Marcel Mouloudji
Date of birth: 1922-09-16
Place of birth: Paris, France
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Марсель Мулуджи, مارسيل مولودجي
Biography
Marcel Mouloudji, born September 16, 1922 in the 4th arrondissement of Paris and died June 14, 1994 in Neuilly-sur-Seine is a French-Algerian singer, songwriter, painter and actor. His songs, alternately committed and sentimental, evoke love, war, nostalgia between sadness and loneliness. He has notably interpreted texts by poets such as Boris Vian, Louis Aragon and Philippe Pauletto. Marcel Mouloudji was born in 1922 in Paris to a bricklayer father and a housekeeper mother. His father, Saïd Mouloudji was born in 1896 in French Algeria in the Kabyle village of Leflaye (tribe of Aït Waghlis, daïra of Sidi-Aïch), and his mother, Eugénie Roux is a Breton born in Paris in 1901. The family knows serious problems: when Marcel was only ten years old, his mother was hospitalized for a mental disorder and his illiterate father, housed in a maid's room, had trouble raising his two sons, the eldest of whom, André, was gravely ill and the second, a gentle dreamer who finds accommodation by chance encounters. During his adolescence, Marcel enrolled with his brother in a left-wing youth movement, the Faucons Rouges, close to the SFIO. In 1935, he met Sylvain Itkine, director and member of the October Group, an organization affiliated with the Fédération des Théâtres Ouvriers de France. Marcel Maillot, director of a Syndicat du livre summer camp, encouraged him to sing with his brother. He was soon noticed by Jean-Louis Barrault. During this period, Marcel was thus hosted by Jean-Louis Barrault, who introduced him to the artistic milieu of Paris. He participated in the artistic life associated with the Popular Front in 1936. In 1936, he appeared in the film La Guerre Des Gosses by Jacques Daroy. In 1937, for the film Claudine À L'École by Serge de Poligny, the screenwriter Jacques Constant, around Blanchette Brunoy, created the character of "Petit Moulou"... soon to be Mouloudji. In 1938, Marcel played one of the three young heroes in Disparus De Saint-Agil by Christian-Jaque. In 1939, Marcel played the role of Louis in Christian-Jaque's film L'Enfer Des Anges, a film selected for the 1939 Cannes Film Festival which did not take place, and released in February 1941. In 1942, he played the role of 'Ephraïm Luska in Henri Decoin's film, The Strangers in the House, after Georges Simenon... Jacques Canetti, famous artistic agent. He will offer him to record "Comme Un P'tit Coquelicot" thanks to which Mouloudji obtains the Grand Prix du Disque 1953 and the Charles-Cros Prize in 1952 and 1953. He repeats with "Un Jour Tu Verras" the following year. He reappears in films like Henri Calef in 1949 or We Are All Assassins three years later. His last roles, he did in Rafles sur la ville by Pierre Chenal then in Llegaron Dos Hombres in 1958. After recording a disc with accordionist Marcel Azzola in 1976 called "And it was turning", he released "Unknown Unknowns" thanks to which he went on tour throughout the country. Exhausted, he decides to devote more time to writing and painting. He partially lost his voice due to pleurisy in 1992 but was still working on a new album. He died on June 14, 1994 and is buried in the Père-Lachaise cemetery in Paris.
Movie Credits
Sky Battalion
1947-03-05
Film in two eras.1st era: They are not angels. Chronicle of a Free French parachute training camp du
Ménilmontant
1936-11-20
Because they brought her back a lost piece of jewelry, a very rich lady accedes to the request of th
Mirages
1938-01-28
A star of Les Folies Bergères has to choose between her career and her love for an engineer.
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
They Met on Skis
1940-12-14
The owner of the place of Chamonix covets the inn, run by the Michel's uncle, whose business goes ba
The Roquevillards
1943-07-28
France, 1880. Francois Roquevillard is a respected lawyer in Chambery and the head of a family that
Adieu Léonard
1943-09-01
A bungling thief is threatened by one target with blackmail, unless the thief will kill his own cous
Vautrin the Thief
1943-12-13
A famous convict Jacques Collin, alias Trompe la mort, or abbot Carlos Herrera, also called Vautrin,
Angel of the Night
1944-01-19
A young sculptor presides over the destinies of a student club where a miserable young girl ends up
Angel and Sinner
1945-10-13
During the stagecoach trip of a frightened group of inhabitants of Rouen, Elisabeth Rousset, known a
Jenny
1936-09-18
When her fiancé breaks off their engagement, Danielle leaves London and returns to her mother, Jenny
Tête blonde
1950-09-01
When he finds a package in the metro, given this period of restrictions, Mr. Truche thinks it may be
Justice Is Done
1950-09-20
Elsa Lundenstein is accused of having murdered her lover. The jury discusses the case vividly. All m
Troubled Waters
1949-08-26
A woman returns to her hometown along the French coast, seeking answers about the death of her broth
Sorceror
1950-01-27
A young rogue kills an old lady to rob her. Arrested, he believes it is for this crime, hides nothin
The Bonnadieu House
1951-11-27
Felix is a middle-aged bourgeois husband. Much to his discomfort, he learns that his wife Gabrielle
The Virtuous Scoundrel
1953-02-18
La Vie d'un honnête homme English: The Virtuous Scoundrel, is a French comedy drama film from 1953,
Gigolo
1951-11-08
Back from the war, Marceau Le Guern remembers. Educated in an orphanage run by Dominican brothers, h
Two Men in Town
1959-06-22
In the darkness gunfire is heard. On a road near a Spanish city an abandoned prison-van is parked. N
Three Women
1952-08-13
The short stories of Guy de Maupassant enjoyed a renaissance in the early 1950s, thanks in great par
Boom on Paris
1954-02-19
In the early 1950s, the popular radio show "La Kermesse aux Étoiles", hosted by the famous Jean Noha
The Hideout
1962-09-21
Set during World War II in France, the story begins when a resistance fighter is given shelter in an
58.2/B
1958-01-01
In this leftist short named after a French military unit in the Algeria War, a youth who had been ca
We Are All Murderers
1952-05-21
Originally titled Nous Sommes Tout des Assassins, We Are All Murderers was directed by Andre Cayette
Claudine at School
1937-12-15
Poorly educated by her father, a wacky researcher, Claudine is a teenager full of life who loves her
The Indiscreet
1956-03-16
A dying man entrusts 25 million to a young girl's care, but she's afraid of being suspected of theft
Boys' School
1938-04-05
In a college, three friends form a secret society. Their objective - going to America. One night, af
Strangers in the House
1942-05-16
Loursat, a lawyer, lives with his daughter Nicole in a sinister and vast bourgeois residence. Abando
Bagarres
1948-11-05
A proud femme fatale who works at a mountainous farm property manages, after being prodded by her lo
Sinners of Paris
1958-01-15
Michel Piccoli plays a police inspector whose best friend is murdered on the orders of gang boss Cha
Les Cadets de l'océan
1945-11-14
In the harbor of Toulon, on the “Ocean” training ship, the apprenticeship of the cabin boys and expe
Kindergarten
1949-05-20
1948. Madeleine is the headmistress of a kindergarten in Ménilmontant. Dr Libois, the school doctor,
Generals Without Buttons
1936-10-27
Separated by an ancestral hatred, two small villages of the South see their infant population engagi
Tout chante autour de moi
1954-11-01
Georges works in a small-town drugstore. Passionate about music, he writes songs. When Anne-Marie, w
Until the Last One
1957-03-20
Just released from prison after serving a six-month sentence, Fernand Bastia goes into hiding. He ha
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
Boris Vian, un cœur qui battait trop fort
2020-03-13
The Bonnadieu House
1951-11-27
Felix is a middle-aged bourgeois husband. Much to his discomfort, he learns that his wife Gabrielle
In Venice, One Night
1937-11-19
Mortal is ready to do anything to obtain a divorce from his wife Nadia. To compromise her, he needs
The Secrets of the Bed
1954-05-19
Four-episode Franco-Italian omnibus film. Four men from different national and cultural background t
Hell of Angels
1941-02-13
Abandoned children, left to their own devices and a life of danger, are adopted by a kind man.