Biography
Gisèle Casadesus (14 June 1914 – 24 September 2017) was a French actress, who appeared in numerous theatre and film productions. She was an honorary member of the Sociétaires of the Comédie-Française, Grand Officer of the Legion of Honor, Officer of the Ordre des Arts et des Lettres, and Grand-Croix of the National Order of Merit. In a career spanning more than 80 years, Casadesus appeared in more than a dozen films after turning 90. Born into a family of artists in the 18th arrondissement of P...
Known For
Complete Filmography
La Sonate des spectres
2015
Juliette, granddaughter of Gisèle Casadesus and Lucien Pascal, is pregnant. She desires a cinematic trace of her grandparents, whom she admires. She a...
Divine Comédie, des planches à l'écran
2015
as Self
Week-ends
2014
as Françoise
It sometimes takes little to spoil a weekend in the country. A simple misunderstanding in a supermarket parking lot, a bad reaction, and there you go,...
Sous le figuier
2013
as Selma
Nathalie, Christophe and Joëlle are in the midst of an existential crisis. Brought together by Selma, 95 and seriously ill, they will spend a memorabl...
The Great Restaurant II
2011
as Madeleine, the 100 years old fiancée
The great restaurant reopens with new extravagent costumers and the same beloved manager.
Sarah's Key
2010
as Mamé Tezac
On the night of 16 July 1942, ten year old Sarah and her parents are being arrested and transported to the Velodrome d'Hiver in Paris where thousands ...
What War May Bring
2010
as Ilva (95 ans)
A theater projectionist's daughter is involved in the Resistance in WWII, but she doesn’t share his political involvement & only believes in passi...
My Afternoons with Margueritte
2010
as Margueritte
An illiterate and lonely man bonds with an older and well-read woman.
The Hedgehog
2009
as Mrs. de Broglie
Paloma is a serious and highly articulate but deeply bored 11-year-old who has decided to kill herself on her 12th birthday. Fascinated by art and phi...
Ultimate Heist
2009
as Mme Malakian
The Malakian clan, a family of ruthless gangsters, controls the underworld of Southern France. At its head, the violent godfather Milo Malakian rules ...
Marie-Octobre
2008
as Clémence
After the Liberation of France during the World War II, ten former Resistant fighters meet again during a dinner organized by Marie-Octobre...
Royal Palace
2005
as Alma
Eugenia is the queen of an imaginary European country. When her husband dies, quite unexpectedly, the country is left without a king. According to the...
Royal Palace
2005
as Reine Mère
Eugenia is the queen of an imaginary European country. When her husband dies, quite unexpectedly, the country is left without a king. According to the...
Housewarming
2005
Chantal, an advocate involved in defending homeless illegal immigrant, decides to refurbish her flat. Following her convictions she calls Columbian wo...
The Last Mitterrand
2005
as La soeur de Simone Picard
A young journalist (Lespert) helps the French President compile his memoirs.
Special Delivery
2002
as la dame
An unexpected phone call from a certain Kirsch sets off a crisis between Catherine and Raphaël that will affect all those around them, be they close f...
Les deux vieilles dames et l'accordeur
2001
Ouch
2000
as Robert's mother
A chance meeting with Aie, a waitress with a strange name, will drive a 50 year old neurotic man, Robert, crazy.
The Children of the Marshland
1999
as Mrs. Mercier
The film is set in Marais, a quiet region along the banks of Loire river in 1918. Riton is afflicted with a bad-tempered wife and three unruly childre...
Tout ce qui brille
1996
as Mademoiselle de Chambure
Laurence is 30 years old, has a loving husband and an exciting job. But her happiness is not complete because, despite numerous attempts, she is unabl...
Men, Women: A User's Manual
1996
as Clara Blanc
Benoit Blanc loves living, he loves women, he loves daring. He is a famous businessman who suffers from stomach-ache. Fabiolini, a would-be actor, is ...
Roulez jeunesse !
1993
as Bernadette
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....
Stormy Summer
1989
as Grand-mère
Every year, the whole gather in the French region of Auvergne's home. During this 1944 summer, Louis falls in love with his cousin Laurence. The arriv...
Sweet Lies
1987
as Nemo
An insurance investigator is visiting Paris on assignment. He is soon made the object of a seduction bet amongst three ladies. Problems arise when the...
The Collector of Brains
1981
as Mme Vanderwood
A young pianist is shocked when she witnesses a strange chess tournament with a robot. Could there be a gruesome secret behind this exhibition?
Le Curé de Tours
1980
as Mlle Salomon de Villenoix
Father Birotteau and Father Troubert, both of whom are priests at Tours, have separate lodgings in the house belonging to the crabby spinster Sophie G...
A Crime of Our Times
1977
as Catherine Revest
Gabriel Axel's penetrating study of the aftermath of a crime. Bernard and Catherine lead a quiet life in retirement, enjoying their occasional sortie...
Un mari, c'est un mari
1976
as Le sénateur
Ludovique wanted to spend her holidays with her husband Jean,alone together. But she will have to stand her whole family and relations.
Game of Seduction
1976
as Marquise de Lapalmmes
A virtuous young woman becomes the target of the schemes of an amoral womanizer who is in the habit of wooing women and killing their lovers and husba...
Mamie Rose
1976
as Rose
Agathe and Regis have a little boy, Benoît, who is very capricious and sometimes aggressive. The couple, on the verge of divorce, is planning to go on...
Jury of One
1974
as Madame Leguen
A desperate woman, whose son is on trial for murder, blackmails the judge and kidnaps his wife.
Love at the Top
1974
as Mrs. Lourceuil
A shy bank employee unexpectedly invites a young woman to a café, leading to a one-night stand. When he shares this with his disillusioned friend, the...
La voyante
1972
as La seconde cliente de Karma
Du Guesclin
1949
as Jeanne, Comtesse de Penthièvre
A chronicle of the life of Bertrand du Guesclin, grand officer of the French army in the 14th century.
Between Eleven and Midnight
1949
as Florence
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...
Road Blocked
1948
as Simone Fournier
Jacques Audoin falls in love with a pianist, Evelyne Clery, and marries her. In reality, he had wanted to approach her, because he imagined that she h...
Loves of Casanova
1947
as Geneviève de Cerlin
On his way to Paris, Casanova keeps on collecting female conquests, does not shy away from duels and gets into many a colorful adventure. Once in the ...
The Eternal Husband
1946
as Marie
An adaptation of Fyodor Dostoyevsky's "Le Eternel Mari", a somber story of marital infidelity, revenge and near madness, and starring Raimu in his las...
Paméla
1945
as Joséphine de Beauharnais
During the Directory, a handful of royalists tried to get the Dauphin Louis XVII to escape from the Temple.
Coup de tête
1944
as Nadine
A sporty and chivalrous young man creates, with some comrades, a society whose goal is to protect honest people against rogues. He finds himself throw...
Sowing the Wind
1944
as Germaine Horp
A child is rejected by his father and sister when his mother dies giving birth to him. The family is falling apart; the father takes to drinking, the ...
Vautrin the Thief
1943
as Clotilde de Grandlieu
A famous convict Jacques Collin, alias Trompe la mort, or abbot Carlos Herrera, also called Vautrin, escapes from prison. Chance makes him meet Lucien...
The Adventurer
1934
as Geneviève
A scandalised Frenchman returns from Africa where he has been involved in illegal trading of mines (resulting in the deaths of many African miners). H...