Paul Amiot
Paul Amiot (29 March 1886 – 26 January 1979) was a French film actor. His career spanned some 63 years and he appeared in nearly 100 films between 1910 and 1973. In 1920 he appeared in Robert Péguy's Être aimé pour soi-même. He was noted for his consistent roles as a figures of authority. He regularly played police inspectors or detectives, lawyers and physicians. He starred in some 100 films between 1908 and 1930. On his death in 1979 he donated his body to scientific research. Source: Article "Paul Amiot" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Le Cercle Rouge
as Marchand, Inspector General of PoliceWhen French criminal Corey gets released from prison, he resolves to never return. He is quickly...
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Napoleon
as Antoine Fouquier-TinvilleA biopic of Napoleon Bonaparte, tracing the Corsican's career from his schooldays (where a...
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The Inheritor
as Hugo CordellAfter his father is killed in a plane crash, Bart Cordell returns back home to France to claim...
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The Count of Monte Cristo
as Le président de la Chambre des pairsEdmund Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend...
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Orpheus
as Judge (uncredited)A poet in love with Death follows his unhappy wife into the underworld.
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The Last Train
as Francois le VerdunTwo people, a Frenchman and a Jewish German woman, meet on a train while escaping the German...
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Queen's Necklace
as Maître DoillotThe adventurer Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy, descendant (by the left hand) of the king of France...
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Martin Roumagnac
as Le président du tribunalThe local building-contractor Martin Roumagnac is fascinated by the fashionable Blanche Ferrand....
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I Accuse
as A friend of ChimayAfter serving in the trenches of World War I, Jean Diaz recoils with such horror that he...
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Du Guesclin
as Le duc d'AnjouA chronicle of the life of Bertrand du Guesclin, grand officer of the French army in the 14th...
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Famous Love Affairs
as l'autre chevalier envoyé du GurthengergAnthology of four love stories that have some historical basis.
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Madame Sans-Gêne
as Maximilen de RobespierreDeals with the ordeals of a crude washerwoman in the chic court of Napoleon the First. Based on...
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Where There's Smoke
as Georges ArnaudAn election campaign becomes more interesting when anonymously published photographs depict the...
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Cordial Agreement
as Prince of BulowThe film depicts events between the Fashoda crisis in 1898 and the 1904 signing of the Entente...
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Flesh and the Woman
as Captain (uncredited)In this romance, a jilted lawyer joins the French Foreign Legion to help him forget his...
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The Lafarge Case
as The prosecuterBased on true facts, a news item which was widely talked about in the nineteenth century, this...
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Germinal
as Official (uncredited)Dismissed from the railroads in 1863 for his union activities, Etienne Lantier found a job at...
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Impasse of Two Angels
as Le chefStage actress Marianne has decided to give up her career to marry wealthy nobleman Marquis...
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Run Away Mr. Perle
as Le commissaireModest fifty-something, Mr. Perle, is a baker in a small provincial town. He lives there with an...
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The Sword and the Balance
as ManThree young men are suspected of kidnapping and murdering a little boy. Most likely, two of them...
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Midnight in Paris
as Commissioner LucasOn a rainy night, eccentric tramp Mr. La Souris finds a corpse. But the body soon vanishes in...
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Napoleon Seen by Abel Gance - First Part: Bonaparte's Youth
as Antoine Fouquier-TinvilleThe first part of Abel Gance's 1927 epic 'Napoleon'
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Fantômas
as Director of "La Sûreté"The invincible bandit faces his daughter, courageous and honest, who wants to end his criminal...
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Crossroads
as Le présidentA wealthy industrialist, Roger de Vetheuil, married, feels assured of aging in peace. Then...
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The Son
as Il dottoreAnge leaves New York to fly to his native Corsica. His mother is dying and Ange, who was not...
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Justin de Marseille
as Le sous-directeur de la SûretéA respected gangster, Justin, finds himself in a deadly feud with his rival, the unscrupulous...
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Stradivarius
as uncreditedA French-language version of Stradivari (1935).
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Flight Into Darkness
as Le soldat du 54eDuring the First World War, before joining a squadron at the front in 1918, Herbillon...
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Ces messieurs de la Santé
as Le commissaire de policeBanker Jules Taffard, a true financier, is a shrewd money-handler. Imprisoned for an alleged...
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The Royalists
as Count of BeauventThe Marquis de Montauran was appointed to command the Chouans whose first two revolts were...
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The Queen's Necklace
as uncreditedBased on the novel by Alexandre Dumas.
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La Route du bagne
as uncreditedParis, 1865. In a music-hall Manon accidentally kills her partner who was trying take sexual...
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The Queen's Lover
as Le marquis de Santa CruzExiled from the court of Spain, Don Salluste, the chief of police, wants to take revenge on the...
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La cinquième empreinte
as Inspector RobertJacques de Nisson, a rich man, has a new mistress, Lucie Cavelier. Which does not prevent him...
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Marked Girls
as uncreditedJuliette, an innocent woman, is wrongly sentenced to prison for attempted murder. After her...
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Napoleon Seen by Abel Gance - Second Part: Napoleon and the French Revolution
as Antoine Fouquier-TinvilleThe second part of Abel Gance's 1927 epic 'Napoleon'
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Fedora
as GretchFedora swears to avenge the death of her fiancé, Prince Yarischkine, killed by Ipanoff who fled...
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The Citadel of Silence
as VladorowskyDuring the students ' rebellion against Nicholas the Second in Russia, Viana tries to kill the...
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Three from St. Cyr
as le généralThree students from Saint-Cyr are sent to Syria to fight the rebels in the desert.
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L'aventure est au coin de la rue
as Inspector PillotA rich young man, Pierre Trévoux, has a desire for adventure and boasts of his courage. While he...
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One of the Legion
as Le colonelFernand Espitalion is miserable as totally whipped husband of a dragon 'passed on' -like cloths-...
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Dawn Over France
as uncreditedThe gratuitous murder of his father and the misery of the people, aggravated by a succession of...
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Toboggan
as AndersonToboggan, the 1934 Henri Decoin French boxing sports romantic love triangle melodrama (about a...
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Dakota 308
as Inspecteur JolyA Dakota plane is carrying a ton of gold bound for Brazzaville, but it is hijacked over the...
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Moscow Nights
as uncreditedDuring the First World War, the Russian officer Captain Ivan Ignatoff falls in love with his...
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Sous la Terreur
as uncreditedDuring the French Revolution in 1793, a member of the Convention, seduced by the Comtesse de...
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Lilac
as MerluAlso known as Lilac, this early Anatole Litvak-directed talkie was based on a play by Tristan...
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Happy Hearts
as Hendrick Van HoolstA silent film theater projectionist is kidnapped by a gangster group, so he can show them...
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À nous deux, madame la vie
as GastonTwo bank employees like Lucie, their colleague. They steal money from the cash register to...
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The King
as LelorrainKing John IV of Cerdania, who knows monarchs are a vanishing race but who plays his royalty role...
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Mirror
as (uncredited)Portrait of a two-faced man. By day he is rich, brilliant and respectable financial officer...
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Bouquets from Nicholas
as uncreditedA florist in a nightclub in Montmartre, a good, naive man is manipulated by a gang of gangsters...
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La Peau d’un homme
as LejeuneSimone's friend is murdered and the young woman is implicated. A journalist, Bernard Landry,...
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Graduation Year
as uncreditedIn a small provincial town, students meet at a party organized by one of them, and share their...
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The New Men
as D'AmadeDedicated to men, natives and French, which under the leadership of General Lyautey, made modern...
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Verdun: Visions of History
as uncreditedA dramatized re-enactment and documentary of the Battle of Verdun as seen by both French and...
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L'ange qu'on m'a donné
as uncreditedDuring the 1940 exodus, a young girl takes in a baby to whom she becomes deeply attached.
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Le Mystérieux Monsieur Sylvain
as The colonelIn an aero-naval base, a marine engineer who was about to deliver the name of a redoubtable spy...
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Third at Heart
as President of the courtMaitre de Latour Martin had been reported missing during the war. Peace returned, he finds his...
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La Grande Maguet
as ProfessorThe orphan Catherine Maguet, nicknamed "La grande Maguet", was taken in by a young and good...
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Mr. Nobody
as uncreditedFor some time, the police have been on the trail of a mysterious burglar who has evaded capture...
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Mr. Nobody
as Le commissaireFor some time, the police have been on the trail of a mysterious burglar who has evaded capture...
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Obsession
as Le docteurA man who suffers from the delirium of persecution and to the point of trying to strangle his...
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Moïse et Salomon parfumeurs
as uncreditedBrothers Moïse and Salomon run a modest bazaar near the Butte Montmartre, under the sign of...
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L'École des contribuables
as Le ministre des financesA bureaucrat, tax assessor, specialized in tax return and fraud, complains about his...
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The Postmaster's Daughter
as Le commissaireA small town postal official allows a military officer to sweep his lovely daughter away to St....
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The Postmaster's Daughter
as uncreditedA small town postal official allows a military officer to sweep his lovely daughter away to St....
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as uncreditedAn Alsatian, head of a section of the Gestapo, is actually spying on behalf of the French and...
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Secret Cargo
as Le gouverneurIn a Central American state, the owner of a dance hall and his sponsor engage in drug...
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Verdun, memories of history
as uncreditedA visitor from the western front tells young children, in a sober commentary, about the battle...
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Nest of Spies
as MorelThe mysterious death of a well-known criminal sparks an investigation into national security.
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Gangster malgré lui
as uncreditedThe crazy adventures of a character forced by circumstances to take on such dangerous...
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The Dream
as HubertIn the snow as bells toll, a hooded figure makes its way through the streets to a church.
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Savage Brigade
as uncreditedThe duel between a Czarist general and a lieutenant, over the general's wife, is postponed with...
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