Date of birth: 1885-10-17
Place of birth: Tours, Indre-et-Loire, France
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Daniel Henri Elie Mendaille, Danielle Mendaille
1921-11-18
1947-03-05
Film in two eras.1st era: They are not angels. Chronicle of a Free French parachute training camp du
1931-11-17
At a mine on the shared edge of France and Germany, an underground explosion leads to the entrapment
1933-01-06
A wrongfully convicted man finds himself suspected of a crime committed in his prison.
1930-03-14
1931-11-06
A visitor from the western front tells young children, in a sober commentary, about the battle of Ve
1933-06-09
To restore health to their little boy, the Henry couple decided to live in Brittany. The child has a
1933-06-23
Young Gervaise has been very unhappy since her friend abandoned her. The man named Coupeau, a sympat
1933-10-23
A Russian exile, believing herself to be a widow, remarries in Paris and sees her first husband appe
1934-03-23
A brave woman is sentenced to prison on false testimony. She escapes twenty years later and takes re
1933-11-24
The error of an examining magistrate forever tears apart a happy and united family.
1935-05-24
A problem forces a plane carrying passengers bound for the Far East to land on a desert island. Coup
1935-12-20
French silent film pioneer Abel Gance directs this 1935 classic about Lucrezia Borgia, her brother,
1941-09-24
In the pound, Pipo the dog recounts his adventures to his fellow inmates.
1939-07-19
The wife of a stable manager will try everything to clear her husband, a very violent being, accused
1939-12-22
12-year old Armand-Pierre embraces the French Revolution and leaves his mother to enlist in the army
1943-02-24
At the end of the last century, in the Cévennes, a valiant officer was taken for a brigand. Brought
1946-02-06
On the verge of death, a man entrusts Inspector Burma with an address. Burma conducts a difficult in
1943-04-07
The story of how the people of Paris cope with the strains and struggles of war, from the siege of t
1936-10-02
Fernand Espitalion is miserable as totally whipped husband of a dragon 'passed on' -like cloths- by
1950-04-19
Arnal, nicknamed 'Counselor' is the head of a family held in high esteem by the people of a Cevennes
1947-12-27
In a Central American state, the owner of a dance hall and his sponsor engage in drug trafficking. A
1950-09-01
The king orders viscount Florestan to take mademoiselle de Solanges for his wife. But the viscount d
1950-12-08
"Le Tambourin", a Montmartre nightclub, is on its way down. Although it can boast great performances
1949-05-07
On the morning of January 30, 1889, the Archduke Rodolphe de Habsbourg and his mistress Marie Vetser
1949-12-09
Based on a venerable Legend of the Sea, the story concerns a pliable prostitute named Bella (Romance
1950-02-10
A mysterious figure signing himself "The Ferret" keeps sending letters to the police, tipping them o
1951-03-07
The practice of Dr. Julien, a GP of Marseilles, consists mainly of drug-addicts. One day, one of his
1951-03-16
Having fallen out with his girlfriend Dolorès, Juanito leaves for Mexico, where he becomes a famous
1951-03-28
Fates of multiple otherwise disconnected characters intertwine miraculously under the sky of Paris.
1952-08-20
Bavaria, 1433. Reason of state rules that Prince Albert is to marry Princess Bertha of Wurtemberg. B
1953-01-30
During the Second World War, midshipman Dourdan, nicknamed 'Saucisse', distinguished himself by his
1953-02-15
Mr Lucas, a grocer, wants to attract the clientele; he imagines a lottery; every week, you can win a
1909-12-03
Directed by Albert Capellani.
1954-12-09
Raoul de Bragelonne must uphold his musketeer father's legacy in the face of court intrigues from Ca
1954-06-04
Prosecutor Etzel discovers that his father has sentenced a man, Leonardo Maurizius, on mere presumpt
1958-01-15
Michel Piccoli plays a police inspector whose best friend is murdered on the orders of gang boss Cha
1924-09-26
The film, shot in Nice, was started by Jean Epstein, and the editing finished by Maurice Mariaud, wh
1954-06-18
Giuseppe is accused of killing his employer Matthias who is actually in a hospital with amnesia.
1928-09-18
Kids playact war in the backyard and the adults decide to show them a documentary about World War 1.
1939-01-18
Adapted from the best-selling novel by K. J. Benes, A Stolen Life serves as a tour de force for Germ
1938-03-09
1935-10-22
During the First World War, before joining a squadron at the front in 1918, Herbillon (Jean-Pierre A
1947-12-19
A gang of drug pushers is rampant on the French Riviera. The police has been informed and arrests an
1933-05-31
Toward the close of World War I, European railroads in Djibouti are under siege by bands of indigeno
1926-01-01
The naval officer Maurice de Vergnes, tired of the extravagance of his fiancée Moussia, finds with p
1929-02-15
A nobleman decides to join a traveling group of actors to be with a girl he admires, but ultimately
1924-12-05
A crazed scientist planning to rule the world decides to destroy the city of Paris with his lightnin
1958-01-10
Pierre Tercelin who used to be a prosperous industrialist is now ruined and embittered, having becom
1958-10-15
Sophie Dirondel, history teacher at the Saint-Cloison-sur-Ermoise, wins the jackpot of a lottery, a
1958-04-19
During the Occupation, Cora takes the place of her dead husband at the head of a Resistance network.
1955-04-13
Out of prison after a five-year stretch, jewel thief Tony turns down a quick job his friend Jo offer
1927-01-10
A biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a snowball
1934-12-14
A young woman has three suitors on her father's logging ranch on the Quebec frontier.
1929-04-29
This relatively straightforward dramatic biography was one of two films commissioned to honor Joan o
1926-01-22
This 8 chapter serial drama tells the story of a resistance movement led by Jean "Chouan" Cottereau
1948-11-05
The ordeal of Françoise who, deceived by her husband, sees her dying child. After a few events in th
1955-12-23
Lola Montes, previously a great adventuress, is reduced to being the attraction of a circus after ha
1928-03-30
First adaptation of Joseph Kessel World War I novel, in which an aviator falls in love with a woman
1937-04-23
Ginette, daughter of a foreman of an automobile factory, and Claude, son of the director of this com
1935-04-05
From Constantinople to Marseilles, aboard a cargo ship, an intrigue full of adventures brings togeth
1930-12-05
1931-05-29
1924-11-28
1956-01-20
Penelope Benson, known as Penny, is both romantic and determined. Put in a select boarding school by
1951-03-16
Juanillo is in love with Dolores, the daughter of the owner of an inn. He likes to sing, she likes d
1952-05-21
Originally titled Nous Sommes Tout des Assassins, We Are All Murderers was directed by Andre Cayette
1928-11-08
A dramatized re-enactment and documentary of the Battle of Verdun as seen by both French and German
1925-11-20
1953-09-16
In late 19th century France, the Countess Louise, wife of a wealthy general, sells the earrings her
1930-09-01
Lopez and his gang attack a ranch where he finds a man who once saved his life.
1932-02-26
Jeff and Luck, seal hunters aboard The Viking, both love the same girl. She loves Luck but fears Jef