{"id":1013013,"date":"2026-06-20T15:55:16","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T15:55:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/1013013\/"},"modified":"2026-06-20T15:55:16","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T15:55:16","slug":"james-burrows-realisateur-de-sitcoms-dont-the-big-bang-theory-et-friends-est-mort-a-85-ans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/1013013\/","title":{"rendered":"James Burrows, r\u00e9alisateur de sitcoms dont \u00ab\u00a0The Big Bang Theory\u00a0\u00bb et \u00ab\u00a0Friends\u00a0\u00bb, est mort \u00e0 85 ans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Cet homme de l\u2019ombre \u00e9tait consid\u00e9r\u00e9 comme un ma\u00eetre absolu de la sitcom \u00e0 Hollywood\u00a0! Le r\u00e9alisateur James Burrows, qui a sign\u00e9 plus d\u2019un millier d\u2019\u00e9pisodes de sitcoms dont Cheers, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.20minutes.fr\/dossier\/friends\" class=\"c-link c-link--is-underlined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Friends<\/a> ou <a href=\"https:\/\/www.20minutes.fr\/dossier\/the_big_bang_theory\" class=\"c-link c-link--is-underlined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">The Big Bang Theory<\/a>, est d\u00e9c\u00e9d\u00e9 ce vendredi \u00e0 l\u2019\u00e2ge de 85 ans, a annonc\u00e9 sa famille au magazine am\u00e9ricain <a href=\"https:\/\/people.com\/james-burrows-dead-cheers-co-creator-director-was-85-exclusive-11744793\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"c-link c-link--is-underlined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">People<\/a>, indiquant qu\u2019il s\u2019\u00e9tait \u00e9teint paisiblement, entour\u00e9 de ses proches. Ni le lieu ni la cause du d\u00e9c\u00e8s n\u2019ont \u00e9t\u00e9 pr\u00e9cis\u00e9s. James Burrows laisse derri\u00e8re lui sa femme Debbie, ses filles, sa belle-fille et sept petits-enfants.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>Le p\u00e8re fondateur de la sitcom moderne<\/p>\n<p>N\u00e9 le 30\u00a0d\u00e9cembre 1940 \u00e0 Los Angeles, James Burrows grandit pourtant \u00e0 New York, dans un foyer baign\u00e9 de culture\u00a0: son p\u00e8re Abe Burrows \u00e9tait une figure incontournable de Broadway, sc\u00e9nariste et metteur en sc\u00e8ne notamment r\u00e9compens\u00e9 pour Guys and Dolls. Apr\u00e8s des \u00e9tudes \u00e0 la Yale School of Drama, il fait ses d\u00e9buts t\u00e9l\u00e9vis\u00e9s au milieu des ann\u00e9es\u00a01970, sur The Mary Tyler Moore Show puis Laverne &amp; Shirley. C\u2019est sur Taxi, au tournant des ann\u00e9es\u00a01980, qu\u2019il s\u2019impose, remportant deux Emmy Awards cons\u00e9cutifs en\u00a01980 et\u00a01981.<\/p>\n<p>Mais c\u2019est avec Cheers \u2013 qu\u2019il cocr\u00e9e avec les fr\u00e8res Glen et Les Charles \u2013 que James Burrows forge sa m\u00e9thode et sa l\u00e9gende. Diffus\u00e9e de\u00a01982 \u00e0\u00a01993, la s\u00e9rie lui doit la r\u00e9alisation de 240 de ses 275 \u00e9pisodes. Il y d\u00e9veloppe un style bien \u00e0 lui\u00a0: quatre cam\u00e9ras simultan\u00e9es, des com\u00e9diens en mouvement permanent, une \u00e9nergie de plateau qui tranche avec la rigidit\u00e9 des sitcoms de l\u2019\u00e9poque.<\/p>\n<p>Mille \u00e9pisodes, onze Emmy Awards<\/p>\n<p>La liste de ses s\u00e9ries suivantes ressemble \u00e0 un palmar\u00e8s de la com\u00e9die am\u00e9ricaine\u00a0: Frasier, Friends, NewsRadio, 3rd Rock from the Sun, Will &amp; Grace, Two and a Half Men, The Big Bang Theory\u2026 Au total, plus de 50 pilotes sign\u00e9s James Burrows \u2013 une carte de visite \u00e0 elle seule, tant son nom associ\u00e9 \u00e0 un premier \u00e9pisode valait promesse de qualit\u00e9. Il termine sa carri\u00e8re avec 11 Emmy Awards et cinq prix de la Directors Guild of America, qui lui avait remis en\u00a02015 un prix r\u00e9compensant l\u2019ensemble de son \u0153uvre.<\/p>\n<p>Un hommage unanime<\/p>\n<p>Les r\u00e9actions de ses anciens collaborateurs en disent long sur l\u2019homme qu\u2019il \u00e9tait. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.20minutes.fr\/arts-stars\/people\/4112065-20240928-alyssa-milano-retrouve-tony-danza-papa-tele-40-ans-madame-servie\" class=\"c-link c-link--is-underlined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tony Danza <\/a>(Taxi) l\u2019a salu\u00e9 comme \u00ab\u00a0le plus grand de tous les temps\u00a0\u00bb, Eric McCormack (Will &amp; Grace) comme un \u00ab\u00a0g\u00e9ant\u00a0\u00bb ayant laiss\u00e9 \u00ab\u00a0non pas une trace, mais une empreinte\u00a0\u00bb. Et <a href=\"https:\/\/www.20minutes.fr\/dossier\/lisa_kudrow\" class=\"c-link c-link--is-underlined\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Lisa Kudrow<\/a>, la Phoebe de Friends, a post\u00e9 sur Instagram ce message qui r\u00e9sume peut-\u00eatre tout\u00a0: \u00ab\u00a0Merci Jimmy. Je veux dire, merci pour tout\u2026\u00a0\u00bb<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cet homme de l\u2019ombre \u00e9tait consid\u00e9r\u00e9 comme un ma\u00eetre absolu de la sitcom \u00e0 Hollywood\u00a0! Le r\u00e9alisateur James&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1013014,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[1356],"tags":[3983,58,59,1011,27,37639,45482,521,252,10399,1364],"class_list":["post-1013013","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-television","tag-deces","tag-divertissement","tag-entertainment","tag-fr","tag-france","tag-friends","tag-lisa-kudrow","tag-serie","tag-television","tag-the-big-bang-theory","tag-tv"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@fr\/116783253272532825","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013013","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1013013"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1013013\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1013014"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1013013"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1013013"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/fr\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1013013"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}