---
name: "César Gattegno"
canonical: "https://film.one/person/cesar-gattegno"
fi1m_id: "cesar-gattegno"
tmdb_id: 1620086
roles: ["Actor"]
born: "30 May 1928"
died: "9 April 2011"
reviewed_on_fi1m: 1
average_as: "actor"
average_over: 1
updated: "2026-09-25T08:39:27.097700+00:00"
licence: "© Fi1m Ltd. Written by AI under a human editor; checked against sources before publication. Quote with attribution and a link to the canonical URL."
---

# César Gattegno

## Identity

César Gattegno

- **Canonical:** https://film.one/person/cesar-gattegno
- **Type:** Person
- **Fi1m ID:** cesar-gattegno
- **TMDB ID:** 1620086
- **Same entity:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1620086

Actor. Born 30 May 1928. Died 9 April 2011.

## Details

- **Work:** Actor
- **Born:** 30 May 1928
- **Died:** 9 April 2011
- **Elsewhere:** https://www.themoviedb.org/person/1620086

## Biography

César Gattegno was a French actor and composer. He appeared in two films by Robert Bresson, as the uncredited prisoner X in *A Man Escaped* (1956) and as an inspector in *Pickpocket* (1959). He composed music for several short films and features in the 1960s, including *Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes* (1966) and *Octobre à Madrid* (1967).

Born on 30 May 1928, Gattegno trained in music and drama at the Conservatoire in Lyon before moving to Paris in 1948. He worked extensively in theatre as an actor, director, musician, composer and conductor. From 1969 he was based in the Var region, where he founded and directed a theatre company and the Théâtre du Rocher in La Garde until the mid-1990s. He continued to take television roles into the 2000s and died on 9 April 2011.

*Sources: imdb.com, fr.wikipedia.org, en.wikipedia.org.*

## On Fi1m (1)

- *Pickpocket* (1959), Fi1m 84, as Inspector — [page](https://film.one/film/pickpocket.md)

## Complete filmography (5)

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- *The Castle of Olive Trees* (1993), series, as Le père Marceau
- *Santa Claus Has Blue Eyes* (1966), Original Music Composer
- *October in Madrid* (1965), Music
- *L'annonciation* (1963), Music
- *Pickpocket* (1959), as Inspector — Fi1m 84, [page](https://film.one/film/pickpocket.md)

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