Gaston Modot

Born: 1887-12-31


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French Cancan

as Le valet de Danglard (uncredited)
Released: 1955-04-27

Nineteenth-century Paris comes vibrantly alive in Jean Renoir’s exhilarating tale of the opening...

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Children of Paradise

as Fil de Soie
Released: 1945-03-15

In a chaotic 19th-century Paris teeming with aristocrats, thieves, psychics, and courtesans,...

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The Rules of the Game

as Edouard Schumacher, le garde-chasse
Released: 1939-07-09

A weekend at a marquis’ country château lays bare some ugly truths about a group of haut...

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Casque d'Or

as uncredited
Released: 1952-03-13

At the end of the 19th century, during a ball in Joinville, on the outskirts of Paris, Georges,...

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Grand Illusion

as L'ingénieur
Released: 1937-06-04

A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class...

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L'Âge d'or

as The Man
Released: 1930-11-28

The film consists of a series of tightly interlinked vignettes, the most sustained of which...

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La Marseillaise

as Un volontaire
Released: 1938-02-10

A film about the early part of the French Revolution, shown from the eyes of the citizens of...

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The Lovers

as Coudray
Released: 1958-11-05

A shallow, provincial wife finds her relationship with her preoccupied husband strained by...

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Pépé le Moko

as Jimmy
Released: 1937-01-28

Pépé le Moko, one of France's most wanted criminals, hides out in the Casbah section of Algiers....

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The Devil and the Ten Commandments

as Le grand-père
Released: 1962-09-14

The film consists of seven roughly 15 minute episodes, each showing what will happen if one or...

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The Beauty of the Devil

as Gypsy
Released: 1950-03-16

Henri Faust, retiring after 50 years as a professor in a circa-1700 French university, despairs...

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Elena and Her Men

as Le chef des bohèmiens
Released: 1956-09-12

Set amid the military maneuvers and Quatorze Juillet carnivals of turn-of-the-century France,...

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Under the Roofs of Paris

as Fred
Released: 1930-04-28

In the tenement slums of Paris between the world wars, impoverished street singer Albert yearns...

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Les Truands

as Justin Benoit
Released: 1956-04-27

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

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The Cupboard Was Bare

as Un gangster
Released: 1948-10-29

The aunt of Alfred Puc, a meek tax-collector in Paris, dies while riding in a moving van. The...

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La Bandera

as Legionnaire Muller
Released: 1935-09-25

Pierre Gilieth has committed a murder in Paris. He flees to Barcelona, where he runs out of...

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The End of the Day

as Le patron du bistrot
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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Antoine & Antoinette

as Le caissier de la Loterie Nationale
Released: 1947-09-27

She's working in a big store, he's a typographer and they lost their winning lottery ticket.

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The Trump Card

as Toni Amanito
Released: 1942-09-02

A man is shot In the hotel of an imaginary South American country. Clarence and Montès, two...

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That is the Dawn

as Le nouveau locataire de Sandro
Released: 1956-05-09

A generous doctor is aghast that the population of a small island is being oppressed and...

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Papa, Mama, the Maid and I

as Le violoniste de rue
Released: 1954-11-26

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Victor

as le patron du café
Released: 1951-06-13

Secretly in love with Françoise, the companion of his best friend Marc, Victor decides to go to...

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Au Secours !

as uncredited
Released: 1924-06-17

Max accepts a wager that he cannot remain in a haunted castle for one hour (11 PM to midnight)...

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Eternal Conflict

as The huckster
Released: 1948-05-26

Janvier, an embittered teacher, is fed up with his colorless, monotonous life. One day he breaks...

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July 14

as (uncredited)
Released: 1933-01-13

A light, comedy romance about a cab driver named Jean and a flower girl named Anna that takes...

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Monte Cristo

as Fernand Mondego / Comte de Morcerf
Released: 1929-04-30

This epic adaptation of The Count of Monte Cristo was directed by Henri Fescourt, and stars Jean...

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Fièvre

as Topinelli
Released: 1921-01-01

Militis, a sailor, returns to a bar where he finds Sarah, the girl he once loved and is still...

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Lucrezia Borgia

as Fracassa
Released: 1935-12-20

French silent film pioneer Abel Gance directs this 1935 classic about Lucrezia Borgia, her...

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Poison Ivy

as L'inspecteur #1
Released: 1953-05-26

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

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Colomba

as uncredited
Released: 1933-11-10

A young officer of Napoleon's armies returns to Corsica where his sister is waiting for him to...

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The Threepenny Opera

as Jeremiah Peachum
Released: 1931-06-08

The French-language version of the The Threepenny Opera with a different cast from the German...

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Truant School

as L'examinateur de Français
Released: 1949-04-08

1920, in a small village in Provence. Monsieur Pascal, a young schoolteacher, is faced with a...

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Onesime, Clockmaker

as uncredited
Released: 1912-11-01

In an effort to secure a promised inheritance, Onésime invents a time machine that speeds up...

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Montmartre on the Seine

as The head waiter
Released: 1941-11-19

Maurice loves Juliet and Michael loves Lily. Romance blossoms on the hill. They are workers,...

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Carmen

as García 'El Tuerto'
Released: 1926-01-01

Feyder's scenario very closely follows Don José's own account of his story and his fatal...

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The Isle of Zorda

as uncredited
Released: 1921-07-15

Sarkani, an adventurer, finds a trusted carrier pigeon, takes possession of the code message...

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Der Erzieher meiner Tochter

as Captain
Released: 1930-01-07

An American billionaire's daughter is obsessed with the idea of marrying a count. Her father...

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The Doctor's Horrible Experiment

as uncredited
Released: 1960-07-04

Dr. Cordelier, living in a suburb of Paris, withdraws from society to pursue research into the...

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Les Réprouvés

as Boss
Released: 1937-02-19

At the borders of the Saharan desert, the dramatic situation of a battalion of light infantry...

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Final Accord

as uncredited
Released: 1938-12-30

A famous violinist enlists in a music school in order to woo one of the students.

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The Perfume of the Lady in Black

as Mathieu
Released: 1949-10-05

Mathilde Stangerson just married her fiance, when she heard that Larsan, her cruel former...

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Silence Is Golden

as Gustave, le caméraman
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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French White Cargo

as Alvarez
Released: 1937-02-03

Two journalists from different papers are looking for the same story. They want to know, who a...

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The Torture of Silence

as The messenger (uncredited)
Released: 1917-03-06

Hardly one of French filmmaker Abel Gance's masterpieces, The Torture of Silence nevertheless...

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Fantômas

as Firmin - le valet de la marquise
Released: 1932-05-20

The Marquise de Langrune invites her friends at her castle in Beaulieu. Among them is Lord...

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Meeting in Paris

as The concierge at the Temple (uncredited)
Released: 1956-05-02

A wealthy young American woman is suddenly cut off by her father while living in Paris. A...

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Life Is Ours

as Philippe - le neveu des Lecocq
Released: 1936-04-07

A propaganda film of the communist party of France, showing how the comrades help the...

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Coral Reefs

as Le colonel mexicain
Released: 1939-03-01

The adventures of a sailor from Mexico to a lagoon in the Pacific ocean, and the meeting with a...

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Patrouille blanche

as uncredited
Released: 1942-03-05

An Oriental villain named Halloway is called in by wealthy oil interests who want to destroy a...

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The Mark Of The Day

as Tiberghien
Released: 1949-04-06

In a settlement in the northern mining country. The Marles, Bréhard and Gohelle families wake...

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Rendezvous in July

as Professeur
Released: 1949-12-06

Hopes and love and ambitions and friendship in a group of young jazz-loving Parisians.

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Here Is the Beauty

as The caretaker
Released: 1950-04-21

Melodrama of two struggling artists whose love for each other is thwarted.She has some success...

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Last Refuge

as Marcel
Released: 1947-08-26

Philippe and Sylvie have to do with Alvarez, a dangerous gang leader. They break up with him and...

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Le Cavalier de Croix-Mort

as uncredited
Released: 1948-04-14

Elisabeth D'Anthar cheats on her husband François with Simon De Chabre. François, who suspects...

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Le Mystère Imberger

as Domestic
Released: 1935-04-12

For sentimental reasons, Monsieur Imberger, a fifty-year-old, disappears. Everyone thinks he was...

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Sirocco

as Le soutier
Released: 1938-09-22

Town trollop Safia, much against her better judgment, falls in love with Matteo, a beggar and...

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The Hunchback

as Vinto, the mute
Released: 1944-12-26

The knight Henri de Lagardère wants to avenge the death of his friend, the duke Philippe de...

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Ceux de demain

as Raymond
Released: 1938-08-24

Jean is a ten-year-old boy who runs away from boarding school because he thinks he is the cause...

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Cruel Tale

as uncredited
Released: 1930-01-01

The escape of a man, under Spanish inquisition rule.

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About an investigation

as Baumann, le détective
Released: 1931-06-05

During an inquest after a woman is killed, the judge suspects his own son. The woman's lover had...

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Saint Joan the Maid

as Lord Glasdall
Released: 1929-04-29

This relatively straightforward dramatic biography was one of two films commissioned to honor...

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Marie Among the Predators

as uncredited
Released: 1922-01-01

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The Mystery of the Yellow Room

as Arthur
Released: 1949-06-15

A young reporter solves a mystery crime. The fictional reporter is Joseph Rouletabille. He works...

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The London Man

as Teddy
Released: 1943-06-09

Maloin, a maritime station guard, spends his nights at the port signal box. One night, he...

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The 1002nd Night

as uncredited
Released: 1933-05-19

An Arabian prince falls in with a group of downtrodden rebels and faces the wrath of an...

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Under the Leather Helmet

as uncredited
Released: 1932-04-27

Set in Rumania, the film focuses on a female secret agent who intends to use an airplane to fly...

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La prairie en feu

as uncredited
Released: 1912-01-19

A Sioux tribe, led by their great chief, wreaks revenge on the palefaces by setting fire to a...

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Miracle of the Wolves

as uncredited
Released: 1924-11-13

King Louis XI tries to unify France by all means fair or foul, which does not please his...

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Crainquebille

as uncredited
Released: 1934-03-16

Crainquebille, merchant of four seasons, is sentenced to fifteen days in prison for having...

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Secrets of the Orient

as Prince Hussein
Released: 1928-10-18

Directed by Alexandre Volkoff

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La ville des mille joies

as uncredited
Released: 1929-07-12

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Milady of Liban

as uncredited
Released: 1927-01-02

The story, a tale of political and amorous intrigue in Beirut, is based on one of Pierre...

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The Ship of Lost Men

as Morain - the escaped convict
Released: 1929-09-17

A young doctor gets stuck on a ship after treating an injured first mate. Later, he rescues a...

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No! You’re Not Going Anywhere Without Me!

as The diver
Released: 1911-12-31

An early Gaumont short

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Burning Heart: An Indian Tale

as Un Indien
Released: 1912-11-27

An Indian maiden wishes to marry her lover, but her father refuses because he does not have the...

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Les Gaîtés de la finance

as Le chef des gangsters
Released: 1936-02-07

The banker Marivol looks like a tailor, Lambinet. Gangsters threaten the first, who hires the...

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The bewitchment of Seville

as uncredited
Released: 1931-10-26

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This Rascal of Anatole

as (uncredited)
Released: 1952-05-14

Anatole, quivering nostrils and greedy lips, is the resourceful clerk of Mrs. Paufilat, a...

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One Hundred Dollars, Dead or Alive

as uncredited
Released: 1911-01-01

An early Gaumont short.

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At Your Command, Madam

as Le garçon d'étage
Released: 1942-10-16

Hector and Odette Dupuis' car breaks down in the middle of nowhere, but not far from a luxury...

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Le Clown Bux

as uncredited
Released: 1935-03-17

Pierre Buxeuil is better known as the popular clown Bux. One day, he falls in love with Nicole,...

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Spain 1936

as (voice)
Released: 1937-01-24

A Spanish documentary from Jean-Paul Le Chanois & Luis Buñuel made during the Spanish Civil War.

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Zigoto plombier d'occasion

as uncredited
Released: 1911-06-10

A French comedy short with Zigoto.

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The Railway of Death

as uncredited
Released: 1912-10-03

When gold is discovered the first man there gets to stake his claim. Joe and another man race...

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Onésime and the Heart of the Gypsy

as uncredited
Released: 1913-01-01

While accompanying his lady to a fashionable casino, Onésime hears someone playing an...

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Le brigand gentilhomme

as uncredited
Released: 1943-12-22

A gentleman, falsely accused of an assassination, becomes a formidable bandit. Condemned by the...

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Beyond Death

as Docteur Belphégor
Released: 1924-10-15

Raimundo Davidson is a young man in love with Florence, the niece of Dr. Belforger, master of...

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Onésime: Calino's Inheritance

as uncredited
Released: 1913-12-31

Calino's uncle leaves him an inheritance, but only if he can uncover it hidden in his uncle's...

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Heart of an Actress

as uncredited
Released: 1924-10-07

Desire brings out the worst in an actress' suitors-- One a well-to-do patron of London's theatre...

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The Time of the Cherries

as Gaston Ravaux
Released: 1938-01-26

A poor peasant family, a failed cabinet maker and an unemployed worker struggle in contrast to...

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The Rembrandt in Rue Lepic

as uncredited
Released: 1910-06-10

A couple buy what is advertised as a Rembrandt painting, but a wild slapstick chase ensues after...

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Spanish Fiesta

as uncredited
Released: 1920-03-31

A Spanish festival reveals the emotional distance between a woman and a man.

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Zigoto Drives a Locomotive

as uncredited
Released: 1912-10-04

When the train workers go on strike, Zigoto terrorizes the town in a hijacked locomotive.

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Onésime's Theatrical Debut

as Un spectateur
Released: 1913-01-01

Onésime came down and threw himself on stage, starting into the great aria at which he excelled....

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Zigoto's Outing with Friends

as uncredited
Released: 1912-02-28

The short by Jean Durand begins with his frequent character, Zigoto (Lucien Bataille) reading a...

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Calino, Love Tamer

as uncredited
Released: 1912-06-10

One day, Calino has the bold and imprudent idea to follow a woman down the street. The woman...

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Onésime Loves Animals

as uncredited
Released: 1913-12-31

Looking after his aunt and uncle's house when they're away, animal lover Onésime turns it into a...

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Pendaison à Jefferson City

as uncredited
Released: 1911-12-31

Joe is about to be hung for his crimes but he's going to reveal the whole truth first.

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Calino, Station Master

as uncredited
Released: 1912-12-05

Calino is left in charge of a railway station.

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La maison des lions

as uncredited
Released: 1912-04-04

Madam Berre, the widow of an African traveler, has a lion and two lionesses in her conservatory....

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Onésime's Family Drama

as uncredited
Released: 1914-12-31

Much to his annoyance, Onésime's relatives arrive to stay with him, and the family resemblance...

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Onésime, Trainer of Men and Horses

as uncredited
Released: 1913-12-31

An early Gaumont short.

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Oxford vs. Martigues

as uncredited
Released: 1912-12-31

Rugby players play the game throughout the city streets.

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Calino's Baptism

as uncredited
Released: 1910-06-10

A short Calino film.

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Un mariage au revolver

as uncredited
Released: 1912-12-31

An early Gaumont short

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In the Air

as uncredited
Released: 1910-03-17

Julius wants to marry Nelly, but her uncle forbids that. An attempt to court her failed, but the...

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Onésime Gets Married... So Does Calino

as uncredited
Released: 1913-01-01

Difficulties ensue when Calino and Onésime get married on the same day, in the same registry office.

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Calino courtier en paratonnerres

as uncredited
Released: 1912-06-10

Calino goes politely around to three or four people from the bourgeois class, trying to sell...

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A Drama on a Locomotive

as uncredited
Released: 1910-01-01

Henri and Pierre, railroad engineers, are both in love with Jeanne. When Pierre refuses to give...

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Under the Claw: A Story of the Transvaal

as uncredited
Released: 1912-12-31

A mine owner discovers a vein of gold but unfortunately dies. His wife doesn't want to sell the...

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Calino et ses pensionnaires

as uncredited
Released: 1911-08-08

Calino decides to take a boarder. The gentleman turns out to be a huntsman. All goes well until...

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Zigoto, policier, trouve une corde

as uncredited
Released: 1911-01-01

Just as the streets to hell, to hear it from the travelers, are paved with good intentions, the...

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Onésime vs. Onésime

as uncredited
Released: 1912-01-01

His double behaves very badly, while the real Onésime suffers the consequences.

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Onésime Goes to Hell

as uncredited
Released: 1912-09-27

Not having enough money to pay his drink bill, Onésime sells his soul to the Devil.

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Onésime, You'll Get Married... or Else!

as uncredited
Released: 1913-12-31

Onésime becomes enamoured of a girl and sends a messenger to her on a motorcycle.

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The Green Monocle

as uncredited
Released: 1929-09-24

Hans von Trass is a high-ranking German diplomat. When a top-secret document is stolen, his...

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