Biography
Serge Merlin (born Serge Merle) was a French actor. He was born on 29 December 1932 in Sainte-Barbe-du-Tlélat, French Algeria (now Oued Tlelat, Algeria), and died on 16 February 2019 in Paris.
Merlin had a long career in theatre from 1952 to 2018, with occasional film roles. He became widely known for playing Raymond Dufayel, the reclusive painter known as the 'glass man', in Jean-Pierre Jeunet's Amélie (2001). Other film credits include The City of Lost Children (1995) and Danton (1983).
In 2014 he was appointed Commander of the Order of the Arts and Letters.
