Paul Frankeur
Paul Frankeur (29 June 1905 - 27 October 1974) was a French actor who appeared in films by Jacques Tati (Jour de fête) and Luis Buñuel (The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie and The Phantom of Liberty). He was sometimes credited as Paul Francoeur. Description above from the Wikipedia article Paul Frankeur, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia
The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
as M. ThevenotIn Luis Buñuel’s deliciously satiric masterpiece, an upper-class sextet sits down to dinner but...
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The Phantom of Liberty
as L'aubergisteThis Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short...
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Le Deuxième Souffle
as L'inspecteur FardianoA gangster escapes jail and quickly makes plans to continue his criminal ways elsewhere, but a...
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Touchez Pas au Grisbi
as PierrotGentleman gangster Max and his partner, Riton, pull off their last, most successful heist and...
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The Milky Way
as PierreTwo men, part tramp, part pilgrim, are on their way to Santiago de Compostela in Spain. On their...
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Children of Paradise
as L'inspecteur de policeIn a chaotic 19th-century Paris teeming with aristocrats, thieves, psychics, and courtesans,...
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A Monkey in Winter
as M. Esnault, le patron du caféThe story of a man who has stopped drinking- and then dreaming- and who thanks to a young man...
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Maigret and the St. Fiacre Case
as Doctor BouchardonPolice Commissioner Jules Maigret returns to the small village where he spent his childhood at...
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Thérèse Raquin
as le contrôleur dans le trainStar-crossed lovers Thérèse and Laurent think they've gotten away with murder after Thérèse's...
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The Gentleman from Epsom
as ArthurThe story takes place in the racecourses around Paris. A so-called major sells his tips to naive...
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The Lovemakers
as FerdinandoThe death of a wealthy patriarch in 1885 sets off an interfamily power struggle. Son Ferdinando...
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Jour de Fête
as MarcelJour de Fête tells the story of an inept and easily-distracted French mailman who frequently...
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Marie-Octobre
as Lucien MarinvalA group of ex-resistance fighters are brought together by Marie-Octobre, the code name of...
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Maigret Sees Red
as BonfilsGangsters from the United States try to kill a key government witness whose testimony could help...
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Nana
as BordenaveNana or Nanà is a French-Italian film by Christian-Jaque starring Charles Boyer. It is an...
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Razzia
as le commissaire FernandHenri, the Man from Nantes, comes back to his country after a successful stay in the United...
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Don't Take God's Children for Wild Geese
as RuffinRita is a girl that lives on taking gangsters as lovers. But when the money stops coming, she...
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Blood to the Head
as André DrouinFrançois Cardinaud is one of the richest shipowners in the region. But this success arouses...
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My Uncle Benjamin
as Docteur MinxitBenjamin is in love with Manette, the innkeeper's beautiful daughter, but she has no intention...
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The Night Affair
as Inspecteur ChavilleVallois, a vice inspector for the Paris police, takes special interest in the plight of...
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Follow That Man
as M. MalletWhile celebrating his birthday, police inspector Basquier recalls two of his most celebrated...
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Le Crâneur
as uncreditedA singer tries to rescue a man drawn into the drug trade.
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Speaking of Murder
as FredoLouis Bertain is the owner of a Paris garage which is the front for a robbery gang. He and his...
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The Magnificent Tramp
as M. Grégoire, l'ancien patronBum Archimède wants to spend the winter in prison, but to get there proves not to be that easy.
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No Exit
as Gomez - le compagnon de GarcinThe scene is a tawdry hotel room in Limbo, where several damned souls are gathered. At first,...
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Jeunes mariés
as uncreditedJacques and Gisèle, who are just married, are starting their honeymoon. But at nightfall, on...
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Rue de Paris
as ErnestLife in a one-parent family with a focus on the parent, Henri Neveu (Jean Gabin), is the topic...
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We Are All Murderers
as LéonOriginally titled Nous Sommes Tout des Assassins, We Are All Murderers was directed by Andre...
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Come Dance with Me!
as le commissaire MarchalHerve argues with his wife, after which he meets an appealing woman at a nightclub. A subsequent...
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A Cage of Nightingales
as (uncredited)In France, in 1930, a supervisor of a boarding school for young offenders seeks to awaken the...
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Under the Paris Sky
as MilouFates of multiple otherwise disconnected characters intertwine miraculously under the sky of...
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Strange Tales
as DugelayA group of policemen look over three murder cases including a cutthroat that prays on young...
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Return to Life
as Mayor (segment "Le retour de Louis")In France in 1946, the difficult return to civilian life of five deportees and prisoners of war...
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Reproduction interdite
as Marc KelberAn art dealer in dire straits, after being ripped off by two crooks, one of whom owns a genuine...
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The Mona Lisa Has Been Stolen
as Lemercier, l'encadreurA thief falls in love with a maid and goes on the run after stealing Leonardo da Vinci's "Mona...
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Star Without Light
as le reporterAn aspiring singer tries to break into films during the early talkie era. She is hired to dub...
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Messieurs Ludovic
as M. SeguinAnne-Marie meets three men bearing the first name of Ludovic. Each of them has a very different...
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Messieurs Ludovic
as uncreditedAnne-Marie meets three men bearing the first name of Ludovic. Each of them has a very different...
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as Monsieur BoussardThe title of this French "reality" drama, which translates to Before the Deluge, is a play on...
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L'Espagnol
as Lucien BouchotA survivor of the Spanish Civil War who had been in French internment camps takes refuge with a...
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Justice Is Done
as Monsieur Jouvillon (uncredited)Elsa Lundenstein is accused of having murdered her lover. The jury discusses the case vividly....
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The Spice of Life
as Le blagueurA series of vignettes, in which Noel-Noel appears as the moderator, lecturer, commentator and...
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Devil's Daughter
as The BartenderPursued by the police, Saget usurps the identity of a man who was returning to his town after...
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People of No Importance
as Émile BarchandeauDuring a stay at a roadside inn, long-distance lorry driver Jean Viard meets a young woman...
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Sunday Buddies
as Mr Larcheron, le directeur de l'usineCasti and Trébois, two friends who are workers at the same factory, have developed a common...
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Port of Point-du-Jour
as Monsieur PierreEmile is a steelworker in a car factory ;a confirmed bachelor going on fifty, he leads a...
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Adieu Léonard
as Edouard, the shoemaker (uncredited)A bungling thief is threatened by one target with blackmail, unless the thief will kill his own...
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The Crab Basket
as ClavierCharles is a student in Strasbourg. Abandoned by Liliane, his fiancée, who has inexplicably...
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The Thunder of God
as Le gendarme (uncredited)Brassac is a drunken veterinarian who can't resist bringing home stray animals and humans. Lilli...
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A Bullet in the Gun Barrel
as PépèreBack from Indochina, Tony and Dick, two French soldiers, are now in possession of more than 20...
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Counter Investigation
as uncreditedAlain Marchal, wrongly accused of murdering his wife, escapes from prison the day before his...
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The Bouquinquant Brothers
as CommissionerA provincial, Julie Moret, is hired as a servant in a Parisian bourgeois residence. She is...
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Long March
as uncreditedIn June 1944, a young doctor, Chevalier, under the threat of guns, is forced to treat a wounded...
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The Ideal Couple
as HairdresserDiavalo is the popular hero of French serials circa 1912. Diana is an actress who falls in love...
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Black Dossier
as Charles BroussardIn the 1950s, in a small provincial town, a young inexperienced judge clashes with an...
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The Dwarf
as BarnaboumIn a small circus campaign, the act of Valentine, the dwarf, is one of the highlights of the...
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Portrait of Innocence
as Le secrétaire du commissaire (uncredited)A student from an elementary school accidentally breaks the glass roof of his school. His...
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The Mark Of The Day
as BacIn a settlement in the northern mining country. The Marles, Bréhard and Gohelle families wake...
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Au p'tit zouave
as le commissaire BonnetAu p'tit Zouave, a café, sees a colorful clientele from working-class Paris. An assassin will...
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Le Voyageur de la Toussaint
as (uncredited)A young man comes back to his hometown to be confronted with a bourgeois obnoxious family who...
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Strange Desire of Mr. Bard
as uncreditedA terminally ill Mr. Bard, a casino bus driver forced to quit his job, miraculously wins a...
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Madame et le Mort
as uncreditedA person who had usurped the identity of a famous writer of detective stories was killed in the...
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Les assassins du dimanche
as Lucien SimonetAfter failing to carry out an urgent repair to the car of two German tourists, mechanic Robert...
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Mr. Orchid
as Simon, le second lieutenant d'ÉdouardThis character study of a French patriot during the Nazi Occupation has comedian Noel as the...
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Monsignor
as The stallholderLouis Mennechain is a modest locksmith. So imagine his amazement when Professor Piétrefond...
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Cry of the Heart
as JeanAlexandre, a young man from a wealthy family, suffers a serious fall. One leg is finally...
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Minute papillon
as uncreditedOscar, a shy lifeguard, flees the wrath of his boss following the disaster caused by the water...
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The Tiger Attacks
as Raymond MarouxPaul Lamiani, a wizened mobster, is asked to return to duty following the disappearance of...
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An Eye for an Eye
as The operatedIn North Africa, an anguished husband tests the character of the doctor he believes is...
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Price of Love
as uncreditedBecause he loved a trainer named Suzy too much, honest Pierre Menard wasted his life and died....
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Sideral Cruises
as Le premier bonimenteurRobert and Françoise Monier make a hot air balloon to fly to the stratosphere. After a visit to...
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License to Kill
as AntonioDidier Formenter, the French scientist, has just put the final touch on an invention that will...
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Passion
as Jacques CharbonnierAn unhappy wife who has had a child by her lover lives a daily drama under the watchful eye of...
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Hauteclaire
as Docteur TortyThe action takes place under the Restoration, at the Château de Savigny, near Nerville, a devout...
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Headlines of Destruction
as Jacques RupertReleased from prison after two years, Michel Gérard sets out to find his wife Alice. Alice,...
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The Lovers of the Pont Saint-Jean
as uncreditedOn the banks of the Rhône, not far from Tain l'Hermitage, Alcide Garonne, an old ferryman - and...
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The Marriage of Chiffon
as Le mécanicien de Max (uncredited)Odette Joyeux plays an eccentric young aristocrat called "Chiffon", who is struggling to comply...
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Fantastic Night
as uncreditedDenis, a poor student in philosophy, works as a night porter in the Paris market of Les Halles...
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Night Shift
as uncreditedA devoted switchboard operator is the village guardian angel.
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Rope Around the Neck
as uncreditedArthur can no longer stand married life. He wants to get rid of his wife and live with his...
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A Star to the Sun
as uncreditedMartine, who has become a major star of the song in Paris, wants to return to visit her...
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The Trip to Biarritz
as uncreditedGuillaume Dodut is a stationmaster in rural France at a station where trains no longer stop. His...
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The First Weapons
as uncreditedA sensitive teen-age boy survives the brutalities of a country training school.
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Girl with Grey Eyes
as The inspector of the 'Sûreté'A village lost in the mountains where Catherine called L'Airelle's love affair takes place with...
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Double Verdict
as CasselRichard killed his wife out of jealousy, but was acquitted. During the vacations, he meets a...
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