- Father of engravers Piero Crommelynck, Milan Crommelynck and Aldo Crommelynck.
- Father-in-law of actress Fiametta Ortega.
- Crommelynck's masterpiece was Le Cocu magnifique (1920), a 'lyrical farce' on the theme of a lover's jealousy. Staged with constructivist sets by Vsevolod Meyerhold - the first of their kind - the theatre play was such a hit that Crommelynck was able to give up acting and devote himself to writing.
- Crommelynck won international honours with his play Le Cocu magnifique (The Magnificent Cuckold). First produced in Paris in 1920, it was revived many times. It is one of the few French-language plays from this period to have retained its appeal.
- Crommelynck, who was the child of a French mother and a Belgian father, came from a family connected with the theatre and was himself trained as an actor.
- He was a Belgian dramatist. His work is known for farces in which commonplace weaknesses are developed into monumental obsessions.
- His sons Aldo Crommelynck (1931-2009), Piero (1934-2001) and Milan were renowned master printmakers, who worked with Pablo Picasso and many other major artists of the twentieth century.
- Both in language and dramatic technique, Crommelynck has been one of the most lyrical and original writers of the 20th century theatre.
- In his earliest works Crommelynck already demonstrated the grasp of style and content that in his maturity culminated in works of great poetic force.
- He also published a Shakespearean adaptation, Le Chevalier de la lune (1957; "Knight of the Moon"), based on the character of Sir John Falstaff.
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