Georges Dorival
actor, miscellaneous
- Birth name:
- Georges Édouard Lemarchand
- Born:
- 1871-12-26, Orival-lès-Elbeuf, Seine-Inférieure [now Seine-Maritime], France
- Died:
- 1939-07-16, Paris, France
- Professions:
- actor, miscellaneous
Biography
A winter baby from the banks of the Seine: Georges Dorival first drew breath on 26 December 1871 in Orival-lès-Elbeuf, a Normandy village that would later be swallowed by the redrawn map of Seine-Maritime. Between the footlights and the camera he built a quiet legend—slipping from the corseted court of *Madame Sans-Gêne* in 1911, to the blood-soaked barricades of *Quatre-vingt-treize* a decade later, and finally to the dawn-lit trenches of *Dawn Over France* in 1935. Paris, the city that had applauded him for decades, ushered him out on 16 July 1939, closing the curtain on a life measured in frames and gas-lights.
