Robert Le Vigan
Date of birth: 1900-01-08
Place of birth: Paris, France
Known for: Acting
Also known as:
Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Robert Le Vigan was a French actor. Born Robert-Charles-Alexandre Coquillaud in Paris, he appeared in more than 60 films between 1931 and 1943 almost exclusively in small or supporting roles. He was, according to film academic Ginette Vincendeau, a "brilliant, extravagant actor" who "specialised in louche, menacing or diabolical characters". A collaborator with the Nazis during the occupation, who openly expressed fascist attitudes, he vanished while playing Jéricho in Children of Paradise (Les Enfants du Paradis), a film deliberately released in May 1945 shortly after the liberation of Europe. He was sentenced to forced labour for ten years in 1946. Released on parole after three years working in a camp, Le Vigan absconded to Spain, and then Argentina, dying there October 12, 1972, in the city of Tandil. He died in poverty.
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Boubouroche
1933-10-13
Boubouroche, a decent guy, enjoys shopping and playing cards at the cafe with his buddies: Potasse,
Who Killed Santa Claus?
1941-10-16
A village in the French Alps is rocked by a series of crimes, including the theft of a sacred ring a
Bifur 3
1945-08-29
Two hitch-hikers are on the way to Marseilles pursued by her husband.
Harvest
1937-10-28
In the 30s, a small village in the Provence is losing its inhabitants because young people prefer to
The Lower Depths
1936-12-11
Inhabitants of a flophouse struggle to survive under the harsh treatment imposed by the landlord, Ko
Port of Shadows
1938-05-17
Down a foggy, desolate road to the port city of Le Havre travels Jean, an army deserter looking for
Four Flights to Love
1939-10-27
In pre-World Ward I in Paris, a budding artist, Pierre LeBlanc, falls in love and marries Janine, a
Behold the Man
1935-01-01
The final days of Jesus from the time he enters the city of Jerusalem. Viewed as a threat, it is dec
The Queen and the Cardinal
1935-11-22
A hero of the Paris streets is recruited for a conspiracy against Mazarin in the court of the King,
The Little King
1933-03-02
King Michel VIII is still a child, but when revolution threatens, the young monarch's entourage lies
An Ideal Woman
1934-01-19
Grégoire Vachette is a bashful librarian, forced to listen to the daily boasting of his colleague Co
Street Without a Name
1934-02-02
The story focuses on a street in the Parisian banlieue where Italian and French workers live. Their
Famille nombreuse
1934-10-26
Follenfant, father of a large family, completed late military service. He looks a lot like the comma
L'affaire Coquelet
1935-03-08
There are collectors and collectors. As far as he is concerned, Monsieur Coquelet has brought togeth
Le Prince des Six Jours
1934-02-09
How a simple fellow who took on the identity of a famous cyclist manages to win the famous Six Days
La Bandera
1935-09-25
Pierre Gilieth has committed a murder in Paris. He flees to Barcelona, where he runs out of money. S
Romarin
1937-01-01
Romarin and his friend Tonin are two brave Provençal poachers who are not afraid. Romarin spends mos
Franco de port
1937-05-14
Monsieur Fred is a friendly Southerner who recruits pretty girls down on their luck to send to South
The West
1938-02-16
The film portrays the relationship between a female Moroccan student, who has been forced to leave h
The Midnight Airplane
1938-08-04
During a stopover, Morel, an airline pilot and Colette spin the perfect love. She hides from him tha
Patrouille blanche
1942-03-05
An Oriental villain named Halloway is called in by wealthy oil interests who want to destroy a dam p
Ernest the Rebel
1938-09-23
In South America anything can happen: the consul might give you as a snack to the sharks, you can wi
Vie privée
1942-05-29
Beautiful and adored by the public, the great actress Florence once faulted with Remi, a disreputabl
Andorra or The Bronze Men
1942-07-27
A man is killed smuggling contraband through the Pyrenees Alps. He leaves behind a pregnant woman wh
The Marriage of Chiffon
1942-08-06
Odette Joyeux plays an eccentric young aristocrat called "Chiffon", who is struggling to comply with
The World Will Shake
1939-05-10
In this sci-fi film, a scientist invents a prescient machine that can tell people when they will die
Paris Romance
1941-10-03
Georges Gauthier is an electrician who lives with his mother and his sister Madeleine. He is the son
Robert Le Vigan, la cavale d'un maudit
2021-11-21
From Quai des brumes to Goupi Mains Rouges through La Bandera or L'Assassinat du Père Noël, Robert L
It Happened at the Inn
1943-04-14
An old woman living in an inn is killed and her family members seem like the likely culprits.
The Heart of a Nation
1943-04-07
The story of how the people of Paris cope with the strains and struggles of war, from the siege of t
The Man Who Sold His Soul to the Devil
1943-09-20
A banker who lost everything in the stock market is on the verge of committing suicide when the Dev
Chambre 13
1942-01-31
On a Marseille film set, a street urchin who has been hired as an actor is suspected when both a sta
The Ménard Collection
1944-04-12
Renée Ménard, a young mixed-race Indochinese, arrives in France to find her French father, whom she
Jenny
1936-09-18
When her fiancé breaks off their engagement, Danielle leaves London and returns to her mother, Jenny
One of the Legion
1936-10-02
Fernand Espitalion is miserable as totally whipped husband of a dragon 'passed on' -like cloths- by
Le Tunnel
1933-12-15
An engineer is hired to plan and oversee the construction of a undersea tunnel between Europe and th
Moon over Morocco
1931-10-29
When one of their number tries to tear away the veil from the face of a woman of Morocco, five Frenc
The Yellow Dog
1932-07-01
Maigret investigates in Concarneau where the passage of a yellow dog accompanies a series of murders
The Marriage of Chiffon
1942-08-06
Odette Joyeux plays an eccentric young aristocrat called "Chiffon", who is struggling to comply with
Business Is Business
1942-09-10
Isidore Lechat is a ruthless self-made man whose money allows him to humiliate the others, particula
Boys' School
1938-04-05
In a college, three friends form a secret society. Their objective - going to America. One night, af
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
Don't Shout it from the Rooftops
1943-07-14
A scientist who have discovered how to turn salt water into petrol dies before he has revealed his f
Knock, ou le triomphe de la médecine
1933-11-03
"Everybody is ill: you just don't know it yet". Knock, a newly arrived physician takes over a small
Les mutinés de l'Elseneur
1936-02-29
A journalist takes command of a ship after the crew mutiny against the brutal captain. It was an ada
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
The Little Thing
1938-05-31
Now that their parents are ruined, Jacques Eyssette and his younger brother Daniel, are driven to fe
Dédé la musique
1940-03-11
Dédé de Montmartre, former king of the accordion, has become a bad boy who lives off drug traffickin
Maria Chapdelaine
1934-12-14
A young woman has three suitors on her father's logging ranch on the Quebec frontier.
Tempête sur l'Asie
1938-04-20
An adventurer tries to seize oil deposits in Mongolia .
The Fatted Calf
1939-04-12
Jules Vachon, a pharmacist, has two sons, Gabriel, a steady-minded young man dedicated to his job in
La Grande Marnière
1945-03-23
A rich peasant, Carvajan, seeks revenge on the castellan, Clairefont, with whom he had a serious con
Ley del mar
1950-05-09
La orquídea
1951-07-20
A woman of great beauty is used by a man who only desires her body and falls on the path of self-des
Hélène
1936-10-17
Helene is based on Helene Wilfur, a novel by Vicki (Grand Hotel) Baum. Madeleine Renaud essays the t
The Woman at the End of the World
1938-01-19
A sailor falls in love with an innkeeper on a lost island.
Louise
1939-04-16
What was it about opera diva Grace Moore that attracted the attention of filmdom's top directors? Mo
Madame Bovary
1934-01-04
Soon after the death of his first wife (whose dowry was inadequate), Charles Bovary, a country docto
Río Turbio
1954-12-09
A man who has just arrived in Río Turbio meets a young woman who makes him reflect on his life.
El correo del rey
1951-02-19
King Charles V sent his confidant, Don Fernando,from France to the Spanish Court carrying an importa
The Citadel of Silence
1937-06-03
During the students ' rebellion against Nicholas the Second in Russia, Viana tries to kill the gover