Jacques Varennes
Jacques Varennes (6 September 1894 – 8 November 1958) was a French film actor who appeared in around seventy films during his career. He appeared in Maurice Tourneur's 1938 historical film The Patriot. Source: Article "Jacques Varennes" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Diabolique
as Dr. BridouxThe cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle, is murdered by an...
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Orpheus
as JudgeA poet in love with Death follows his unhappy wife into the underworld.
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Poison
as Le procureurPaul Braconnier and his wife Blandine only have one thing in mind: to find a way to kill each...
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Fric-Frac
as TintinAn employee at a jewelry store falls in love with a woman who secretly plans to rob the store.
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Le Rouge et le Noir
as Le président du tribunalIt's no holds barred for Julian in pursuit of upward mobility. Although expected to channel...
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Royal Affairs in Versailles
as ColbertWitty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by...
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Dear Caroline
as Le marquis de BièvreFrance, July 1782. During her birthday, the beautiful young Marchioness Caroline meets the...
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Three Sinners
as Hervé AnnequinA man assists his gravely ill wife to die and wants to face justice for this, but his brothers...
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La Malibran
as le général de La FayetteOn the death of the famous singer Maria Malibran, Countess Merlin retraces the main lines of the...
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Mlle. Desiree
as Jean-Baptiste Bernadotte / le Roi Charles XIV de SuèdeJulie and Désirée Clary are courted by the brothers Joseph and Napoleon Bonaparte. Joseph...
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If Paris Were Told to Us
as SchererHistorical film directed and written by Sacha Guitry follows the the history of Paris from its...
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On Trial
as Le juge d'instructionProsecutor Etzel discovers that his father has sentenced a man, Leonardo Maurizius, on mere...
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Wicked Duchess
as The Duke of LangeaisEdwige Feuillère and Pierre Richard-Willm star in director Jacques de Baroncelli's adaptation of...
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The Eagle with Two Heads
as Comte de FoehnPolitical intrigue and psychological drama run parallel. The queen is in seclusion, veiling her...
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Finance noire
as The prefect of policeIn Central Europe, an organization of counterfeiters is headed by Burcq. An Air France pilot...
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Paméla
as RochecotteDuring the Directory, a handful of royalists tried to get the Dauphin Louis XVII to escape from...
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Personal Column
as MaximeTo try solving the strange disappearances of 11 young Parisian women, the police obtain the...
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The Devil Who Limped
as Lord PalmerstonThe film is a 125-minute, black-and-white biography of French priest and diplomat Charles...
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The Roquevillards
as Maître FrasneFrance, 1880. Francois Roquevillard is a respected lawyer in Chambery and the head of a family...
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Courier of Lyons
as President GohierA courier carrying a large sum of money intended for Bonaparte's army is attacked. A miscarriage...
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The Spice of Life
as uncreditedA series of vignettes, in which Noel-Noel appears as the moderator, lecturer, commentator and...
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Maid in Paris
as uncreditedPenelope Benson, known as Penny, is both romantic and determined. Put in a select boarding...
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L'Assommoir
as uncreditedEveryman Coupeau's attempts to stop drinking are routinely thwarted by the wicked and vengeful...
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Check on the King
as Le duc de MontgobertJeanne De Pincret refuses to marry Viscount Haussy De Villefort, having discovered his...
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Vautrin the Thief
as GrandvilleA famous convict Jacques Collin, alias Trompe la mort, or abbot Carlos Herrera, also called...
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When Love Is Over
as Robert FournierAn art historian has an affair with a young saleslady while his disaffected wife cheats on him...
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Le Patriote
as PanineThe reign of Tsar Paul I and the intrigues of his friend, Governor Pahlen, to rid the country of...
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Une fille épatante
as Le PrésidentDominique is a pretty, vivacious girl. When she witnesses a car theft, she throws herself and...
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La joueuse d'orgue
as Robert BernierRobert Bernier murdered his brother with the complicity of a worker. The only witness to the...
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Bouquets from Nicholas
as le docteurA florist in a nightclub in Montmartre, a good, naive man is manipulated by a gang of gangsters...
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The Tower of Nesle
as Jehan BuridanIn the 13th century, lovers hurried to the door of Marguerite de Bourgogne. The aristocrat who...
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Le Bossu
as Prince of GonzagueLagardère protects Aurore, the granddaughter of the Duke of Nevers whose deceitful Philippe de...
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Sins of Youth
as Firmin, the butler (uncredited)A rich businessman living alone is deprived of the nephew he was to have brought up decides on...
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Don't Shout it from the Rooftops
as OctaveA scientist who have discovered how to turn salt water into petrol dies before he has revealed...
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A Night of Madness
as JulotJacqueline took one of her friends to a place where tourists, informants, girls, pimps and...
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Murderers and Thieves
as The president of the assizesA man becomes the lover of his former persecutor's wife.
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Brevet 95-75
as Pierre VioleyForeign spies are interested in plans for a device invented by a French aviator. They kidnap the...
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Monsieur des Lourdines
as La MarzelièreA young man from an aristocratic family tires of the country life and moves to Paris where he...
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A Hand Hit
as MérignanThe wife of a stable manager will try everything to clear her husband, a very violent being,...
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Saturnin de Marseille
as Step-fatherA student, who wishes to become an opera singer, is helped by a good boy, Saturnin, who...
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A Bombshell Night
as PauloA banker threatened by gangsters is replaced by a tramp who is his perfect double. The gangsters...
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Le Prince Bouboule
as LucetteBouboule is a taxi driver. A Russian princess wishing to acquire French nationality offers to...
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Shout It from the House Tops
as uncreditedThe son of a rich soap manufacturer gets himself in predicaments trying to prove to his father...
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L'Ange Gardien
as TirandierA former colonial official lives far from Paris with a dry cousin who pays attention to his...
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Chansons de Paris
as BermasseA street singer becomes the star of the circus but his pal Armand shows him who his real friends...
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Le Petit Jacques
as Daniel MortalAn honest worker is unjustly accused of murder. The culprit promises him to give his son a good...
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One of the Legion
as DurandFernand Espitalion is miserable as totally whipped husband of a dragon 'passed on' -like cloths-...
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The Strange Mr. Steve
as ArthurGeorges Villard, a minor bank employee, is won over by Mr Steve who does him favours, treats him...
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The Strange Mr. Steve
as uncreditedGeorges Villard, a minor bank employee, is won over by Mr Steve who does him favours, treats him...
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as uncreditedGinette, daughter of a foreman of an automobile factory, and Claude, son of the director of this...
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Gosse de riche
as ChassignyThe daughter of an industrialist takes an interest in the workers and tries to improve their...
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Mandat d'amener
as uncreditedAppointed public prosecutor in a small provincial town, Gérard Latour befriends Delanglade,...
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Quai des illusions
as uncreditedLise is bored with her parents and gets a job as a waitress. She meets a sailor, Fausto, who...
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Le Fraudeur
as JacquesFlorimond, a dangerous smuggler, and his mistress Viviane try in vain to transfer illegal...
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Jim la houlette
as Maitre ClissonFamous author Bretonneau gets his ghost writer Moluchet to impersonate the notorious criminal...
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From Joan of Arc to Philippe Pétain
as (voice)Sitting at his desk, Guitry gives us a lecture on French history from Joan of Arc to the...
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The disappearance from the elevator
as Alfred TortoranA bank guard disappears from the elevator between the ground floor and the first floor. He was...
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Nadia la femme traquée
as RouaumontA group of political exiles conspire in France against their government. They are pursued by...
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La maison du mystère
as Henri CorradinJulien Villandrit owns a textile factory whose manager, Henri Corrandi, is his childhood friend....
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The Lovers of Midnight
as Gaston BouchardA bank employee who stole money at work falls in the hands of a dangerous escaped convict whose...
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Un meurtre a été commis
as 'Le Jouyeux'Inspector Doirel investigates the murder of a man whose servant was found tied up. He discovers...
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Le chemin de la drogue
as GarboA young customs officer is given an important mission: to investigate drug trafficking on the...
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