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Pierre taix is a French clown, comedian and filmmaker. taix made a series of acclaimed short and featurelength films in the 1960s, many of them cowritten by influential screenwriter JeanClaude Carrire. He has won an Academy Award. Due to a legal dispute with a distribution company, these films were unavailable for a long period. They have now been restored and are available again.

Clown, director, designer, gagman, magician, poster designer the range of talents of Peter Etaix is vast. Native of Roanne where he was born in 1928, training designer, introduced to the art of stained glass by master Theodore Gerard HanssenPierre Etaix basically built his career around the comic. He settled in Paris where he lives illustrations while performing in cabarets and music halls, including The Golden Horse, The Three Donkeys, ABC and the Alhambra, Bobino and Olympia, and that circus clown with Nino.

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