York, for instance, he performed at Abbey's Theatre in 1894, playing the lead in Tartuffe (his son Jean played Orgon) and Mascarille in Les Précieuses ridicules. In 1895 he joined the Renaissance theatre in Paris, and played there until he became director of the Théâtre de la Porte Saint-Martin in 1897. Here he won successes in Edmond Rostand's Cyrano de Bergerac (1897), which he repeated in the summer of 1898 at the Lyceum Theatre, London, Émile Bergerat's Plus que reine (1899), Catulle Mendès's Scarron (1905), and Alfred Capus and Lucien Descaves' L'Attentat (1906). In 1900 Coquelin toured in America with Sarah Bernhardt, appeared at Broadway's Garden Theatre in a production of Cyrano de Bergerac (Bernhardt played Roxane). He made his only film, the duel scene from Cyrano de Bergerac with sound recording on phonograph cylinder (see also Sound film/Early steps). The film is thought to be the first ever made with both color and sound. On their return to France he continued with his old colleague to appear in L'Aiglon, at the Théâtre Sarah Bernhardt. He was rehearsing for the creation of the title role in Rostand's Chantecler, which he was to produce, when he died suddenly in Paris in 1909. The New York Times printed an obituary, in which it described many tributes to the dead actor, including a visit by the personal secretary of the President of the Republic, Armand Fallières. Coquelin was an Officier de l'Instruction Publique and of the Legion of Honour. He published: L'Art et le comédien (1880) Molière et le misanthrope (1881) essay on Eugène Manuel (1881) essay on Sully Prudhomme (1882) L'Arnolphe de Molière (1882) Les Comédiens (1882) L'Art de dire le monologue (with his brother, 1884) Tartuffe (1884) L'Art du comédien (1894) His brother, Ernest, and his son, Jean, were also actors. In the 2019 film Cyrano, My Love (original title Edmond) which is adapted from Alexis Michalik's 2016 play Edmond, based around the creation of Cyrano de Bergerac, Coquelin is played by Olivier Gourmet. Gallery References External links 1841 births 1909 deaths People from Boulogne-sur-Mer 19th-century French male actors 19th-century theatre French male stage actors French male silent film actors Sociétaires of the Comédie-Française 20th-century French male actors Articles containing video clips