Georges Douking
Date of birth: 1902-08-06
Place of birth: Paris, France
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Georges Ladoubée, Douking
Biography
Georges Douking (born Georges Ladoubée; 6 August 1902 – 20 October 1987) was a French stage, film, and television actor. He also directed stage plays such as the premier presentation of Jean Giraudoux's Sodom and Gomorrah at the Théâtre Hébertot in 1943. He is perhaps best known for his role in the surreal 1972 comedy The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie. He was one of the favorite actors of the French filmmaker Pierre Chenal. Douking appeared in more than 75 films between 1934 and 1981. Source: Article "Georges Douking" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Movie Credits
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
1972-09-15
In Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but neve
Mademoiselle
1966-06-01
A sexually repressed school teacher releases her pent up passions in a series of shocking crimes.
Street Without a Name
1934-02-02
The story focuses on a street in the Parisian banlieue where Italian and French workers live. Their
The Woman at the End of the World
1938-01-19
A sailor falls in love with an innkeeper on a lost island.
I Accuse
1938-01-23
After serving in the trenches of World War I, Jean Diaz recoils with such horror that he renounces l
Les Gaietés de l'exposition
1938-05-18
Set against the backdrop of the 1937 Paris Exposition, a mistaken identity plot where a travel agent
The Train for Venice
1938-09-14
Discovering his wife's relationship with a middle-class snob, a husband tries his best to break this
Bargekeepers Daughter
1938-10-11
Prince Sacha studies in Paris and cares more for Marianne than about Silistrie, the country his fami
Katia
1938-11-07
In the middle of the 19th century, Tsar Alexander II made the acquaintance of a young aristocratic g
Deputy Eusèbe
1939-03-09
Eusèbe Bonbonneau, a solicitor's clerk, learns one day that a candidate bearing his name runs for el
The Mayor's Dilemma
1939-03-23
At the beginning of World War I in a village in the country of La Marne, two families are against th
Deuxième bureau contre kommandantur
1939-06-07
In 1917, in a small village in the North, Abbe Gaillard is suspected by the Germans of facilitating
Carnival of Sinners
1943-03-21
A struggling artist buys a talisman that gives him love, fame and wealth. The talisman is a severed
Tornavara
1943-10-06
In a lost village in Lapland, Gérard comes to the aid of his friend Anders, in conflict with his fat
Finance noire
1943-11-24
In Central Europe, an organization of counterfeiters is headed by Burcq. An Air France pilot introdu
Secrets of a Ballerina
1943-11-25
In 1860s France, a couple who have recently acquired a dilapidated country house in Vendôme discover
Adrien
1943-12-22
Adrien Moulinet, a modest encashing agent in the Nortier bank, is also an inventor in his spare time
Lady Paname
1950-05-26
The evocation of Paris in the 1920s mingles with the rapid rise of the irresistible Caprice, a talen
Savage Triangle
1951-09-26
Based on the novel of the same name by writer Edouard Peisson, this Jean Delannoy film display one b
The Hunchback of Notre Dame
1956-12-19
Paris, 1482. Today is the festival of the fools, taking place like each year in the square outside C
An Eye for an Eye
1957-09-13
In North Africa, an anguished husband tests the character of the doctor he believes is responsible f
Judgement of God
1952-08-20
Bavaria, 1433. Reason of state rules that Prince Albert is to marry Princess Bertha of Wurtemberg. B
This Desired Body
1959-04-17
A man falls in love with Lina , a hot girl with a racy past who creates a sensation among the worker
The Right to Love
1972-08-15
The tragedy of Helene and her husband Pierre, whose life is shattered when Pierre is kept as a polit
The Hunchback of Paris
1959-11-26
Duke Philippe de Nevers is an influential and popular man who is married to a beautiful wife called
Daybreak
1939-06-09
After committing a murder, a man locks himself in his apartment and recollects the events that led h
The Last Turning
1939-05-17
Frank, a hobo, ends up in a garage-truck stop in the middle of nowhere. Nick Marino, its older, kind
The Phantom Wagon
1939-09-07
French version of the Selma Lagerlof story, most famously filmed in 1921 by Victor Sjostrom, about a
The Conquistadores
1976-03-10
A young couple: Victor is a musician, Claire is a secretary in a publishing house. Their daily life
Sinners of Paris
1958-01-15
Michel Piccoli plays a police inspector whose best friend is murdered on the orders of gang boss Cha
Beast at Bay
1959-06-17
Melun, on 1959. On the return to an auction, a young and attractive widow, Elisabeth Vernon, finds a
Sortie de secours
1970-09-30
A failed actress sinks into neurosis and mythomania. To give relief to her dismal existence, she eng
La Grande Maffia
1971-09-17
After receiving a mobster's heart as a transplant, a modest bank teller embarks on a life of crimina
Catherine
1969-04-23
Paris, 1418. The city is occupied by the Armagnacs, besieged by Philip of Burgundy. Caboche, a butch
Potatoes
1969-11-22
In a village in the Ardennes, during the German occupation, finding rations is becoming almost impos
Maya
1949-12-09
Based on a venerable Legend of the Sea, the story concerns a pliable prostitute named Bella (Romance
The Green Domino
1935-12-27
After his girlfriend is murdered, an art critic realizes that a wealthy heiress is falling in love w
The Golem
1967-02-18
Athanase Pernath is a gem cutter in the Prague ghetto. In spite of himself, he becomes embroiled in
Les Aventures de Lagardère
1968-04-04
A young man, Lagardère, discovers that a plot is afoot to assassinate the Duke of Nevers. He warns h
The Charge of the Light Brigade
1968-04-10
During the Crimean War between Britain and Russia in the 1850s, a British cavalry division, led by t
The Lafarge Case
1938-03-08
Based on true facts, a news item which was widely talked about in the nineteenth century, this is th
Joy House
1964-06-12
A small-time con man on the run from the gangster-husband of his girlfriend hides out in a strange,
Rookies Go to War
1974-11-11
A Grand Slapstick comedy about four buddies serving in the army. Their long-suffering sergeant attem
The Christmas Tree
1969-09-25
A French-American millionaire, his girlfriend and his war buddy try to grant his dying son's every w
Secrets of a French Nurse
1958-02-19
A gangster is back in business after a while and tries to take it back the hard way, but things don'
Scandals of Clochemerle
1948-06-09
A little town erupts in turmoil about the construction of a public urinal. The army is sent in to re
The Milky Way
1969-02-28
Two men, part tramp, part pilgrim, are on their way to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. On their way
Jack of Spades
1960-12-21
After an adventurous life, Patrick has settled in the Camargue and bought a manade where he raises b
Louise
1939-04-16
What was it about opera diva Grace Moore that attracted the attention of filmdom's top directors? Mo
Yamilé Under the Cedars
1939-06-01
A Lebanese Christian girl of European origin is attracted to a visiting Muslim chief and rides off w
Triple Cross
1966-12-09
Safecracker Eddie Chapman is languishing in prison on the island of Jersey when the Nazis arrive. An
The Poppy Is Also a Flower
1966-05-20
A special United Nations bureau organises a campaign to trace a drug-smuggling ring across Europe to
The Man from Nowhere
1937-02-18
Mathias Pascal, saddled with a stupid wife and a nagging mother-in-law, leaves home and is extremely
Under Western Eyes
1936-03-20
Political turmoil convulses 19th-century Russia as Razumov, a young student preparing for a career i