Édouard Dermit (ou Dermithe)
(January 18, 1925 – May 15, 1995), stage name of Antoine Dermit, is a French
actor and painter.Dermit is the adopted son and sole heir of
Jean Cocteau.Partner Jean Cocteau
Queer Places:
Notre-Dame-de-Jérusalem, Parc de la chapelle Cocteau, DN7, 83600 Fréjus
36 Rue de Montpensier, 75001 Paris, France
Jean Cocteau House, 15 Rue du Lau, 91490 Milly-la-Forêt, France
Édouard Dermit (ou Dermithe)
(January 18, 1925 – May 15, 1995), stage name of Antoine Dermit, is a French
actor and painter.Dermit is the adopted son and sole heir of
Jean Cocteau.
Édouard Dermit was born January 18, 1925 in Gradisca (County of Gorizia and Gradisca). Extremely handsome, and with a silhouette of a Greek god, he kept forever the nickname "Doudou" for his kindness and never feigned sweetness of his character and his benevolent wisdom. In film, he remained forever the young Paul in the film Les Enfants Terribles by Jean-Pierre Melville, from the novel of Jean Cocteau (1950). Also a painter - he exhibited several times at the Lucie Weill gallery - notably Edward Dermit completed in 1965, the frescoes at the Notre Dame of Jerusalem Frejus that Jean Cocteau began to draw and did not have the time to finish before his death in October 11, 1963. He dealt with great care to manage the work of Cocteau and shared his time between the homes of the writer located in the neighborhood of the Palais Royal and Milly-la-Forêt.
In the late 1960s, he married Eliane Dubroca, a young woman model at Dior who gave him two son, the elder John (Jacqueline Picasso was his godmother and godfather was Jean Marais), and Stéphane (Francine Weisweiller being her godmother and godfather Pierre Bergé). In February 1966, he designed the sets for the ballet The exchange a look with a libretto by Françoise Sagan, created at the Marseille Opera by Jacques Chazot and Tessa Beaumont. In 1979, Edward Dermit publish with Bertrand Meyer-Stabley the book My sacred Editions Ink which includes the most beautiful texts on his contemporaries Cocteau monsters.
In 1983, he publicly acknowledged he was bisexual and had been the lover of Jean Cocteau. His son Stéphane sold to Pierre Berge the last house where Jean Cocteau lived in Milly-la-Forêt which became Maison Jean Cocteau, inaugurated on 23 June 2010. A documentary broadcast on France 5 in October 2013, mainly devoted to the connection between Jean Marais and Jean Cocteau, also addressed the relationship between Edward Dermit and Jean Cocteau.
Filmography 1948: The Eagle Has Two Heads, Jean Cocteau: a young light-horseman playing cards (uncredited) 1948: Les Parents terribles, Cocteau (technique5 assistant) 1950: Les Enfants Terribles by Jean-Pierre Melville: Paul 1950: Orpheus Jean Cocteau: Cegeste 1960: The Testament of Orpheus Jean Cocteau: Cegeste 1965: Thomas the Impostor by Georges Franju: Captain Roy
Dermit died May 15, 1995 in Paris.
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