Édouard Lestingois — Boudu Saved from Drowning Character Profile

About Édouard Lestingois

Well-to-do bookseller and head of the household who attempts to civilize Boudu, embodying the comfortable but fragile bourgeois order targeted by the film's satire.

Character Facts

Played by

Charles Granval

Appears in

Boudu Saved from Drowning (1932)

Role

Supporting

Relationships (4)

• Édouard Lestingois — Family Spouse — Emma Lestingois (Marcelle Hainia)

  Husband and wife managing the bourgeois household.

• Édouard Lestingois — Family Brother-in-law — Vigour (Jean Gehret)

  Family connection through marriage to the Lestingois circle.

• Édouard Lestingois — Social Close Friend — Godin (Max Dalban)

  Trusted companion and regular visitor to the bookseller's home.

• Édouard Lestingois — Social Rescuer — Priape Boudu (Michel Simon)

  Saved Boudu from drowning and brought him into the home.

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More characters from Boudu Saved from Drowning

• Priape Boudu (Michel Simon)
• Emma Lestingois (Marcelle Hainia)
• Chloë Anne Marie, la Bonne (Sévérine Lerczinska)
• Vigour (Jean Gehret)
• la jeune femme au chien perdu (Régine Lutèce)
• Godin (Max Dalban)
• L'Étudiant (Jean Dasté)
• Rose, la Voisine (uncredited) (Jane Pierson)
• la petite fille (Geneviève Cadix)
• Le Poète (Jacques Becker)
• Un Invité à la Noce (Georges D'Arnoux)