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Complete Filmography
Les Trésors de Marcel Pagnol
2019
as Self / Brun / Astruc / Monsieur Belloiseau (archive footage)
The works of Marcel Pagnol are a veritable monument of French cultural heritage. Based on previously unseen archive material, film extracts, novels, p...
Comédie pour un meurtre
1981
as Maxime Saint-Clair
La Mouche bleue
1974
as Le Président
Far from Dallas
1972
as Inspector
Thriller centered round the assassination of John F. Kennedy.
The Egg
1972
as Monsieur Raffard
Emile Magis, a modest employee, more or less ostracized by the others, would like only one thing, to be happy. Little by little he realizes that life ...
Asterix the Gaul
1967
as (voice)
In the year 50 BC, Gaul is occupied by the Romans - nearly. But the small village of Asterix and his friends still resists the Roman legions with the ...
The Secret of Wilhelm Storitz
1967
as Colonel Roederich, the father
TV adaptation of Jules Verne's posthumously published novel.
La Mamma
1966
as Père Giovanni
La 99ème Minute
1966
Death live! In the middle of filming a detective drama, the main actor Gérard Gérard dies from a gunshot. This returning star was hated by her partner...
La Queue du Diable
1965
as Birgasse
Le petit monstre
1965
Robert's peaceful existence as a manufacturer of beauty creams is suddenly disrupted by the arrival of little Zizi, whose upbringing is entrusted to h...
La Traversée de la Loire
1962
as Louis
June 1940, near Saumur. During the exodus, the bridges having been destroyed, a group of refugees, brought together by the chance of fleeing the advan...
Spotlight on a Murderer
1961
as Le notaire
An old count hides just before he dies to annoy his heirs. The heirs search a manor for the count's body and are killed off one by one. Jean-Marie, hi...
The President
1961
as le docteur Fumet, le médecin personnel de Beaufort
At 73, a former President of the French Council reflects on his political career while writing his memoirs, delving into his relationships with key fi...
The Love Game
1960
as L'acheteur galant
Victor (Jean-Pierre Cassel) and Suzanne (Genevieve Cluny) are a couple at odds about commitment in this light, fast-paced comedy-drama by Philippe de ...
Soupe au lait
1959
as Director
Roland Lasserre is a shy boy, which would be nothing if he weren't also prone to the violent tantrums that have earned him his nickname "Soupe au lait...
Houla-Houla
1959
as Le directeur
Fernand Martin, a schoolteacher in Nogent-le-Roi, is in love with Jacqueline, a postal worker and the older sister of one of his pupils. He asks for h...
Sins of Youth
1958
as Monsieur Chale, un pensionnaire
In a small provincial town, the boarding-house is run by Mathilde Belin, the overindulging and over-demanding mother of Paul. When she is told by her ...
La P..... sentimentale
1958
as Vachette, general overseer
A high school boy falls for a prostitute he has met on the notorious "Rue Des Patures".
Madame et son auto
1958
as Mr. Margaillat
Sophie Dirondel, history teacher at the Saint-Cloison-sur-Ermoise, wins the jackpot of a lottery, a 2CV. The good-natured woman is both happy and slig...
School for Coquettes
1958
as Racinet
A young Parisian woman attends a school for coquettes in order to rise in society.
Neither Seen Nor Recognized
1958
as M. Lerechigneux, le juge
In a small French village, everything would be quiet if the local wildlife cop was not being ridiculed by a smart poacher.
Magirama
1958
A portmanteau work in four segments,designed to illustrate the expressive possibilities of director Abel Gance,s creation, Polyvision, which preceded ...
In Six Easy Lessons
1957
as Noël de Cazaubon
A bossy count has trouble marrying off any of his six sons. When one of them, Adam, finally makes wedding arrangements, something happens to his bride...
White Smoke
1957
Sophie Mallet is the lively manager of a detective agency, assisted by Emile Gachit, her conscientious but not very effective right-hand man. One day ...
Isabelle Is Afraid of Men
1957
as M. Brissac
During a summer spent with her cousins, whose freedom and incessant flirting at first surprised her, young Isabelle met a charming playmate whom her m...
Explosive Vacation!
1957
as Fernand Morel
Arlette thinks she has made a wonderful gift to her daughter Sylvie, who has just married François Morel, a young journalist. And, to tell the truth, ...
L'irrésistible Catherine
1957
as Me Revering
A legionnaire, Georges, promised his friend, who died of a snake-bite, to marry Catherine, the girl with whom he had a child. Back in France, the youn...
Miss Catastrophe
1957
as Colonel
A talented but crazy painter, Elvire Mercier agrees to sell one of her canvases to Pierre Leroy, a rich heir. But after a string of misunderstandings,...
These Sacred Holidays
1956
as Inspector Ferracci
Georges Pinson, who wants to spend his holidays on the riviera with his wife and his two kids,buys a car.His neighbors and the drivers who overtake hi...
Les Truands
1956
as Le duc de Morny
"Thieves We Are" - In flashback, the audience learns why 104-year-old Amedee steals the watch belonging to the town mayor. The story develops into a h...
Three of the Canebière
1955
as Bienaimé
Toinet, Girelle and Pénible fish for sardines in Marseille. To dazzle their conquests, they present themselves as rich can manufacturers, while the li...
Letters from My Windmill
1954
as le père Abbé
Set in the countryside of Provence, the film is based on three tales from Alphonse Daudet's 1869 short story collection Letters from My Windmill: "The...
Obsession
1954
as Le directeur de l'hôtel (uncredited)
Hélène and Aldo Giovanni are a circus trapeze double act and a couple. Aldo is temporarily replaced by former-partner Alexandre when the former is inj...
Children of Love
1953
as Albert
In a maternity hospital, young single mothers are accompanied by social worker Hélène Lambert, who tries to make them aware of their new responsibilit...
To Hell with Virtue
1953
as Investigating judge
To conceal his nighttime infidelity from his wife Gisele, Pierre calls in a particularly shady private detective to concoct an alibi. He is introduced...
Manon of the Spring
1953
as M. Belloiseau, le retraité
Marcel Pagnol's adaptation of his own novel Manon des sources, the story of a shepherdess who exacts her revenge on the townsfolk she blames for killi...
Ugolin
1953
as M. Belloiseau, le retraité
Manon has blocked the spring that feeds the village, whose inhabitants she hates. They gradually become aware of the evil they have done to her and tr...
Bille de clown
1952
Gaston has always wanted to be a clown, which is not to please his father, a stern notary. The latter is adamant : he will never allow his son to tarn...
Woman Are Angels
1952
as Doctor
In order to inherit her husband's old aunt more quickly, a greedy peasant woman engages in various dishonest maneuvers.
Massacre in Lace
1952
as Arsène de Loubiac
Cock-eyed reporter Georges Masse enjoys a peaceful vacation in Venice. Which does not please his boss as he is not supposed to be... in vacation! P'ti...
Le crime du Bouif
1952
as Investigating judge
A poacher nicknamed "Le Bouif" is accused of having murdered his son-in-law, trainer of a horse stable in Maisons-Laffitte.
The Most Beautiful Girl in the World
1951
as Prosecutor Paul Thomas
In order to please Martineau, a wealthy industrialist, cynical Gabory accepts to organize a rigged beauty contest whose winner will be Françoise, Mart...
Utopia
1951
as Le notaire français
Stan and Ollie are marooned on an island in the south pacific island.
Life Is a Game
1951
Evanella, who writes the “Horoscope” section of a major newspaper, and her brother Méristo, create with the help of a young journalist, Jean Lassère a...
The Strange Madame X
1951
as Moissac
Irène is the unhappy wife of a wealthy publisher, Jacques Voisin-Larive, who cares about her no more than a beautiful piece of furniture. Her meeting ...
La Ronde
1950
as Le professeur Schüller (uncredited)
An all-knowing interlocutor guides us through a series of affairs in Vienna, 1900. A soldier meets an eager young lady of the evening. Later he has an...
Girl from Maxim's
1950
as Le docteur Montgicourt
After a crazy night spent at Maxim's, Doctor Montgicourt returns home with the Môme Shrimp. General Petypon invites her to his castle for the engageme...
No Pity for Women
1950
as Adolphe Mercier, businessman
The wealthy industrialist Alain de Narbois has disappeared. Michel Dunant, an idle man who passed by and who looks exactly like the deceased, is taken...
Marie of the Port
1950
as Unhappy customer
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...
À la culotte de zouave
1949
A Royal Affair
1949
as Marquis de Chamarande
Mme Beaudrier, the wife of a Parliamentary Senator, hurls a pastry at visiting King Joan IV of Cerdagne, sparking off a series of farcical events invo...
Between Eleven and Midnight
1949
as Charlie
Between eleven o’clock and midnight one evening, a notorious trafficker Jérôme Vidauban is shot whilst walking in a tunnel in Paris. The case is assig...
Si jeunesse savait...
1948
as Lucien Bigne
Charles Vigne, a wealthy banker, frees Abdul, a good genius imprisoned in a vase. To thank him, Abdul grants his wish: to become a child again, while ...
The Ideal Couple
1946
as Commissioner
Diavalo is the popular hero of French serials circa 1912. Diana is an actress who falls in love with Diavalo. Diavalo is forced to wear a series of ...
L'Aventure de Cabassou
1946
as De Salicette
An architect whose wife has cheated on him withdraws to a solitary life in a cave, but somehow manages to keep au courant with what is going on.
Good Evening Ladies, Good Evening Gentlemen
1944
To teach a lesson to his young wife who dreams of the famous "voiceless singer", a husband enters a radio station and manages to make people appreciat...
Secrets of a Ballerina
1943
as Gontran des Tournelles
In 1860s France, a couple who have recently acquired a dilapidated country house in Vendôme discover within it the secret of a passionate love affaire...
Carnival of Sinners
1943
as Perrier (uncredited)
A struggling artist buys a talisman that gives him love, fame and wealth. The talisman is a severed left hand, and it works perfectly, in fact, magica...
Love Letters
1942
as Maître Boubousson
A plucky businesswoman agrees to receive love letters to a prefect’s wife from a young official, and soon finds herself embroiled in a scandal that in...
Andorra or The Bronze Men
1942
as Le Bayle
A man is killed smuggling contraband through the Pyrenees Alps. He leaves behind a pregnant woman who must go on.
The Four-Poster Bed
1942
as Inspector (uncredited)
In his prison cell, the composer Remi Bonvent composed an opera, The columns bed. The director of the prison, Porey Cave, succeeds made believe he is ...
Madame Sans-Gêne
1941
as Jasmin
Deals with the ordeals of a crude washerwoman in the chic court of Napoleon the First. Based on the play of the same name.
The Last One of the Six
1941
as L'administrateur
Paris, France. Commissaire Wens is put in charge of the investigation into the murder of one of six friends who, in the past, made a very profitable p...
Monsieur Brotonneau
1939
A man leaves his adulterous wife for his secretary, but then the wife apologizes and wants her husband back again.
Le Club des fadas
1939
Desiring to give his compatriots a taste for laughter, a comic Marseilles founds a club with friends whose joke is the reason for living and tries to ...
The Mill in the Sun
1939
The sentimental adventure of an old bachelor, mayor of his village and owner of a mill, who suddenly falls in love with a 20-year-old Parisian girl. T...
Three Waltzes
1938
as Director
"Les Trois Valses" traces the love story of two people over three eras. In the first waltz (music based on Johann Strauss I), Yvonne is a sensitive Pa...
The Baker's Wife
1938
as the priest
In this little Provencal village, a new baker, Aimable, settles down. His wife Aurelie is beautiful and much younger than he. She departs with a sheph...
Heartbeat
1938
as Astruc
A pompous grocer’s assistant in Marseille annoys a visiting film crew so much that they prank him with a phony acting contract; believing it to be rea...
The Call of Life
1937
as Pièche
A love between a teacher and his assistant is thwarted, because of their too great age difference.
La Chanson du Souvenir
1937
as Florian
A French-language remake of Douglas Sirk's "The Court Concert" (1936).
Le cœur dispose
1937
as Pretender
An aristocratic family wants to marry off their young Helene. The mother and grandmother each pick not so bright prospects.Helene herself is drawn to ...
The Terrible Lovers
1936
as Annette's lawyer
After a year of turbulent marriage Annette and Daniel get a divorce, and each marries again. However, they meet again on the French Riviera and are te...
César
1936
as Mr. Brun
Leaping forward twenty years, the trilo'gy continues with the death of Fanny's husband, Panisse, and the discovery of her secret by her son, Césariot....
Dawn Over France
1935
as La Griffe
The gratuitous murder of his father and the misery of the people, aggravated by a succession of bad harvests, lead Gaspard, a great admirer of Mandrin...
Jeanne
1934
as Charles Fuqui
Vers l'abîme
1934
as Barrick
The dramatic story of a military attaché, in a European embassy who will sign a fake check, in order to recover important secret documents that have b...
Fanny
1932
as Monsieur Brun
Soon after Marius's departure, Fanny learns that she is pregnant with his child, to the disappointment of her mother and of Marius's father, César. To...
Marius
1931
as Monsieur Brun
César runs a bar along Marseilles' port, assisted by his 23-year-old son, Marius. Friends since childhood, Fanny and Marius love each other, but Mariu...