Date of birth: 1868-08-13
Place of birth: Sainte-Terre, Gironde, France
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Jean Sinoël
1941-10-16
A village in the French Alps is rocked by a series of crimes, including the theft of a sacred ring a
1932-10-15
1932-12-16
After he is thought dead, a painter who had no success before suddenly becomes a man of repute, and
1933-03-20
Arlette Morand, a rich and pretty young widow, would like to remarry. She hesitates between Henri, t
1931-10-09
1933-10-15
An honest but naive young man is manipulated by a gang of crooks who use him as as a cover for their
1933-05-19
An Arabian prince falls in with a group of downtrodden rebels and faces the wrath of an unsympatheti
1934-01-19
Grégoire Vachette is a bashful librarian, forced to listen to the daily boasting of his colleague Co
1933-06-02
A young woman whose family doesn't want her to marry is taken by her lover to a seance, where before
1933-12-15
Maurin, an accomplished lady seducer, has acknowledged Césariot as his son. Tonia, Maurin's mistress
1933-12-01
Sophie is the daughter of the concierge of a large building. One day, her father surprises her tende
1933-12-15
Étienne, a very sensitive being, watches helplessly as his mother suffers from his father's infideli
1933-12-22
1934-10-26
Follenfant, father of a large family, completed late military service. He looks a lot like the comma
1934-11-30
1934-09-28
A young woman flees with her lover, after having killed her brutal husband; hoping to live a few hou
1934-06-01
When the war is over, a captain finds it very difficult to reintegrate into civilian life. Nothing h
1935-03-22
A local man raised two boys. One is his son and the other is that of a rich industrialist, to get th
1935-10-11
Under the Directory, Clairette is in love with the chansonnier Ange Pitou, while the hairdresser Pom
1935-10-04
Annabella, Jean Gabin and Fernand Gravey star as a trio of circus trapeze artists. Both Gabin and Gr
1935-12-13
A banker threatened by gangsters is replaced by a tramp who is his perfect double. The gangsters arr
1935-12-13
Freshly married, Yvonne and Jacques discover on their return from their honeymoon that they are poor
1935-10-25
Cabissol, the Mayor of Martigues, a town in the South of France, wishes to organize a bullfight as p
1936-03-06
Madame Dupin is the most influential character in her village. She is at odds with her daughter beca
1936-05-22
A little peasant girl claims to have been raped. The detective who arrives in the village discovers
1936-04-10
Two girls, Ginette and Gaby, have just run away, outraged by the mistreatment of their governess. Af
1936-04-10
In Pisa, chance forces an old bookseller out of his isolation. He unleashes the fury of the tenants
1936-08-21
After a year of turbulent marriage Annette and Daniel get a divorce, and each marries again. However
1936-05-22
Abandoned kids are taken in by a rather sleazy character who owns a shoe store and practices wear. T
1937-07-16
An operetta baron has teamed up with a mechanic to carry out insurance scams. During one of their sh
1937-07-29
An outgoing deputy, put on ballot, experiences many political and marital difficulties before regain
1937-10-13
The widow of a soldier in the 1914-1918 war, running an inn called "Au rendez-vous des veterans", is
1937-10-20
A French farce set in Victorian London where a botanist and his wife get into trouble when they pret
1936-12-03
After he loses a servant job when his employer's mansion burns down, a yokel makes money entertainin
1936-12-25
The son of a ruined family transforms into a castellan following an inheritance, becomes a parachuti
1936-01-01
A deputy with higher political aspirations is annoyed that, as visitors come to see him, his wife in
1937-01-29
Pierre loves Agnès who prefers Clément, an aviator. Out of desperation, he will commit suicide. Agnè
1937-02-26
Jacques de Chardin, runner of women, marries a rich and young American, Mary-Ann. He does not give u
1937-02-19
1937-03-04
Sentenced to 20 years after killing a colleague for revealing that his wife was unfaithful, Sourdier
1937-04-16
19th Century Russia. State prosecutor Fedor Andreiev is presiding over the trial of a man who murder
1937-04-23
A reveler who has experienced setbacks tries to become unemployed without ever having worked.
1938-01-05
Germaine Moreuil's insane jealousy triggers such violent marital quarrels that the spouses file for
1937-05-14
Monsieur Fred is a friendly Southerner who recruits pretty girls down on their luck to send to South
1938-03-30
The wife of a Marseille industrialist is murdered. An inspector and a young journalist investigate t
1938-03-05
Hercule, a young peasant, inherits a Parisian newspaper with a large circulation. The editor-in-chie
1942-03-06
A tramp has taken up residence in the belly of a museum whale.
1938-09-22
Town trollop Safia, much against her better judgment, falls in love with Matteo, a beggar and mystic
1938-10-19
Cruchadouze and Castaniet are two inseparable friends. One day they decide to leave Arcachon to try
1940-12-23
Monsieur Jourdain is a dangerous madman : he wants to share his fortune! His relatives do what any s
1941-03-05
An airplane manufacturer asks his son-in-law to try out the prototypes he builds. This one ends up h
1939-02-01
Once their military service is over, the instrumentalists of a regimental orchestra find themselves
1939-03-23
At the beginning of World War I in a village in the country of La Marne, two families are against th
1939-04-20
The film depicts events between the Fashoda crisis in 1898 and the 1904 signing of the Entente Cordi
1941-03-19
Grigou owns a patch of land between farmers Martin's and Aubert's fields. Both covet this plot.As Gr
1939-06-15
A fairground boss is ruined. He steals his aunt's jewelry, but being chased he gives the jewelry to
1938-12-02
The history of one of France's most famous streets is retold, featuring multiple performances from G
1933-01-13
1932-03-25
A count's son has a place to meet his poor Parisian girlfriend and even work they can share to make
1939-07-19
The wife of a stable manager will try everything to clear her husband, a very violent being, accused
1935-11-08
Sylvie, a rich girl, learns at the same time the death and the ruin of her father. Forced to find wo
1934-03-02
When Vernonet learns that Chourinette is to marry another man, he is so upset that he decides to com
1939-07-13
A young man who wishes to launch his girlfriend in the theater, borrows money from his aunt, making
1939-09-29
Nine Bachelors is a 1939 French comedy film directed by Sacha Guitry and starring Guitry, Max Dearly
1940-03-06
Unbeknownst to the members of a French family, a radio announcer makes them the subject of a broadca
1939-12-15
A gang of broke student musicians travel to Paris to take exams. But very quickly, the lack of money
1943-02-04
Catherine's technique to sell her clocks is to blackmail illegitimate couples such as Jacques and Gi
1940-04-24
Because the shiner Titin has fallen in love with a singer, he braves the latter's protector, the bar
1943-03-10
A great disappointed love once encouraged the vocation of Sister Claire, who, however, forgot nothin
1943-04-07
The story of how the people of Paris cope with the strains and struggles of war, from the siege of t
1943-05-19
A law student passed his exam in his first B.A. year in Paris ;he is in love with a girl who is not
1943-06-16
Claude, who temporarily replaces his father at the head of a department store, falls in love at firs
1942-02-16
Caprices tells the story of two young rich people. A famous actress poses as a poor florist, and a d
1943-09-22
With a hand of steel, Hélène efficiently runs a big luxury perfume factory in Grasse. There is no ro
1945-10-17
Four young friends share the carefree, cheerfulness, laughter and dances of Bohemian life. Rodolphe
1945-10-13
During the stagecoach trip of a frightened group of inhabitants of Rouen, Elisabeth Rousset, known a
1946-05-31
Diavalo is the popular hero of French serials circa 1912. Diana is an actress who falls in love wit
1946-07-03
In the studio where the famous director Eric Von Berg reigns, Pierre Vanier, the male star of the fi
1946-07-29
In a film studio, several actors are the victims of attempted murders. Julien Brisseau, a writer, de
1945-12-21
Mimile is a street singer and also a very inventive free rider. With his friend Georges, a musician
1946-11-20
Gaby, the singer of the "Raymond's Jazz" band, leads Maurice, one of the musicians, to believe that,
1946-10-23
Roger Laroque is now a rich man. He returns to France under the name of William Farnell. There, he d
1948-04-30
Charles Vigne, a wealthy banker, frees Abdul, a good genius imprisoned in a vase. To thank him, Abdu
1947-06-01
A husband covers his weekly infidelities with the pretext of hunting. His best friend intends to tak
1947-05-28
A young student on vacation falls in love with the daughter of his hostess. The father, who has come
1947-05-21
The basic premise: A retired bus driver fulfills his lifelong dream of providing an extended "voyage
1947-12-19
Together with his uncompromising friend Marie Girard, André de Lurvire clamors for moral reasons for
1948-02-18
A friendly average Frenchman pretends to be a famous commissioner on vacation. He arrives in a castl
1948-12-17
Mr. Catignac, a pork butcher in Perigueux, plans to marry Victor, his son, to the daughter of a magi
1948-01-14
Hector Dumontier has had enough of his wife Noémie : she is always immersed in those detective stori
1949-02-08
Everyone in Paris thinks Fantomas is dead. A wave of extortion, blackmail and murder all point to th
1950-08-02
The romantic life of the head of a bandit gang, wanted by the police. Cartouche gets away with being
1948-03-03
Stanislas Oscar Seminario, aka SOS, is a young explorer, just back from Africa, visiting old friends
1949-09-09
During Christmas night, two police officers make their nocturnal rounds, in their round they meet tr
1950-01-27
The accountant of an insurance company, rather eccentric and quick to push the song, is responsible
1934-10-16
The Last Billionaire is a 1934 French comedy film directed by René Clair and starring Max Dearly, Ma
1947-01-01
Télévision, oeil de demain predicted smartphones and video calling. The film was based on a premise
1933-01-01
Princess Isabelle is in love with the young man in charge of her library. But André is looking for a
1943-12-15
Lucrèce, a famous actress, is bothered first, then flattered by the passionate testimonies of love g
1939-01-10
Somewhat reminiscent of 'Mädchen in Uniform' (1931), the story is set in a private girl's school, po
1938-07-27
The peace of Trépigny is shattered when the new mayor Lebrennois sets out to modernise the little vi
1941-11-27
A married tugboat captain falls for a woman he rescues from a sinking ship.
1947-10-04
Paris, France, December 1946. Jenny Lamour, an ambitious cabaret singer, and Maurice, her extremely
1938-11-10
During the lead up to a second World War, one of several French films hoping for peace,specifically
1935-02-14
1935-08-22
Mister Darnétal is invited by his nephew Georges to the premiere of his extravaganza in Paris;but hi
1937-02-18
Mathias Pascal, saddled with a stupid wife and a nagging mother-in-law, leaves home and is extremely
1938-03-03
A small town postal official allows a military officer to sweep his lovely daughter away to St. Pete
1948-10-03
Stage actress Marianne has decided to give up her career to marry wealthy nobleman Marquis Antoine d
1938-12-02
The story is a comedy about two dimwitted men from Brussels, Bossemans and Coppenolle. Much of the c
1945-03-23
A rich peasant, Carvajan, seeks revenge on the castellan, Clairefont, with whom he had a serious con
1945-12-04
The bell ringer at a way station in the French Alps, murders a passing horse trader with a thrown ro
1931-12-04
The mystery passenger on Craddock's ship is his country's queen.When he loses money she's entrusted
1935-12-28
A rich Brazilian, Mendoza, visited Paris in 1900 and was romantically involved with the star of Offe
1937-02-17
Honorin is the simple and naive stage manager of a traveling theatre troupe, whose one ambition is t
1934-11-10
Tartarin is the local hero in the small provincial town of Tarascon. He shows off about imaginary ad
1933-10-13
Boubouroche, a decent guy, enjoys shopping and playing cards at the cafe with his buddies: Potasse,