Georges Wilson
Date of birth: 1921-10-16
Place of birth: Champigny-sur-Marne, Val-de-Marne, France
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Georges Wilson du T.N.P., George Wilson, Georges Willson
Biography
Georges Wilson (né Willson; 16 October 1921 – 3 February 2010) was a French actor and director of stage and screen. He was a significant figure in French theatre during the latter 20th-century, serving as director of the Theatre National Populaire from 1963 and 1972, while his film work earned him both BAFTA Award and Cesar Award nominations. He was also the father of French actor Lambert Wilson. Wilson was born in Champigny-sur-Marne, Seine (now Val-de-Marne) as the illegitimate son of a French father and an Irish mother. His professional surname, Wilson, derives from his Irish grandmother; his birthname has not been made public. He was nominated for a BAFTA Film Award, and also nominated for a César Award. Georges Wilson's last film was Mesrine: Public Enemy Number One. From 1963 to 1972 Georges Wilson was the director of the Théâtre national de Chaillot (formerly known as the Théâtre National Populaire). Georges Wilson died in Rambouillet in 2010, aged 88, from undisclosed causes. Source: Article "Georges Wilson" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
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Not Here to Be Loved
2005-10-12
Jean-Claude Delsart, a 50 years-old bailiff, with his worn-out smile and heart, abandoned a long tim
A Captain's Honor
1982-12-29
During a televised debate on the Algerian war in the early 1980s, Professor Paulet denounced the met
Max and the Junkmen
1971-02-17
A detective decides to go undercover and set up a group of robbers, but he may be getting too caught
The Three Musketeers
1973-12-11
In 17th century France, young D'Artagnan wants to join the King's Musketeers, but instead befriends
Marquise
1997-08-20
Marquise is a drama about the rise and fall of a beauteous actress. As cheerfully portrayed by Sophi
Gandahar
1987-12-11
On the planet Gandahar where peace reigns and poverty is unknown, this utopian lifestyle is upset by
The Stranger
1967-10-14
Meursault is a man who feels utterly isolated from everyone and everything around him. This alienati
Love at the Top
1974-03-13
A shy bank employee unexpectedly invites a young woman to a café, leading to a one-night stand. When
More Than a Miracle
1967-10-19
A fairy tale of the misadventures of a beautiful but temperamental Neapolitan peasant, Isabella, whe
Wasteland
1960-11-09
On the outskirts of Parisian council housing estates lies a vast wasteland that still retains its my
Tintin and the Mystery of the Golden Fleece
1961-12-06
After the death of Captain Thémistocle Paparanic, Captain Haddock's old friend, he inherits a ship c
The Fascist
1961-08-05
1944. Primo Arcovazzi is a fanatical and dim-witted Fascist Party militiaman who accepts to escort a
Don't Torture a Duckling
1972-09-29
A reporter and a promiscuous young woman try to solve a series of child killings in a remote souther
The Telephone Bar
1980-08-27
A gangster (Daniel Duval) incurs the wrath of the patriarch of a well-established crime family.
L'Affaire Dreyfus
1995-05-18
In 1894, the French Army discovered the existence of a traitor Alsatian and Jewish, the French offic
Cache Cash
1994-02-09
Antoine, 11, is on holiday with his grandfather. One night he catches thieves hiding their booty in
The Tribe
1991-03-27
Olivier Rohan, a young doctor, has just opened a general practice. However, having only a small clie
The Slap
1974-10-23
A Parisian teacher loses his cool when his teenage daughter tells him she plans to drop out of schoo
Martin Roumagnac
1946-12-18
The local building-contractor Martin Roumagnac is fascinated by the fashionable Blanche Ferrand. To
The Empty Canvas
1963-12-04
An aspiring young artist breaks from his wealthy, possessive mother to live a bohemian existence in
Delphine Seyrig, portrait d'une comète
2000-08-01
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Skipper Next to God
1951-03-02
Captain Joris Kniper believes so strongly that he is "skipper next to God" that he is used to playin
The Devil and the Ten Commandments
1962-09-14
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Lettre ouverte
1953-03-11
Martial, Colette 's husband, is madly jealous. One day, he catches his wife writing a letter and he
The Hussars
1955-12-14
Brigadier Le Gouce and Private Flicot lose their horses during a campaign in Italy. To avoid looking
The Joker
1961-01-20
A young man who lives on women meets his match in the young wife of a rich industrialist. Their affa
The Small Timers
1978-09-27
A gang of small time crooks, prosecuted by an stubborn police inspector, is unfairly accused of a br
Highway Pick-Up
1963-11-13
An escaped convict makes a remote gas station his safe haven. But soon the cunning, devious wife of
Blanche
1972-01-26
Blanche is the young, pure, beautiful wife of the Master of the castle, in a secluded land. Every ma
La Gourmandise
1962-03-07
Valentin travels to the burial of his father who died of indigestion, but stopping to eat on the way
The Seven Deadly Sins
1962-03-07
Seven directors each dramatize one of the seven deadly sins in a short film. In "Anger," a domestic
Tangos, the Exile of Gardel
1985-11-06
Some Argentinians, exiled in Paris, decide to put on a tango-ballet, dedicated to Carlos Gardel, a l
Poison Ivy
1953-05-26
FBI Agent Lemmy Caution is sent after a missing two million in Casablanca while mob boss mistress Ca
Dear Inspector
1978-01-18
When Lise's car bumps Antoine's bike, they recognize each other from a brief fling 20 years before w
St. Lawrence: Stairway to the Sea
1982-10-13
In this spectacular feature-length documentary, oceanographer Jacques Cousteau and an NFB crew sail
The Conspiracy of Torture
1969-11-14
In 1599 Italy, Beatrice Cenci is the teenage daughter of the crazed landowner and nobleman Francesco
Lucky Jo
1964-11-12
Lucky Jo and his three friends are little criminals, who try to live from small burglaries. But they
Lady Oscar
1979-03-03
Oscar François de Jarjayes was born female, but her father insisted she be raised as a boy as he had
Mandrin
1962-12-19
It was the reign of Louis XV and, in 1750, France was at war all the time, and the people, suffocate
The Case Is Closed, Forget It
1971-10-27
Arrested on suspicion of a hit and run, a succesful architect is put in prison awaiting trial or rel
Il generale dorme in piedi
1974-10-05
A colonel in the Army has a problem: when resting lying starts screaming anarchist and antimilitaris
Le Rouge et le Noir
1954-10-29
It's no holds barred for Julian in pursuit of upward mobility. Although expected to channel career a
The Town that Dreaded Sundown
2014-10-16
A masked maniac terrorizes the same small community where a murderer known as the Phantom Killer str
Let's Rob the Bank
1964-02-25
Shopkeeper Victor Garnier has naively invested his family's life savings in an African mine, on his
Mother
1991-11-27
Henri Verneuil was born Achod Malakian of Armenian parentage on October 15, 1920, in Rodosto, Turkey
Les Rosenberg ne doivent pas mourir
1975-05-24
A French film about a famous American trial - that of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who became the fir
The Green Mare
1959-10-29
A green mare makes the fortune of her owner, the horse dealer Haudouin. Shortly after his death, war
Sea Workers
1986-10-01
A recluse living in the Channel Islands develops an obsession with the ward of wealthy steam engine
Bells Without Joy
1962-04-20
In November 1942, American troops landed in Tunisia. German paratroopers were immediately launched a
A Christmas Carol
1984-12-25
On Christmas Eve, an old miser named Ebenezer Scrooge is visited by the spirit of his former partner
Make Room for Tomorrow
1979-06-06
Four generations of Oppenheim men gather in Paris for Isaac's 90th birthday. He's "Romeo," still a l
Portrait of a Nude Woman
1981-11-06
Sandro is a Roman adrift in Venice during the Carnival. After sixteen years of marriage, Sandro can
Dark Journey
1962-04-13
In this movie based upon Julian Green's novel, we follow Paul's downfall as he is torn between his l
Mesrine: Public Enemy #1
2008-11-19
After nearly two decades of legendary criminal feats, making him France's most notorious criminal wh
Side Roads
1983-09-06
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My Mother's Castle
1990-10-26
To his chagrin, young Marcel Pagnol and his family move back to their home in Marseille, France, far
Disorder
1962-03-16
Study of 1960s Milanese social life and its glamorous depravity, as seen through the story of the wo
Jeanne d'Arc au bûcher
1993-01-01
Le Théâtre National Populaire
1956-06-08
The T.N.P., the Théâtre National Populaire, an important experimental theater directed by Jean Vilar
Here We for Example...
1977-10-28
Poet Palmambrogio Guanziroli loses his wallet mere moments after arriving in Milan. He locates the c
The Long Absence
1961-05-17
Therese, a café owner, mourns the mysterious disappearance of her husband sixteen years earlier. A t
Un habit pour l'hiver
1979-10-30
Sulle vie di Damasco
1974-03-27
It Was I
1973-03-15
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Viens jouer dans la cour des grands
1997-11-29
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L'Huissier
1991-01-03
Fruits of Passion
1981-06-03
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The Sicilian Checkmate
1972-02-03
Taking place almost entirely during a murder trial, the film details in significant detail the deep
The Boss
1960-05-31
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A Young World
1966-03-25
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The Passion of Bernadette
1990-05-09
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The Four Days of Naples
1962-11-16
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The Dialogue of the Carmelites
1960-06-01
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La Mort de Danton
1970-06-01
The Longest Day
1962-09-25
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Asphalt
1981-01-07
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Chinese In Paris
1974-02-27
Overnight, Paris is invaded - although peacefully - but the Chinese Army, and millions of Chinese pe
Sweet and Sour
1963-09-04
Gerard, a young man from a "good family" dreams of becoming an actor. To do this, he follows everywh
Sentimental Destinies
2000-07-12
In late nineteenth century Charante, Protestant minister Jean Barnery causes local disquiet when he
Hi Doc
1957-03-06
24 hours in the life of a humble general practitioner. A very busy life to say the least... Like eve
The Eagle and the Horse
1994-11-14
French Canadian TV-Movie
Merlusse
1965-12-22
An unpopular school teacher is left over Christmas with some of his boys.
Sous le soleil de Satan
1971-04-22
1971 TV movie based on the novel by Georges Bernanos.
Any Number Can Win
1963-03-19
Charles, fresh out of jail, rejects his wife's plan for a quiet life of bourgeois respectability. He
La dernière carte
1974-03-02
1974 French TV film