Eddie Constantine

Born: 1917-10-29

Eddie Constantine  (born Edward Constantinowsky; October 29, 1917, Los Angeles, California – February 25, 1993, Wiesbaden, Germany) was an American-born French actor and singer who spent his career working in Europe. He became well-known for a series of French B movies in which he played secret agent Lemmy Caution and is now best remembered for his role in Jean-Luc Godard's philosophical science fiction film Alphaville. Constantine also appeared in films by Rainer Werner Fassbinder (as himself in Beware of a Holy Whore 1971), Lars von Trier, and Mika Kaurismäki. He continued reprising the role of Lemmy Caution well into his 70s; his final appearance as the character was in Jean-Luc Godard's Allemagne année 90 neuf zéro (1991). Description above from the Wikipedia article Eddie Constantine, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia


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Cléo from 5 to 7

as The Sprinkler / Actor in Silent Film
Released: 1962-04-11

Agnès Varda eloquently captures Paris in the sixties with this real-time portrait of a singer...

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The Long Good Friday

as Charlie
Released: 1980-11-01

In the late 1970s, Cockney crime boss Harold Shand, a gangster trying to become a legitimate...

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Europa

as Colonel Harris
Released: 1991-06-27

A young, idealist American gets a job as a train conductor for the Zentropa railway network in...

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The Seven Deadly Sins

as Self (segment "La paresse")
Released: 1962-03-07

Seven directors each dramatize one of the seven deadly sins in a short film. In "Anger," a...

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Alphaville

as Lemmy Caution
Released: 1965-05-05

An American private-eye arrives in Alphaville, a futuristic city on another planet which is...

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The Fiancés of Macdonald Bridge

as The Sprinkler
Released: 1961-01-01

A subtitle warns, "beware of dark sunglasses." Anna and her lover, whose looks in bowler and bow...

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Raid on Entebbe

as Capt. Becaud
Released: 1976-12-26

Based on a true Military operation by Israeli commandos. An Air France flight is hijacked by the...

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Lions Love

as Eddie
Released: 1969-10-12

Three actors in Hollywood live and love together. A director comes from New York to make a movie...

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5 Against the House

as Casino Robber (uncredited)
Released: 1955-06-10

Former war-time Army buddies now students in college decide to rip off a Reno casino.

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Freak Orlando

as Säulenheiliger
Released: 1981-11-06

FREAK ORLANDO is divided into five more-or-less distinct sections, all featuring "Freak"...

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It Lives Again

as Dr. Forrest
Released: 1978-05-10

Maternity wards echo with the patter of tiny claws as more murderous baby-faced monsters are...

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The Third Generation

as P. J. Lurz
Released: 1979-05-30

A wildly anarchic satire of guerrilla terrorism in which a band of leftist radicals...

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The Image Book

as (film archive footage)
Released: 2018-10-11

In Le Livre d’Image, Jean-Luc Godard recycles existing images (films, documentaries, paintings,...

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We Will Go to Deauville

as Friend of Pin-Up Girl
Released: 1962-12-24

Comical adventures of two pairs of friends during their stay in Deauville, Normandy.

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We Will Go to Deauville

as Friend of Pin-Up Girl (uncredited)
Released: 1962-12-24

Comical adventures of two pairs of friends during their stay in Deauville, Normandy.

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SOS Pacific

as Mark
Released: 1959-10-14

A flying boat has to ditch off an island in the Pacific. Along with the injured owner-pilot the...

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Beware of a Holy Whore

as Eddie
Released: 1971-08-28

Tensions between members of a film crew build while they wait for the arrival of the director...

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Les Truands

as Jim Esposito
Released: 1956-04-27

"Thieves We Are" - In flashback, the audience learns why 104-year-old Amedee steals the watch...

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Passport to Shame

as Johnny McVey
Released: 1958-12-02

British melodrama about a cabbie befriending a girl caught up in the white slave trade.

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Poison Ivy

as Lemmy Caution
Released: 1953-05-26

FBI Agent Lemmy Caution is sent after a missing two million in Casablanca while mob boss...

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Attack of the Robots

as Al Pereira
Released: 1966-04-27

Al Pereira, a wise-cracking superspy, investigates a series of assassinations being performed by...

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Dishonorable Discharge

as Burt Brickford
Released: 1958-01-22

Burt Brickford, a deserted U.S. Navy captain stranded in a South American port, rents out his...

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Freckled Max and the Spooks

as Alojz
Released: 1987-10-17

A parody of Frankensteinian stories. It is a story of a little boy, an orphan who arrives at the...

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Ticket of No Return

as Küstler
Released: 1979-10-27

A sartorially resplendent woman of few words arrives in Berlin with plans to live out the rest...

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Helsinki Napoli All Night Long

as Old Gangster
Released: 1987-11-13

Alex is a Finnish taxi driver in Berlin. One evening pits two men feel comfortable in his taxi...

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Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4)

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 2009-10-13

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This Man Is Dangerous

as Lemmy Caution
Released: 1953-11-22

On the run from international police, Special Agent Lemmy Caution arrives in the South of France...

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Non Stop Trouble with Spies

as Gregori Ustinov
Released: 1983-02-18

The harmless Berlin taxi driver Herbert Boeckmann has a bad day: Three mysterious gentlemen put...

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Headlines of Destruction

as Barney Morgan
Released: 1955-11-10

Released from prison after two years, Michel Gérard sets out to find his wife Alice. Alice,...

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Snow

as Pierrot
Released: 1981-05-20

Anita is a barmaid at the center of a community of street preachers, prostitutes, dealers and...

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Give 'em Hell

as Johnny Jordan
Released: 1955-03-29

During the 1950s, in Portuguese Mozambique, small-time American hustler, ex-soldier, ex-boxer...

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The Empire of Night

as Eddie
Released: 1962-12-05

Usually cast as secret agent/private eye Lemmy Caution, Eddie Constantine plays "Eddie" in The...

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Diamond Machine

as Lemmy Caution
Released: 1955-12-29

A group of bandits conspire to kidnap a scientist who can help them manufacture...

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Tonight the Skirts Fly

as Howard l'homme attendant Marlène au bar (uncredited)
Released: 1956-06-14

At Christmastime, the love affairs of five clothing models working for Pierre Roussel, a...

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Supergirl

as Party Guest
Released: 1971-05-14

In this comedy, Iris Berben plays a mysterious, supernaturally beautiful girl from another...

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Good Evening Paris

as uncredited
Released: 1956-12-14

A foreign pianist who comes to visit Paris is ripped off by a young man and his sister. But he...

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The Men in the Family

as uncredited
Released: 1967-01-01

Gabriel Pelletier, sales manager for a major industrial firm, would be the happiest of men if he...

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Neapolitan Boy in New York

as Sammy
Released: 1984-11-29

The story of Nino, a street boy from Naples, and his friend Matumba, a boy from New York who...

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Ladies' Man

as Lemmy Caution
Released: 1962-03-21

A famous FBI agent's vacation is interrupted by murder. His investigation leads him on the trail...

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How Not to Rob a Department Store

as uncredited
Released: 1965-02-25

Bandits see the fruits of their theft fall into the hands of black jackets.

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Dimension

as uncredited
Released: 2010-08-24

Dimension is a short film written and directed by Lars von Trier, released in 2010. The film was...

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The Great Chase

as Ric
Released: 1968-10-02

A gang of young tugs led by Frankie, opens a nightclub just in front of a gangster's hideout....

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Les gros malins

as Self
Released: 1969-05-13

Paul Blanc runs a butcher's shop with his Neapolitan wife, the vivacious Giulia. One night,...

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Residence for Spies

as Dan Leyton
Released: 1966-01-01

Ms. Pendleton is the commander-in-chief of a women's training camp for western spies, recently...

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Lucky Jo

as Lucky Jo
Released: 1964-11-12

Lucky Jo and his three friends are little criminals, who try to live from small burglaries. But...

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Exit... But No Panic

as Poignard
Released: 1980-01-01

A guy having sex with a woman on a rooftop – just to get her coffee-machine.

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An Evening at the Music Hall

as Bob Wellington
Released: 1956-11-19

A GI on furlough attends a Folies-Bergères show. He falls in love with a dancer, Claudie, the...

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License to Kill

as Nick Carter
Released: 1964-06-16

Didier Formenter, the French scientist, has just put the final touch on an invention that will...

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The Model Couple

as Docteur Goldberg
Released: 1977-03-30

In 1977 France, the Ministry of the Future chooses two “normal,” white, middle-class citizens,...

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Place Your Bets, Ladies

as Mike Warner
Released: 1965-04-05

A famous American secret service agent tries to rescue a German 17-year-old prodigy scientist...

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Carnapping - Ordered, Stolen and Sold

as Laroux
Released: 1980-04-17

When designer Robert Meering returns from vacation, he discovers the company he worked for...

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Jack of Spades

as Patrick
Released: 1960-12-21

After an adventurous life, Patrick has settled in the Camargue and bought a manade where he...

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Destination Fury

as Felice Esposito
Released: 1961-07-23

Lemmy Caution has been assigned by Interpol to work as a double agent. Little does he know how...

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Riff Raff Girls

as Interpol Agent Williams
Released: 1959-05-20

Vicky de Berlin, a female gangster, haunted by wartime memories , runs a floating night-club in...

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As if It Were Raining

as Eddie Ross
Released: 1963-04-02

A writer stumbles into a job as a mob enforcer.

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Haytabo

as Professor
Released: 1971-01-01

A biochemistry professor finds an old manuscript with structure and formula of immortality drug.

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Germany Year 90 Nine Zero

as Lemmy Caution
Released: 1991-09-01

The supremely world-weary Lemmy Caution, last seen in Godard's "Alphaville" (France/1965), has...

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Incognito

as Robert 'Bob' Stanley
Released: 1958-04-09

Bob Stanley was an American secret agent during World War II in France. After the war Stanley...

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Dames Don't Care

as Lemmy Caution
Released: 1954-05-05

Lemmy Caution is on the trail of a women who may or may not be mixed up in a blackmail scheme.

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And This Way to the Exit

as uncredited
Released: 1957-03-01

Carlos, a weapons trader, is struck by his resemblance to a certain Slim. Wishing to take...

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Ladies First

as Bobby Carao
Released: 1963-04-12

An FBI agent works to arrest David Griffin, a murderous drug trafficker, and protect Juliette,...

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Let the Shooters Shoot

as Jeff Gordon
Released: 1964-06-27

A top-secret prototype is stolen from an American base. The man who stole it, Andersen, is...

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Jailbirds

as Franco Cesari
Released: 1954-09-18

Three jailbirds - a surgeon, a robber and a wrongly convicted man must adjust to their lives...

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Nick Carter and Red Club

as Nick Carter
Released: 1965-11-26

A secret agent uncovers four atomic rockets with a lethal gas warhead which have been stolen...

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Keep Talking, Baby

as uncredited
Released: 1961-11-15

Eddie's framed for murder and ends up being sentenced to the slammer! This video has been...

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A Second Spring

as Frank Cabot
Released: 1975-09-11

An aging gossip columnist, tired of the social life of the Roman Dolce-vita set, goes to New...

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Man and Child

as Fred Barker
Released: 1956-11-28

Fred Barker, an unmarried American who remained in France after heroically defending the country...

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Yours Truly, Blake

as Larry Blake
Released: 1954-12-01

Larry Blake is an American airline pilot who loves women and ... trouble! Wherever he goes...

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A Whale That Had a Toothache

as Eddie
Released: 1975-04-15

Bernardette is feeling bored in a country house. She decides to send weekend invitations to a...

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Your Turn, Darling

as Lemmy Caution
Released: 1963-09-25

In this French espionage thriller, Eddie again plays the role that made him a star, Lemmy...

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Bombs on Monte Carlo

as Kapitän Eddie Cronen
Released: 1960-03-11

In Monte Carlo, a captain tries to raise the money to pay his crew at the gaming table, and...

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The Big Bluff

as Eddie F. Morgan, aventurier et bluffeur
Released: 1957-05-14

A penniless adventurer, Eddie Morgan survives on his wits and good humor. He's a bluffer. To...

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Panic Time

as Lemmy Caution
Released: 1980-04-17

The musician Udo Lindenberg (played by himself) is kidnapped during the party after a concert....

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Springtime in Vienna

as Lemmy Caution
Released: 1984-12-14

Martin Powolny, a down and out actor, calls himself Tiger. He lives in a tree house and...

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In and Out of Fashion

as Self (archive footage)
Released: 1998-03-03

The legendary photographer William Klein has designed this fascinating book on fashion...

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Jeff Gordon, Secret Agent

as Jeff Gordon
Released: 1964-03-11

Jeff Gordon, FBI agent, infiltrates a gang and finds himself in the midst of a gang war.

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Sous les marches du palais

as Himself
Released: 1991-09-14

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Le Retour de Lemmy Caution

as Lemmy Caution
Released: 1989-07-02

The owner of Black Angel is shot by Mamba, a killer in the pay of the Chinese mafia. The...

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Women Are Like That

as Lemmy Caution
Released: 1960-09-20

American FBI agent Lemmy Caution arrives in France to track down a dangerous spy.

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The Treasure of San Teresa

as Larry Brennan
Released: 1959-07-21

After World War II, an ex-spy returns to Germany to search for a cache of jewels he hid in a...

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How Do You Like My Sister?

as Eddie
Released: 1964-03-04

The brother of a delinquent schoolboy falls in love with his teacher and intrigues to make him...

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Good Luck, Charlie

as Charlie
Released: 1962-07-11

Charlie Pattison, a wealthy American, lands at Athens airport, where he has just received an...

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Ravishing

as Eddie (uncredited)
Released: 1960-12-14

A womanizing pilot who is asked by a friend to intervene in one of the friend's romantic...

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The Nightmare Woman

as uncredited
Released: 1981-05-08

A Berlin woman in her early thirties is trying to handle her psychological problems and...

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Paul Chevrolet and the Ultimate Hallucination

as Boy Pappa
Released: 1985-10-31

The actual life and the fiction created by a successful pulp author begin to blend together.

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Hail! Mafia

as Rudy Hamberg
Released: 1965-08-10

A couple of hit men set out to kill an old friend.

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Seifenblasen

as uncredited
Released: 1985-05-14

Leo, a young filmmaker, quarrels with the screenplay author about the explosive plot, has...

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Hoppla, jetzt kommt Eddie

as Eddie Petersen
Released: 1958-07-10

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There's Going to Be a Party

as John Lewis / John Jarvis
Released: 1960-12-22

FBI agent John Lewis travels in Europe, from Paris to Lisbon, trying to locate a disappeared...

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Tōkyō no kyūjitsu

as uncredited
Released: 1991-11-02

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It Means That Much to Me

as Eddie MacAvoy
Released: 1961-05-19

Eddie Constantine stars as a reporter mixed up in the spy world in this routine espionage...

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La Paresse

as Self
Released: 1962-03-07

Jean-Luc Godard's short segment made for “Les sept péchés capitaux”.

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Geen paniek

as Bill Silkstocking
Released: 1973-01-18

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Souvenir of Gibraltar

as uncredited
Released: 1975-04-24

Jo, a former American G.I., settled down in Welkenraedt, a small Belgian town, as a butcher. He...

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Makaroni Blues

as Lemmy Caution
Released: 1986-09-04

When Italian Vincenzo comes to Norway to open a restaurant, Norwegian drinking habits and...

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Ces dames s'en mêlent

as Jeff Gordon
Released: 1965-01-06

FBI agent Jeff Gordon is responsible for tracking down counterfeiters. Owing to his suave ways...

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The Mikado Project

as Beppo Bourbon
Released: 1983-07-28

A thriller-comedy by Torsten Emrich.

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Le Grand Échiquier

as Self
First aired: 1972-01-12

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Stars in der Manege

as Self
First aired: 1959-04-11

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ZDF-Fernsehgarten

as Self
First aired: 1986-06-29

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Discorama

as Self
First aired: 1959-02-04

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Cinépanorama

as Self
First aired: 1956-02-04

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World on a Wire

as Man in Rolls Royce
First aired: 1973-10-14

Cybernetics engineer Fred Stiller uncovers a massive corporate conspiracy involving a virtual...

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Rivalen der Rennbahn

as Mr Belmont
First aired: 1989-03-30

Rivalen Der Rennbahn is a German serial.

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Frankenstein's Aunt

as Alojz
First aired: 1987-02-01

Frankenstein's Aunt is the protagonist of three novels - two by Allan Rune Pettersson and a...

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