Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Blanchette Brunoy (5 October 1915 — 3 April 2005) was a French actress, who had appeared in over 90 film and television productions between 1936 and 1998. She was born Blanche Bilhaud in Paris as the daughter of a physician, and died in Manosque, Alpes-de-Haute-Provence of natural causes. She was the goddaughter of writer Georges Duhamel, and studied acting at Conservatoire de Paris. Brunoy is possibly best-remembered for her roles in such films as Jean R...
Known For
Complete Filmography

Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno
2009
as Clotilde (archive footage)
In 1964, Henri-Georges Clouzot's production of L'Enfer came to a halt. Despite huge expectations, major studio backing and an unlimited budget, after ...

White Lies
1998
as Madeleine
Believing she comes from a wealthy family, thugs kidnap a young woman hired as an au pair in Paris.

Roulez jeunesse !
1993
as Marie
After a missed burglary, deux young cads take refuge in a retiring-pension sowing terror. On the call of one of the pensioners, the police catch them....

Love on the Quiet
1985
as Mémé Odette
A lawyer hires a call girl after learning his wife has invited her lover to move in; the husband and wife separate and the two new couples live side-b...

Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Jean-Marc
1964
as Suzanne Aubry
The story of the couple from the very first meeting to break up told from a view of a man, Jean-Marc. The film shares the same plot with "Françoise ou...

Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Françoise
1964
as Suzanne Aubry
The story of the couple from the very first meeting to break up told from a view of a woman, Francoise. The film shares the same plot with "Jean-Marc ...

How to Make a French Dish
1964
as Angèle
In this romantic drama, a middle-aged gambler tells a casino croupier her life story. The story is told in flashback and chronicles the woman's romant...

Bebert and the Train
1963
as Mrs. Martin
The Martin family is shopping in a department store. Tiennot is responsible for looking after his little brother, Bébert, but he prefers to chase girl...

People in Luck
1963
as Mme Beaurepaire (« Le Gros Lot »)
A light French comedy of 5 segments.

The Baron of the Locks
1960
as Maria Vilandier, innkeeper
The lucky Baron wins a boat in a card game and takes off with his former lover to find new adventures. Adverse circumstances land them in a small town...
La Mère et l'Enfant
1958
as Narrator (voice)
This documentary short offers practical advice for mothers on how to take care of their babies, such as feeding and bathing.

Le circuit de minuit
1956
as Louise Descamp
This is the the sad story of a car manufacturer, short of the readies, who asks his wife for money (for she owns the fortune). She refuses for her dad...

Operation Thunder
1956
as Sonia Brévannes
The inhabitants of a small provincial town are requisitioned to take part in the French army's major maneuvers. A foreign spy takes advantage of these...
Mon bébé
1956
as Maggie Scott

The Roundup is for Tonight
1954
as 'La Blanchotte'
Three sketches that all start in the police station, where Léa, La Pintade and the brigadier himself tell their little stories. The story of Danielle,...

Tourments
1954
as Anne-Marie Duffot
Little Jean-Claude was adopted by former singer Jacques Duffot and his wife Anne-Marie. The child's mother, Simone, is determined to take him back, ha...

Le Petit Jacques
1953
as Marthe Rambert
Noël Rambert is overwhelmed by fate. Marthe, his wife, has left him. His son, little Jacques, sickly and touching, has psychic gifts. Life is not a ha...

Le Secret d'une mère
1952
as Françoise Gaudry
After his wife's death, a man discovers that his daughter may not be his.

Si ça vous chante
1952
A fashionable singer makes a stopover in the harbor of Cannes, while a radio journalist investigates the fauna of the festival.

Une enfant dans la tourmente
1952
Lily Ferronais can't stand her husband who, out of weakness, has let himself be led down the wrong road. She flees with her little Jeannette, whom she...

French Touch
1952
as Aline
Mario, a bumptious sheep-shearer, discovers he has a inimtable touch that makes women, as well as sheep, swoon at his professional caress. He is soon ...

Venom and Eternity
1952
as Self
In this experimental film, Isidore Isou, the leader of the lettrist movement, lashes out at conventional cinema and offers a revolutionary form of mov...

Le Passage de Vénus
1951
as Hortense Bicquois
Yesterday night, Lazare Chantoiseau painted the town red. This morning he wakes up with a very unsettling idea in mind: he is sure to have stolen and ...

Le roi Pandore
1950
as Self / En personne au maquillage (uncredited)
A policeman receives a fabulous inheritance. Thanks to this, he conquers the heart of Queen Marika. But crooks deprive him of his financial means

Marie of the Port
1950
as Odile Le Flem
Henri Chatelard is well into his forties, owns a restaurant and a cinema in the city, and appreciates women. When he meets Marie, an 18-ish strong-hea...

Just Out
1949
as Jacqueline Fournier
Satire of publishing circles, featuring a ferocious boss, Moscat, a successful but handsome author, Maréchal, another successful but bitter author, Bo...
L'Altra
1949
as Vera de Santis

L'Homme aux mains d'argile
1949
as Raymonde Cerdan
The fictionalized life, and interpreted by himself, of the popular boxing champion Marcel Cerdan. Training sessions, matches, victories, flight to the...

Kindergarten
1949
as Rose
1948. Madeleine is the headmistress of a kindergarten in Ménilmontant. Dr Libois, the school doctor, is very close to her heart. When Rose, a new help...

Sextette
1948
as Jeanne
A man remembers all the incredible stories that took place in his hotel.

The Murdered Model
1948
as Laure
Commissioner Malaise investigates a strange crime: a mannequin, stolen from the window of a tailor, is found stabbed... But his face of wax has the fe...

The Crowned Fish Tavern
1947
as Maria
Captain Palmer's daughter, Maria, is neglected by her husband, the cynical Leo, who lives with the beautiful Sylvia. To defeat his son-in-law, Palmer ...

Clockface Cafe
1947
as Louise Couturier
Julien Couturier and his wife Louise, a young couple from Auvergne who have come to Paris to try their luck for the first time in their lives, become ...

Solita de Cordoue
1946
as Marie
Pierre lives with his wife Marie in a small village in the Landes. He dreams of leaving. On the occasion of the passage of a caravan of gypsies, he me...

Raboliot
1946
as Sandrine Fouques
Happily married to Sandrine, Pierre Fouques also known as Raboliot is the father of two young children. He would live a steady life hadn't he a passio...

Les Cadets de l'océan
1945
as Marie
In the harbor of Toulon, on the “Ocean” training ship, the apprenticeship of the cabin boys and experts of the Navy is punctuated by permissions in to...

Les Dames du bois de Boulogne
1945
A love story that follows the maneuverings of a society lady as she connives to initiate a scandalous affair between her aristocratic ex-lover and a p...

The Eleventh Hour Guest
1945
as Antoinette Langeais
An inventor has just developed an extraordinary machine, a disintegrating ray and thought detector. He experiences it one evening on a group of relati...

Vingt-quatre heures de perm'
1945
as Yvonne
Two friends, mobilized together and idle, send their photos to two young workers. The photos are inverted, resulting in a real sentimental imbroglio w...

The Traveler Without Luggage
1944
as Valentine Renaud
Having lost his memory due to serving in World War I, Gaston has spent the past 15 years in a psychiatric hospital. Due to his large disability pensio...

Ceux du rivage
1943
as Marie-Louise Rocheteau
In the oyster and fishing town of Arcachon, one man doesn't want his adopted son to get married to the daughter of his rival, and he suspects a dark u...

Shop Girls of Paris
1943
as Denise Baudu
The struggles of a small business owner come to light in this film by director André Cayatte. The proprietor of a fabric shop, M. Baudu faces stiff co...

It Happened at the Inn
1943
as Goupi-Muguet
An old woman living in an inn is killed and her family members seem like the likely culprits.
The White Truck
1943
as Germaine
A young mechanic is given a strange job: to convey the king of the gypsies' embalmed dead body on a very long route.

The Big Fight
1942
as Sylvette
The formidable K.O. Bouillon killed trainer Victor's colt during a boxing fight. Strongly affected, Victor returns to the south to find his wife and a...

Vie privée
1942
as Sylvie
Beautiful and adored by the public, the great actress Florence once faulted with Remi, a disreputable individual. A little girl was born who lives in ...

Dernière aventure
1942
as Jeanne Aubrin
Comte de Larzac, an aging seducer, leaves Paris for Lannemezan. Accompanied by his friend Charmeuil, he goes there to acknowledge the paternity of Jea...

The Chain Breaker
1941
as Marie-Jo
Antoine Mouret, an authoritarian restaurateur, is the head of a large family where, for reasons of interest, people only marry cousins. But some have ...

Two Women
1940
as Karelina
Considering his wife as his property, a smuggler bullies the unfortunate woman and does not allow her to turn to another man.

They Were Twelve Women
1940
as Geneviève
Early in the war, a group of women decide to help the soldiers in the war front. They enlist the help of the wealthy Madame Marion.

The Duraton Family
1940
as Lisette Martin
Unbeknownst to the members of a French family, a radio announcer makes them the subject of a broadcast.

Cavalcade of Love
1939
as Léonie de Maupré
Cavalcade D'Amour is divided into three sections, each depicting a romance occurring within the walls of the Chateau de Champs. Legend has it that who...

Latin Quarter
1939
as Michèle
A wealthy banker, bored with his life, heads to the Latin Quarter of Paris where he pretends to be a struggling artist. He falls in love with a studen...

La Bête Humaine
1938
as Flore
Returning by train to the French port of Le Havre, Jacques Lantier, a tormented railwayman, meets by chance the impulsive stationmaster Roubard and Sé...

Youth in Revolt
1938
as Magali
"Altitude 3.200" asks the question and provides the premise of what would happen if a group of young people----poor, rich, discontented, bored--- were...

Jeannette Bourgogne
1938
At 19, Jeannette Bourgogne, an orphan, begins working as a teacher in a village.

The Woman Thief
1938
as Madeleine Barchevin
The woman thief evades a young lady who is onto his game, but then tries his wiles elsewhere on a married woman by attempting to compromise and ruin t...

Claudine at School
1937
as Claudine
Poorly educated by her father, a wacky researcher, Claudine is a teenager full of life who loves her small village school run by Miss Sergeant. A new ...

Confessions of a Newlywed
1937
as Une girl
A timid young man marries the daughter of the entomologist he works for. On the train for their honeymoon, he takes his young wife in his arms when a ...

La Peau d'un autre
1937
as Anne-Marie
The very chic Parisian couturier Jean Granet has trouble with the police, and will find himself imprisoned for two weeks, in the provinces, for speedi...