Biography
Robert Dalban (born Gaston Barré; 19 July 1903 – 3 April 1987) was a French actor. His work included stage acting, roles in TV shows and dubbing American stars. Moreover, he was a fixture in French cinema for many decades. Source: Article "Robert Dalban" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
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Complete Filmography
Petit Con
1984
as le concierge
An adolescent who fancies himself a sexy and conscientious young man abuses all his friends and family in a quest for his own independence.
The ComDads
1983
as Hotel Receptionist
Unable to find her runaway son, a woman deceives two of her ex-lovers from her youth, a mild-mannered teacher and a tough journalist, that each is the...
My Other Husband
1983
as Restaurant butler
A woman leaves her husband and marries another man without divorcing the first.
Love Lies
1983
After a harrowing breakup, Marcel returns to his favorite hotel to find his room occupied by a journalist, whom he attempts to impress.
The Party 2
1982
as Serge, waiter at “La Coupole”
A young French teenage girl after moving to a new city falls in love with a boy and is thinking of having sex with him because her girlfriends have al...
Les Misérables
1982
as Coachman
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both me...
Spy, Stand Up
1982
as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Sebastien Grenier, a former French spy, is working as a financial analyst in Zurich. However, his peaceful existence starts to disintegrate when he is...
La Chèvre
1981
as Technician at Orly
When the boss' unlucky daughter is missing in South America, Campana is sent to watch the boss' most unlucky employee who is sent as a private detecti...
Prends ta Rolls et va pointer
1981
as Bruno, trucker
Camille Vigault, takes advantage of his vacation to visit a cousin winemaker in Roussillon. Quickly tired by work in the countryside, he prefers to bu...
The Party
1980
as Serge, server of La Coupole
A thirteen-year-old French girl deals with moving to a new city and school in Paris, while at the same time her parents are getting a divorce.
Une merveilleuse journée
1980
as Man with the Rolls
The unusual day of a young pharmacist's assistant, between Deauville and Cassis.
Umbrella Coup
1980
as Le régisseur du café-théâtre
Grégoire Lecomte, the unlucky actor anxious to find a "real job", goes to take a screen test for a role of a killer, but gets to mafiosi by mistake. H...
Hothead
1979
as Jeanjean
François, a miserable football player, becomes a town hero after bringing victory in an extremely important game. He uses his fame for revenge on the ...
Out of It
1978
as Boss of the bistro
The lawyer is visiting a prison to meet with a violent criminal who has been condemned to death. During the visit, things turn bad, there is a riot wh...
Too Shy to Try
1978
as Le garagiste
Pierre is a hotel cashier in Vichy, so shy that he answers an ad from the Psychology Institute and can't say no to the salesman, Aldo; he spends 6,000...
Freddy
1978
as Avocat Antony
Le Rabat-joie
1978
as Le clochard
Armageddon
1977
as Le chauffeur de taxi
After years of poverty, Carrier, a repairman, inherits a large sum of money upon his brother's death in an accident. Now rich, he decides it is time t...
The Gang
1977
as The rat hunter
In 1945, as World War Two comes to a close, five small time crooks unite to form a gang. After several bold robberies they become notorious as "the fr...
Dracula and Son
1976
as réceptionniste hôtel
With angry villagers driving them away from their castle in Transylvania, Dracula and his son Ferdinand head abroad. Dracula ends up in London, Englan...
Le Chasseur de chez Maxim's
1976
as Honoré
The love story like no other of an aristocrat with the daughter of the bellboy at Chez Maxim's restaurant.
Love and Cool Water
1976
as Potter / Mona's father
Jip, a young piano teacher in Paris, lived in the cozy comfort with his mistress Mona, who is twenty years older, until he met the young and lovely Ri...
The Toilets Were Closed from the Inside
1976
as L'entraîneur
A bus conductor gets dressed for work in the morning, goes to the toilet, where he is killed by a bomb. The Commissioner and his fat, bumbling assista...
The Seventh Company Has Been Found
1975
as Colonel Bricard
The second part of the Seventh Company adventures.
Incorrigible
1975
as Freddy
Victor Vautier is incorrigible: he's in constant motion, working several cons at once, using different names and changing disguises. He's charming and...
The Pink Telephone
1975
as Lartigue, le comptable, Castejac & Cie
A small industrialist from Toulouse, goes to Paris to negotiate the buyout of his company from an American financial group. During his stay, the repre...
No Problem!
1975
as Hotel concierge
A man with a gunshot wound in the stomach comes to first house and collapses in Anita's apartment. A minute later he dies and the girl horrified by wh...
When the City Awakes
1975
as le fermier
An armored van is attacked and the gangsters hide the loot in a graveyard.
Only the Wind Knows the Answer
1974
as Commissaire Principal
The yacht of millionaire Hellmann explodes in the Mediterranean Sea, with him and 8 men crew on board. Insurance agent Lucas investigates at the Cote ...
The Slap
1974
as Caretaker of the school
A Parisian teacher loses his cool when his teenage daughter tells him she plans to drop out of school and move in with her boyfriend.
Like a Pot of Strawberries
1974
as Head of sales
Amandine is twenty years old, the most beautiful buttocks in Paris, and unfortunately a very ugly nose, which forces her in her profession of model, t...
How to Make Good When One Is a Jerk and a Crybaby
1974
as Léonce, le patron du bistrot
A story about a guy who still lives with his mother and sells some really awful alcohol to bartenders. The only way for him to do this is to cry and i...
OK Patron
1974
as Commissioner
Mario, the head of the Mafia in France, has just been mortally wounded. His "companion" decides to find him a successor, before the New York "organiza...
Hail the Artist
1973
as le réceptionniste de l'hôtel
Marcello Mastrioanni stars as aging actor Nicolas whose career has dwindled to TV commercials. Seeking an anchor in his life, Nicolas attempts a recon...
Man in the Trunk
1973
as Mercier
Bloch, an Israeli secret agent, seeks refuge in the French embassy in Libya to escape being killed. Augier, his French opposite number, has to get him...
Now Where Did the Seventh Company Get to?
1973
as Fermier, ancien combattant de 14-18
1940: During the chaotic running fights of the French army the 7th company disappears - nobody knows they've been taken captive. Only their scouting p...
The Right of the Maddest
1973
as Le commissaire de police
The guardian of a nursing home lends a compassionate ear to the complaints of two new pensioners who love each other and have only one dream: to see t...
The Insolent
1973
as Roger Turquand
Having escaped from prison Ristack contacts his partner, to organize an attack on a van full of gold. The heist goes well but each man is trying to ke...
Some Too Quiet Gentlemen
1973
as Inspector
The sleepy little village of Loubressac is well on its way to becoming a ghost town. To save the town, the local citizenry hatch a plan to attract tou...
The Tall Blond Man with One Black Shoe
1972
as Coco, fake delivery man
A hapless orchestra player becomes an unwitting pawn of rival factions within the French secret service after he is chosen as a decoy by being identif...
A Loser
1972
as Le médecin
Granier, a former accountant imprisoned for financial embezzlement, is released from prison and decides to help his cellmate to escape...
The Troubles of Alfred
1972
as Gustave, le chauffeur de Morel
Unlucky in love, Alfred tries to commit suicide, only to be thwarted by police efforts to prevent a simultaneous attempt by a nearby young woman. Reco...
There Once Was a Cop
1972
as Commissioner Chauvet, Superintendent in Nice
Campana, a commissar at the drugs bureau of Paris police gets an undercover job in Nice to catch an Italian-French mafia boss. As he slips into the id...
Le Cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques
1971
as Caravaner
Alfred Mullanet, an unlucky player who lives on his wife's income, becomes in a few moments the object of interest of two thugs, Kruger and Mister K.
Distracted
1970
as Mazelin
A comedy about an absent-minded man who works at a advertising company and topples from one problem to another.
Et qu'ça saute !
1970
as Martínez
A uranium deposit brings turmoil to the small South American republic of Guatalpa. Between two revolutions, the government tries unsuccessfully to dec...
Falling Point
1970
as L'inspecteur
Three men kidnap a young girl and keep her in a small house on an isolated beach, waiting for her father to pay up the ransom. But the youngest one, i...
Vertigo For A Killer
1970
as Juan
Jean-Pierre Desagnat's Vertige pour un tueur involves Marc as a hood hunted down by his boss when he fails to execute a man who happens to be his frie...
Versatile Lovers
1970
as Mario
Isabelle (Marisa Mell) runs a nursing home for wealthy women who are trying to detox from their various obsessions. Her lover, Serge Belaiev (Robert H...
She Does Not Drink, Smoke or Flirt But... She Talks
1970
as Belpech
Housemaid Georgette loves to gossip and this causes major trouble to people around her.
Time of the Wolves
1970
as Garage owner
Patterning himself after the American gangster John Dillinger, the criminal (Robert Hossein) is tracked by the inspector (Charles Aznavour), a former ...
My Uncle Benjamin
1969
as Père de Manette
Benjamin is in love with Manette, the innkeeper's beautiful daughter, but she has no intention of giving in to the young doctor until she sees the mar...
Desert Assault
1969
as Le colonel Hastings
Allied and German forces are stranded in desert during WW II and attempt to surrender each other.
Misdeal
1969
as Le patron du cabaret
A musician named Jacques Christens, is given a proposition by an old man. For ten million Francs he is asked to impersonate a certain Paul de Baer – a...
Under the Sign of the Bull
1969
as Le cafetier
In this film, Albert is an eccentric inventor of missiles who comes under fire from his investors when his first prototype explodes. Even his sympathe...
The Brain
1969
as Belgian soldier of the armored car (with a cold)
Arthur and Anatole are two little robbers. They want to rob money, money that will travel in a special train from Paris to Bruxelles. They don't know ...
Clerambard
1969
as Gustalin
When a cruel man is visited by Saint Francis and convinced to change his ways, his family believes him to be insane and locks him away in order to sel...
Don't Take God's Children for Wild Geese
1968
as Casimir, Léontine's servant and driver
Rita is a girl that lives on taking gangsters as lovers. But when the money stops coming, she swears revenge.
Pasha
1968
as l'inspecteur Albert Gouvion, amant de Nathalie
Six months before his retirement from the criminal police, inspector Joss finds his colleague Gouvion dead, in a poorly faked suicide attempt. Joss lo...
A Little Virtuous
1968
as Inspector Lorenzi
In Paris, the young photographer Ferdinand falls in love with Claire, a pickpocket. Shortly after, he is assaulted because he took pictures of the you...
The Madman of Lab Four
1967
as Merchant, spy in the laboratory
This talkative and unevenly paced feature finds Fou (Jean Lefebvre) the inventor of a gas that makes the users fall in love. He is chased by his boss,...
A Choice of Killers
1967
as Le commissaire Macias
Since the car accident that caused the death of his wife, the comics author Stéphane Destouches sinks into alcohol and wanders the roads of Morocco.
The Man Who Betrayed the Mafia
1967
as (uncredited)
When an oily attorney dies at the hands of the mafia, a dedicated French detective investigates the man's murder. He soon uncovers a drug-smuggling op...
Idiot in Paris
1967
as Patouilloux, le maire de Jaligny
Goubi, the simpleton of his village in the French Department Allier, has but one wish: to see Paris. One day, the truckers Grafouillère deposit a drun...
Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard
1967
as Director of the newspaper
In the third and final episode of the trilogy, Fantômas imposes a head tax on the rich, threatening to kill those who do not comply.
The Restaurant
1966
as Le conspirateur français
A great French restaurant's owner, Monsieur Septime, is thrust into intrigue and crime, when one of his famous guests disappears.
Brigade Anti Gangs
1966
as 'Paletot-de-Cuir'
The struggle between a ruthless leader of a bank robbers and the cops who are determined to put him in jail for long.
Three Disordered Children
1966
as Maître Gaubert, juge pour enfants
A man falsely recognize two teenagers and one child as his own children in order to avoid jail so his life becomes more and more chaotic.
Long March
1966
as Pharmacist
In June 1944, a young doctor, Chevalier, under the threat of guns, is forced to treat a wounded man in a camp of resistance fighters (maquisards). He ...
Let's Not Get Angry
1966
as l'embaumeur
One-time gangster Antoine is enjoying retirement on the coast, now managing a boating club. He receives a visit from a former accomplice who asks for ...
Fantomas Unleashed
1965
as Directeur du journal
In the second episode of the trilogy Fantômas kidnaps distinguished scientist professor Marchand with the aim to develop a super weapon that will enab...
A Trap for Cinderella
1965
as Boss of the garage
Based on Sébastien Japrisot's novel, the story revolves around a young girl who suffers from amnesia after surviving a terrible fire.
When the Pheasants Pass
1965
as le concierge de l'hôtel
Arsène Baudu and Hyacinthe, a pair of small-time crooks, fall prey to Alexandre Larsan-Bellac, who involves them (against their will) in high-profile ...
Ivory Coast Adventure
1965
as Pepe
An Embassy attache and a butterfly hunter become involved in a treasure hunt between two rival gangs.
Les Gorilles
1964
as Montecourt, the trainer
A confused pair of airport luggage carriers get involved in the disappearance of some suitcases.
The Great Spy Chase
1964
as Truck driver (uncredited)
A cold-war spy parody. After the death of an armaments manufacturer, an international group of spies is drawn into a high-stakes battle of wits to obt...
Fantomas
1964
as Directeur du journal
Fantômas is a man of many disguises. He uses maquillage as a weapon. He can impersonate anyone using an array of masks and can create endless confusio...
The Monocle's Sour Laugh
1964
as Poussin
A French agent goes after a gang of Asian terrorists who plan to blow up an American nuclear aircraft carrier.
Death of a Killer
1964
as Albert
When Massa is released from prison, he's sure that Luciano, an old freind, is responsible for his incarceration. Massa proceeds to keep watch on Lucia...
The Gallant Musketeer
1964
as (uncredited)
Set against the troubled period of the Wars of Religion in France, at a time when the three Henries (Henri III, Henri de Guise and Henri de Béarn) vie...
Crooks in Clover
1963
as Jean, le majordome
An aging gangster, Fernand Naudin is hoping for a quiet retirement when he suddenly inherits a fortune from an old friend, a former gangster supremo k...
Highway Pick-Up
1963
as le brigadier
An escaped convict makes a remote gas station his safe haven. But soon the cunning, devious wife of the owner seeks a chance to use him to get what sh...
Of Flesh and Blood
1963
as Man in Fairground
Samuel finances his participation in a card game by stealing parts from a jeep. He cheats at cards, and has his hands broken as a consequence.
Prostitution
1963
as Robert
A young girl from the provinces ends up in Paris and falls into the vicious circle of prostitution, before resolving to denounce her torturers to the ...
Vice and Virtue
1963
as German Officer (uncredited)
1944 : Occupied France. Juliette (Vice) is Wehrmacht General Bamberg's mistress and enjoys a privileged life. Her younger sister Justine (Virtue) is ...
Chicken Feed for Little Birds
1963
as l'inspecteur de police
In a building close to the Place de la Contrescarpe in Paris, a tale of criss‑crossings in turn romantic, gourmet, interested or mystical, between an ...
The Eye of the Monocle
1962
as Poussin
In 1943, a German commando conceals a large quantity of gold in an undersea cave on the coast of Corsica. Years later, Schlumpf, the sole survivor of...
Clash of Steel
1962
as Landry
In 16th-century France, the Chevalier de Pardaillan rescues the beautiful gypsy "Violetta", in reality Isabelle, daughter of the Comte d'Entraigues an...
The Mysteries of Paris
1962
as Le patron de l'auberge des Ravageurs
The Marquis Rodolphe de Sombrueil accidentally runs over a working man with his carriage and helps his widow -- unjustly accused of robbery -- to find...
Love on a Pillow
1962
as Le brigadier
A young girl rescues a man from a suicide attempt. He turns out to be a sociopath, who begins to take over her life, abusing her both verbally and emo...
Law of Men
1962
as le cafetier
After a planned robbery on an armoured car the investigating police officer encounters a female journalist who specialises in criminology, and who he ...
Paris Pick-Up
1962
as Inspector
On Christmas night, an ex-convict meets a beautiful, married Italian woman who has a lot of things to hide.
The Seventh Juror
1962
as Garampon, fisherman on his boat
In a moment of madness a middle-aged, married and respectable pharmacist kills a young woman who is sun-bathing by a lake. Unable to take in what he h...
Where the Truth Lies
1962
as Butcher
A young veterinarian falls in love with a strange woman, a former explorer who might be a Voodoo priestess, after he comes to help her ailing cheetah...
Assassin in the Phonebook
1962
as Commissioner
Fernandel plays Albert, the unhappy brunt of jokes by his fellow office-workers who goes from the frying pan into the fire. Albert gets caught up in a...
Madame
1961
as Le maître à danser (uncredited)
Catherine Hubscher, who washes the shirts of young Napoleon and other soldiers fighting the Revolution, falls in love with Sergeant Lefebvre. Circumst...
The Counterfeiters of Paris
1961
as Inspector Maffeux
"Le Dabe" retired many years ago and now he lives in the Tropics where he owns stables and horses. He is a very rich man. He was the king of all money...
Blood on His Sword
1961
as Le faux courrier de Liège (uncredited)
Charles le Temeraire asks in marriage Jeanne de Beauvais, daughter of King Louis XI, wishing to get her valuable lands in dowry. The King is wise to t...
Les Livreurs
1961
as Albert Periculoso
These two friendly delivery boys from a Parisian department store not only take their job to heart as much as possible, but also consider themselves r...
Destination Fury
1961
Lemmy Caution has been assigned by Interpol to work as a double agent. Little does he know how many spies are on to this deception and how dangerous ...
Panurge's Sheep
1961
as Taxi driver (uncredited)
Charles and Jeanne Renard live with their young kids in a dormitory town. Everyday train and metro,work and return by train and metro to the dormitory...
Please, Not Now!
1961
as Un consommateur au bistrot
A sexy model pretends to have a new boyfriend in a wacky plan to make her ex-lover jealous.
Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love!
1961
as Guard officer
Henri IV falls in love with the young Charlotte de Montmorency, 40 years his junior. The king decided to marry her off to his nephew, Henri de Condé, ...
The Menace
1961
as Inspektor
Josepha is on the verge eighteen living with her drunken washed up actor uncle. She longs for the companionship of a group of her mo-ped riding peers...
The Pavements of Paris
1961
as Commissioner
Arlette has too provincial parents to whom she announces her plan about own independence. After her departure, Marc, her absent fiance seek for her in...
Boulevard
1960
as le forain, animateur de boxe
Boulevard focuses on Georges 'Jojo' Castagnier, an adolescent who lives in a poor room under the roof of a block of apartments in the Pigalle section ...
Dossier AST-555
1960
as Commissioner Meunier
A cabaret is used as a cover for drug trafficking, but the police are unable to uncover the means used to smuggle the opium. It turns out that one of ...
Towards Ecstasy
1960
Catherine married Jérôme, a wealthy landowner living in North Africa, from a bourgeois but noxious background. While living in total family harmony, s...
It Happened All Night
1960
as Lenormand
Michel Ferréol reluctantly meets up with an old school friend, Antoine Fiesco. Michel didn’t like Antoine much when they were at school and tries to g...
The Old Guard
1960
as Jérôme Ardouin, gravedigger
Three friends leave their village for a retirement home travelling the countryside
Amour, autocar et boîtes de nuit
1960
as Lucien
A young girl, Christiane, leaves her family to join friends with whom she intends to "make a life". Two boys, Jo and Paul, look after the heroine, who...
Port of Point-du-Jour
1960
as Dominique
Emile is a steelworker in a car factory ;a confirmed bachelor going on fifty, he leads a peaceful life .One night, he is woken up by a burst of machin...
The Baron of the Locks
1960
as Guillaume, manager of the flying club
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...
The High Life
1960
as Hotelboy
Doris Putzke is fond of dating men in her quest to find the perfect one. In her brief relationships, she goes from one disillusionment to another, con...
The Versailles Affair
1960
as Bargeman
Suzuki, a Japanese secret agent, is sent to Versailles to unmask a certain Klauss, who is to receive stolen documents from Saudi Arabia.
Signed, Arsène Lupin
1959
as Inspector Béchoux of the Judicial Police
At the end of the Great War, Arsène Lupin resumed his adventurous life. Theft of three paintings committed by an adversary leads him to the treasure o...
The Lovers of Tomorrow
1959
as le garagiste
A man throws a revolver in the Seine and checks into a hotel run by an unhappy Turkish couple. The wife falls for the mysterious guest, and kills her ...
Witness in the City
1959
as Raymond, taxi driver
Industrialist Pierre Verdier kills his mistress Jeanne Ancelin by throwing her off a train. Her husband, Ancelin, decides to take revenge on his wife'...
Too Late to Love
1959
as Le camelot en vins
Walter, a reporter and photographer, meets Catherine in a train. The young lawyer recently gained an acquittal for a man who killed his alcoholic fath...
Marie-Octobre
1959
as Léon Blanchet
A group of ex-resistance fighters are brought together by Marie-Octobre, the code name of Marie-Helene Dumoulin. The former members of the network hav...
A Legitimate Defense
1958
as Albert dit "Bébert le Caïd", un gangster qui rackette et persécute Pierrot
Two friends from the last war, Pierrot, a bar owner, and Gustave, a police inspector, are in contact with a notorious gang of racketeers in Montmartre...
Be Beautiful and Shut Up
1958
as l'inspecteur principal Gotterat
A beautiful 18-year-old orphan escapes from a reformatory and hooks up with a gang of jewel smugglers, and decides on a life of crime. However, she fa...
Le souffle du désir
1958
Daniel Bellanger, a night-club crooner, is a basically straight,honest man. He has just married Christiane, a cashier in a Montmartre hotel and his ma...
Illegal Cargo
1958
as René, le trafiquant assassiné
A female journalist beats two male rivals to a scoop by exposing a white slave racket going on right in 50s Paris.
King on Horseback
1958
as Barberin dit Joli Coeur
Henri La Tour, a strolling player, is also a daring adventurer. So, when, after accomplishing a brilliant feat, he is awarded a title by King Louis XV...
Sexpot
1957
as Monsieur Jourdans
Coveted by many of the men around her, the sensual Nathalie is a magnet for passion. After many adventures and dramas, she will find the happiness she...
Give Me My Chance
1957
as Le commissaire
17 year-old small-town girl Nicole Noblet comes to Paris dreaming of becoming a world-famous actress.
This Pretty World
1957
as 'Petite Main'
Pépito runs a gang of thugs with authority. He has a natural son, Gaston, a professor of literature in Aix-en-Provence, whom he has hardly ever seen. ...
L'irrésistible Catherine
1957
as Pearl (voice)
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...
The Vintage
1957
as Police Insp. Grimaud (uncredited)
A young Italian fugitive and his older protective brother hide among the grape pickers at a vineyard in Provence.
Three Make a Pair
1957
as L'inspecteur Walter
Jojo’s ambition is to become a gangster, but to be admitted into a gang he has to prove himself by committing a daring act. To that end, he kills some...
The River of Three Junks
1957
as Capitaine Campion
In Saigon, the heads of the French counter-espionage network replace the secretary of dangerous traffickers with one of their agents to uncover a trad...
The Singer from Mexico
1957
as Le portier du théâtre (uncredited)
Vincent Etchebar is spotted by the impresario Cartoni who gives him the opportunity to break into Paris. But nothing will go as planned.
I'll Get Back to Kandara
1956
as Cardelec
One evening, professor André Barret sees the author of a murder in the darkness; cafe owner Cordelec is the victim. From then on, his suspicions fall ...
Zaza
1956
as Cascard
Around 1900, Zaza was the undisputed star of the "Variétés parisiennes". Bonded with pianist Cascard, she indulges in adventures and falls in love wit...
The Lebanese Mission
1956
as Malek
In Lebanon, industrialist Hennequin, director of a French oil company, entrusts engineers Jean Domèvre, a Frenchman, and Mokhrir, a Lebanese, with the...
La joyeuse prison
1956
as Vauclin, inmate gangster
Benoit, the head guard of Clouville Prison, prefers to be liked than feared. This basic principle transforms the jail-house into a joyful prison, wher...
In the Manner of Sherlock Holmes
1956
as Commissioner Sanois
A horrific and, on the face of it, incomprehensible murder has just been committed on the unsympathetic person of a loan shark. The victim's body is f...
Les Truands
1956
as Pepito Benoit
"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...
Law of the Streets
1956
as Trucker
Yves Tréguier, a young orphan, escapes from a reform school in Brittany to join "Dédé la Glace" in Paris, an old-timer with whom he has a sincere frie...
People of No Importance
1956
as Gilbert
During a stay at a roadside inn, long-distance lorry driver Jean Viard meets a young woman Clothilde who works there. Their friendship soon develops i...
Maid in Paris
1956
Penelope Benson, known as Penny, is both romantic and determined. Put in a select boarding school by her mother, she takes advantage of a trip to Pari...
The Wicked Go to Hell
1955
as Clément
Making his directorial debut, Robert Hossein also assumes the leading role, playing an escaped convict. Hossein and his fellow escapees cross the path...
La Môme Pigalle
1955
as Un souteneur (uncredited)
Released from prison, Arlette returns to her job as a cabaret star. The police try to get her to confess where the stolen jewels are hidden.
La Madelon
1955
as Adjutant 'La Tringle'
1914, a small village of the Marne. Charming and woken up, Madeleine, said the Madelon, who works in the coffee(café) of his father, Tourlourou, accou...
The Little Rebels
1955
as Joseph
Judge Julien Lamy regularly deals with the welfare of children, namely down on their luck delinquents. When an orphan named Alain Robert burns down a...
Hi-Jack Highway
1955
as Félix, l'affréteur
A trucker encounters a dead body on the road home. He reports the incident to the police, who suspect that Jean was responsible for the death, and his...
M'sieur la Caille
1955
as Dominique le Corse
Pépé la Vache, who coveted Fernande's love, denounced her protector: Dominique le Corse, who was arrested. But Fernande was attracted by Jesus the Qua...
Pas de souris dans le business
1955
as Chief Inspector Marcasse
Without seeming to touch it, journalist Trupeau is interested in the doings of Mireille, a jewelry store saleswoman. A certain Jojo is hanging around ...
Caroline and the Rebels
1955
as Le capitaine
A swashbuckling heritage reveals itself as the adopted son of 19th-century Spaniards develops into a suave lady-killer.
Casse-cou, mademoiselle!
1955
as Biker
Working for a stock-car team, Robert dreams of becoming a racing driver himself. For a long time this is only a pipe dream until one day fortune smile...
Diabolique
1955
as Garage Owner
The cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle, is murdered by an unlikely duo -- his meek wife and the mistress he brazenly...
Price of Love
1955
as Inspector Chennier
Because he loved a trainer named Suzy too much, honest Pierre Menard wasted his life and died. Innocent, but implicated in the ransacking of a jewelry...
Yours Truly, Blake
1954
as Inspector Tessier
Larry Blake is an American airline pilot who loves women and ... trouble! Wherever he goes troubles indeed follow, like this time in Paris. On vacatio...
Obsession
1954
as Inspecteur Chardin
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...
Die... We'll Do the Rest
1954
as Grosjean
Unable to go to America where he dreamed of making his fortune, Ulysse Sylvain decided to apply the methods that had been successful across the Atlant...
Service Entrance
1954
as L'ami du mandataire (uncredited)
Walking alone and looking desperate, young Marie-Lou is taken in hand by Léo, a street photographer and his squatter friends. They all want to know wh...
Minuit... Champs-Elysées
1954
as Inspector Bougeaud
A burglar, Bob Duchemin, is charged with murder following a mysterious settling of accounts. Suspicion also falls on the manager of a cabaret on the C...
Daughters of Destiny
1954
as D'Aulon (segment "Jeanne")
Three stories, very different in space and time. Lysistrata, a dancer from ancient times, Jeanne d'Arc, medieval warrior and Elisabeth, American war w...
Their Last Night
1953
as l'inspecteur Dupré
Arriving in Paris, Madeleine Marsan rents a room in a guesthouse where she makes the acquaintance of Pierre Ruffin, a respectable municipal librarian....
Mandat d'amener
1953
as Alexandre Brion
Appointed public prosecutor in a small provincial town, Gérard Latour befriends Delanglade, whose young wife becomes his mistress. Shortly afterwards,...
When You Read This Letter
1953
as Dick
After a novice nun learns of the sudden death of her parents, she leaves the convent to manage the family business and look after her teenage sister. ...
The Case Against X
1952
as L'inspecteur Sylvestre, adjoint de Bonnardel
Paul Dorgères, a wealthy industrialist, has been mysteriously murdered. The investigation is entrusted to the experienced Chief Inspector Bonnardel an...
The Seven Deadly Sins
1952
as The stallholder (segment "Eighth Sin, The")
A compilation of segments covers the seven deadly sins of greed, wrath, envy, pride, lust, sloth, and gluttony.
They Were Five
1952
as Dufau - le manager
Now that the world conflict is over, five inseparable wartime buddies swear eternal friendship now to each other. But there's many a slip 'twixt the c...
Gigolo
1951
as le boucher
Back from the war, Marceau Le Guern remembers. Educated in an orphanage run by Dominican brothers, he fell into misery when he left it. His only asset...
The Beautiful Image
1951
as Julien Gauthier
One day, Raoul Cérusier realizes with amazement that his face has changed. With the exception of an old uncle, no one, not even his wife, recognizes h...
The Passerby
1951
as The trafficker
A woman who has a terrible secret to conceal takes refuge on a barge.
The Lovers of Bras-Mort
1951
as Mr. Levers
Jean Michaut is a bargeman who lives nearby an old barge cemetery named "Bras-Mort". He is in love with Monique, the daughter of a wealthy boat owner....
The Moment of Truth
1951
as Taboureau
After attending to a suicidal young man, Dr Richard learns that his wife has been unfaithful for years. This comes as a shock after 10 years of suppos...
The Strollers
1950
as Commissioner Corbès
Jean-Louis forgets to use the pedestrian crossing;Who could have believed then where it would lead the unfortunate guy to?
A Man Walks in the City
1950
as Laurent
Le Havre, France, in 1949. In a town that still shows the scars of war, several friends meet up in Albert's café. One of them, Laurent, has lost his j...
Au P'tit Zouave
1950
as Armand Billot, patron du « P’tit Zouave »
Au p'tit Zouave, a café, sees a colorful clientele from working-class Paris. An assassin will shake up the daily life of the regulars.
The Walls of Malapaga
1949
as le Bosco du navire "Flora"
A French fugitive arrives in Genoa, where he becomes entangled with an Italian woman and her daughter.
The Hell of Lost Pilots
1949
as Dumont
A plane flying to Dakar is caught in a storm and has to land in the desert. Deprived of a radio, he is unable to give his position and the water reser...
Manon
1949
as Headwaiter
Port of Marseille, France, recently liberated from the German yoke. Caught as stowaways aboard a ship, Manon, a young woman who was accused of collabo...
Fandango
1948
as The inspector
In the Basque Country, two friends, José and François, live a cheerful life. The two sly foxes use their wit to boost the business of an innkeeper the...
The Secret of Monte-Cristo
1948
as Mathieu Loupian
One of Alexandre Dumas's most popular adventure novels is "The Count of Monte-Cristo". What is little known is that the famous writer made up neither ...
Berlin Express
1948
as French Intelligence Chief
In post-war Europe, a diverse group of passengers aboard a U.S. Army train to bombed-out Frankfurt becomes involved in a Nazi assassination plot.
The Killer is Listening
1948
as The boss
April fools in a studio where a radio host pretends to shoot dead all the performers....till a true crime occurs.
Jenny Lamour
1947
as Paulo
Paris, France, December 1946. Jenny Lamour, an ambitious cabaret singer, and Maurice, her extremely jealous pianist husband, become involved in the th...
Not Guilty
1947
as Gustave, boss of the café
An alcoholic doctor accidentally kills someone and manages to make the death look like an accident. The episode triggers a sense of confidence and he ...
The Crowned Fish Tavern
1947
as 'Cigare'
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 ...
The House Under the Sea
1947
as Cafe owner
A stranger named Constant disrupts the life of Flora, who is seemingly happy with her husband Lucien. But she suddenly experiences a passionate love, ...
The Chips Are Down
1947
as Georges
"Les jeux sont faits," is a fantasy film based on a screenplay by French existentialist philosopher Jean-Paul Sartre. A society heiress and a resistan...
The Last Judgment
1945
as The plainclothes policeman
In Central Europe, resistance to the Germans in growing. But the partisan leader is denounced and killed. His daughter and the son of the traitor love...
Resistance
1945
as Schmidt
An Alsatian, head of a section of the Gestapo, is actually spying on behalf of the French and dismantling a Nazi network. His activities are brought t...
Angel and Sinner
1945
as Oskar
During the stagecoach trip of a frightened group of inhabitants of Rouen, Elisabeth Rousset, known as "Boule de Suif", renders these people a signal s...
Don't Shout it from the Rooftops
1943
as Un plombier
A scientist who have discovered how to turn salt water into petrol dies before he has revealed his formula. By mistake it's assumed that his assistant...
Promise to the Unknown One
1942
as Commissioner Andréani
A young woman is in love with a young writer, winner of the Prix Goncourt. Married to a banker, she must face her husband's anger and the blackmail of...
La Neige sur les pas
1942
Abandoned by her husband Marc, Thérèse Romanay cheats on him with André Norans. When Romanay finds out, he drives her away. She runs away with her lov...
Deuxième bureau contre kommandantur
1939
as Un officier allemand
In 1917, in a small village in the North, Abbe Gaillard is suspected by the Germans of facilitating the escape of French and Belgian soldiers. A false...
Human Freight
1937
1915, in invaded Belgium, the Germans seek in vain to dismantle the organization of the smugglers of men who help volunteers to cross the Dutch border...