Biography
Maurice Chevit (31 October 1923 – 2 July 2012) was a French actor. Maurice Chevit made his theatrical début just after the Second World War, and made his first screen appearance in 1946 in René Clément's film Le Père tranquille. In August 1950, the Theatre de la Huchette in Paris presented Pepita ou Cinq cents francs de bonheur, a three-act comedy that Chevit co-wrote with Henri Fontenille; Chevit himself appeared in it, playing alongside Jacqueline Maillan, Pierre Mondy and Jacques Jouanneau. ...
Known For
Complete Filmography
En marge des jours
2007
as Simon
Le Cid
2006
as (voice)
Short stop motion animation film based upon the work of Pierre Corneille.
Premonition
2006
as le vieil homme
A Parisian lawyer moves to a working-class neighborhood in an attempt to shed his social conditioning and bourgeois values.
The Man Who Came From Elsewhere
2004
as Le docteur Maussène
At the end of 19th century, Doctor Pierre Adélaïde, born in Martinique, gets to a small village in Charente to take over from a colleague. Soon, he is...
Mon fils d'ailleurs
2004
as Marcel
A schoolteacher takes in a 16-year-old immigrant boy who has found himself without a foster family.
The Giraffe's Neck
2004
as Maurice
A clever little girl convinces her grandfather to visit her grandmother, whom she has never met.
Anna in Corsica
2003
as Jules
Shattered by the death of her husband, a young woman takes refuge in Corsica at her grandmother's who will do everything to pull her out of her despai...
Les Bronzés, le père Noël, papy et les autres
2003
as Self
Les Bronzés, le Père Noël, Papy et les autres....Discover or rediscover the emblematic scenes of these cult films that have crossed generations withou...
Man on the Train
2002
as Hairdresser
A man, Milan steps off a train, into a small French village. As he waits for the day when he will rob the town bank, he runs into an old retired poetr...
The Widow of Saint-Pierre
2000
as le père du gouverneur
In 1850, on the isolated French island of Saint-Pierre, a murder shocks the natives. Two fishermen are arrested. One of them, Louis Ollivier, dies in ...
XXL
1997
as David Stern
Tunisian-Jewish businessman Alain Berrebi (Michel Boujenah) courts Ashkenazi princess Arlette Stern (Elsa Zylberstein). Her father David (Maurice Chev...
A Woman Very Very Very Much in Love
1997
as Forstock
French TV star Nagui, described by Variety as "popular for his lowbrow-Letterman approach," portrays Zak, who learns about "the curse of Onan" experie...
Love, Math and Sex
1997
as Jean-Pierre
A highly intelligent teenage girl has an affair with a 40-year-old man.
Madame Jacques on the Croisette
1997
as Simon
A César Award winning short film about an elderly Jewish couple playing cards in Cannes who find love at an unexpected age.
Je m'appelle Régine
1996
as Monsieur Ley
This TV movie is adapted from the memoirs of the singer Régine, in which she recounts her youth and her beginnings in the music hall.
Ridicule
1996
as Le notaire
To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles.
The Honour of the Tribe
1993
as Le Narrateur
Like every year in Zitouna, a bear handler passes by. With his creature, he comes to challenge the small community. And like every year, it is Slimane...
588 rue Paradis
1992
as Nazareth
A successful playwright reflects on his journey from his Armenian roots to adapting in France, forty years after his family's move to Marseilles. He n...
L'Huissier
1991
as The tailor
The Hairdresser's Husband
1990
as Ambroise Dupré dit Isidore Agopian
The film begins with a flashback from the titular character, Antoine. We are introduced to his fixation with female hairdressers which began at a youn...
I Have You Under My Skin
1990
as L'abbé Roussel
Jeanne is a woman who is driven by her very active conscience. She attempts to assuage her idealistic bent by trying out life as a nun, but this doesn...
The Comedy of Work
1988
as Le vieux chômeur
Sylvain Berg, a "professional" unemployed who spends his time hiking and mountain climbing, and "model" bank employee Benoît Constant, who has just b...
Le Passager du Tassili
1987
as M. Ernest
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...
Levy & Goliath
1987
as Uncle Mardoché
A very faithful Jewish man works making diamond dust in his family's workshop, to sell to industries. One day he goes on businnes trip. In the same tr...
Douce France
1986
as Jules
In this village, French are much more victims of their fellow countrymen than they are of the occupying forces.
Les Idées fausses
1985
as Judge
Leave All Fair
1985
as Alain
John Middleton Murry visits France to finalize the publication of a collection of his late wife, Katherine Mansfield's, letters and journals. The pub...
Le Bonheur à Romorantin
1983
as Renaud
French Fried Vacation 2
1979
as Marius Franceschini, Christiane's lover
In this sequel to Les Bronzes (1978) summer has passed, but that doesn't mean the fun has to end for Bernard, Nathalie, Gigi, Jerome, Popeye, Jean-Cla...
The Fabulous Adventures of the Legendary Baron Munchausen
1979
as Nemrod (Voice)
The Fabulous Adventures of the legendary Baron Munchausen is a French animated feature from Jean Image of 1978, inspired by the adventures of Baron Mu...
The Kick of Sirocco
1979
as Bauvergne
A shady Parisian tries to take advantage of a family of French-descended Algerians forced to move to France.
Sugar
1978
as Lomont
Civil servant Adrien Courtois comes to Paris in order to make his money bear fruits.
Molière
1978
as Le curé de l'école
Jean-Baptiste Poquelin is raised by his father and his grandfather because his mother dies when he's still very little. He works as a handyman, studie...
Dis bonjour à la dame !..
1977
as Totor, the drunkard
Robert Ferry, a PTT employee, is having problems with his two sons. The elder has impregnated his girlfriend, a young hippie, and the younger, Daniel,...
Big Deal
1973
Paul and Thérèse have sold their café on the outskirts of an airport to buy one in Marseille. The business is going well until they discover that thei...
The Donkey of Zigliara
1971
as Mayor of Sainte-Marie
Maddalena finds that her donkey has reappeared after being missing for months. However, on the same day, a donkey disappears in a neighboring village....
L'Auvergnat et l'Autobus
1969
as Unionist (uncredited)
Julien Brûlebois, a brave peasant from Auvergne, learns that he has been summoned to Strasbourg to collect an inheritance. Amazed by the operation of ...
L'Auvergnat et l'Autobus
1969
Writer
Julien Brûlebois, a brave peasant from Auvergne, learns that he has been summoned to Strasbourg to collect an inheritance. Amazed by the operation of ...
Asterix and Cleopatra
1968
as (voice)
Popular animated hero Asterix and his faithful sidekick Obelix travel to ancient Egypt to help Cleopatra build a new summer home. Cleopatra and Julius...
Asterix the Gaul
1967
as (voice)
In the year 50 BC, Gaul is occupied by the Romans - nearly. But the small village of Asterix and his friends still resists the Roman legions with the ...
The Curse of Belphegor
1967
as Garnier
At the Opera of Toulon, the cast and crew hoping to put on a Satanism / human sacrifice-themed ballet entitled “La malédiction de Belphégor” soon find...
The Mad Dog
1966
Claude Brasseur plays a villain on the run from both the police and the mob. Good atmosphere in the Paris by Night, including deserted factory, Les Ha...
The Sleeping Car Murder
1965
as Un inspecteur, sous les ordres de Tarquin
Six people travel by train overnight from Marseilles to Paris. When the train arrives at its destination, one of the passengers, a girl, is found dead...
Relax Yourself Darling
1964
as Hubert
Hélène and François are a perfect couple happily married for twelve years. But Hélène discovers psychoanalysis via a very handsome Dr. Kougloff, and h...
Les baisers
1964
as Henri, the father (Episode 4: 'Baiser de 16 ans')
A portmanteau film in which the producer, instead of as usual using already well known directors with a commercial draw, allowed five new young direct...
The Sword and the Balance
1963
as Inspector
Three young men are suspected of kidnapping and murdering a little boy. Most likely, two of them are really involved, but one is not. All of their pas...
How to Succeed in Love
1962
as Agent
Bernard, a young, serious publisher of religious books, finds himself embroiled in amusing and eventful adventures with Sophie, a wacky twist dancer. ...
Famous Love Affairs
1961
as un chevalier envoyé du Gurthenberg
Anthology of four love stories that have some historical basis.
Croquemitoufle
1959
Returning from a two-year stay in Terre Adélie, explorer Bernard Villiers meets up with his best friend, Thomas Desjardins, whose diplomatic duties ca...
Notre petite ville
1959
as Jack Stoddard
When Grover's Corner, a small, uneventful American town, becomes a mirror to an entire society. This Pulitzer Prize-winning classic of American theate...
Operation Abduction
1958
as Dédé
The Secret Service abducts a "rocket scientist" to better protect him against gangsters acting for Chinese agents.
The Mask of the Gorilla
1958
as Second hygiene inspector
Géo Paquet, aka The Gorilla, breaks from jail. Now an escaped convict, the elite agent must infiltrate a dangerous gang working for a foreign embassy ...
Why Women Sin
1958
as Consumer (uncredited)
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 ...
La dame de Noël
1958
A French drama about a mysterious woman who appears in a small village during the Christmas season. Her presence brings unexpected revelations and tra...
On Foot, on Horse, and on Wheels
1957
as Léon
When he learns that his daughter is to be engaged to the son of a rich businessman, Leon Martin realizes that extreme measures are needed to create a ...
Whereabouts Unknown
1957
Michel Thierry is asked by the Second Bureau to go to Provence to help two colleagues, Leroy and Orcado, who are monitoring a gang of arms dealers. As...
The Hussars
1955
as le hussard Camille
Brigadier Le Gouce and Private Flicot lose their horses during a campaign in Italy. To avoid looking ridiculous, the two hussars cross the country in ...
Yours Truly, Blake
1954
as An accomplice
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...
Lettre ouverte
1953
as The cafe owner (uncredited)
Martial, Colette 's husband, is madly jealous. One day, he catches his wife writing a letter and he does want to know what this message contains, to n...
Clara de Montargis
1951
as Edward, the butler
Renaud, a young student who is camping alone at the moment, has a dream one night, in which the woman of his dreams appears. When he wakes up the next...
Under the Paris Sky
1951
as Painter (uncredited)
Fates of multiple otherwise disconnected characters intertwine miraculously under the sky of Paris. And it all happens in one day.
Without Leaving an Address
1951
as Soldat dans la salle d'attente, gare de Lyon (uncredited)
A woman in Paris hires a taxi driver to locate her ex-lover, father to her newborn child, who left her without leaving an address.
Here Is the Beauty
1950
as Photographer (uncredited)
Melodrama of two struggling artists whose love for each other is thwarted.She has some success as a ballerina despite being wounded by him in a fit of...
Strange Tales
1949
A group of policemen look over three murder cases including a cutthroat that prays on young women, a madman that hid his deformed landlord's corpse in...
Between Eleven and Midnight
1949
as Employee with the fingerprints (uncredited)
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...
Noah's Ark
1947
as Cartoonist (uncredited)
Bitru is a carefree fellow who, one day, decides to buy a houseboat on the River Seine. He moves there and starts living surrounded by a circle of col...
Counter Investigation
1947
Alain Marchal, wrongly accused of murdering his wife, escapes from prison the day before his execution. Before committing suicide, he contacts Monsieu...
Mr. Orchid
1946
as Maquisard
This character study of a French patriot during the Nazi Occupation has comedian Noel as the chief of the underground who uses his hobby of growing or...