Patrick Chesnais
Patrick Chesnais (born 18 March 1947) is a French actor, film director and screenwriter. Patrick Chesnais was born in La Garenne-Colombes, Hauts-de-Seine. He was educated at the Lycée Pierre Corneille in Rouen. In 1989, he won the César Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for his performance in the film La Lectrice directed by Michel Deville. In 1994, he starred in Harold Pinter's Le Retour, and in 1992, in La Belle Histoire by Claude Lelouch. He starred in Hany Tamba's Melodrama Habibi in 2008. He is married to fellow actor Josiane Stoléru. Source: Article "Patrick Chesnais" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
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The Emperor of Paris
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The Roommates Party
as Le voisin excentriqueAn unusually cold winter forces the french government to push the best housed people to...
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Adopt a Daddy
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Sweetheart
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Dossier 51
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Change of Plans
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The Children of the Century
as Gustave PlancheTrue tale of the tumultuous love affair between two French literary icons of the 19th Century,...
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The Exes
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The List of My Desires
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La Lectrice
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Demi-sœurs
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Promotion canapé
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Him
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The Beautiful Story
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Mixed Marriage
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There Were Days... and Moons
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60 Going On 12
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Héros
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Casablanca Driver
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Tu vas rire, mais je te quitte
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Bleu Catacombes
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Welcome Aboard
as TaillendierDespite his fame, Taillandier has suddenly stopped painting. Deeply depressed, the...
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The Austrian
as HermanA woman is detained at La Conciergerie. She's 37 but her hair are already white. She's suffering...
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Irène
as GazetIrène is a beautiful girl working in Paris, she soon meets a manager and hopes a love story with...
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First Voyage
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Blanche and Marie
as GerminalA little town in the north of France, 1941. Blanche has three children. She worries about her...
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Les Enfoirés 2013 - La Boîte à Musique des Enfoirés
as uncreditedShow recorded at the Palais Omnisports de Paris-Bercy on January 27 and 28, 2013 for the benefit...
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The Great Restaurant II
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Kiss Me
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Pas d'amour sans amour!
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Me and El Che
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Triplex
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Life's Little Treasures
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Make Room for Tomorrow
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Home Sweet Home
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Cap Canaille
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Netchayev is Back
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All Girls Cry
as BobRomantic drama in which a young woman must learn to live with her past in order to finally move...
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Climax
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Feu sur le candidat
as Jean-Marcel MazzettiRobert Cavaillon is the king of the pet food industry. After he sold the factory to his workers,...
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Sexes très opposés
as FernandIdeally, a love story should last for life… But this is often not the case. Does this indicate...
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Snow
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Nicole Garcia, actrice-cinéaste
as Lui-mêmeStage actress turned film actress and director, Nicole Garcia has worked with the greatest...
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Laval, le collaborateur
as uncreditedSeveral times president of the Council, at the end of the 1930s Pierre Laval became one of...
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Drôles d'oiseaux
as Commissaire VoitotThe fire at the supermarket is a boon for a scrap dealer who has just killed his wife. According...
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The Imprint of Giants
as Martial DromnerThe life of workers and their families in a construction site of a highway in 1965.
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La Braconne
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Out of Whack
as Jeffy / L'inspecteur Lujon / M. PoitronneauRien ne va plus is a series of comedy sketches of disparate quality, on the social, cultural,...
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The Landlords
as GérardDirected by Rémi Waterhouse, Mille Millièmes is centered around an eccentric ensemble of...
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Charming Fellow
as OctaveOctave and his friends, Achille and Hector, wander around at night in the grocery stores, the...
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Sidecar
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Chroma
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Thank You Satan
as Alain MonnierNathalie Monnier is 14, her parents are splitting up, and what's worse, their apartment is going...
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La Pagaille
as Jean-JacquesTo a non-French speaker, the word La Pagaille looks charming, elegant, even tidy. However, it...
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Fool's Game
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Te quiero
as FranckJean and Sylvia left France with a stolen diamond to start a new life in South America. They...
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J'irai cracher sur vos tongs
as uncreditedMicha, 38 years old, Russian, spends his days in the Bois de Vincennes, talking to himself....
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Man of My Life
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Chère canaille
as PaulFrancis Lebovic, an ex-voyou turned sex worker, is not lacking in charm or elegance. David, his...
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Monsieur Albert
as FrançoisIn this poetic slice-of-life film that reveals the problems and needs of a group of lowlife...
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Feu la mère de Madame
as LucienA staging of Georges Feydeau's play "Feu la mère de Madame" by Jean-Luc Moreau.
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Les Sacrifiés
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Totally Nuts
as Lieutenant LescaroDiane, a young woman in search of a child, is looking for money to go to the sperm bank. She...
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We are Red Star
as VoiceoverThe filmmaker sheds light on the history of the Red Star Football Club, founded by Jules Rimet...
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Scene of the Crime
as Anders EtchegoyenTatort is a long-running German/Austrian/Swiss, crime television series set in various parts of...
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HIP - High Intellectual Potential
as Serge AlvaroMorgane is 38-years old, has three children, two exes and an IQ of 160; her destiny as a cleaner...
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Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
as SelfA talk show presented by Michel Drucker
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Télématin
as SelfTélématin is a French breakfast television news show, broadcast on France 2 since January 7,...
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Le Grand Charles
as Général GiraudLe Grand Charles was a 2006 French TV-drama on the life of Charles de Gaulle from 1939 to 1959,...
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Missing Angel
as Paul VaranSuzanne Brunet cannot resolve herself. Her daughter, Julie, disappeared eight years ago, but...
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Duel
as Philippe DellasMayor Dellas accidentally kills his mistress and Inspector Alexander Konygnski is determined to...
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