Biography
Paul Crauchet (14 July 1920 – 19 December 2012) was a French actor. As a young man interested in aviation and rugby, Paul Crauchet discovered a passion for the theatre at the age of 23. He settled in Paris in 1945, he studied under Charles Dullin for three years and began on stage in 1949. He then worked at the Théâtre National Populaire with Jean Vilar. Crauchet appeared in the first film by Éric Rohmer, The Sign of Leo, in 1959, and then in 1962 in The War of the Buttons of Yves Robert. It i...
Known For
Complete Filmography
Wild Grass
2009
as le 1er patient
Marguerite loses her wallet, and it's found by Georges, a seemingly happy head of family. As he looks through the wallet and examines the photos of Ma...
Adieu De Gaulle, adieu
2009
as Vieux jardinier
May 1968. Charles de Gaulle is 77. His great career is behind him. Obsessed by France's prestige, he's looking with distance to the student demonstrat...
The Merry Widow
2007
as Gaby
Anne-Marie lives an easy life with Gilbert, a rich plastic surgeon: a beautiful house, a doggy, a cleaning lady, expensive furniture, the lot. Not so ...
The Grocer's Son
2007
as Le Père Clément
Antoine Sforza, a thirty-year-old young man, left his village ten years before in order to start a new life in the big city, but now that his father, ...
Rascals
2006
as Favart adult
The story of boys who were condemned to the severe reformatory regime in a French penal ‘colony’. It’s run by a former prison warden, based on ‘rehabi...
Le Marathon du lit
2002
as Simon
Dessine-moi un jouet
1999
as Le mendiant
A french fantasy film with Christoph Waltz
La Belle Verte
1996
as Osam
As part of an intergalactic coalition, a well-meaning space alien volunteers to bring a message of self-actualization and harmony with nature to the o...
Les Derniers Jours de la victime
1995
as Funès Le Chat
Mendizábal, a reputed hitman, is commissioned to eliminate Rodolfo Kulpe, a small-time criminal.
Fast
1995
as Pépé
Jean-Louis is an naive, amiable orphan who spent his life with his elderly and very strict grandfather. Jean-Louis was a 25-year old virgin when a fre...
Faut-il aimer Mathilde?
1993
as Papy
Mathilde (Dominique Blanc) has had a number of children, but is still an attractive woman. One day her husband simply picks up and leaves without any ...
Les Maîtres du pain
1993
as 'La Fatigue'
Just a Game
1992
as 'Smoking'
Emile Michel, Lapland, orphan, is obliged to bring back within the tribe the ancestral totem: a gold plumb line "borrowed" formerly by his grandfather...
Venus and Lulu
1991
as Pépé Laubépin
Narcoleptic Finnish naturist as beautiful as Venus is on vacation in Southern France with her husband. She goes for a walk in the field naked and gets...
Un été après l'autre
1990
as Pa
The King's Whore
1990
as Le Duc de Luynes
Set in the 17th-century, an Italian nobleman weds an impoverished countess, who is wooed by the King of Piedmont and faces pressure from his entire co...
My Mother's Castle
1990
as Edmond des Papillons, aka Mond des Parpaillouns
To his chagrin, young Marcel Pagnol and his family move back to their home in Marseilles, France, far from their pastoral holiday cottage in the hills...
My Father's Glory
1990
as Edmond des Papillons, aka Mond des Parpaillouns
Raised by his science teacher father, Joseph Pagnol, and seamstress mother Augustine, young Marcel grows up during the turn of the century in awe of h...
To Kill a Priest
1988
as Alek's Father
A young priest speaks out against the Communist regime in Poland and is killed for it.
Le Passager du Tassili
1987
as M. Vergeli
Omar, a young Franco-Algerian from La Garenne-Colombes, decided to spend his vacation in the country of his ancestors, Algeria. On his return, he boar...
La Brute
1987
as Yves Rodellec
Jacques Vauthier, a blind, deaf and mute writer is accused of a crime he quickly confesses to having committed. Jacques refuses to explain himself to ...
Les fortifs
1987
as Germain
In 1943, the young Jean rejects the Obligatory Work Service and returns to his native suburb. His house being occupied by the Germans, he decides to c...
Black List
1984
as Pierre
Three teenage Parisian punks are duped by a crime syndicate into committing a bank robbery that will distract the authorities while the seasoned crook...
Homicide by night
1984
Three men come together to plot a cunning plan. 67-year-old Auguste is tired of going to balls, where his wife, always drunk, berates him.
La Gueule du loup
1981
as Commissioner Chailloux
Upset by the death of one of her patients, Marie, a young nurse, decides to go in search of the relatives of the deceased. This is how she meets the g...
Louis et Réjane
1980
A widow in her sixties fall in love with a single retiree.
Félicité
1979
as The father
After a bout of intense jealousy, Félicité finds herself alone. For one night, as her family dissipates, she relives her torments.
The Witness
1978
as Cathy's father
An Italian painter, Antonio Berti, pays a visit to Reims to his friend Robert Maurisson, a banker with political views on the town hall, who hides, un...
Butterfly on the Shoulder
1978
as Raphaël
On a stopover in Barcelona, Fériaud Roland discovers a corpse in the hotel room next door. He wakes up in a strange clinic without remembering who bro...
Le beaujolais nouveau est arrivé...
1978
as Gaston, le patron du 1er bistrot
Camadule is in charge of buying several barrels of the Beaujolais Nouveau. The Captain and Kamel will travel with him to get the divine beverage.
Flic Story
1975
as Paul Robier
The film story depicts Emile Buisson, following the death of his wife and child, escaping from a psychiatric institution in 1947 and returning to Pari...
Beyond Fear
1975
as Inspector
A group of outlaws takes a man's wife and child hostage. He must walk a fine line between working with the police to rescue his family and not angerin...
The Track
1975
as Rollin
Somewhere in rural France, a young English female tourist is sexually assaulted by two men in the countryside. After she manages to escape, a party of...
A Cloud in the Teeth
1974
as Chavignac
Malisard is a reporter at "Soir de Paris", his colleague Prévot is a photographer. Together, they roam the streets of Paris.
The Wonderful Crook
1974
A manufacturer of furniture sees his business go down and decides to rob banks to pay his staff. Het gets romantically involved with one of his victim...
The Burned Barns
1973
as Pierre Cateux
The body of a young woman is discovered near a farm. The judge, Larcher is in charge and thinks that the farmers have something to do with the murder.
Impossible Object
1973
as The Plumber
Harry is a married writer who has an affair with a woman whose husband knows that she is unfaithful. As a result of his work, Harry has trouble distin...
The Dominici Affair
1973
as Commissioner Sébeille
In August 1952, a family of British tourists is found by the roadside in Haute Provence, brutally murdered. In the ensuing, very public, investigation...
A Cop
1972
as Morand
A Parisian police chief has an affair, but unbeknownst to him, the boyfriend of the woman he’s having an affair with is a bank robber planning a heist...
Where Did Tom Go?
1971
as Zagra
Tom is a secretary for an association which aims to free political prisoners. Skipping from inaction he plans and kills dictator Anton Caras. Arrested...
Without Apparent Motive
1971
as Francis Palombo
A series of murders is committed in Nice on the French riviera. The commissaire Carella is in charge and tries to find a missing link between all thes...
The Married Couple of the Year Two
1971
as Public Prosecutor
Nicolas Philibert goes to America after killing a French aristocrat. On his return he tries to divorce his wife, Charlotte, but when he sees others tr...
Who Cares: Anatomy of a Delivery Boy
1971
as Le père
Experiencing something of a mid-life crisis after his beloved son marries and moves out, a factory worker makes some drastic changes in his life, move...
Le Cercle Rouge
1970
as The Receiver
When French criminal Corey gets released from prison, he resolves to never return. He is quickly pulled back into the underworld, however, after a cha...
Last Known Address
1970
as Jacques Loring, Martin's neighbor
Marceau Léonetti, a competent and energetic officer stops by chance the son of an influential lawyer driving under the influence of alcohol. A few mon...
Lettres de Stalingrad
1969
as Pianist
This film is based on actual letters German soldiers sent home from the siege of Leningrad during World War II. The litany of trouble these poor grunt...
Army of Shadows
1969
as Félix Lepercq
Betrayed by an informant, Philippe Gerbier finds himself trapped in a torturous Nazi prison camp. Though Gerbier escapes to rejoin the Resistance in o...
The Swimming Pool
1969
as L'inspecteur Lévêque
Set in a magnificent villa near a sun-drenched St. Tropez, lovers Jean-Paul and Marianne are spending a happy, lazy summer holiday. Their only concern...
Ho!
1968
as Georges Briand
Race driver who has lost his membership card becomes the chauffeur of a gangsters pack
Zita
1968
as Dr. Bernard
Because "Tante Zita" main theme is death: a twenty-year old girl, Annie (Shimkus) lives with her mother and her aunt (both played by first-class actre...
Zita
1968
Because "Tante Zita" main theme is death: a twenty-year old girl, Annie (Shimkus) lives with her mother and her aunt (both played by first-class actre...
L'Affaire Lourdes
1967
as Bernadette's father
In Lourdes, in the 1860s, the young Bernadette disturbs despite herself the peaceful life of the small town. She is the only one to see the apparition...
The Looters
1967
as Valdés
Morgan, a lapsed burglar, is drugged and shanghaied on board a yacht by beautiful Colleen. When he comes to, the athletic young man learns that Collee...
The Last Adventure
1967
as Insurer
Two adventurers and best friends, Roland and Manu, are the victims of a practical joke that costs Manu his pilot's license. With seeming contrition, t...
The Sunday of Life
1967
as Poucier
After five years in the army, Valentin Brû marry a haberdasher. They move to Paris, where Valentin sells frames, while his wife becomes fortune teller...
Is Paris Burning?
1966
as Priest
Near the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if it becomes clear the Allies are going to invade, or if ...
The War Is Over
1966
as Roberto
Diego is one of the chiefs of the Spanish Communist Party. On his way from Madrid to Paris, he is arrested at the border for an ID check but manages t...
The Wise Guys
1965
as Pelissier, accountant
Hector Valentin returns to France from Canada when he inherits a small sawmill. He has difficulties restarting the run-down operation which has ineffi...
L'auto rouge
1964
Paul works tirelessly day and night to afford the big red car he has been dreaming of for a long time. But the sacrifices to be made to obtain it and ...
À fleur de peau
1962
as l'inspecteur
When Françoise introduced her fiancé to her parents, she had no idea that, during this family weekend, drama would enter this sumptuous estate, set up...
Font-aux-Cabres
1962
as Florès
Font-aux-cabres is the name of an Andalusian village, benefiting the Commander of the Order of Calatrava, who supports Juana Beltraneja, the pretender...
Sign of the Lion
1962
as Fred
An American in Paris lives by sponging off his working friends, and throws a party using borrowed money when his rich American aunt dies, believing fi...
War of the Buttons
1962
as Touegueule
For generations, two rival French villages, Longueverne and Velrans, have been at war. But this is no ordinary conflict, for the on-going hostilities ...
Why Women Sin
1958
as Photograph
La moucharde stars Dany Carrel as a young miss who loves neither wisely nor well. Duped into a life of crime, Carrel remains on the wrong side of the ...
Série noire
1955
as Le portier du garage
Léo Fardier is a police inspector who goes to prison undercover as a convict. He shares a cell with Mariani, a Corsican mafioso, whose trust he earns....
Foyer perdu
1952
as Coffee boy
A brave and talkative wine merchant, Eugène Barbentin drives his son Pierrot out of the family home, because he has given birth to his girlfriend. His...
Skipper Next to God
1951
as A Jewish passenger (uncredited)
Captain Joris Kniper believes so strongly that he is "skipper next to God" that he is used to playing God on his ship. Tough and bossy, he gives order...