Paul Meurisse

Born: 1912-12-21

Paul Meurisse (21 December 1912, Dunkirk – 19 January 1979, Neuilly-sur-Seine) was a French actor who appeared in over 60 films and many stage productions. Meurisse was noted for the elegance of his acting style, and for his versatility. He was equally able to play comedic and serious dramatic roles. His screen appearances ranged from the droll and drily humorous to the menacing and disturbing. His most celebrated role was that of the sadistic and vindictive headmaster in the 1955 film Les Diaboliques. Description above from the Wikipedia article Paul Meurisse, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.


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Army of Shadows

as Luc Jardie
Released: 1969-09-10

Betrayed by an informant, Philippe Gerbier finds himself trapped in a torturous Nazi prison...

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Diabolique

as Michel Delassalle
Released: 1955-01-29

The cruel and abusive headmaster of a boarding school, Michel Delassalle, is murdered by an...

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The Truth

as Maître Éparvier
Released: 1960-11-02

As Dominique Marceau is being tried for the murder of Gilbert Tellier, accounts by different...

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Crooks in Clover

as commandant Théobald Dromard, dit « Le Monocle »
Released: 1963-11-27

An aging gangster, Fernand Naudin is hoping for a quiet retirement when he suddenly inherits a...

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Le Deuxième Souffle

as Commissaire Blot
Released: 1966-11-01

A gangster escapes jail and quickly makes plans to continue his criminal ways elsewhere, but a...

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Picnic on the Grass

as Étienne Alexis, célèbre biologiste
Released: 1959-11-11

Etienne Alexis, a candidate for president of the new Europe, is a scientist promoting artificial...

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Marie-Octobre

as François Renaud-Picart
Released: 1959-04-24

A group of ex-resistance fighters are brought together by Marie-Octobre, the code name of...

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The Gypsy

as Yan Kuq
Released: 1975-12-05

Two thieves, Hugo Sennart and Yan Kuq, wanted by the same police inspector, cross paths by chance.

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The Black Monocle

as Dromard, "Le Monocle"
Released: 1961-08-29

The Marquis de Villemaur reunite strange visitors in his Castle, to meet a survivor of the Third...

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Le Majordome

as Léopold
Released: 1965-03-24

Léopold, valet de chambre to the avocat général Maître de Royssac, starts studying the penal...

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Not Delivered

as Commissaire-Divisionnaire Varzeilles
Released: 1958-01-15

After resolving to start a new life with his girlfriend Jacqueline, Bastien Sassey decides to...

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Head Against the Wall

as Dr. Emery
Released: 1959-03-20

An aimless young man is committed to a psychiatric hospital by his father in an attempt to cure...

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My Wife Is Formidable

as Lui-même chez le dentiste
Released: 1951-12-05

Raymond Corbier, a sculptor, has a wonderful wife, Sylvia, whom he adores. To save a passionate...

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Le Cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques

as Kruger
Released: 1971-02-10

Alfred Mullanet, an unlucky player who lives on his wife's income, becomes in a few moments the...

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Congress of Love

as Talleyrand
Released: 1966-03-18

Vienna 1965. While visiting the Wax Museum a group of tourists stop in front of the figure of...

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The Contessa's Secret

as L'empereur Napoléon III
Released: 1954-09-26

The lover of an Italian revolutionary offers herself to Napoleon in exchange for her...

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Le Dessous des cartes

as Inspector Nansen
Released: 1948-09-22

Claude Géraudy, a banker responsible for a financial scandal, is forced to flee and hides in the...

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Scandal

as Steve Richardson
Released: 1948-12-01

A young woman who inherits her uncle's nightclub, invents a gangster husband in order to gain...

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Love and the Frenchwoman

as Jean-Claude Perret, publicitaire et mari cocu (L'Adultère)
Released: 1960-09-16

The seven stages in the life of the modern Frenchwomen are disclosed by seven directors in a...

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Les Violents

as Inspecteur Principal Malouvier
Released: 1958-01-10

Pierre Tercelin who used to be a prosperous industrialist is now ruined and embittered, having...

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The Monocle's Sour Laugh

as le commandant Théobald Dromar dit 'le Monocle'
Released: 1964-09-16

A French agent goes after a gang of Asian terrorists who plan to blow up an American nuclear...

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When the Pheasants Pass

as Alexandre Larsan-Bellac
Released: 1965-09-10

Arsène Baudu and Hyacinthe, a pair of small-time crooks, fall prey to Alexandre Larsan-Bellac,...

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Guinguette

as le vicomte Édouard de Villancourt
Released: 1959-03-04

Renée dite Guinguette, a former prostitute, has earned enough money on the Parisian sidewalk to...

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The Case of Poisons

as l'abbé Guibourg
Released: 1955-11-04

Madame de Montespan, the Maîtresse-en-titre of Louis XIV, has been in disgrace since the King...

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The Big Swag

as Paul Filippi, le gangster
Released: 1965-07-09

Louis Bourdin est employé à la RATP le jour, romancier la nuit, avec une forte prédilection pour...

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Forbidden to Love

as Maxime Gavard
Released: 1942-10-30

An unconsummated marriage to fool the father who wants his heir to be wed.

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The Eye of the Monocle

as Théobald 'Monocle' Dromard
Released: 1962-11-14

In 1943, a German commando conceals a large quantity of gold in an undersea cave on the coast of...

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Easy Down There!

as Il vescovo
Released: 1971-08-30

A priest gets a little hot under the collar when the wife he thought was dead unexpectedly returns.

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The Game of Truth

as Portrant
Released: 1961-11-26

A dozen elegant people are gathered in a writer's desirable mansion. In the grand tradition of...

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Code Name: Melville

as Self
Released: 2008-11-15

Mixing interviews, rare archival footage and film extracts, the film shows how Melville's works...

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Back Streets of Paris

as Victor Ménard, l'ancien complice de Mme Rose
Released: 1946-11-27

Madame Rose runs a seedy hotel in a suburb of Paris. Strong-minded but without the least moral...

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The Suspects

as Laurent Kirchner
Released: 1974-11-27

When an American tourist is murdered in the south of France, the police must investigate. In...

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Seventh Heaven

as Manuel Villa
Released: 1958-03-05

"Le septième ciel" became Raymond Bernard's last film; a black comedy about a female brewery...

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Sergil et le dictateur

as Inspector Sergil
Released: 1948-10-13

Inspector Sergil is assigned the mission to protect the dictator of Santa Juanita during his...

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Colonel Durand

as Colonel of the Empire Gérard Durand
Released: 1948-08-25

In his younger days, a dashing officer, Colonel Durand, compromised Madame De Monthieux, who...

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Monsieur chasse

as Moricet
Released: 1947-06-01

A husband covers his weekly infidelities with the pretext of hunting. His best friend intends to...

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The Education in Love of Valentin

as Julien Blaise
Released: 1976-05-25

This sex comedy concerns the efforts of Julien to get his timid, "backward" 20-year-old son to...

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The Voracious Ones

as Inspecteur Martino
Released: 1973-01-11

On the Côte d'Azur, a rich man wins a large sum of money playing at the casino. As he leaves the...

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Ne bougez plus !

as Hector
Released: 1941-10-30

Are these two tramps who come to pose for an advertising agency at Patrice Farfadou, the...

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The Uncatchable Mr. Frederic

as B.B. / Richard Fernay
Released: 1946-07-15

The novelist Suzanne Delmont creates a character, "The Uncatcable Frédéric", a sort of Arsène...

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Sergil Among the Girls

as l'inspecteur Sergil
Released: 1952-06-06

The maid of a clandestine brothel in Marseille is found murdered. The inspector Sergil, in...

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Me and the Forty Year Old Man

as Alexandre Dumourier
Released: 1965-03-19

A story about Caroline, a young girl who decides to start dating only men after forty.

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Chicken Feed for Little Birds

as M. Armand, un ancien truand
Released: 1963-02-15

In a building close to the Place de la Contrescarpe in Paris, a tale of criss‑crossings in turn...

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Until the Last One

as Fredo Ricioni
Released: 1957-03-20

Just released from prison after serving a six-month sentence, Fernand Bastia goes into hiding....

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Bethsabée

as Le capitaine Lucien Sommervill - l'ex amant d'Arabella
Released: 1947-11-21

Danielle Darrieux stars as Arabella Delvaire in this baroque adaptation of Pierre Benoit's novel...

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The Eleven O'Clock Woman

as Stanilas Octave Seminario SOS, détective
Released: 1948-03-03

Stanislas Oscar Seminario, aka SOS, is a young explorer, just back from Africa, visiting old...

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Love Marriage

as Robert
Released: 1942-12-23

Pierre, who is a Fine Arts student, and Denise, who is a chemistry student, work for a...

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Destitute Mary

as uncredited
Released: 1945-10-03

Marie is one of her kind. While the other girls are after gold, diamonds and jewels, she swears...

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Bells Without Joy

as Captain of Lambérieux
Released: 1962-04-20

In November 1942, American troops landed in Tunisia. German paratroopers were immediately...

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The Wolf Farm

as Furet
Released: 1943-12-13

Bastien and Furet are a journalist and a photographer working together as a team on the...

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Vingt-quatre heures de perm'

as uncredited
Released: 1945-01-10

Two friends, mobilized together and idle, send their photos to two young workers. The photos are...

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The New Aristrocrats

as Father Philippe de Maubrun
Released: 1961-12-13

Denis, a hypersensitive teenager, is revolted both against his distant, pretentious, well-to-do...

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Serenade to the Executioner

as uncredited
Released: 1951-05-31

Schomberg, an enigmatic psychiatrist runs a nursing home. He is forced to close his clinic and...

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Agnes of Nothing

as Carlos
Released: 1950-03-17

Pushed by her husband to settle in the family castle, Agnès finds her sister-in-law Alix there....

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Montmartre on the Seine

as Paul Mariol
Released: 1941-11-19

Maurice loves Juliet and Michael loves Lily. Romance blossoms on the hill. They are workers,...

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The Inspector Likes a Fight

as uncredited
Released: 1957-06-12

To protect him, Georges takes the place of his twin brother, Jacques, suspected of murdering an...

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Je suis un mouchard

as Bob Torquella
Released: 1953-04-17

Mado loves Henry but is coveted by Bob Torquella, a dangerous gangster. The latter, mad with...

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Be Careful Ladies

as Charles Rouvier
Released: 1963-10-02

Charles Rouvier, a lawyer, is in jail for trying to save one of his clients, Hedwige. He decides...

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L'assassin connaît la musique

as Lionel Fribourg
Released: 1963-10-16

Lionel Fribourg, a great composer (at least that's what he thinks) has a problem with his noisy...

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Fortune carrée

as Mordhom
Released: 1955-03-16

Igricheff, the Amiris' instructor, refuses to take part in the Cadi's arms deal. Deposed, he...

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Inspector Sergil

as Inspector Pierre Sergil
Released: 1947-01-15

Inspector Sergil is a detective comedy. Sergil, inspector of the P.J., investigates three...

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Impasse of Two Angels

as Jean
Released: 1948-10-03

Stage actress Marianne has decided to give up her career to marry wealthy nobleman Marquis...

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Last Hour, Special Edition

as Dominique Coche
Released: 1949-09-30

A journalist who deals with the column "courier du cœur" has the absurd idea of ​​launching an...

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Maria of the End of the World

as uncredited
Released: 1951-03-16

Maria is the wife of self-styled naturalist Mathius. Alas, Maria's husband spends more time with...

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The Red Angel

as uncredited
Released: 1949-07-01

L'Ange rouge is a cabaret run by a former mobster with his friend, a singer and dancer he...

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Le Grand Échiquier

as Self
First aired: 1972-01-12

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