He also worked in the field of theatre, his second love with cinema, as an actor and then a director, for almost 60 years. A remarkable longevity for the one who had landed in Paris in 1950, at the age of 22, and who had crossed paths with Jacques Brel, Serge Gainsbourg or even Georges Moustaki by doing sketches in cabarets in the capital.
Before Michel Leeb, who returned to the theater last year, it was actor Pierre Richard who decided to pay tribute to his former colleague through a tweet. “Henri Garcin has just left us. I will never forget the pleasure I had playing with him. So funny, so fine! And I will always regret that of not having had the opportunity to find it elsewhere“, he had declared, while sharing a video of a scene of film in which he plays alongside Henri Garcin.