Georges Pitoëff

Pitoeff only appeared in two films but had a major impact on theater in France during his prime years (1934-1939) during which his Theater of the Champs Elysees put on over 200 productions. He was born in 1884 in Tiflis, Georgia, when it was part of the Russian empire.Though his father has been head of a Tiflis drama group, Georges first studied ...