THE MOVING PICTURE BOY ARCHIVE

ANDRÉ TRETON

Name: André Treton
Date of birth: 26 July 1948
Place of birth: Saint-Germain-en-Laye (about 12 miles west of Paris), France
Date of death: 29 October 2015 (67 years old)

Filmography

1962   La guerre des boutons
1963   Du mouron pour les petits oiseaux

Treton is famous for his role as Lebrac in Yves Robert's classic La guerre des boutons. His only other film was a year later, when he had a small part (his scene lasts less than two minutes) as a young telegraph boy in Marcel Carné's Du mouron pour les petits oiseaux.

This latter film is a comedy about the eccentric tenants of an apartment block, one of whom, M. Fleurville (played by Jean Parédès), is a pederast who sends telegrams to himself so that he can invite the adolescent telegraph boys who deliver these telegrams into his flat for (it is implied) some erotic fun. Treton plays the second telegraph boy we see arriving at the man's flat, after the first is turned away for being too ugly. Naturally, Treton's character, with his brooding, matinée idol good looks, is given a very different reception to the first, as M. Fleurville invites him into his flat with the promise: Je vais vous donner quelque chose, an invitation which the youth accepts quite willingly.

After Du mouron pour les petits oiseaux (with the director of which he allegedly had a quarrel), Treton gave up acting and became a metallurgist, as well as serving as a fireman. He was also a coach for a junior football team.

There is no entry for Treton in the Holmstrom volume.

Screenshots of Treton as Lebrac from La guerre des boutons

Screenshots of Treton as Le petit télégraphiste (uncredited) in Du mouron pour les petits oiseaux

With Jean Parédès as M. Fleurville