Mylène Demongeot
Date of birth: 1935-09-29
Place of birth: Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, France
Known for: Acting
Also known as: M.H. Demongeot, Marielle Demongeot, Mylène Nicole, Mylène-Nicole Demongeot, Marie-Hélène Demongeot
Biography
Mylène Demongeot (born Marie-Hélène Demongeot; 29 September 1935 – 1 December 2022) was a French film, television and theatre actress and author with a career spanning seven decades and more than 100 credits in French, Italian, English and Japanese speaking productions. Demongeot became a star at age 21 with her portrayal of Abigail Williams in The Crucible (1957) which garnered her a BAFTA Award for Most Promising Newcomer to Leading Film Roles nomination and the best actress prize at the socialist Karlovy Vary International Film Festival. Some other notable film roles include Elsa in Otto Preminger's Bonjour Tristesse (1958), alongside Deborah Kerr and David Niven, and as Milady de Winter in Les Trois Mousquetaires (1961). A "veteran of cinema" who started as one of the blond sex symbols of the 1950s and 1960s, she managed to avoid typecasting by exploring many film genres including thrillers, westerns, comedies, swashbucklers, period films and even pepla, such as Romulus and the Sabines (1961) opposite Roger Moore or Gold for the Caesars (1963). Demongeot also has a cult following based on the Fantomas trilogy, as Hélène Gurn opposite Louis de Funès and Jean Marais: Fantômas (1964), Fantômas Unleashed (1965) and Fantômas Against Scotland Yard (1967). Thirty years later, she starred again in another one of France's most successful comedy trilogies as Madame Pic in Fabien Onteniente's Camping (2006), Camping 2 (2010) and Camping 3 (2016). She was twice nominated for Best Supporting Actress at the César Awards for 36 Quai des Orfèvres (2004) and French California (2006). In 2007, she was made a Commander of the Ordre des Arts et de Lettres of the French Republic. In 2017, she was inducted into the Légion d'Honneur by ethologist and neurologist Boris Cyrulnik, with the rank of Chevalier. She remained popular until her passing from peritoneal cancer. At the time of her death, she was starring in Thomas Gilou's film Maison de retraite (2022) alongside Gérard Depardieu, one of the biggest box office hits of 2022 in France. Through an Élysée Palace official tribune, President Emmanuel Macron paid a long tribute to her which included : "we salute the career of a great figure in the French Seventh Art, who knew how to shine in all its genres to move all French people". Demongeot was born in September 1935 in Nice, Alpes-Maritimes, the daughter and only child of Alfred Jean Demongeot, born Nice, 30 January 1897 (himself the son of Marie Joseph Marcel Demongeot, career soldier, and Clotilde Faussonne di Clavesana, an Italian contessa) and Claudia Troubnikova, born 17 May 1904 in Kharkiv (Ukraine, Russian Empire). Her parents, both actors themselves, had met in Shanghai, China, where her half-brother, Léonid Ivantov, from the first marriage of her mother, was born, in Harbin on 17 December 1923. Like hundreds of other major European figures of stage and screen, she trained at the 'Cours Simon' in Paris where her classmates included Jean-Pierre Cassel, Claude Berri and Guy Bedos. She was a classically trained pianist and her first ambition was of becoming a professional. ... Source: Article "Mylène Demongeot" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
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Le Fantôme de Laurent Terzieff
2020-09-09
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Twelve Plus One
1969-10-07
Mario, a young philanderer, receives 13 antique chairs in a bad state by inheritance and decides to
Camping : histoire d'un succès
2021-09-23
The film "Camping", directed by Fabien Onteniente in 2006, with Franck Dubosc, Gérard Lanvin and Mat
Fantomas Unleashed
1965-12-08
In the second episode of the trilogy Fantômas kidnaps distinguished scientist professor Marchand wit
Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard
1967-03-16
In the third and final episode of the trilogy, Fantômas imposes a head tax on the rich, threatening
Fantomas
1964-11-04
Fantômas is a man of many disguises. He uses maquillage as a weapon. He can impersonate anyone using
Bonjour Tristesse
1958-01-15
A spoiled teenager spends the summer at the French Riviera with her rich, widower, playboy father, b
Ménage
1986-04-23
A bisexual petty criminal named Bob encounters a married couple arguing in a bar. Bob breaks up the
Vengeance of the Three Musketeers
1961-10-25
To avenge her defeat and with the help of the Cardinal's army leader Rochefort, the treacherous Mila
The Witches of Salem
1957-04-26
Salem 1692. The young Abigail, seduced and abandoned by John Proctor, accuses John's wife of being a
36th Precinct
2004-11-24
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Camping
2006-04-26
Plastic surgeon Michel Saint-Josse is on his way to Spain where he hopes to spend a stress-free holi
So Woman!
2009-07-15
Clemence is a brilliant young lawyer who has just settled herself in a comfortable chair. She does n
Camping 2
2010-04-21
Jean-Pierre Savelli is a forty-something employee of an insurance company in Clermont-Ferrand who fi
Doctor in Distress
1963-07-30
"Doctor in Distress" is the fifth of the seven films in the "Doctor" series, and focuses on Sir Lanc
The Giant of Marathon
1959-12-03
A Greek soldier leads the fight against an invading Persian army.
Fantômas: A Thoroughly Modern Villain
2022-01-21
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Be Beautiful and Shut Up
1958-05-07
A beautiful 18-year-old orphan escapes from a reformatory and hooks up with a gang of jewel smuggler
Oscar and the Lady in Pink
2009-11-15
Listening in to a conversation between his doctor and parents, 10-year-old Oscar learns what nobody
Love in Rome
1960-11-24
A young impoverished aristocrat and struggling writer falls for the charms of an aspiring starlet, w
La Californie
2006-05-26
Mirko and Stefan, Serbian refugees, move to the French Riviera. There they meet Maguy who lives in a
Victoire
2004-12-22
Victoire is sweet, sensitive, nice and understanding. She leads an existence which doesn't leave her
The Singer Not the Song
1961-01-05
A Roman Catholic priest defies a Mexican bandit whose gang kills villagers in alphabetical order.
The Fighting Musketeers
1961-10-04
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The Private Navy of Sgt. O'Farrell
1968-05-08
Sgt. O'Farrell an Army soldier on an island in the South Pacific during World War II is trying to br
Because, Because of a Woman
1963-08-17
A young man is a collector of feminine conquests. One morning, leaving one of his mistresses he is a
Mylène Demongeot, la milady du cinéma
2018-10-17
Girl's Apartment
1963-12-04
Tibere is a small-time hood who tries to get one of three airline hostesses to help him in his gold-
A Kiss for a Killer
1957-11-27
In Nice, a wealthy widow is charmed by a young man who marries her and manages her finances. He soon
Simenon et l'affaire du cinéma
2022-03-27
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We Are All Winners
1998-01-01
Comedy whereby a man accidentally enlists himself to go on three dates with different unhinged women
Under Ten Flags
1960-09-15
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On My Way
2013-05-16
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Romulus and the Sabines
1961-11-15
The classic story from the early days of Rome where there are no women. Romulus, the founder of Rome
The Killer Strikes at Dawn
1970-04-08
A young physician becomes lonely when his workaholic wife ignores him to concentrate on her professi
Uncle Tom's Cabin
1965-04-13
In the pre-Civil War South, a sadistic plantation owner brutalizes his slaves to the point of rebell
Upstairs and Downstairs
1959-11-02
On marrying the boss's daughter, Richard takes his father-in-law's advice to hire a live-in domestic
I've Had It
1973-02-23
A Parisian named Cartier living in Quebec City and employee of a major English Canadian insurance co
Urok Francuzskogo
2008-06-06
A documentary about a relationships between USSR and France.
Gold for the Caesars
1963-03-09
A gladiator gets caught up in a slave revolt and the invasion of England.
Time Bomb
1959-01-20
Plotters decide to scuttle a ship for the insurance money, but things go wrong.
A Few Acres of Snow
1972-12-28
In 1837, in Quebec, against a historical backdrop of rebellion against the English, we follow the se
Women Are Weak
1959-02-11
A playboy is pursued by three women seeking romance.
Signé Furax
1981-04-01
The notorious and mysterious criminal Furax steals France's famous monuments, replacing them with re
Les mauvaises têtes
2013-09-11
Flics de Choc
1983-07-13
Sylvie and Marie-Christine, two young girls abducted by force by pimps in order to make them partici
Tender Scoundrel
1966-12-12
Tony Maréchal is a professional seducer. Having conquered countless women, proclaims that there is n
One Must Live Dangerously
1975-09-03
Richard is a private detective. He makes a good money from marital infidelity: the deceived husband
That Night
1958-09-11
Jean, who is the artistic director of a fashion magazine, is married to a very pretty cover girl, Sy
À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
2017-09-01
Follow in the footsteps of burlesque actor Pierre Richard, a key figure in French cinema in the 1970
The Man Who Lived at the Ritz
1988-11-28
In this drama, an American art student is trapped amidst the political turmoil of war-torn Europe wh
Europe Express
1984-01-14
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It's a Wonderful World
1956-08-28
Two aspiring songwriters finally manage to sell a tune by claiming that it was composed by a reclusi
Le fantôme du lac
2007-01-20
Mon Ami Washington
1984-01-01
The adventures of two gun merchants competing in the same market.
La Balade de Lucie
2013-03-06
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Des roses en hiver
2014-09-12
Surprise-party
1983-04-20
Adventures of a group of youngsters set in a provincial French city in the 1950's.
Children of Love
1953-11-10
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Quand vient l'amour
1956-09-28
The "Foyer de la Jeune Fille" takes in teenage girls who have no family of their own, their birth no
The Bastard
1983-06-15
The erratic life of Patrice who, after having murdered the pimp of his mother to avenge the death of
Montréal blues
1972-09-14
A group of youths open an organic restaurant.
Copacabana Palace
1962-11-03
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Camping 3
2016-06-29
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The Defective Detective
1984-10-31
Lewis plays a Las Vegas policeman visiting his ex-wife in France, only to be caught up in the shenan
Beneath the Rooftops of Paris
2007-08-10
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If You Die, I'll Kill You
2011-03-23
In Paris' cosmopolitan and colorful 10th arrondissement, Philippe, who's fresh out of prison, crosse
The Porcelain Anniversary
1975-05-20
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By the Blood of Others
1974-03-07
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OSS 117: Mission for a Killer
1965-07-02
A secret agent is dispatched to find a rare and valuable drug.
The Midwife
2017-03-22
Claire is a midwife and has devoted her life to others. At a moment when she is preoccupied by the i
Cherchez l'idole
1964-02-26
After stealing a diamond from Mylène Demongeot, Richard hides it inside a guitar. But on returning t
Trois mariages et un coup de foudre
2016-12-31
The Hideout
1971-07-21
A jewel thief hides his loot in a WELL while escaping. He returns several years later only to find t
Retirement Home
2022-02-16
A story of friendship between a young convict who is forced to work in a retirement home and a group
Frou-Frou
1955-06-19
A story of the love of Frou-Frou - an actress and singer in the in the beginning of her career.
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
The Telegraph Route
1994-11-30
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School for Love
1955-06-15
At the Conservatory of Vienna the students only have eyes for their beautiful singing teacher, tenor
The Big Night
1959-11-12
The exploits of three young Roman criminals are chronicled in this socially conscious drama. The you
Les Scandaleuses
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Du Salon indien au multiplexe
1995-01-01
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La Tête haute
2005-12-20
Big Man - Droga Polizza
1988-11-25
Red Lights
2004-03-03
A cross-country trip turns out to be a nightmare for a troubled couple.
Louis de Funès, l'homme qui a passé le mur du son
2013-01-01
Un jour un tueur
1980-04-01
A family is taken hostage in their home. Little by little, the springs of Stockholm Syndrome are put