Suzanne Cloutier Explained

Suzanne Cloutier
Birth Date:July 10, 1923
Birth Place:Ottawa, Ontario, Canada
Death Place:Montreal, Quebec, Canada
Occupation:Actress
Children:3

Suzanne Cloutier (July 10, 1923 – December 2, 2003) was a Canadian film actress.

Biography

Cloutier was the daughter and apparent only child of Edmond Cloutier, the King's Printer in Ottawa, and Hélène Saint-Denis, who wed on May 23, 1922. She escaped an early unconsummated marriage to become an actress, first with Charles Laughton in New York and then the Comédie Française.[1] She appeared in films by Julien Duvivier and Marcel Carné, starred as Desdemona in Orson Welles' film version of Othello (1951) and appeared in Doctor in the House (1954, the hit of the year in Britain).

Marriage

She had acted earlier in London in a play by Peter Ustinov, and the two married in 1954. They had three children, Andrea, Igor and Pavla, and Cloutier appeared in the film of his stage hit Romanoff and Juliet. The couple divorced in 1971, when Cloutier reconnected with Orson Welles, then at work on films never finished. Cloutier later resettled in Los Angeles, and eventually in Montreal, Canada, in 1988.

Death

Cloutier appears to have been born in Ottawa on July 10, 1923, and died of liver cancer in Montreal on December 2, 2003, aged 80.

Filmography

YearTitleRoleNotes
1946Temptation Yvonne Dupont
1949The Sinners Maria Lambert
1951Juliette, or Key of Dreams Juliette
1951Othello Desdemona
1952Derby Day Michele Jolivet
1954Doctor in the House Stella
1961Romanoff and Juliet Marfa Zlotochienka
1997data-sort-value="Countess of Baton Rouge, The" The Countess of Baton Rouge Virginie Beaufort
1998It's Your Turn, Laura Cadieux Hôtesse du restaurant

Notes and References

  1. https://www.marcel-carne.com/la-bande-a-carne/suzanne-cloutier/biographie-filmographie-de-suzanne-cloutier/ Interview with Cloutier identifying her father as the King's Printer and lists a dozen movies in which Cloutier appeared.