Antoine Houdar de la Motte was a French author.
Jean-François Collin d'Harleville was a French dramatist.
Henri Meilhac was a French dramatist and opera librettist.
Pierre-Claude Nivelle de La Chaussée was a French dramatist who blurred the lines between comedy and tragedy with his comédie larmoyante.
Julien Bertheau was a French actor.
Jean Le Poulain was a French stage actor and stage director.
The French actor, writer, manager and director, Sacha Guitry had a prolific output of plays and films. His stage works range from historical dramas to contemporary light comedies. Some have musical scores, by composers including André Messager and Reynaldo Hahn. During the era of silent films Guitry avoided them, finding the lack of spoken dialogue fatal to dramatic impact. From the 1930s to the end of his life he enthusiastically embraced the cinema, making as many as five films in a single year.
Mary Marquet, born Micheline Marguerite Delphine Marquet, was a French stage and film actress.
Christian-Gérard, real name Christian Gérard Mazas, was a French stage and film actor as well as theater director.
Charles Dechamps was a French stage and film actor. He married the comedian Fernande Albany on 19 November 1925. After he died in 1959, he was buried at cimetière du Père-Lachaise.
Jean Sarment, real name Jean Bellemère, was a French film and stage actor and a writer. He was nominated administrator of the Comédie-Française in July 1944 although he won't occupy the position.
Denis d'Inès, real name Joseph-Victor-Octave Denis, was a French actor and theatre director for some plays.. He entered the Comédie-Française in 1914, was a sociétaire from 1920 to 1953, and General administrator by intérim in 1945.
Édouard Edmond Lafargue was a French playwright.
Maurice Hennequin was a French-naturalized Belgian playwright.
Eugène Nyon was a French vaudevillist and writer, particularly known for his historical novels and educational stories for young people.
Lambert-Thiboust was a 19th-century French playwright.
Auguste Jean François Arnould was a French poet, playwright, historian, novelist and essayist of the first half of the 19th century.
Saint-Yves was the pen name of Édouard Déaddé, a 19th-century French playwright.
