Pierre Fresnay

Born: 1897-04-03

Pierre Fresnay was a French stage and film actor.


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The Man Who Knew Too Much

as Louis Bernard
Released: 1934-12-01

While vacationing in St. Moritz, a British couple receive a clue to an imminent assassination...

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Grand Illusion

as Le capitaine de Boëldieu
Released: 1937-06-04

A group of French soldiers, including the patrician Captain de Boeldieu and the working-class...

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Le Corbeau

as Le docteur Rémy Germain
Released: 1943-09-28

Remy Germain is a doctor in a French town who becomes the focus of a vicious smear campaign, as...

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The Last One of the Six

as Commissaire Wens
Released: 1941-09-16

Paris, France. Commissaire Wens is put in charge of the investigation into the murder of one of...

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Carnival of Sinners

as Roland Brissot
Released: 1943-03-21

A struggling artist buys a talisman that gives him love, fame and wealth. The talisman is a...

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The Murderer Lives at Number 21

as Commissaire Wens
Released: 1942-08-07

Paris, France. Commissaire Wens follows the lead of a ruthless murderer to an unexpected place.

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César

as Marius Ollivier
Released: 1936-01-01

Honoré Panisse is dying, cheerfully, with friends, wife, and son at his side. He confesses to...

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Fanny

as Marius Olivier
Released: 1932-10-27

Picking up moments after the end of Marius, this film follows Fanny’s grief after Marius’s...

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The Old Guard

as Baptiste Talon, retraité S.N.C.F.
Released: 1960-09-02

Three friends leave their village for a retirement home travelling the countryside

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Monsieur Vincent

as Vincent de Paul
Released: 1947-11-05

The life of Vincent de Paul, the 17th-century author and priest who founded two religious orders.

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Marius

as Marius Ollivier, fils de César
Released: 1931-10-09

César runs a bar along Marseilles' port, assisted by his 23 year old son, Marius. Colorful...

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The Aristocrats

as Marquis de Maubrun
Released: 1955-10-12

A novel by Michel De Saint Pierre was the source for Les Aristocrates. Pierre Fresnay stars an...

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I Am with You

as François Laferrière
Released: 1943-12-22

A young woman has doubts about her husband's fidelity. She pretends a trip, but settles in a...

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Street of Shadows

as le capitaine Georges Carrère
Released: 1937-04-13

A slippery femme fatale, a spy for Germany during the Great War, is sent to Thessaloniki in...

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Three Waltzes

as Octave, Philippe et Gérard de Chalencey
Released: 1938-12-14

"Les Trois Valses" traces the love story of two people over three eras. In the first waltz...

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Et ta sœur...

as Bastien
Released: 1958-09-24

Bastien du Boccage is a repeat offender: hasn't he been sent to jail no fewer than six times?...

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The Dreadful

as César Dandieu
Released: 1959-09-10

César Dandieu is an honest cashier in an oil company, and Fernand Mouchette an absent-minded...

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Strangers in the House

as Le narrateur (non crédité)
Released: 1942-05-16

Loursat, a lawyer, lives with his daughter Nicole in a sinister and vast bourgeois residence....

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The Puritan

as Le commissaire Lavan
Released: 1938-01-13

A religious fanatic finds his entire life and philosophy turned upside-down as he falls in love...

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Le Roman d'un jeune homme pauvre

as Maxime Hauterive de Champcey
Released: 1935-02-21

Maxime de Champcey, a bankrupt marquis, is hired by the wealthy Laroque and falls for his...

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S.O.S. Mediterranean

as Le commandant Lestailleur
Released: 1938-09-07

The scene of action embraces Tangier, Toulon and the Mediterranean, where Pierre Fresnay, Rolf...

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Perfectionist

as Professeur Louis Delage
Released: 1951-11-28

Professor Louis Delage is a kidney transplant specialist. He is so good in his field that his...

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Napoleon Road

as Edouard Martel
Released: 1953-10-14

A greedy advertising executive wants to attract the tourists into a small village:he claims...

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God Needs Men

as Thomas Gourvennec
Released: 1950-10-03

The inhabitants of the windswept island of Sein, in the nineteenth century, in Brittany follow...

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The Fugitives

as Lt Pierre Keller
Released: 1955-06-17

During the Second World War, in 1943, two French prisoners, François and Michel, escape from...

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Justice Is Done

as Récitant / Narrator (uncredited)
Released: 1950-09-20

Elsa Lundenstein is accused of having murdered her lover. The jury discusses the case vividly....

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Under Western Eyes

as Razumov
Released: 1936-03-20

Political turmoil convulses 19th-century Russia as Razumov, a young student preparing for a...

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The Newspaper Falls at Five O'Clock

as Pierre Rabaud
Released: 1942-05-21

The everyday life and activity of "La Dernière Heure", a major evening newspaper, seen through...

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Dr. Schweitzer

as Dr. Albert Schweitzer
Released: 1952-11-14

In 1912, the Alsatian Albert Schweitzer, missionary doctor and musician, goes to Gabon, a French...

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Tainted

as Sauval
Released: 1946-12-04

Louberger, director of an orphanage, is full of praise for a former boarder, Mr. Sauval, who has...

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At the Grand Balcony

as Carbot
Released: 1949-11-30

World War I aviator Carbot attempts to establish a commercial airline after the war, for the...

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Adrienne Lecouvreur

as uncredited
Released: 1938-10-28

Adrienne Lecouvreur is an acclaimed actress who falls in love with Polish prince Maurice de...

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Amazing Monsieur Fabre

as M. Fabre
Released: 1951-09-26

It centres on the life of the entomologist Jean-Henri Fabre and his total devotion to studying...

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Chéri-Bibi

as uncredited
Released: 1938-03-02

An innocent young man, burglar Cheri-Bibi, and his gangsters are sent to a penal colony.

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The Unfrocked One

as Maurice Morand
Released: 1954-02-26

Pierre Fresnay plays the title character in Le Defroque (The Defrocked One). Cast out by his...

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Les fanatiques

as Luis Vargas
Released: 1957-11-08

RY A revolution breaks out in a South American country while its cruel dictator is on a trip to...

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Crimson Dynasty

as Raoul Vignerte
Released: 1935-12-04

Koenigsmark is a 1935 British-French drama film directed by Maurice Tourneur and starring Elissa...

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La bataille silencieuse

as Bordier
Released: 1937-09-09

A young journalist who has gone reporting with the papers of a friend gets caught up in an arms...

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Trip to America

as Gaston Fournier
Released: 1951-10-31

As part of the fascination in post World War II France with American culture, a young French...

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The Traveler Without Luggage

as Gaston
Released: 1944-02-23

Having lost his memory due to serving in World War I, Gaston has spent the past 15 years in a...

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The Phantom Wagon

as David Holm
Released: 1939-09-07

French version of the Selma Lagerlof story, most famously filmed in 1921 by Victor Sjostrom,...

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So Much Love Lost

as Joseph Andrieu
Released: 1958-11-12

Here's a railway station. Next to it, there's generally a town; and in a town,there is love! The...

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Devil's Daughter

as Ludovic Mercier / Saget
Released: 1946-04-17

Pursued by the police, Saget usurps the identity of a man who was returning to his town after...

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The Ostrich Has Two Eggs

as Hippolyte Barjus
Released: 1957-08-29

A father discovers one day that one of his sons is a homosexual and the other, is the "gigolo"...

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The Century Is Fifty

as Narrator (voice)
Released: 1950-03-16

As the title of this French documentary indicates, Ce Siecle a 50 Ans examines the 20th Century...

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The Chain Breaker

as Marcus
Released: 1941-12-23

Antoine Mouret, an authoritarian restaurateur, is the head of a large family where, for reasons...

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The Duel

as Père Daniel Maurey
Released: 1941-01-01

A widow is loved by a doctor whose brother, an ecclesiastic unconsciously in love with the young...

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The Marseille Trilogy

as Marius
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In the 1930s, Marcel Pagnol, a leading light of the Paris theater, set out for new horizons as a...

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L'Escalier sans fin

as Pierre
Released: 1943-08-25

An untiring lady social worker, Émilienne, has as one of her charges a stableman who was wounded...

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Barry

as Le père Théotime
Released: 1949-09-02

Lovers since childhood, Sylvain and Angelina do not see their lives separated from each other....

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Just Out

as Moscat
Released: 1949-10-28

Satire of publishing circles, featuring a ferocious boss, Moscat, a successful but handsome...

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God Chose Paris

as Récitant
Released: 1969-09-05

An interesting mixture of filmed scenes with Belmondo and archival footage regarding cultural...

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Paris Waltz

as Jacques Offenbach
Released: 1950-05-05

A fictitious biography of Jacques Offenbach and Hortense Schneider.

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L'Homme aux clés d'or

as Antoine Fournier
Released: 1956-11-07

Antoine Fournier, a language teacher at a secondary school in Lille, was disgraced by four young...

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Clock Head

as Tête d'horloge
Released: 1970-04-11

One night in Paris all the clocks and watches of the whole world stopped except that of a small...

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The Black Diamond

as Bouvier
Released: 1922-09-29

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Âme de clown

as Jack
Released: 1933-10-13

Suzette and Jack form a very nice and rather well-matched couple. The latter is the partner of...

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La Dame aux camélias

as Armand Duval
Released: 1934-11-02

Alexandre Dumas' romantic novel Lady of the Camelias (more popularly known as Camille) was...

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The Thousandth Window

as Armand Vallin
Released: 1960-05-27

An old man against the public housing project.

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Le grand secret

as uncredited
Released: 1961-03-30

Is there an adventure, a drama, a more exciting suspense than that offered to us by the...

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Cinépanorama

as Self
First aired: 1956-02-04

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