Paul Crauchet
Paul Crauchet (14 July 1920 – 19 December 2012) was a French actor. As a young man interested in aviation and rugby, Paul Crauchet discovered a passion for the theatre at the age of 23. He settled in Paris in 1945, he studied under Charles Dullin for three years and began on stage in 1949. He then worked at the Théâtre National Populaire with Jean Vilar. Crauchet appeared in the first film by Éric Rohmer, The Sign of Leo, in 1959, and then in 1962 in The War of the Buttons of Yves Robert. It is in The Wise Guys of Robert Enrico in 1965 that he became noticed. He had a very long career during which he worked with many directors, such as Alain Resnais, René Clément, Jean-Pierre Melville, Jacques Deray and José Giovanni. In 1983 he starred in Les Bancals. Source: Article "Paul Crauchet" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Le Cercle Rouge
as The ReceiverWhen French criminal Corey gets released from prison, he resolves to never return. He is quickly...
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A Cop
as MorandA Parisian police chief has an affair, but unbeknownst to him, the boyfriend of the woman he’s...
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My Mother's Castle
as Edmond des Papillons, aka Mond des ParpaillounsTo his chagrin, young Marcel Pagnol and his family move back to their home in Marseilles,...
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La Belle Verte
as OsamAs part of an intergalactic coalition, a well-meaning space alien volunteers to bring a message...
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The Swimming Pool
as L'inspecteur LévêqueSet in a magnificent villa near a sun-drenched St. Tropez, lovers Jean-Paul and Marianne are...
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The Last Adventure
as InsurerTwo adventurers and best friends, Roland and Manu, are the victims of a practical joke that...
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Is Paris Burning?
as PriestNear the end of World War II, Gen. Dietrich von Choltitz receives orders to burn down Paris if...
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Army of Shadows
as Félix LepercqBetrayed by an informant, Philippe Gerbier finds himself trapped in a torturous Nazi prison...
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My Father's Glory
as Edmond des Papillons, aka Mond des ParpaillounsRaised by his science teacher father, Joseph Pagnol, and seamstress mother Augustine, young...
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Without Apparent Motive
as Francis PalomboA series of murders is committed in Nice on the French riviera. The commissaire Carella is in...
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War of the Buttons
as TouegueuleFor generations, two rival French villages, Longueverne and Velrans, have been at war. But this...
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Wild Grass
as le 1er patientMarguerite loses her wallet, and it's found by Georges, a seemingly happy head of family. As he...
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The Dominici Affair
as Commissioner SébeilleIn August 1952, a family of British tourists is found by the roadside in Haute Provence,...
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The Burned Barns
as Pierre CateuxThe body of a young woman is discovered near a farm. The judge, Larcher is in charge and thinks...
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The Married Couple of the Year Two
as Public ProsecutorNicolas Philibert goes to America after killing a French aristocrat. On his return he tries to...
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The Wise Guys
as Pelissier, accountantHector Valentin returns to France from Canada when he inherits a small sawmill. He has...
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Last Known Address
as Jacques Loring, Martin's neighborMarceau Léonetti, a competent and energetic officer stops by chance the son of an influential...
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Flic Story
as Paul RobierThe film story depicts Emile Buisson, following the death of his wife and child, escaping from a...
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The Grocer's Son
as Le Père ClémentAntoine Sforza, a thirty-year-old young man, left his village ten years before in order to start...
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The War Is Over
as RobertoDiego is one of the chiefs of the Spanish Communist Party. On his way from Madrid to Paris, he...
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Ho!
as Georges BriandRace driver who has lost his membership card becomes the chauffeur of a gangsters pack
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The Merry Widow
as GabyAnne-Marie lives an easy life with Gilbert, a rich plastic surgeon: a beautiful house, a doggy,...
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The Track
as RollinSomewhere in rural France, a young English female tourist is sexually assaulted by two men in...
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Butterfly on the Shoulder
as RaphaëlOn a stopover in Barcelona, Fériaud Roland discovers a corpse in the hotel room next door. He...
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The King's Whore
as Le Duc de LuynesSet in the 17th-century, an Italian nobleman weds an impoverished countess, who is wooed by the...
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Sign of the Lion
as FredAn American in Paris lives by sponging off his working friends, and throws a party using...
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To Kill a Priest
as Alek's FatherA young priest speaks out against the Communist regime in Poland and is killed for it.
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Zita
as Dr. BernardBecause "Tante Zita" main theme is death: a twenty-year old girl, Annie (Shimkus) lives with her...
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Zita
as uncreditedBecause "Tante Zita" main theme is death: a twenty-year old girl, Annie (Shimkus) lives with her...
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as Pépé LaubépinA lady loses her clothes in a local village, then proceeds to spend the entire duration of the...
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The Looters
as ValdésMorgan, a lapsed burglar, is drugged and shanghaied on board a yacht by beautiful Colleen. When...
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The Sunday of Life
as PoucierAfter five years in the army, Valentin Brû marry a haberdasher. They move to Paris, where...
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The Wonderful Crook
as uncreditedA manufacturer of furniture sees his business go down and decides to rob banks to pay his staff....
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The Witness
as Cathy's fatherAn Italian painter, Antonio Berti, pays a visit to Reims to his friend Robert Maurisson, a...
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Adieu De Gaulle, adieu
as Vieux jardinierMay 1968. Charles de Gaulle is 77. His great career is behind him. Obsessed by France's...
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Who Cares: Anatomy of a Delivery Boy
as Le pèreExperiencing something of a mid-life crisis after his beloved son marries and moves out, a...
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Le beaujolais nouveau est arrivé...
as Gaston, le patron du 1er bistrotCamadule is in charge of buying several barrels of the Beaujolais Nouveau. The Captain and Kamel...
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Lettres de Stalingrad
as PianistThis film is based on actual letters German soldiers sent home from the siege of Leningrad...
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Félicité
as The fatherAfter a bout of intense jealousy, Félicité finds herself alone. For one night, as her family...
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A Cloud in the Teeth
as ChavignacMalisard is a reporter at "Soir de Paris", his colleague Prévot is a photographer. Together,...
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Rascals
as Favart adultThe story of boys who were condemned to the severe reformatory regime in a French penal...
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Story of a Love Story
as uncreditedHarry is a married writer who has an affair with a woman whose husband knows that she is...
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Beyond Fear
as InspectorA group of outlaws takes a man's wife and child hostage. He must walk a fine line between...
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Série noire
as Le portier du garageLéo Fardier is a police inspector who goes to prison undercover as a convict. He shares a cell...
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Fast
as PépéJean-Louis is an naive, amiable orphan who spent his life with his elderly and very strict...
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Just a Game
as 'Smoking'Emile Michel, Lapland, orphan, is obliged to bring back within the tribe the ancestral totem: a...
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Black List
as PierreThree teenage Parisian punks are duped by a crime syndicate into committing a bank robbery that...
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Where Did Tom Go?
as ZagraTom is a secretary for an association which aims to free political prisoners. Skipping from...
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Dessine-moi un jouet
as Le mendiantA french fantasy film with Christoph Waltz
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Le Passager du Tassili
as M. VergeliOmar, a young Franco-Algerian from La Garenne-Colombes, decided to spend his vacation in the...
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Les Derniers Jours de la victime
as Funès Le ChatMendizábal, a reputed hitman, is commissioned to eliminate Rodolfo Kulpe, a small-time criminal.
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Skipper Next to God
as A Jewish passenger (uncredited)Captain Joris Kniper believes so strongly that he is "skipper next to God" that he is used to...
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À fleur de peau
as l'inspecteurWhen Françoise introduced her fiancé to her parents, she had no idea that, during this family...
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La Brute
as Yves RodellecJacques Vauthier, a blind, deaf and mute writer is accused of a crime he quickly confesses to...
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Why Women Sin
as PhotographLa moucharde stars Dany Carrel as a young miss who loves neither wisely nor well. Duped into a...
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Les fortifs
as GermainIn 1943, the young Jean rejects the Obligatory Work Service and returns to his native suburb....
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Foyer perdu
as Coffee boyA brave and talkative wine merchant, Eugène Barbentin drives his son Pierrot out of the family...
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La Gueule du loup
as uncreditedUpset by the death of one of her patients, Marie, a young nurse, decides to go in search of the...
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L'Affaire Lourdes
as Bernadette's fatherIn Lourdes, in the 1860s, the young Bernadette disturbs despite herself the peaceful life of the...
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Font-aux-Cabres
as FlorèsFont-aux-cabres is the name of an Andalusian village, benefiting the Commander of the Order of...
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L'auto rouge
as uncreditedPaul works tirelessly day and night to afford the big red car he has been dreaming of for a long...
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Police Commissioner Moulin
as Cassius, le maîtreThe series follows the adventures of lighthearted Jean-Paul Moulin, a police Commissaire, and...
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Belphegor, or the Phantom of the Louvre
as GautraisFour episodes chronicle a mysterious phantom who appears in the Musée du Louvre in Paris at...
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The House in the Woods
as Paul GardyDuring World War One, in a small rural French village far away from the front, a gamekeeper and...
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