François Périer

Born: 1919-11-10

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia François Périer, (10 November 1919 – 29 June 2002), born François Pillu in Paris, was a French actor. He made over 110 film and TV appearances between 1938 and 1996. He was also prominent in the theatre. Among his most notable parts was that of Hugo in the first production of Jean-Paul Sartre's Les Mains Sales in 1948. He was the narrator of the French-language version of Fantasia.


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Le Samouraï

as Superintendant
Released: 1967-10-25

After carrying out a flawlessly planned hit, Jef Costello, a contract killer with samurai...

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Le Cercle Rouge

as Santi
Released: 1970-10-19

When French criminal Corey gets released from prison, he resolves to never return. He is quickly...

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Max and the Junkmen

as Rosinsky
Released: 1971-02-17

A detective decides to go undercover and set up a group of robbers, but he may be getting too...

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Z

as Public Prosecutor
Released: 1969-02-26

Amid a tense political climate, the opposition leader is killed in an apparent accident. When a...

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Nights of Cabiria

as Oscar D'Onofrio
Released: 1957-10-03

Rome, 1957. A woman, Cabiria, is robbed and left to drown by her boyfriend, Giorgio. Rescued,...

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Weekend at Dunkirk

as Alexandre
Released: 1964-12-18

In June 1940, during the Dunkirk evacuation of Allied troops to England, French sergeant Julien...

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Testament of Orpheus

as Heurtebise
Released: 1960-02-18

Outside time and reality, the experiences of a poet. The judgement of the young poet by...

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Orpheus

as Heurtebise
Released: 1950-09-29

A poet in love with Death follows his unhappy wife into the underworld.

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What?

as Enzo
Released: 1972-12-07

A young American woman traveling through Italy finds herself in a strange Mediterranean villa...

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Stavisky...

as Albert Borelli
Released: 1974-05-15

Biarritz, 1933. Charm and talent help small-time swindler Serge Alexandre, alias Stavisky, to...

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Madame Bovary

as Narrateur
Released: 1991-04-03

Bored with the limited and tedious nature of provincial life in 19th-century France, the fierce...

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The Organizer

as Maestro Di Meo
Released: 1963-10-25

In the late 19th century, a former high school teacher turned unionist tries to organize workers...

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Just Before Nightfall

as François Tellier
Released: 1971-03-31

A married man who killed the wife of his best friend during a tryst feels compelled to turn...

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The Fighter

as Gino Ruggieri
Released: 1983-02-02

Jacques Darnay has served 8 years for robbing a jeweller. Now he is out of prison and looking...

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Hôtel du Nord

as Adrien
Released: 1938-12-17

A young couple's suicide pact goes awry, leaving the woman to face her survival with a new...

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A Grin Without a Cat

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 1977-11-23

French essay film focusing on global political turmoil in the 1960s and '70s, particularly the...

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Police Python 357

as Commissaire Ganay
Released: 1976-03-31

A tough but honest cop must clear his name after a corrupt colleague implicates him in a murder...

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Sylvia and the Ghost

as Ramure, le voleur
Released: 1946-02-06

A teenager becomes fixated on a painting of the handsome suitor who died in a duel for her...

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Shock Troops

as Moujon
Released: 1967-04-05

A French resistance group frees twelve captured soldiers from a German prison camp, but...

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Return to Life

as Antoine (segment "Le retour d'Antoine")
Released: 1949-09-14

In France in 1946, the difficult return to civilian life of five deportees and prisoners of war...

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The Police War

as Colombani, Chief of police
Released: 1979-11-14

Fush and Ballestrat are the heads of each department of the French police. Both have the task of...

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Gervaise

as Henri Coupeau - le second compagnon de Gervaise, un ouvrier zingueur
Released: 1956-09-05

An adaptation of Émile Zola’s 1877 masterpiece L’assommoir, the film is an uncompromising...

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Sweet and Sour

as Legrand (le nounou 1)
Released: 1963-09-04

Gerard, a young man from a "good family" dreams of becoming an actor. To do this, he follows...

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Le Tartuffe

as Orgon
Released: 1984-09-05

Orgon is a man of property duped by the false piety of the penniless Tartuffe. Orgon takes him...

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Baxter, Vera Baxter

as Jean Baxter (voice)
Released: 1977-06-08

In an empty villa, Vera Baxter sits and contemplates her life, as she recounts to a woman who...

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Anyone Can Kill Me

as Paul, le directeur de la prison
Released: 1957-12-06

The holdup of the bank is a success. All happened according to plan. Now, Cyril Gad and his four...

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The Assassination

as René Rouannat
Released: 1972-10-04

Darien, a left-wing police informant, is forced to lure his old friend Sadiel to Paris,...

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People in Luck

as Jérôme Boisselier (« Le Vison »)
Released: 1963-04-26

A light French comedy of 5 segments.

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It Happened in the Park

as The Greek professor (segment: Pi-greco)
Released: 1953-12-18

Villa Borghese, Rome's biggest urban park, is the place where everyday laughs and dramas are...

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Five Day Lover

as Georges
Released: 1961-02-24

Claire is a young mother and married to Georges, but she is also having an affair with bachelor...

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Love and the Frenchwoman

as Michel, le mari (segment "Le Divorce")
Released: 1960-09-16

The seven stages in the life of the modern Frenchwomen are disclosed by seven directors in a...

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The Temptation of Barbizon

as Ben Atkinson / The Devil
Released: 1946-03-13

Daniel Gelin and Juliette Faber star as a blissfully happy honeymooning couple. They are so...

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Demoniac

as Gervais Larauch / Bernard Pradal
Released: 1957-04-26

Gervais escapes from a German concentration camp and assumes the identity of a recently deceased...

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The Telephone Bar

as Commissaire Claude Joinville
Released: 1980-08-27

A gangster (Daniel Duval) incurs the wrath of the patriarch of a well-established crime family.

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Give Her the Moon

as Jean-Jules de Lépine
Released: 1970-02-25

Marie, a young provincial girl, is seduced by an American billionaire. She agrees to stay with...

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Histoire(s) du Cinéma 1b: A Single (Hi)story

as Self - Narrator (voice)
Released: 1989-11-16

A very personal look at the history of cinema directed, written and edited by Jean-Luc Godard in...

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The Elders of Saint-Loup

as Charles Merlin
Released: 1950-09-08

Due to financial problems, the boarding-school of Saint-Loup is on the verge of closing its...

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Keep Your Right Up

as Man
Released: 1987-09-19

This film is made up several sketches in which certain actors play several real or fictional...

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Doctor Francoise Gailland

as Gérard Gailland
Released: 1976-01-14

Dr. Françoise Gailland has a hectic schedule, which causes her to have little time to spend with...

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The Creation of the World

as uncredited
Released: 1958-04-04

La Création du Monde is among the first animated feature films made in France. But to be exact,...

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Intermediate Landing in Paris

as Pierre Brissac
Released: 1955-03-16

Michèle, an employee at the airport, is in love with American pilot Eddie Miller who regularly...

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We Want the Colonels

as On. Gigino Di Cori
Released: 1973-03-02

Italy 1973. Giuseppe Tritoni (Ugo Tognazzi) is an ultra-right-wing congressman that doesn't...

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The End of the Day

as Le journaliste
Released: 1939-03-24

Aged penniless actors are living in a old people's home. They always talk about their past glory...

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A Lover's Return

as François
Released: 1946-10-18

1946, a man walks in Lyon. He makes a pilgrimage to the places of his childhood. Another man,...

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Les Deux mémoires

as Self
Released: 1974-02-27

The two memories

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The Fugitives

as François, employé de commerce
Released: 1955-05-10

During the Second World War, in 1943, two French prisoners, François and Michel, escape from...

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The Visitor

as Adolfo Di Palma
Released: 1963-12-30

Certain that "the right man" is crucial to her escaping the confines of the Italian village...

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Antoine and Sebastian

as Antoine
Released: 1974-01-16

Antoine has raised Sébastien, the son of a friend who was killed in a plane crash. Sébastien is...

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Silence Is Golden

as Jacques
Released: 1947-05-21

Emile is a French film producer at the beginning of the century. One of his friends leaves his...

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She and Me

as Jean Montaigu
Released: 1952-12-31

You never can tell. Jean had always been one of the most confirmed bachelors that kept swearing...

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La nuit bulgare

as Lafond
Released: 1972-04-20

A youngish sales employee of a computer firm is blackmailed into helping a group of mysterious...

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Under the Paris Sky

as Reciter (voice)
Released: 1951-03-28

Fates of multiple otherwise disconnected characters intertwine miraculously under the sky of...

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Lost Souvenirs

as Jean-Pierre Delagrange (episode "Une couronne mortuaire")
Released: 1950-11-11

Suppose lost and found objects could talk... But they can! At least four of them... : -A...

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The Elegant Criminal

as Lacenaire's father
Released: 1990-12-19

On 9 January 1836, Pierre Lacenaire goes to the guillotine, a murderer and a thief. He gives...

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Cadet Rousselle

as Cadet Rousselle
Released: 1954-10-20

The Adventures of Cadet Rousselle that on the French Revolution left his hometown in search of...

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The Anatomy of Love

as L'innamorato
Released: 1954-03-16

Nine episodes about life in Italy in the period just before its economic boom.

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Nightclub Hostess

as Jean
Released: 1939-06-02

The young Suzy is a nightclub hostess in a cabaret in which Frehel is the star. Because one...

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Lovers on a Tightrope

as Daniel
Released: 1960-04-06

Cora, the wife of a wealthy Parisian businessman, Daniel, is involved in an affair with Henri,...

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Jean de la Lune

as Clotaire, aka Cloclo
Released: 1949-01-26

Marceline is pretty but inconstant. She has a brother, eccentric as well as invading, who serves...

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Happy Go Lucky

as Denis Carignol
Released: 1946-05-15

After lovers fight, the boy leaves for the Riviera. On her way to rejoin him, the girl meets a...

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The Magistrate

as Luigi Bonelli
Released: 1959-10-07

Emilia Bonelli is an overly ambitious and driven woman. This dominant personality trait has its...

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Voyage à Rome

as The father
Released: 1992-11-25

Thierry 's marriage is on the rocks and his wife has filed for divorce ,but he is not prepared...

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Love Letters

as François de Portal
Released: 1942-12-23

A plucky businesswoman agrees to receive love letters to a prefect’s wife from a young official,...

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The Amorous Corporal

as La Bigorne
Released: 1958-04-24

A group of fun-loving French soldiers manage to circumvent a band of cutthroat pirates and win...

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State Reasons

as Prof. Marrot
Released: 1978-04-26

Professor Marrot obtains the secret documents containing evidence of the illegal weapon...

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Sorceror

as Michel Riverain
Released: 1950-01-27

A young rogue kills an old lady to rob her. Arrested, he believes it is for this crime, hides...

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Hitch-Hike

as l'homme de 40 ans
Released: 1962-03-16

Agathe, 18, dreams of change. Gone are her vacations on the rainy beaches of Belgium! She...

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The Duel

as François
Released: 1941-01-01

A widow is loved by a doctor whose brother, an ecclesiastic unconsciously in love with the young...

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Mandrin

as uncredited
Released: 1962-12-19

It was the reign of Louis XV and, in 1750, France was at war all the time, and the people,...

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The Wolf Farm

as Bastien
Released: 1943-12-13

Bastien and Furet are a journalist and a photographer working together as a team on the...

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2084: Video Clip for the Trade Unions' Reflection and Pleasure

as Narrator
Released: 1984-10-01

Filmed on the 100th anniversary of the labour union laws in France, the quasi-science fiction...

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Too Many Lovers

as Robert
Released: 1957-12-11

The charming Lulu, a cabaret singer and dancer, has no shortage of admirers. When she decides to...

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Captain Slipper

as Emmanuel Bonnavent, sous-chef de service de la banque
Released: 1953-07-31

A bank clerk is bored to death with his nine-to-five work under his boss ' watchful eye. His...

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Jeunes mariés

as uncredited
Released: 1953-06-03

Jacques and Gisèle, who are just married, are starting their honeymoon. But at nightfall, on...

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The Dreadful

as Commentaire
Released: 1959-09-10

César Dandieu is an honest cashier in an oil company, and Fernand Mouchette an absent-minded...

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The Fatted Calf

as Gaston Vachon
Released: 1939-04-12

Jules Vachon, a pharmacist, has two sons, Gabriel, a steady-minded young man dedicated to his...

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The Train Rolls On

as Narrator
Released: 1973-01-01

This half-hour documentary focuses on Medvedkin and his CineTrain of the 1930s, a sort of mobile...

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Au P'tit Zouave

as M. Denis
Released: 1950-03-16

Au p'tit Zouave, a café, sees a colorful clientele from working-class Paris. An assassin will...

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The Bamboo Stroke

as Léon Brissac
Released: 1963-04-11

Albert is the irremovable waiter in a small bistro that has just been sold by his former bosses,...

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The Century Is Fifty

as Self
Released: 1950-03-16

As the title of this French documentary indicates, Ce Siecle a 50 Ans examines the 20th Century...

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The Secrets of the Bed

as Bertrand Germain-Latour
Released: 1954-05-19

Four-episode Franco-Italian omnibus film. Four men from different national and cultural...

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Marriage Episodes

as M. Trielle
Released: 1954-08-16

Three old friends meet again. They compare their marriages and tell each other stories which...

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Love Marriage

as Pierre
Released: 1942-12-23

Pierre, who is a Fine Arts student, and Denise, who is a chemistry student, work for a...

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Le temps des doryphores

as Commentator (voice)
Released: 1967-11-08

In 1940, harmful insects, the Colorado potato beetle, invaded the territory of a disoriented...

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Mother Love

as Batilly
Released: 1938-11-03

Gilbert Quercy, 18, tried to commit suicide after a heartache. At the hospital, three women try...

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Maxime

as Narrator (voice) (uncredited)
Released: 1958-11-26

Story of an aging dandy who is the factotum and arranger of female conquests for a brusque young...

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The Melbourne Rendezvous

as Narrator
Released: 1957-01-21

Rendez-Vous a Melbourne is the official filmed record of the 1956 Olympic Games in Australia. At...

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Paris Loves

as Maurice Lasnier
Released: 1961-02-10

Les amours de Paris focuses on three disparate couples and their problems in the arena of...

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I'll Get Back to Kandara

as André Barret
Released: 1956-12-20

One evening, professor André Barret sees the author of a murder in the darkness; cafe owner...

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Bobosse

as Tony Varlet / Bobosse / Les six jurés ...
Released: 1959-03-18

Bobosse is increasingly immersing himself into the world of theater and experiencing his role as...

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A Girl Knew

as 'Coco' Levaison
Released: 1948-03-26

An actor, a great seducer, has a 20-year-old son (François Périer) to whom he gives advice that...

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My Seal and Them

as François Verville
Released: 1951-03-23

A diplomat and fast liver, François lives the good life until, one day, he is unfortunate enough...

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La Pagaille

as Gabriel
Released: 1991-04-24

To a non-French speaker, the word La Pagaille looks charming, elegant, even tidy. However, it...

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Tumuc Humac

as uncredited
Released: 1971-01-13

When Marc, with the help of a juvenile court judge, is old enough to leave thewelfare system, he...

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Réveille-toi, chérie

as Robert
Released: 1961-07-12

Jacqueline, who lives in the country, has organized her life around her husband, whom she loves,...

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Love, Madame

as François Célerier
Released: 1952-01-23

Madame Célerier is determined to marry off her son François to a rich and haughty woman but...

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Premier bal

as Ernest Vilar
Released: 1941-09-16

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

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Mémoires d'un jeune con

as Frédéric's father
Released: 1996-02-07

Frédéric is arrested for illicit use of narcotic drugs. In jail, he meets he get up close with...

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Hello Paris

as Narrateur (Voice)
Released: 1953-10-30

Two pigeons living on the towers of Notre-Dame Cathedral are Parisian lovers. The Cathedral’s...

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Good Evening Ladies, Good Evening Gentlemen

as Dominique Verdelet
Released: 1944-02-16

To teach a lesson to his young wife who dreams of the famous "voiceless singer", a husband...

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Que les hommes sont bêtes

as Roland Devert
Released: 1957-03-29

Sylvie is a young cashier in a Montmartre café, "le bar des Philosophes", owned and run by...

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Fellini dice...

as Self
Released: 2006-01-01

A story about the mythical film director

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Happy Days

as Bernard
Released: 1941-12-24

Five young people - brothers, sisters, cousins ​​- are on vacation in the countryside. Pernette...

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Un trésor de femme

as François Delaroche
Released: 1953-02-11

Francois is engaged to Isabelle. While going to buy the engagement ring, he meets Sophie, who...

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Enquête sur une parole donnée : La lettre perdue

as Jacque Alavarez
Released: 1985-03-27

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The Spiral

as Narrator (French version) (voice)
Released: 1976-04-27

Documentary on the events provoked by the systematic attack of imperialism on the Popular Unity...

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L'Enfant de l'amour

as Maurice Orland
Released: 1944-07-13

This woman's melodrama pivots around a child that a famous actress had in her youth, but whom...

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Femme sans passé

as Michel
Released: 1948-08-27

Caroline feels neglected by her husband, the businessman Lorin. She plans to have fun with an...

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The Child of the High Seas

as Dit par
Released: 1968-12-21

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Champs-Elysées

as Self
First aired: 1982-01-16

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Apostrophes

as Self
First aired: 1975-01-10

Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and...

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Les Rendez-vous du dimanche

as Self
First aired: 1975-01-12

A talk show presented by Michel Drucker

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Le Grand Échiquier

as Self
First aired: 1972-01-12

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Le Grand Échiquier

as Self (voice)
First aired: 1972-01-12

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Le Grand Échiquier

as Self - Main guest
First aired: 1972-01-12

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Spécial cinéma

as Self
First aired: 1974-09-25

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The Octopus

as Avvocato Terrasini
First aired: 1984-03-11

An epic crime saga of power, money, violence and corruption. The mafia controls everything...

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Le Gorille

as Berthomieu
First aired: 1990-04-29

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Thérèse Humbert

as Moi Dumort
First aired: 1983-11-18

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La nuit des molières

as Self
First aired: 1987-05-23

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Mazarin

as Mazarin
First aired: 1978-12-09

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