Gérard Watkins
Gérard Watkins is an English-French actor, playwright, director, and songwriter. As a stage actor he has performed in over forty productions in Paris with such directors as Véronique Bellegarde, Julie Beres, Jean-Claude Buchard, Elizabeth Chailloux, Michel Didym, André Engel, Frederic Fisbach, Marc François, Daniel Jeanneteau, Philipe Lanton, Jean-Louis Martinelli, Lars Noren, Claude Régy, Yann Ritsema, Bernard Sobel, Viviane Theophilides, and Jean-Pierre Vincent. Among his critically acclaimed performances are Ian in Sarah Kane's Blasted, Edmond in King Lear, and Rosalind in As you Like it. In the Cinema he is perhaps best known for his role in the 2009 film Taken as Patrice Saint Clair, the sex trafficking kingpin that runs the operation that kidnapped the protagonist's 17-year old daughter, but he has also performed with directors as Julie Lopez Curval, Jérome Salle, Yann Samuel, Julian Schnabel, Hugo Santiago, and Peter Watkins. Since 1994 he has directed his own theatre company, the Perdita Ensemble, where he has staged all of his plays, the Secret Capital, Follow Me, The Tower, In the Faraway Forest, Icone, Identity, Lost, and I Don't Remember Very Well.
While vacationing with a friend in Paris, an American girl is kidnapped by a gang of human...
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The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch
as CattaneoAfter a powerful billionaire is murdered, his secret adoptive son must race to prove his...
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
as Doctor CochetonThe true story of Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43,...
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Colt 45
as CalhounVincent Miles, a gunsmith and shooting instructor at the National Police, is an expert in combat...
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Normandy Nude
as VolkerAt the Mêle sur Sarthe, a small Norman village, farmers are affected by a crisis. Georges...
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Love Me If You Dare
as Julien's FatherAs adults, best friends Julien and Sophie continue the odd game they started as children -- a...
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The Odyssey
as Le maître de cérémonieThe aquatic adventure of the highly influential and fearlessly ambitious pioneer, innovator,...
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The Accusation
as L'avocat généralThe Farels are a power couple: Jean is a prominent French pundit and his wife Claire an essayist...
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Plein sud
as Le pèreIn the summer, 27 year-old Sam drives towards the south of France in his Ford. He meets Matthieu...
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They Came Back
as Le fils du maireThe lives of the residents of a small French town are changed when thousands of the recently...
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Hidden Diary
as GillesIn the 1950s, Louise left her husband when their children were still little. She was never heard...
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The Invisible Woman
as PaulOnce assuming people ignored her because they weren't interested, Lili begins to suspect that...
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La Commune (Paris, 1871)
as Gérard BourletWe are in the year 1871. A journalist for Versailles Television broadcasts a soothing and...
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Public Security
as -Tempted by an important contract, Anna, a renowned writer, agrees to write a screenplay. But she...
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Our Brothers
as Le directeur de l'IGSInspired by the story of Malik Oussekine, an affair of police violence which is believed to have...
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The Feelings Factory
as MichelA successful woman searches for romance by speed dating in this drama. Eloise has a great job...
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The Wolf of the West Coast
as HarryJames Faulkner plays Lew Millar, a renowned private eye who is hired by a gangster to be his...
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On a volé Charlie Spencer !
as Le soldat américain du filmStudents of film history will appreciate the many tributes to famous films of yore which appear...
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The Ponzi Scheme
as Banquier ChmelinskiPonzi, from his arrival in Boston in 1903, to hi death in Rio in 1949. He made himself famous in...
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Travelling avant
as uncreditedParis, October 1948. Nino, Gilles, Donald, Barbara and their friends are a new breed of...
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Amarres
as uncreditedThis summer, Livia returns to spend a few days in the family apiary. Louis, her elusive and...
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Je me fais rare
as Acteur 1Daniel, a filmmaker is convinced that cinema is dying as an art form, and thinks he is a new Don...
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EastEnders
as GendarmeThe everyday lives of working-class residents of Albert Square, a traditional Victorian square...
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The Hitchhiker
as EricA young hitchhiker introduces characters who are about to experience a frightening and sometimes...
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Bordertown
as Paul DumontBordertown is a television western-drama series that aired from 1989 to 1991. It depicts the...
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Marie Antoinette
as Duc de ChoiseulMarie Antoinette is just a teenager when she leaves Austria to marry the Dauphin of France. At...
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Hemingway
as -Ernest Hemingway attained celebrity at the age of twenty-five. Some of his novels are among the...
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La Commune (Paris, 1871)
as Gérard BourletIn this war drama blurring the lines between documentary and fiction, the working class and the...
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Floodtide
as TJFloodtide is a British television crime drama was produced by Granada Television, first...
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