as an English translator at the Paris department store Au Printemps and then as personal secretary to Édith Piaf. The great love of her life was the legendary film director John Huston. She never married.
Theatre roles
Theatre roles
Flon's stage credits included plays by Jean Anouilh (L'Alouette,[1] Antigone, Roméo et Jeannette), André Roussin (La Petite Hutte), and Loleh Bellon (La Chambre d'amis, Les Dames du jeudi, Changement à vue, and Une Absence). Her English-language theatrical roles included Katherine (The Taming of the Shrew) and Rosalind (As You Like It).[4]
Filmography
Filmography
• Year — Title — Role — Director — Notes • 1941 — Ce n'est pas moi — Petit rôle — Jacques de Baroncelli — Uncredited • 1943 — Colonel Chabert — Albertine — René Le Hénaff — Uncredited • 1947 — Captain Blomet — Andrée Feix • 1949 — Suzanne and the Robbers — Suzanne Seguin — Yves Ciampi • Last Love — Simone — Jean Stelli • Cage of Girls — Madame Edith — Maurice Cloche • 1950 — Bed for Two; Rendezvous with Luck — Blanche Pidoux-Bobin — Emil-Edwin Reinert • 1951 — The Beautiful Image — Lucienne Chenal — Claude Heymann • 1952 — Trial at the Vatican — Mother Agnès de Jésus — André Haguet • Moulin Rouge — Myriamme Hayam — John Huston • 1954 — Your Favorite Story — Leslie Goodwins & Jacques Nahum — TV series (1 Episode) • 1955 — Mr. Arkadin — Baroness Nagel — Orson Welles • 1958 — Prisons de femmes — Maurice Cloche (2) • 1960 — Un beau dimanche de septembre — Adriana — Marcel Cravenne — TV movie • 1961 — Tu ne tueras point[5] — Kordijeova's mother — Claude Autant-Lara — Volpi Cup for Best Actress • Madame se meurt — Narrator — Jean Cayrol & Claude Durand — Short • Famous Love Affairs — Margravine Ursula — Michel Boisrond — (segment "Agnès Bernauer") • 1962 — Le mal court — Alcarica — Alain Boudet — TV movie • A Monkey in Winter — Suzanne Quentin — Henri Verneuil • The Trial — Miss Pittl — Orson Welles (2) • 1963 — The Bread Peddler — Jeanne Fortier — Maurice Cloche (3) • Nutty, Naughty Chateau — Agathe — Roger Vadim • 1964 — The Train — Mademoiselle Villard — John Frankenheimer • 1967 — If I Were a Spy — Geneviève Laurent — Bertrand Blier • Le soleil des voyous — Marie-Jeanne Farrand — Jean Delannoy • 1968 — Tante Zita — Yvette — Robert Enrico • Le franciscain de Bourges — Madame Toledano — Claude Autant-Lara (2) • 1969 — Délire à deux — Vous — Michel Mitrani — TV movie • Under the Sign of the Bull — Christine Raynal — Gilles Grangier • Jeff — Mrs. de Groote — Jean Herman • La chasse royale — Céline — François Leterrier • 1970 — Teresa — Teresa — Gérard Vergez — Taormina Film Fest - Best Acting Performance • 1971 — Aussi loin que l'amour — The Captain — Frédéric Rossif • 1973 — Les volets clos — Rosalie — Jean-Claude Brialy • Escape to Nowhere — Jeanne — Claude Pinoteau • Au théâtre ce soir — Hélène — Georges Folgoas — TV series (1 Episode) • 1974 — Le tour d'écrou — Elizabeth Gridders — Raymond Rouleau — TV movie • Les enquêtes du commissaire Maigret — Aline Callas — Marcel Cravenne (2) — TV series (1 Episode) • Un amour de pluie — Madame Edith — Jean-Claude Brialy (2) • Nouvelles de Henry James — Elizabeth — Raymond Rouleau (2) — TV series (1 Episode) • 1975 — Le voyage en province — Alain's mother — Jacques Tréfouel — TV movie • Le renard dans l'île — Aunt Martine — Leïla Senati — TV movie • 1976 — Docteur Françoise Gailland — Geneviève Liénard — Jean-Louis Bertucelli • Monsieur Albert — Man-Louise — Jacques Renard • Monsieur Klein — The concierge — Joseph Losey • Boomerang — Madame Grimaldi — José Giovanni • Hôtel Baltimore — Millie — Arcady — TV movie • 1977 — La vérité de Madame Langlois — Thérèse — Claude Santelli — TV movie • Black-Out — Barmaid — Philippe Mordacq • 1979 — Les héritiers — Jeanne — Jean-Pierre Gallo — TV series (1 Episode) • 1980 — Le noeud de vipères — Isa — Jacques Trébouta — TV movie • Une voix — Dominique Crèvecoeur — Short • Le curé de Tours — Mademoiselle Gamard — Gabriel Axel — TV movie • 1981 — Quartet — Madame Hautchamp — James Ivory • Mon meilleur Noël — The grand mother — Gabriel Axel (2) — TV series (1 Episode) • 1983 — One Deadly Summer — Nine Cognata — Jean Becker — César Award for Best Supporting Actress • 1984 — Le dialogue des Carmélites — Madame de Croissy — Pierre Cardinal — TV movie • Le coeur sur la main — Marcelle — Hervé Baslé — TV movie • Mademoiselle Clarisse — Mademoiselle Clarisse — Ange Casta — TV movie 7 d'Or for Best Actress • Le dernier civil — Mademoiselle Fabricius — Laurent Heynemann — TV movie • 1985 — La robe mauve de Valentine — Marie — Patrick Bureau — TV movie • 1986 — Cinéma 16 — Georgette — Franck Apprederis — TV series (1 Episode) • Triple sec — Yves Thomas — Short • 1987 — Série noire — Renée — Marcel Bluwal — TV series (1 Episode) • Dagboek van een Oude Dwaas — Denise Hamelinck — Lili Rademakers • Gigi — Madame Alvarez — Jeannette Hubert — TV movie • Chacun sa vérité — Madame Frola — Jean-Daniel Verhaeghe — TV movie • Noyade interdite — Hazelle — Pierre Granier-Deferre • 1988 — En toute innocence — Clemence — Alain Jessua • 1989 — La vouivre — Louise Muselier — Georges Wilson — César Award for Best Supporting Actress • 1990 — Gaspard et Robinson — Mamie — Tony Gatlif • 1992 — Voyage à Rome — The mother — Michel Lengliney • 1999 — The Children of the Marshland — Old Cri Cri — Jean Becker (2) • Je suis né d'une cigogne — The neighbor — Tony Gatlif (2) • 2001 — A Crime in Paradise — The mistress — Jean Becker (3) • 2002 — Le miroir d'Alice — Maura Le Bellec — Marc Rivière — TV movie • Mille millièmes — Madame Chartreux — Rémi Waterhouse • 2003 — The Flower of Evil — Aunt Line — Claude Chabrol • Effroyables jardins — Marie Gerbier — Jean Becker (4) • 2004 — The Bridesmaid — Madame Crespin — Claude Chabrol (2) • 2005 — Joyeux Noël — Chatelaine — Christian Carion • 2006 — Avenue Montaigne — Madame Roux — Danièle Thompson — (final film role)
Identity and origins
Identity and origins
She also worked under the name Anne Lancel. The authorities additionally record the heading Anne Lancel. Her recorded languages were French, English and Italian.
Identity
Identity
Suzanne Flon is recorded with the occupation stage actor. Recorded as a citizen of France.

Suzanne Flon in The Train - trailer (cropped screenshot)
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Life and career
Dated record
Life and career
The full dated record · 1 entries
2005
Suzanne Flon died on 15 June 2005.
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Le Kremlin-Bicêtre.
Birth place
Paris.
Death place
Venice Film Festival
• Year — Category — Film — Result • 1961 — Volpi Cup for Best Actress — Tu ne tueras point
Tributes
Director Danièle Thompson dedicated Avenue Montaigne to Flon, who had here her last film appearance.[6] Writer-director John Huston described Flon as "the most extraordinary woman I have ever known."[7]
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- “Suzanne Flon”, English Wikipedia, consulted as further reading
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- Wikidata, structured authority record Q453822: Suzanne Flon
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César Awards
César Awards
• Year — Category — Film — Result • 1984 — Best Supporting Actress — L'Été meurtrier • 1990 — La Vouivre
Molière Awards
Molière Awards
• Year — Category — Play — Result • 1987 — Best Actress — Léopold le bien-aimé • 1989 — Une absence • 1992 — L'Antichambre • 1995 — La Chambre d'amis • 2000 — L'Amante anglaise
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Notes from the source article
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- 1.The title role, Jeanne d'Arc.
- 2.Programme for original run of Antigone, 1944 on A.R.T, La Mémoire du théâtre, accessed 3 August 2019. She played Ismène in the 1944 premiere.
- 3.She created Julia.
- 4.Kirkup, James. Suzanne Flon. The Independent. August 2021.
- 5.Venice Film Festival website, http://www.labiennale.org/en/cinema/history/volpi.html
- 6.French, Philip. Orchestra Seats. The Observer. 25 February 2007.
- 7.Playboy, "Playboy Interview", September 1985
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