{{Short description|French actor and opera and theatre director}} '''Antoine Bourseiller''' (8 July 1930 &ndash; 21 May 2013) was a French actor and opera and theatre director.<ref name=fig>{{cite web|url=http://www.lefigaro.fr/theatre/2013/05/22/03003-20130522ARTFIG00429-mort-du-metteur-en-scene-antoine-bourseiller.php|date=22 May 2013|work=Le Figaro|title=Mort du metteur en scene Antoine Bourseiller}}</ref>

Born in Paris in 1930, from 1960 to 1963 Bourseiller headed the Studio des Champs-Elysées.<ref name=fig/> In 1966, he was named director of the Centre dramatique national d'Aix-en-Provence. He also directed the Théâtre Récamier.<ref name=lib>{{cite web|url=http://www.liberation.fr/theatre/2013/05/22/antoine-bourseiller-le-theatre-en-deuil_904890|date=22 May 2013|publisher=Liberation Theatre|title=Antoine Bourseiller}}</ref> From 1982 until 1996 he was director of the Opéra de Nancy et de Lorraine.<ref name=lib/><ref name=fond>{{cite web|url=http://www.imec-archives.com/fonds_archives_fiche.php?i=BSL |accessdate=19 October 2013 |title=Bourseiller, Antoine |publisher=IMEC |url-status=dead |archiveurl=https://web.archive.org/web/20131020181020/http://www.imec-archives.com/fonds_archives_fiche.php?i=BSL |archivedate=20 October 2013 }}</ref>

Bourseiller won the Prix du Concours des Jeunes compagnies in 1960 and the Grand Prix du théâtre du Syndicat de la critique in 1963.

==Personal life== He had a daughter, Rosalie Varda, from his relationship with director Agnès Varda.<ref>{{cite web|title=Mort d'Antoine Bourseiller : Marie Sara et ses proches au Studio, un adieu ému|url=http://www.purepeople.com/article/mort-d-antoine-bourseiller-marie-sara-et-ses-proches-au-studio-un-adieu-emu_a122172/1|accessdate=29 June 2016}}</ref> He had a second daughter, the rejoneadora (bullfighter) Marie Sara (born Marie Bourseiller), from his marriage to actress Chantal Darget (born Marie Chantal Chauvet). From this marriage he also had a stepson, Christophe Bourseiller (born Christophe Gintzburger).

== Partial filmography as actor == * ''L'Opéra-Mouffe'' (short) by Agnès Varda (1958) * ''Cléo from 5 to 7'' by Agnès Varda (1962) * ''Masculin féminin'' by Jean-Luc Godard (1966) * ''The War Is Over'' by Alain Resnais (1966) * ''Moi, Pierre Rivière, ayant égorgé ma mère, ma sœur et mon frère...'' by René Allio (1975) * ''A Bad Son'' by Claude Sautet (1980) * ''Clara et les Chics Types'' by Jacques Monnet (1981) * ''Three Seats for the 26th'' by Jacques Demy (1988)

== Filmography as director == * ''Marie Soleil'' (1966) * ''Jean Genet: Entretien avec Antoine Bourseiller'' (''Jean Genet: An Interview with Antoine Bourseiller'') (1981)

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==External links== *{{IMDb name|nm0100171}}

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