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Complete Filmography

Lost Illusions
2021
as Bargeton
Lucien de Rubempré, a young, lower-class poet, leaves his family's printing house for Paris. Soon, he learns the dark side of the arts business as he ...

In and Out
2017
as Médecin 2
Two couples, Pierre and Aimée, Éric and Pénélope, all share four years of friendship without cloud. Only concern, Penelope and Pierre have become love...

Double Lover
2017
as Psychoanalyst 2
Chloé, a fragile young woman, falls in love with her psychoanalyst, Paul. A few months later she moves in with him, but soon discovers that her lover ...

Paris by Night
2012
as La Baronne
Police commander Simon Weiss, head of the division that supervises Paris’s demi-monde, starts out on his nightly tour of bars, discos and strip clubs,...

David Copperfield
2009
as Richard Babley/'Mr Dick'
A young man journeys from a difficult childhood to maturity, exploring social injustice, personal development, and the complexities of human relations...

La Vie en Rose
2007
as Bruno Coquatrix
From the mean streets of the Belleville district of Paris to the dazzling limelight of New York's most famous concert halls, Edith Piaf's life was a c...

Entrusted
2003
as Mayor
Hoping to entrap Maria von Gall, who runs a courageous underground railroad for Jews in France, the Nazis kidnap her son Thomas, a brilliant 11-year-o...
First Christmas
2000
Little Rafik learns about Santa Claus in School, when he arrives just before Christmas with his Tunisian family to settle down in France in the 1960's...

Passage interdit
2000
as Le banquier
Residents of an old building in a Parisian neighborhood are fighting against a plan to turn the place into a shopping center.

Les ritaliens
2000
as Canapa

The Visitors II: The Corridors of Time
1998
as Le maréchal des logis Gibon
The sequel to The Visitors reunites us with those lovable ruffians from the French Medieval ages who - through magic - are transported into the presen...

La voie est libre
1998
as Frédéric Deles
This comedy is about a Métro worker, Jules, who penned seventeen unanswered letters to France's Minister of Transportation protesting being fired. Whe...
D 14
1995
A visitor goes to an administrative service to obtain a domiciliation certificate. It is received by an employee, visibly refractory, who multiplies t...

The House that Mary Bought
1995
When a brilliant artist and her husband become subject to a series of bizarre occurrences in their isolated house in Brittany they both suspect that t...

Revenge of a Blonde
1994
as Castol
An upstanding provincial reporter becomes presenter of the TV news on a commercial network owned by an influential Italian businessman. He soon outgro...

Loonies at Large
1993
as Le passager cruciverbiste
This comedy brings Pierre Richard and Michel Piccoli together onscreen once again. In the story, former professor Henri Toussaint Piccoli has been loc...

The Visitors
1993
as Maréchal des logis Gibon
After a wizard's spell goes awry, 12th-century Gallic knight Godefroy de Papincourt, Count of Montmirail finds himself transported to 1993, along with...

A Day to Remember
1991
as Romain
Bertille is an old woman who lives in the countryside. Her relatives reunite there with her as she is about selling the property. They don't take long...

Rumeurs
1991
as Lionel Baranski

The Elegant Criminal
1990
as Poulaillon
On 9 January 1836, Pierre Lacenaire goes to the guillotine, a murderer and a thief. He gives Allard, a police inspector, his life story, written while...

Welcome Aboard!
1990
as Commisaire
A philosophizing uninvited hitchhiker terrorizes a writer, who's selling dictionaries while he's struggling with writer's block.

Cellini: A Violent Life
1990
The story of Benvenuto Cellinin (1500-1571), a soldier and one of the most important craftsmen and artists of Renaissance Italy whose life was marked ...

Want to Stay Alive
1990
as Walbeck
Four murders in forty-eight hours happen in Nice. The murderer calls himself "The Exterminator" and the police are unable to catch him. Tom Lepski is ...

Rendez-vous au tas de sable
1990
as Starkey
A tow truck driver becomes the impresario, then the singer of a new rock band.

Périgord noir
1989
as Félicien
The recolonization of Africa, this time by the very blacks who had to flee it as exiles during the time of the original French occupation, is the them...

Champagne Charlie
1989
as Clément
This is the story of the Charles Heidsieck who opened the market for Champagne sales in America just prior to the American Civil War. He is a reluctan...

Promised... sworn!
1987
as Abbot
The life and love affairs of a 12-year-old boy Pierre who lived in France during the Nazi occupation in 1944. We see his family, his chubby friend, th...

Vaines recherches
1987
as Dumont
An anonymous phone call puts Commissioner Schneider's entire career and personal life in question. While his couple suffers from his impossible schedu...

The Two Crocodiles
1987
as Charlot
A taxi driving, strip club managing conman chooses a salesman as a mark. The latter falls for his hospitality, but soon appears to be already in troub...

Jenatsch
1987
as Le Monsieur du bain
A journalist is assigned to interview an eccentric anthropologist who has exhumed the skeleton of Jörg Jenatsch, a revered freedom fighter who was mys...

Kamikaze
1986
as Le ministre
A disgruntled scientist is fired from his job; slipping into madness, he invents a machine which harnesses the airwaves and can shoot people through t...
Angel's Skin
1986
as Alexandre
Héléna Werner leads a reclusive and deserted life. Alone, as if withdrawn from the world in her apartment of refined luxury. She places an ad for a pr...

Le voyage à Paimpol
1985
as Chouchou, le contremaître
The dream, which filled half of her life, was no longer enough for Maryvonne. She leaves her husband, child, lover and leaves for Paimpol. And there, ...

Strictement personnel
1985
as L'éditeur
The crimes and tragedies that tear apart one family seem overblown in the telling, yet this psychological drama about the miseries of one French polic...

Next Summer
1985
as L'homma à la voiture
Edouard is patriarch of a large family: his second wife, Jeanne, has just had a baby and finally had enough of his philandering. As the marriage betwe...
Bluebeard
1984
as Bobèche
When Barbe-bleue loses his fifth wife, the turbulent Boulotte is selected at random to be the next one. But Barbe-Bleue falls in love with Hermia – wh...

Outward Signs of Wealth
1983
as Real estate agent who shows around
Jean-Jacques Lestrade is the owner of a renowned veterinary clinic in Paris who lives in a luxurious apartment. He is part of Parisian high society an...

Gramps Is in the Resistance
1983
as Guglicht, officier adjoint du général Spontz
It is 1943 in Paris. Like so many others, the Bourbelle family's home has been taken over by the Germans and they now live in their cellar. Little do ...

Scarlet Fever
1983
as Victor
In a building on the Boulevard Haussmann in Paris lives ten-year-old Roger, who is surrounded by women - his great-grandmother, his grandmother, and h...

Paradise for All
1982
as le directeur furieux
Doctor Valois has invented the "flashage", a cure for depressed people. After having tested it on monkeys, he tries with a first human patient, Alain ...

Elle voit des nains partout !
1982
as le roi de France
La reine de France meurt en couche. Elle met au monde un petite fille prénommée Blanche-neige. Le roi deçu de n'avoir pas un fils est résolu à faire d...

Short Circuit
1981
as The First Inspector
Gérald, former champion of motorcycle competitions, after an accident that causes him to lose the use of his right becomes a trainer for young riders....

The Lady Banker
1980
as Notary in Lille
Ambitious Emma Eckhert successfully makes her way into a world previously reserved for men: that of high finance. She quickly becomes popular with sma...
Madame Sourdis
1979
as Albert Grand

Hothead
1979
as Inspector Mangin
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 ...

Sugar
1978
as Pergamont
Civil servant Adrien Courtois comes to Paris in order to make his money bear fruits.

L'Hôtel de la plage
1978
as Paul Dandrel
Visitors young and old get up to fun antics and romance at a seaside hotel in Brittany, France.

The Accuser
1977
as Fournier
In this sardonic comedy, after an executive is killed in a mysterious automobile accident, the French offices of his multinational company is inundate...

The Night of Saint-Germain-des-Prés
1977
In 1951, in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, the private detective Nestor Burma was commissioned by an insurance company to find stolen jewelery. The deal seem...

Armageddon
1977
as La mari de Simone (uncredited)
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...

Marie, the Doll
1976
as Le prêtre
Marie, who was orphaned as a young girl, has a case of arrested development that makes her act younger than her age. One day she stops to look in a s...

The Daughter of the Railroad Crossing Guard
1975
as Sheik Abdullah
Based on the idea by Roland Topor (screenwriter of Roman Polanski's The Tenant), this very curious completely silent melodrama tells the story of Mona...

The Butcher, the Star and the Orphan
1975
as Poet Lamuse
A butcher dreams of becoming a famous director. He hires stars that he begins to kill.