Date of birth: 1856-08-13
Place of birth: Metz, France
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Gildes


1934-03-09
The late Toupinel, a merry fellow, kept a legitimate wife in Paris, and a mistress who passed for hi

1933-10-30

1941-10-16
A village in the French Alps is rocked by a series of crimes, including the theft of a sacred ring a

1931-10-30

1932-04-01
Monsieur Loyal, bailiff by profession, is dispatched to a grub by an actress. Reason: she accuses Mi
1932-09-19
A picador, an already mature man, keeps secret his love for the young orphan he raised. But she fall

1932-12-30
Life is so dull in a quiet little neighborhood that gossips, eager for some kind of scandal to brigh

1933-02-03
The colonel must marry the baroness of Flair, as soon as the girl this one will have found a match.

1933-02-10
A great provincial lawyer is found murdered with a revolver shot in the red path that leads to his m

1933-03-03
A more small scale version of the story Griffin used for his epic Orphans Of The Storm: a doctor tri

1931-11-13

1931-10-09
Célestin, the organist of a convent, has written and composed a light operetta under the name of Flo

1933-07-21
1933-11-24
The error of an examining magistrate forever tears apart a happy and united family.

1934-11-26
Rémy (Robert Lynen), a stolen child is adopted by a wandering singer. With him and his trained anima
1934-12-21
Following a quarrel with his father, Prince Jean joined the Foreign Legion. When he returns, he find

1935-09-19
Captain Benoît manages to take possession of the plans of a new German airplane. The German counter-

1935-01-18
Suzanne de Villiers, an illegitimate daughter of a noble family, has a lot of difficulty getting the

1935-11-08
Dora Nelson, a famous actress, leaves both her husband Philippe de Moreuil and the role she was play
1935-09-06
When a young woman named Aurélie throws a fit of jealousy at her husband and her lover, daily life b
1934-07-31
Argan, the imaginary patient, allows himself to be led by his wife and his doctors who take advantag

1935-06-06
A wealthy businessman joins his servant, who has won a winter getaway, on the trip, but at the hotel

1935-09-06
In the Camargue, the rich owner Jules Fabregoul squanders all his fortune to please his mistress, a

1935-11-16
Two unemployed musicians dress up as women to be hired by an all-female orchestra called "Tulips fr

1936-05-29
The Marquis de Barfleur, an unattractive man, decides to resort to plastic surgery to ensure the fid
1936-10-07
Lina Bourget, a realist singer, is forced to leave Dakar because of a murder she believes she has co

1936-11-11
A young woman wishing to divorce, promises money to her husband's ex-mistress to obtain her testimon

1936-12-04
For some time, the police have been on the trail of a mysterious burglar who has evaded capture whil

1937-06-18
Two twin sisters, nieces of the mayor of Buissons-les-Amours, are, one very wise, the other evaporat

1937-01-29
A man of integrity, Monsieur Pic is the accountant beyond reproach of the Banque Universelle. He wou

1937-01-15

1937-12-15
Arlette, a young orphan girl, is taken in by four spinster cousins, the eldest of whom, Telcide, is

1937-11-19
Mortal is ready to do anything to obtain a divorce from his wife Nadia. To compromise her, he needs

1938-01-05
Miche Doulin is a wife who like to spend. Her husband Henri, who is a diplomat and worried about sev

1938-02-09
In Paris, at the Foire du Trône, the showman Titin from Martigues spins the perfect love with the pr

1938-03-05
Hercule, a young peasant, inherits a Parisian newspaper with a large circulation. The editor-in-chie

1938-05-25
The wife of a Parisian municipal guardian wins a beauty contest in spite of herself and narrowly esc

1938-06-08
Baronski has had enough of being a small-time merchant and decides, aided by his daughter Esther, to

1938-07-22
Alexis, a former war pilot, attempted the Paris-Tokyo raid and failed. He became a taxi driver. The

1938-11-07
In the middle of the 19th century, Tsar Alexander II made the acquaintance of a young aristocratic g

1938-10-19
Cruchadouze and Castaniet are two inseparable friends. One day they decide to leave Arcachon to try

1940-12-23
Monsieur Jourdain is a dangerous madman : he wants to share his fortune! His relatives do what any s

1938-12-14
A very shy person inherits a traveling circus on the express condition that he manages to present a

1939-04-19
The farmer Remy has just invented a new fertilizer and spies are trying to seize his documents, taki

1939-03-18
A film based upon the life of Vidocq, the famous adventurer, who, after numerous prison escapes ceas

1939-04-20
The film depicts events between the Fashoda crisis in 1898 and the 1904 signing of the Entente Cordi

1939-04-19
Two young revelers, driven by a Russian driver, are taken to an unknown neighborhood at the gates of

1941-03-19
Grigou owns a patch of land between farmers Martin's and Aubert's fields. Both covet this plot.As Gr

1939-05-24
In a castle, one stormy evening, Doctor Carter and a whole merry company find themselves welcomed by

1939-06-08
A young American businessman, tired of his hectic life, makes an unexpected inheritance which leads

1941-09-16
Two country sisters are rivals for the love of the doctor. He marries one, but regrets it and is res

1939-06-07
In 1917, in a small village in the North, Abbe Gaillard is suspected by the Germans of facilitating

1939-07-13
A young man who wishes to launch his girlfriend in the theater, borrows money from his aunt, making

1941-12-02
A student from an elementary school accidentally breaks the glass roof of his school. His comrades d

1939-08-30
A wealthy banker, bored with his life, heads to the Latin Quarter of Paris where he pretends to be a

1939-09-29
Nine Bachelors is a 1939 French comedy film directed by Sacha Guitry and starring Guitry, Max Dearly

1940-02-28
A little bank employee wins a plane in the lottery and amazes his companions with his audacity.

1941-02-27
In 1919, Pierre Darmont, a handsome, much-loved piano virtuoso, falls in love with Anne Morris, a yo

1940-05-08
The Bontemps family, like all the inhabitants of the village of Coussy la Chapelle, are passionate a

1942-02-16
Caprices tells the story of two young rich people. A famous actress poses as a poor florist, and a d

1946-02-12
In 1939, in a maternity ward, a young man visits his mistress who has just given birth to a little g

1939-03-01
The adventures of a sailor from Mexico to a lagoon in the Pacific ocean, and the meeting with a lone

1934-05-18
A handsome but penniless young man takes a summer job as a swimming instructor in a picturesque Alpi

1917-03-06
Hardly one of French filmmaker Abel Gance's masterpieces, The Torture of Silence nevertheless has mo

1932-11-25
Benjamin Déboisé, a hatter, his salesman and a young man want to kidnap an American millionaire, put

1931-10-15
Tourneur's first film tells the story of a chemist, Jules Renaudin. He welcomes a young pregnant gir

1935-04-05
A respected gangster, Justin, finds himself in a deadly feud with his rival, the unscrupulous Esposi

1932-07-01
Maigret investigates in Concarneau where the passage of a yellow dog accompanies a series of murders

1933-09-21
Escaping from a policeman who has caught h.im with a stolen dog, Toto (Albert Préjean), a petty cro

1933-10-19
A rich American lady has bought the Castle of Longueval. Her sister is being courted by two young vi

1917-01-05
A young girl marries a financier knowing he has only a short time to live, so she can inherit his mo

1937-01-22
Albert Durandal is unable to keep a job for more than a few days. The reason: he hums while working,

1934-09-26
Lafraise and Plumard, two rookies on the ship Le Victorieux, are on leave in the port of Toulon. At

1934-11-10
There's never a dull moment at the Hôtel du Libre Echange. Deceptions, hitches and other misundersta

1934-10-25
An intelligent young worker, enterprising but boastful, repeats to all the winds that, if he were th

1936-01-17
This French musical comedy was based on the stage play Mademoiselle Mozart, written by Yvan Noe, who

1940-05-01
Miquette is a young woman whose beauty and vivacity increase the clientele of her mother's tobacco s

1935-01-18

1926-12-18
The almost financial ruined gentleman Georges Dewalter spends several days in Biarritz before going

1931-12-24
A young American lady has certain prejudices against the people in France, but comes there to find a

1917-10-12
French silent film by Abel Gance. Considered lost.

1938-12-02
The history of one of France's most famous streets is retold, featuring multiple performances from G

1938-08-03
An American billionaire who travels incognito falls in love with a blind shepherdess whose twin sist
1935-01-01

1932-02-12
A bureaucratic civil servant is annoyed by the spoiled daughter of a rich chocolate maker, but lands
1917-08-10

1931-09-11
Bob bets 250,000 francs that he can tell the truth and nothing but the truth for twenty-four hours.
1923-03-30
James, the supervisor of an agricultural colony, is in love with Hélène, who is unfortunately meant