Maurice Escande

Born: 1892-11-14


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Napoleon

as Louis XV (uncredited)
Released: 1955-03-25

The film follows the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint...

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The Devil Who Limped

as Randall
Released: 1948-07-11

The film is a 125-minute, black-and-white biography of French priest and diplomat Charles...

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Mr Poirier's Son-in-Law

as Hector de Montmeyran
Released: 1933-01-01

This is the story of a wealthy bourgeois who marries his only child, a daughter, to a penniless...

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La Marseillaise

as Le seigneur du village
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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If Paris Were Told to Us

as Le Baron de Grimm
Released: 1956-01-27

Historical film directed and written by Sacha Guitry follows the the history of Paris from its...

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Comment épouser un premier ministre

as Grandbourg
Released: 1964-11-11

Philippe Lambert, an attractive young attaché to the Prime Minister's office, is a man of many...

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Man to Men

as Jérôme de Lormel
Released: 1948-10-01

The story of the Swiss soldier, Henri Dunant, who was responsible for the founding of the Red...

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The Woman I Loved the Most

as Gaëtan
Released: 1942-03-20

Claude is a young man whose girlfriend has just broken up with him. Feeling unable to overcome...

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The Black Diamond

as Guy de Fresnoy
Released: 1941-06-25

A wealthy man's wife dies in a car crash; she is survived by him and their daughter. The father...

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Father Goriot

as Monsieur de Restaud
Released: 1945-03-22

An old merchant ruined by the dot its two ungrateful daughters, moved to the Vauquer pension in...

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Life of Pleasure

as Count Roger de Boëldieu
Released: 1944-05-16

An aristocrat instigates divorce proceedings against his son-in-law, a commoner and the ex-owner...

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Lucrezia Borgia

as Jean Borgia, Duke of Gandie
Released: 1935-12-20

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

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The Strange Madame X

as Jacques Voisin-Larive
Released: 1951-05-24

Irène is the unhappy wife of a wealthy publisher, Jacques Voisin-Larive, who cares about her no...

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The Green Domino

as Henri Bruquier, an art critic
Released: 1935-12-27

After his girlfriend is murdered, an art critic realizes that a wealthy heiress is falling in...

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Café de Paris

as Le marquis de Pireli
Released: 1938-09-28

This murder mystery is set in a Parisian cafe and examines the mysterious murder of a famed...

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Farandole

as Prosecutor
Released: 1945-02-10

A ruined banker is abandoned by his mistress. He commits suicide after entrusting a prostitute...

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The Tomboy

as Lucien Vigneret
Released: 1936-02-21

The eponymous garçonne or flapper is Monique Lerbier, an emancipated French woman who leaves...

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La Dame aux camélias

as The Duke
Released: 1953-11-06

Young and handsome Armand Duval falls in love with Marguerite Gautier, a 'demi-mondaine'. He...

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Madame Sans-Gêne

as Le comte de Neipperg
Released: 1941-10-07

Deals with the ordeals of a crude washerwoman in the chic court of Napoleon the First. Based on...

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Cinderella

as Gilbert
Released: 1937-06-30

An unemployed maid is hired in a music hall to wash the floors. The whim of a screenwriter makes...

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The Animals

as Récitant (voice)
Released: 1963-12-20

Frédéric Rossif selected animal footage from 300,000 m of film, and structured his film in nine...

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Captain Fracasse

as Marquis des Bruyères
Released: 1943-06-19

Out of love for an actress, Isabelle, the Baron de Sigognac joins a traveling troop en route to...

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Check on the King

as Le roi Louis XIV
Released: 1945-05-15

Jeanne De Pincret refuses to marry Viscount Haussy De Villefort, having discovered his...

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Moulin Rouge

as Colorado
Released: 1940-12-08

A poor wretch, who has just been hired as a music-hall artist, in spite of himself becomes the...

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La Belle Revanche

as Jacques Dorcel
Released: 1939-05-12

A painter who has led a free and independent life meets true love. A jealous former lover...

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The Messenger

as Géo
Released: 1937-09-02

Nick, a Parisian businessman, divorces his rich American wife, marries his new secretary Marie,...

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Paris-New York

as uncredited
Released: 1940-04-03

The forbidden romance between wealthy Giselle Preville and impoverished journalist Claude...

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Bifur 3

as Alvarez
Released: 1945-08-29

Two hitch-hikers are on the way to Marseilles pursued by her husband.

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Seven Men, One Woman

as Bizulier
Released: 1936-08-28

At the urging of her childhood friend Brémontier, Lucie de Kéradec, a wealthy widowed countess...

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Queen's Necklace

as Louis de Rohan
Released: 1946-09-14

The adventurer Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy, descendant (by the left hand) of the king of France...

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La Renégate

as Le caïd Tahmar
Released: 1948-04-09

In a small town in Spanish Morocco, old Ricardo, who runs a café, lives with his daughter,...

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La Danseuse rouge

as Ursac
Released: 1937-05-21

Tania, a young girl from Central Europe, leaves her home because of her abusive father. Trained,...

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Les Époux scandaleux

as Desbonnières
Released: 1935-07-12

A couple get married, not out of love, but to get away from their families. When they run out of...

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Des quintuplés au pensionnat

as le comte
Released: 1953-05-08

In a girls boarding-school run by Madame Piégeois, young Gisèle meets, at night, the count of...

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Monsignor

as The Duke of Saint Germain
Released: 1949-12-16

Louis Mennechain is a modest locksmith. So imagine his amazement when Professor Piétrefond...

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Love and Companionship

as Mr. Lecourtois
Released: 1950-01-27

The accountant of an insurance company, rather eccentric and quick to push the song, is...

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Buridan, hero of the tower of Nesle

as Enguerrand de Marigny
Released: 1952-10-24

In Paris in 1314, the knight Jean Buridan is in love with Mirtille but the young woman is...

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Everything is Going Very Well Madame la Marquise

as uncredited
Released: 1936-12-03

After he loses a servant job when his employer's mansion burns down, a yokel makes money...

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Les Petites Alliées

as uncredited
Released: 1936-07-27

A young girl has left her family and lives as best she can on the generosity of her lovers. A...

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Rooster in dough

as Me Jacques Lion
Released: 1952-06-02

A famous lawyer is irritated to see his fiancée spending her time trying to educate Languille, a...

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Patricia

as André Vernon
Released: 1942-10-27

Mademoiselle Bressac is a bossy spinster who manages "Le Clos", her estate, with an iron hand....

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Dora Nelson

as Santini
Released: 1935-11-08

Dora Nelson, a famous actress, leaves both her husband Philippe de Moreuil and the role she was...

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Les Demi-Vierges

as Julien de Suberceaux
Released: 1936-12-04

Maxime, heir to an old provincial family, is deeply in love with Maud whom he makes his fiancée....

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Le Capitan (1ère époque) Flamberge au vent

as le prince de Condé
Released: 1946-03-27

France under Louis XIII. 1615. The Duke of Angoulême is at the head of a group of gentlemen who...

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Liberté

as uncredited
Released: 1938-04-13

Fictionalized biography of the sculptor Bartholdi.

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The Two Girls

as uncredited
Released: 1936-04-10

Two girls, Ginette and Gaby, have just run away, outraged by the mistreatment of their...

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Hyménée

as Industrialist Pierre Vairon
Released: 1947-05-02

Although Pierre is married, he is in love with his sister in law Marianne, while he is loved by...

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Kiss Me

as uncredited
Released: 1932-10-15

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