Born in Yverdon-les-Bains, Switzerland on November 4, 1922 — died February 16, 2006 (aged 83)
Benno Besson, born René-Benjamin Besson, was a Swiss stage actor, stage and screen director, and writer. He had great success as director at Volksbühne Berlin, Deutsches Theater and Berliner Ensemble in East-Berlin, where he went by an invitation of Bertolt Brecht in 1949.
