Guy Decomble
Date of birth: 1910-11-12
Place of birth: Aulnay-sous-Bois, Seine-Saint-Denis, France
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Ги Декомбль
Biography
Guy Decomble (1910–1964) was a French film and television actor. A character actor he played in a number of supporting parts in postwar cinema. One of his better known roles is as the teacher in The 400 Blows by François Truffaut.
Movie Credits
The 400 Blows
1959-06-03
For young Parisian boy Antoine Doinel, life is one difficult situation after another. Surrounded by
The Cousins
1959-03-11
Young provincial Charles arrives in Paris to stay with his cousin Paul while studying law. Paul is a
Jour de Fête
1949-05-11
Jour de Fête tells the story of an inept and easily-distracted French mailman who frequently interru
The Magnificent Tramp
1959-04-08
Bum Archimède wants to spend the winter in prison, but to get there proves not to be that easy.
Bob le Flambeur
1956-08-24
In Paris, Bob Montagne is practically synonymous with gambling -- and winning. He is kind, classy an
The Old Guard
1960-09-02
Three friends leave their village for a retirement home travelling the countryside
Unusual Tales
1949-10-26
A group of policemen look over three murder cases including a cutthroat that prays on young women, a
Smrt na Cukrovém ostrově
1962-07-20
A Czech ship's doctor accidentally meets his fellow expatriates on a tropical island. Under his infl
The Time of the Cherries
1938-01-26
A poor peasant family, a failed cabinet maker and an unemployed worker struggle in contrast to crook
The Trump Card
1942-09-02
A man is shot In the hotel of an imaginary South American country. Clarence and Montès, two inspecto
Madame et le mort
1943-04-21
A person who had usurped the identity of a famous writer of detective stories was killed in the trai
Adieu Léonard
1943-09-01
A bungling thief is threatened by one target with blackmail, unless the thief will kill his own cous
First in Line
1944-02-23
A screen adaptation of the well-known novel by Roger Frison-Roche about the harsh lives of mountain
Florence is Crazy
1944-06-01
Monsieur Benoit's existence is transformed when his dour wife suddenly thinks in a bout of folly tha
Farandole
1945-02-10
A ruined banker is abandoned by his mistress. He commits suicide after entrusting a prostitute with
Song of the Clouds
1946-03-06
Sylvio, a successful singer, has found a way to take a peaceful vacation, safe from his female adula
The Great Pack
1945-07-17
Côme de Lambrefaut inherited the family castle on the death of his father, but the notary told him t
The Ideal Couple
1946-05-31
Diavalo is the popular hero of French serials circa 1912. Diana is an actress who falls in love wit
Maigret Sees Red
1963-09-18
Gangsters from the United States try to kill a key government witness whose testimony could help lan
Dreams of Love
1947-01-29
Paris, 1833. The famous composer Franz Liszt is friends with Chopin who introduces him to Countess M
The Lost Village
1947-11-26
In the peaceful alpine village of Granges-de-Mortes, a tragedy has just taken place: Gustave Boeuf,
Vire-vent
1949-04-08
The Donadieu family lives in the Provençal sun in a happy letting go, The father, the mother, the so
Captain Ardant
1951-11-15
Representing the French authority in Morocco, Captain Ardant is the target of the bloodthirsty rebel
The First Weapons
1950-08-03
A sensitive teen-age boy survives the brutalities of a country training school.
The House on the Dune
1952-02-29
A tough customs man, out to get a youth smuggling tobacco into France across the Belgium border, fal
The Case Against X
1952-06-11
Paul Dorgères, a wealthy industrialist, has been mysteriously murdered. The investigation is entrust
The Solitary Conquerors
1952-10-08
After inheriting a forest in Africa where she decides to go, Thérèse tries to sell her property to P
Follow That Man
1953-02-27
While celebrating his birthday, police inspector Basquier recalls two of his most celebrated cases.
The Aristocrats
1955-10-12
A novel by Michel De Saint Pierre was the source for Les Aristocrates. Pierre Fresnay stars an aging
This Man Is Dangerous
1953-11-22
On the run from international police, Special Agent Lemmy Caution arrives in the South of France and
Hanged Man's Farm
1945-12-05
A large farm in Vendée. The father is dying and the three brothers and sister swear not to marry not
Black Dossier
1955-05-10
In the 1950s, in a small provincial town, a young inexperienced judge clashes with an influential no
We Are All Murderers
1952-05-21
Originally titled Nous Sommes Tout des Assassins, We Are All Murderers was directed by Andre Cayette
The Wreckers
1959-01-27
In 1852, the famine on a desolate Britanny's island named Blaz-Mor, off the coast of Finistère. Some
Scandal on the Champs-Élysées
1949-04-22
In Paris, three models are murdered, being one of them the mistress of the fashion designer Dominiqu
Maigret Sets a Trap
1958-01-29
Four women were murdered, each was knifed and, though they had their clothes torn, they weren't mole
Les Assassins du dimanche
1956-07-20
After failing to carry out an urgent repair to the car of two German tourists, mechanic Robert has a
Police Judiciaire
1957-09-18
The detectives of the Paris Judicial Police, based at the Quai des Orfèvres, are mobilized by four c
Thérèse Étienne
1958-02-07
Her father having served a prison sentence, there is unending gossiping about Therese's family. Unab
The Girls of La Rochelle
1962-08-22
July 13, 1389. On the initiative of the Mayor, warned by a famous astrologer, the town of La Rochell
The Nina B. Affair
1961-06-06
A businessman who lives from blackmailing begins to be blackmailed by his own wife who hates him.
The Straight Line
1964-11-24
Amputated of a hand during the war, traumatized and having given up on a career as a runner, Stéphan
Why Paris?
1964-06-24
Monique, a Belgian girl, comes to Paris to learn painting and become an artist. She took courses at
The Crime of Monsieur Lange
1936-01-24
A man and a woman arrive in a cafe-hotel near the Belgian frontier. The customers recognize the man
Atomic Agent
1959-11-04
Murderous foreign agents are after a scientist who has invented an atomic engine that could change t
The Last Penny
1946-01-23
Pierre risks being taken advantage of by an agency that sets up financial scams, he escapes thanks t
The House Under the Sea
1947-08-20
A stranger named Constant disrupts the life of Flora, who is seemingly happy with her husband Lucien
Homeland
1946-10-22
Brussels in the year 1568, as the Flemish people are fighting against the tyranny of the Spanish occ
The Unfrocked One
1954-02-26
Pierre Fresnay plays the title character in Le Defroque (The Defrocked One). Cast out by his church,
Forfaiture
1937-11-24
Denise Moret joins her husband, Pierre, in Mongolia where he works as a civil engineer. One night sh
François Villon
1945-09-02
An episode in the life of the tumultuous poet who murdered his rival, in love with Catherine de Vaus
Dangerous Turning
1954-12-28
The adventures of Daniele as he tries to find love with Lucienne despite being framed for murder and
The Chips Are Down
1947-07-01
A society heiress and a resistance fighter are tragically killed at the same moment and meet in the
It's in the Bag
1932-11-25
Benjamin Déboisé, a hatter, his salesman and a young man want to kidnap an American millionaire, put
Le Voyageur de la Toussaint
1943-04-08
A young man comes back to his hometown to be confronted with a bourgeois obnoxious family who has al
Guinguette
1959-03-04
Renée dite Guinguette, a former prostitute, has earned enough money on the Parisian sidewalk to buy
Bizarre, Bizarre
1937-10-20
A French farce set in Victorian London where a botanist and his wife get into trouble when they pret
La dame de Noël
1958-01-01
A French drama about a mysterious woman who appears in a small village during the Christmas season.
Le Cœur révélateur
1949-01-01
Part of the longer compilation "Histoires extraordinaires" by the same director. Based on the short
The Citadel of Silence
1937-06-03
During the students ' rebellion against Nicholas the Second in Russia, Viana tries to kill the gover