Nicole Courcel
Date of birth: 1931-10-21
Place of birth: Saint-Cloud, Seine-et-Oise [now Hauts-de-Seine], France
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Nicole Marie Jeanne Andrieu, Николь Курсель
Biography
Nicole Marie Jeanne Andrieu (21 October 1931 – 25 June 2016), better known as Nicole Courcel, was a French actress who achieved popularity through the 1950s and 1960s, though she is mostly unknown outside of France. Born in Saint-Cloud, in the western suburbs of Paris, she appeared in 43 films between 1947 and 1979. After working as an extra in a few films, she won a major role in Rendez-vous de juillet (1949), with Brigitte Auber. In 1970 she turned to television, appearing in different television films and miniseries, in which she continued to work until 2004. Courcel is best known for her role in Serge Bourguignon's Sundays and Cybele (1962). She had notable parts in: La Marie du port (1950, opposite Jean Gabin), Sacha Guitry's Royal Affairs in Versailles (1954), and La Sorcière (1956, opposite Marina Vlady). Source: Article "Nicole Courcel" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Movie Credits
Money Money Money
1972-05-04
When they realize the times are changing, five crooks decide to switch from bank robberies to person
Testament of Orpheus
1960-02-18
An 18th century poet travels through time in search of divine wisdom. In a mysterious wasteland, he
Sundays and Cybele
1962-11-12
The tragic story of a young orphan girl who is befriended by an innocent but emotionally disabled ve
Marie of the Port
1950-02-27
Henri Chatelard is well into his forties, owns a restaurant and a cinema in the city, and appreciate
Papa, Mama, the Maid and I
1954-11-26
The residents of the apartment building on Rue Montmartre are a motley crew of oddballs and eccentri
The Slap
1974-10-23
A Parisian teacher loses his cool when his teenage daughter tells him she plans to drop out of schoo
Monelle
1948-09-15
A beautiful young pianist falls for her mentor.
In the Eyes of Memory
1948-11-24
Director Jean Delannoy's immediate followup to his brilliant Les Jeux sont Faits was the more conven
The Case of Dr. Laurent
1957-04-03
A Paris-based doctor tries to spread the gospel of Natural Childbirth. Working in a cloistered rural
The Blonde Witch
1956-06-06
Brulard, a French civil engineer on assignment in a remote Swedish village, meets Ina, who has been
Rendezvous in July
1949-12-06
Hopes and love and ambitions and friendship in a group of young jazz-loving Parisians.
No Exit
1954-12-22
The scene is a tawdry hotel room in Limbo, where several damned souls are gathered. At first, the gr
Gigolo
1951-11-08
Back from the war, Marceau Le Guern remembers. Educated in an orphanage run by Dominican brothers, h
Papa, Mama, My Wife and Me
1955-10-18
Robert Langlois is now married to Catherine, the former housemaid. And they would live happily ever
Amazons of Rome
1961-03-24
Marching down the Italian peninsula to sack ancient Rome, Etruscan warrior Drusco instead offers to
The Strangler
1971-09-24
Émile targets women he believes are too depressed to go on living. As multiple victims fall to his s
Boom on Paris
1954-02-19
In the early 1950s, the popular radio show "La Kermesse aux Étoiles", hosted by the famous Jean Noha
The Man Who Walked Through the Wall
1959-10-14
Mr. Buchsbaum, third class taxes employee, lives a peaceful life until the new chief immediately cri
Nick Carter and Red Club
1965-11-26
A secret agent uncovers four atomic rockets with a lethal gas warhead which have been stolen from a
Club of Women
1956-05-18
A remake of a pre-war French film success, Club de femmes is a seriocomedy centralized in an all-fem
Stop Train 349
1963-06-26
Cold War drama about an East German man trying to escape to the West via a U.S. military train passi
Tomorrow Is My Turn
1960-10-27
Following the defeat of France by Germany during WWII, two French soldiers are taken to a German far
The Inspector Likes a Fight
1957-06-12
To protect him, Georges takes the place of his twin brother, Jacques, suspected of murdering an airc
Fatal Affair
1953-04-09
Didier's wife is ill, and he does the best he can to take care of her. But he's often absent and he
Le collège en folie
1954-06-11
Charming, charming but unstable, Rudy is married to Lydia. He dreams of becoming a famous painter. H
Thomas
1975-03-05
In Troyes, Thomas, the son of a bourgeois family, is in the final stages of his adolescence. He's al
Paris Loves
1961-02-10
Les amours de Paris focuses on three disparate couples and their problems in the arena of romantic l
Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love!
1961-04-04
Henri IV falls in love with the young Charlotte de Montmorency, 40 years his junior. The king decide
The Beguines
1972-09-19
Hélène, a fragile and romantic teenager, discovers that her father, a rich business man, has a mistr
Konga Yo
1962-05-01
Two Congolese men and three Europeans are thrown together as they try to avoid the political turmoil
A Police Officer Without Importance
1973-04-12
Camille, Dov and Joëlle live on the edge of society and are involved in petty theft helping them to
Royal Affairs in Versailles
1953-12-15
Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocra
Milady
2004-01-06
Milady De Winter, a beautiful femme fatale without scruples, plays with the feelings of her suitors.
Stars Meet in Moscow
1959-08-30
Documentary essay about the First Moscow International Film Festival, held in August 1959, about its
L'Esprit de famille
1979-02-28
Charles Moreau, general practitioner, and Hélène, his wife, have four girls aged 11 to 20 years. The
La Parisienne
1967-07-25
La Peau de l'ours
1957-08-30
A police commissioner lives with his two children, wife, mother-in-law and maid. But he discovers th
The Lovers of Bras-Mort
1951-05-17
Jean Michaut is a bargeman who lives nearby an old barge cemetery named "Bras-Mort". He is in love w
The Night of the Generals
1967-01-29
A German intelligence officer investigates a prostitute's killing in Warsaw during World War II. He
Vice Dolls
1954-10-18
In this French crime drama, a young man gets revenge upon the criminals who caused his grandfather t
Nights of Shame
1954-08-04
Marie-Thérèse is firmly involved in a charity dedicated to the rehabilitation of prostitutes. She ap
Credo
1983-01-26
Based on an actual Cold War incident in which a Ukrainian prisoner of conscience was forced to defen
The Lady and the Gipsy
1958-08-21
Georgina comes to see her sister Gladys in Paris in order to dissuade her from becoming attached to
Antoine & Antoinette
1947-09-27
1947, in France, Antoine and Antoinette, a young couple living in Paris, lead a monotonous existence
The Devil's Tricks
1966-06-15
Ginette Chaluzac, who has left Central France for Paris, now works as a seamstress in a modest works
Madame Bovary
1974-11-29
The Big Flag
1954-06-21
For Naval officers duty comes first. Navy Lieutenant Favrel is one of these men. He has promised his
Arden de Faversham
1960-02-23
Faversham's Arden, the first tragedy to be about ordinary people, is both a realistic, social painti
La dame de Noël
1958-01-01
A French drama about a mysterious woman who appears in a small village during the Christmas season.
Dialogues des Carmélites
1984-02-15
The story of a group of nuns executed during the French Revolution for refusing to renounce their vo