Abbé Pierre
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- August 5, 1912, Lyon, Rhône, France
- Died
- January 22, 2007
- Movies
- 5
Abbé Pierre, OFM Cap, GOQ (born Henri Marie Joseph Grouès; 5 August 1912 – 22 January 2007) was a French Catholic priest, member of the Resistance during World War II, and deputy of the Popular Republican Movement (MRP).
In 1949, he founded the Emmaus movement, with the goal of helping poor and homeless people and refugees. He was one of the most popular figures in France but had his name removed from such polls after some time.
Grouès was born on 5 August 1912 in Lyon, France to a wealthy Catholic family of silk traders, the fifth of eight children. His aunt was the writer Héra Mirtel. He spent his childhood in Irigny, near Lyon. He was twelve when he met François Chabbey and went for the first time with his father to an Order circle, the brotherhood of the "Hospitaliers veilleurs" in which the mainly middle-class members would serve the poor by providing barber services.
Best-Known Movies
Filmography
| 2024 | Hiver 54 : L'Abbé Pierre et l'insurrection de la bonté | Self (archive footage) |
| 2008 | L'Abbé Pierre - La voix des sans-voix | Self (archive footage) |
| 2005 | Un abbé nommé Pierre, une vie pour les autres | Self |
| 1991 | Lest We Forget | Self (segment "Pour Dalton Prejean, USA") |
| 1955 | The Ragpickers of Emmaus | Self (uncredited) |
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