Date of birth: 1908-05-27
Place of birth: Paris, France
Known for: Acting
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1933-07-21
The brave notary Valentin Parpevielle has many problems with his young wife Moune, who has fallen in

1932-11-11
Michel Simon gives one of the most memorable performances in screen history as Boudu, a Parisian tra
1932-01-15
The attempt of a young hairdresser to act in a serious film with his chosen co star , recognized dur

1932-04-18
Inspector Maigret investigates the mysterious murder of a Dutch diamond dealer, found dead in a stol

1935-02-22
In the 1920s, the Provence is a magnet for immigrants seeking work in the quarries or in the agricul

1933-12-01
A young man is hit by a car on a zebra crossing. The pretty driver drives him home, takes care of hi

1934-02-02
The story focuses on a street in the Parisian banlieue where Italian and French workers live. Their

1951-12-05
Raymond Corbier, a sculptor, has a wonderful wife, Sylvia, whom he adores. To save a passionate admi

1937-12-22
Paris, 1937. Winckler kills his enemy Gordon, a Chicago mobster, from the stage of a Parisian music

1938-09-22
Town trollop Safia, much against her better judgment, falls in love with Matteo, a beggar and mystic

1940-10-23
The romantic relationship between a sports journalist and a cyclist during the Tour de France.

1939-03-18
A film based upon the life of Vidocq, the famous adventurer, who, after numerous prison escapes ceas

1943-12-01
The story of a French officer who is assumed dead during the Napoleonic Wars, but returns ten years

1944-04-12
Renée Ménard, a young mixed-race Indochinese, arrives in France to find her French father, whom she

1944-04-26
An officer, two of his comrades and a social worker want to create the "Carrefour", a place for lost

1944-12-06
Jules Leroy, an industrial shoe polish manufacturer, on his deathbed reveals to his son Achille that

1945-10-03
A young man, Robert Dupont, with suicidal tendencies and a bit stupid to boot, is saved by a strange

1946-05-15
A student, Gabriel, comes to the aid of Gisèle, a young manicurist wrongfully arrested, by helping h

1946-05-31
Diavalo is the popular hero of French serials circa 1912. Diana is an actress who falls in love wit

1946-05-29
Micheline is a pretty girl but rich, spoiled and whimsical as well. Jacques, the brother of her frie

1948-04-30
Charles Vigne, a wealthy banker, frees Abdul, a good genius imprisoned in a vase. To thank him, Abdu

1947-05-21
Emile is a French film producer at the beginning of the century. One of his friends leaves his daugh

1950-05-05
A fictitious biography of Jacques Offenbach and Hortense Schneider.

1950-09-01
The king orders viscount Florestan to take mademoiselle de Solanges for his wife. But the viscount d

1949-03-07
Angelo, a glass-blower from Murano, and Georgia Maglia, the pretty daughter of a fallen fascist magi

1949-09-30
Au Royaume des Cieux takes place in in a dreadful girls' reformatory. A couple of lovers will try to

1950-11-24
The manager of a firm has a very unusual idea : asking his employees to pose as gangsters and to hol

1951-11-10
Bert and George Bernard, two American comedians, are asked by a solicitor to trace a rich heiress wh

1949-12-09
Based on a venerable Legend of the Sea, the story concerns a pliable prostitute named Bella (Romance

1953-04-17
Madeleine Lebeau, a woman who charges for her easy virtue, has a plan that has some of her customers

1952-11-14
A daydreaming French composer sees himself as a fine figure dashing through history.

1952-10-10
The inhabitants of Marboue-Chambourcy want a swimming pool, and the difficulties in realizing this e

1951-10-12
Piedalu is an ordinary villager, who comes to the capital to present his financial plan to the Minis

1952-12-26
Wealthy American Patricia comes to spend some time at her uncle's place in Paris. While out on her

1952-12-31
In Bourganeuf, an old maid, Charlotte Bourdier, confesses to Marie Chassagne that she has forged a s

1951-10-31
Thérèse, a young flower girl, tries hard to remain virtuous but the whole world seems to conspire ag

1928-12-09
Rival knights compete for the hand of a beautiful maiden in this period feature from Jean Renoir.

1954-05-19
Four-episode Franco-Italian omnibus film. Four men from different national and cultural background t

1954-02-19
In the early 1950s, the popular radio show "La Kermesse aux Étoiles", hosted by the famous Jean Noha

1952-08-20
Bavaria, 1433. Reason of state rules that Prince Albert is to marry Princess Bertha of Wurtemberg. B

1957-05-14
Pierre Cousin, a depressive compositor, wants to die. After five vain attempts at committing suicide

1955-09-14
A man of of principle leads a double life: one for his mistress and one he takes home to his wife.

1956-12-14
A foreign pianist who comes to visit Paris is ripped off by a young man and his sister. But he soon

1956-12-20
One evening, professor André Barret sees the author of a murder in the darkness; cafe owner Cordelec

1957-07-02
Pierre, an unhappy lover, is saved from suicide by his friend Paul. Extremely grateful, Pierre unloa

1955-04-09
Nineteenth-century Paris comes vibrantly alive in Jean Renoir’s exhilarating tale of the opening of

1931-11-01
Cashier Maurice Legrand is married to Adele, a terror. By chance, he meets Lucienne, "Lulu", and mak

1953-07-22
Romantic comedy about a group of Britons flying to Paris for the weekend.

1936-02-29
A journalist takes command of a ship after the crew mutiny against the brutal captain. It was an ada

1955-12-09
The dynamic Flora has decided to burglarize Colonel de la Ribodiere's apartment in the company of Ro

1947-06-25
When Monsieur Crauqual, the supervisor, is found hanging, all wonder why this rather rich person dec

1954-07-18
Having cured the local café owner, Diogène Leguignon becomes convinced that he is a healer and posse

1949-10-20
A son of a family in debt decides to put an end to his life and calls on a professional killer to do

1956-10-10
A brilliant swindler, Olivier Parker, hires a small-time pipe salesman, Amédée, to swindle a naive p

1933-06-22
François Chotard, wholesale grocer, gives his daughter in marriage to Julien Collinet, a writer who

1928-07-18
The tale of a rich, flaky poet and his servant who both join the army and wind up in the same barrac

1950-12-01
The eccentric characters of a street from the comic designs of Andre Dubout are brought to life with

1947-01-15
Proud, eccentric, and antisocial, Monsieur Hire has always kept to himself. But after a woman turns

1957-12-06
A bossy count has trouble marrying off any of his six sons. When one of them, Adam, finally makes we

1948-06-09
A little town erupts in turmoil about the construction of a public urinal. The army is sent in to re

1936-04-07
A propaganda film of the communist party of France, showing how the comrades help the proletariat ag

1943-03-17
A penniless private tutor is hired by a wealthy family in Provence. The brat is a reluctant pupil, b

1951-01-05
The tribulations of Onésime Ballotin, the insurance broker from L'Art d'être courtier, this time par