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| | Jacques Dufilho | Obituaries | Guardian Unlimited |
 | | With his shaven head, penetrating gaze, glowering look and sharp voice, the French character actor Jacques Dufilho, who has died aged 91, was a powerful presence on stage and screen for over half a century. |
 | | Perhaps the nearest equivalent to him in England was Donald Pleasence, with whom he shared a talent for comic menace. |
 | | Dufilho, who played Davies in the Paris revival of the play in 1969, was also associated with such other contemporary playwrights as Jean Anouilh (Colombe, 1951), Jacques Audiberti (Le Mal Court, 1955), Frederich Durrenmatt (The Marriage of Mr Mississippi, 1959, and The Visit, 1963) and Martin Walser (Chêne et Lapins Angora, 1968). |
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