Biography
Armand Mestral (born Armand Serge Zelikson; 25 November 1917 - 17 September 2000) was a French actor and singer. He appeared in more than seventy films from 1945 to 1992. Source: Article "Armand Mestral" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
Known For
Complete Filmography

The Big Pardon 2
1992
as Freddy Ambrosi
The mobster Raymond Bettoun gets out of prison and joins his son Maurice in Miami, a drug trafficker who is about to launch a huge operation. But he ...

Les Mamies
1992
as Archibald
When 12 year old Alex runs away, his grandmother ask her 6 friends for help and follow the kid from Paris to Lisbon.

Enquête sur une parole donnée : La lettre perdue
1985
as Gérard

Les Misérables
1982
as General advocate
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both me...

The Big Pardon
1982
as Freddy Ambrosi
The Bettoun clan: Raymond (the patriarch), Maurice (the son), Jacky (the nephew), Roland (the nephew), Albert (Raymond's cousin), Pépé (Raymond's frie...

Hold Up
1980
as Le commissaire Dambier

Le Gentleman des Antipodes
1976
as Fronsac

Jarosław Dąbrowski
1976
as Louis Antoine Ranvier

Fifteen Year Old Captain
1974
as Harris
Dick Sand travels aboard the "Pilgrim" when, following dramatic events, the ship becomes without a captain. Fate has it so that, to keep all sailors i...

Two Men in Town
1973
as Director of the Pontoise prison
A former bank robber is released after 10 years in prison. He gets help from a social-worker, but gets harassed by an old cop from his past.

The Hostage Gang
1973
as Commissioner Crenoy
Barely out of the psychiatric hospital where he went to seek care, Gilbert Nodier commits several assaults to have some money.

La Brune que voilà
1970
as Le mari
Germain, a great seducer, collects the mistresses. There are four, all brown, and all married. When the husband of one of them disembarks to threaten ...

Le Cyborg ou Le Voyage vertical
1970
as Léon

My Uncle Benjamin
1969
as Machecourt
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...

Bonnot's Gang
1968
as Jouin
The story of a notorious French criminal gang of the 1910s.

They Came to Rob Las Vegas
1968
After successfully assaulting an armored car between Las Vegas and Los Angeles, the ambitions of the diverse members of the intrepid criminal gang col...

The Viscount
1967
as Claude Peroux
Inspector for a major insurance company, Clint de La Roche, known as "le vicomte", is enjoying a pleasant vacation on the Spanish coast with a few pre...

The Big Hit of Surcouf
1966
as Capitaine Hans Fell
The continuation of the adventures of Captain Robert Surcouf and his crew.

Lost Command
1966
as Administration Officer
After being freed from a Vietnamese war prison, French Lt. Col. Pierre Raspeguy is sent to help quell resistance forces in Algeria. With the help of t...

That Riviera Touch
1966
as Inspector Duval
Eric and Ernie decide to take a holiday to the South of France and unwittingly become mixed up with a band of jewel thieves.

The Sea Pirate
1966
as Capitaine Hans Fell
A young naval officer becomes a corsair to make enough money to marry a pretty girl, and fights injustice and snobbery to reach home safely.

Highway Pick-Up
1963
as Corenne
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...

Chaste Susan
1963
as Barón des Aubrais
The young wife of an officer who, in reality, has several lovers receives an award for virtue.

Mandrin
1962
as Sigismond de Moret
It was the reign of Louis XV and, in 1750, France was at war all the time, and the people, suffocated by taxes, liked their beloved Louis less and les...

The Reluctant Saint
1962
Cupertino, Italy, 1623: A simple-minded and clumsy young man joins a Franciscan order as a hired hand, overcoming his intellectual and social challeng...

Duel of Fire
1962
as Rocco Gravina
Antonio Franco's sister is been murdered by a gang of bandits. He swear vengeance and manage to infiltrate the gang to find the murders.

The Busybody
1961
as Clairac
André Loriot works for Dr Clairac in a laboratory producing euphoric pills. He searches in vain for an apartment where he can settle down and start a ...

White Slave Ship
1961
as Calico Jack
The Albatross travels from England to the New World in 1675, with a number of passengers, a couple of political prisoners along with a dozen other wom...

Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love!
1961
as Bassompierre
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, ...

Morgan, the Pirate
1960
as Francois L'Olonnais
A Welsh pirate raids up and down the Caribbean, battling the Spanish, the English and other pirates.

Amour, autocar et boîtes de nuit
1960
as Pierre
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...

The Enigma of the Folies-Bergère
1959
as Armand, the driver
The Raffin Commissioner investigates the murder of an industrialist and it soon becomes apparent that the activities of the relatives of the deceased ...

The Lovers of Tomorrow
1959
as Louis, le mari de Simone
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 ...

Soft Skin on Black Silk
1959
as Jean
Everything you need to know is telegraphed by the title of this Spanish-language drama. The story takes place in a hothouse Mediterranean setting and ...

Fire in the Flesh
1958
as Ortiz
Physicist Theodore Heldt, his young daughter Fern and his assistant Larry Gordon, on board a ship for a scientific expedition, are shipwrecked in the ...

Non sono più guaglione
1957
as Frenchman
A mechanic falls in love with a girl who aspires to become a diva.

Clandestine Paris
1957
as Lucky
In the elegant nightclub of Corsican Luciano, known as Lucky, "Les Naturistes", big sums are gambled at the Longchamp races. Lucky not only "welcomes"...

The Strange Mr. Steve
1957
as Mr. Stève
Georges Villard, a minor bank employee, is won over by Mr Steve who does him favours, treats him to the high life and introduces him to his wife Flore...

Gervaise
1956
as Lantier, l'amant de Gervaise
An adaptation of Émile Zola’s 1877 masterpiece L’assommoir, the film is an uncompromising depiction of a lowly laundress’s struggles to deal with an a...

No Big Deal for Johnny
1955
as Robert Lanier
Robert Lanier, a man with a doubtful past, disembarks clandestinely in Le Havre decided to rebuild his life. Johnny, an orphaned young acrobat, takes ...

Napoleon
1955
as Marshal Nicolas Oudinot
The film follows the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint Helena. The film is notable for its use of location shootin...

Dangerous Turning
1954
as Daniel Courtois
The adventures of Daniele as he tries to find love with Lucienne despite being framed for murder and cocaine smuggling.

The Roundup is for Tonight
1954
as Robert Bertoli aka 'Bébert le Balafré'
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,...

Tabor
1954
as Lieutenant Blancard
An evocation of the wartime exploits of the Moroccan "Tabors" in Tunisia, Italy, the French campaign and Germany. During the landings in Corsica, a li...

His Father's Portrait
1953
Musician
Paul has to leave his country home to collect his father's inheritance of a department store. A natural-born son, Paul's stepmother gives him a cold r...

Welcome
1953
as Armand Mestral
The leading coach the company of Jean Nohain make a program fails in a small village. The people immobilize the troops to force him to do the show the...

Over the waves
1951
as Self
Panorama of the programs and hosts who made the heyday of radio in the 1950s.

The Queer Assignment
1945
as Emigrant
A young man, Robert Dupont, with suicidal tendencies and a bit stupid to boot, is saved by a stranger who pretends to be a well-known banker. This str...