Pierre Palau

Born: 1883-08-13


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Devil in the Flesh

as Monsieur Marin
Released: 1947-09-22

In France during World War I, Marthe waits for her husband, Jacques, while he fights on the...

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Children of Paradise

as Le régisseur des Funambules
Released: 1945-03-15

In a chaotic 19th-century Paris teeming with aristocrats, thieves, psychics, and courtesans,...

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Le Corbeau

as Le receveur de P.T.T.
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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Nana

as Venot
Released: 1955-07-26

Nana or Nanà is a French-Italian film by Christian-Jaque starring Charles Boyer. It is an...

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King of Hearts

as Alberic
Released: 1966-12-21

An ornithologist mistaken for an explosives expert is sent alone into a small French town during...

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Beauties of the Night

as Le vieux monsieur qui critique toutes les époques
Released: 1952-11-14

A daydreaming French composer sees himself as a fine figure dashing through history.

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Paradis perdu

as (uncredited)
Released: 1939-10-27

In pre-World Ward I in Paris, a budding artist, Pierre LeBlanc, falls in love and marries...

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The Virgins

as A guest
Released: 1963-05-22

The story of five girls that lose their virginity.

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The Joker

as Uncle Théodose
Released: 1961-01-20

A young man who lives on women meets his match in the young wife of a rich industrialist. Their...

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The Count of Monte Cristo Part 1 - The Prisoner of Kastell

as Le gouverneur (uncredited)
Released: 1943-01-22

Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend...

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The Grand Manoeuvre

as Un invité à la noce
Released: 1955-10-25

Armand, a boastful womaniser, makes a bet that he can seduce any girl he wants. He soon crosses...

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La louve

as Dermont
Released: 1949-07-13

A chronicler gets himself hired as a gamekeeper in Monsieur De Saint-Ricquier's mansion where he...

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Carnival of Sinners

as Le petit homme
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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Fanfare of Love

as uncredited
Released: 1935-11-15

Two unemployed musicians dress up as women to be hired by an all -female orchestra "Tulips from...

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La Danse de mort

as Le sergent / Il sergente
Released: 1948-01-02

A sinister fortress on an island where the sun never seems to shine. An officer whose values...

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I Am with You

as Le contrôleur
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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The Phantom Wagon

as Monsieur Benoît
Released: 1939-09-07

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

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The Lafarge Case

as Defoy
Released: 1938-03-08

Based on true facts, a news item which was widely talked about in the nineteenth century, this...

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Messieurs Ludovic

as uncredited
Released: 1946-05-03

Anne-Marie meets three men bearing the first name of Ludovic. Each of them has a very different...

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Zouzou

as Saint-Lévy
Released: 1934-12-21

Zou Zou tries to help her childhood friend prove his innocence after he's accused of murder.

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Box of Dreams

as Payen-Laurel
Released: 1945-07-11

Nicole tries to seduce a young man who lead a bohemian life in an untidy flat with his three pals.

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If Paris Were Told to Us

as Un Moine
Released: 1956-01-27

Historical film directed and written by Sacha Guitry follows the the history of Paris from its...

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Mademoiselle X

as Victor
Released: 1945-06-27

A famous writer takes in a young amnesiac who, thanks to his care, remembers having tried to...

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Tous ceux qui tombent

as Mr. Tyler
Released: 1963-01-25

A 1963 TV film directed by Michel Mitrani.

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Matrimonial Agency

as The director of 'Nuptia'
Released: 1952-05-21

Noël is a bachelor who inherits a matrimonial agency. After contemplating selling it, he...

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The Man from Nowhere

as Le chevalier Titus
Released: 1937-02-18

Mathias Pascal, saddled with a stupid wife and a nagging mother-in-law, leaves home and is...

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Auguste

as Boyer de l'Ain
Released: 1961-10-24

Auguste is about an eponymous bank clerk who finds fame and fortune. Auguste happens to be in...

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The Grand Hotel Affair

as uncredited
Released: 1946-03-29

In Marseilles, the fisherman Tonin closely monitors the actions of the wreckage workers led by a...

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Queen's Necklace

as Boëhmer
Released: 1946-09-14

The adventurer Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy, descendant (by the left hand) of the king of France...

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L'aventure est au coin de la rue

as 'Le baron'
Released: 1944-02-18

A rich young man, Pierre Trévoux, has a desire for adventure and boasts of his courage. While he...

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Angel and Sinner

as uncredited
Released: 1945-10-17

During the stagecoach trip of a frightened group of inhabitants of Rouen, Elisabeth Rousset,...

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Si j'étais le patron

as Archibald Torrington
Released: 1934-10-25

An intelligent young worker, enterprising but boastful, repeats to all the winds that, if he...

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Cartouche, King of Paris

as Anselme Bourguignon
Released: 1950-08-02

The romantic life of the head of a bandit gang, wanted by the police. Cartouche gets away with...

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Behind These Walls

as Dietrich
Released: 1946-03-13

June 1944, a French town towards the end of the occupation. Following several attacks...

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The Farm of Seven Sins

as Le juge d'instruction
Released: 1949-09-16

In 1825, Paul-Louis Courier, a Republican writer known for publishing pamphlets against the...

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Marguerite of the Night

as Dr. Faust
Released: 1955-12-29

It tells the story of an older pedant who buys adolescence from Satan.

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Picpus

as Le docteur Pierre
Released: 1943-02-12

Picpus is a street and a subway stop where a number of murders have been committed. Maigret...

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Ce n'est pas moi

as Beaulieu
Released: 1941-12-23

Cambo, a banker, has been in trouble since a certain Parizot has tried to extort stocks from...

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The Eleven O'Clock Woman

as le portier
Released: 1948-03-03

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

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Crossroads

as Le duc
Released: 1938-01-01

A wealthy industrialist, Roger de Vetheuil, married, feels assured of aging in peace. Then...

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The Royalists

as L'aubergiste (uncredited)
Released: 1947-03-20

The Marquis de Montauran was appointed to command the Chouans whose first two revolts were...

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Tovaritch

as uncredited
Released: 1935-05-03

Playwright Jacques Deval directed this 1935 adaptation of his own stage comedy Tovaritch. Set in...

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Madame et le Mort

as Chabrol, publisher
Released: 1943-04-21

A person who had usurped the identity of a famous writer of detective stories was killed in the...

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Annette and the Blonde Woman

as Morillon, the photographer (uncredited)
Released: 1942-03-16

A scatterbrained girl harasses a lawyer in Cannes.

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The Road to Damascus

as uncredited
Released: 1952-12-05

Saul De Tarse is a Roman soldier who is making rough all over. He arrives at the Golgotha when...

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Famous Love Affairs

as Saint-Simon
Released: 1961-11-03

Anthology of four love stories that have some historical basis.

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The Uncatchable Mr. Frederic

as Petithunier
Released: 1946-07-15

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

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Impasse

as uncredited
Released: 1946-05-15

A student, Gabriel, comes to the aid of Gisèle, a young manicurist wrongfully arrested, by...

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Public School

as Le père Bigeard
Released: 1965-10-07

A schoolteacher (Robert Dhéry) and his wife (Colette Brosset) use the couple's new car for a...

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Three Women

as Monsieur Torcheboeuf (segment "Coralie")
Released: 1952-08-13

The short stories of Guy de Maupassant enjoyed a renaissance in the early 1950s, thanks in great...

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Knock, ou le triomphe de la médecine

as Dr. Parpalaid
Released: 1933-11-03

"Everybody is ill: you just don't know it yet". Knock, a newly arrived physician takes over a...

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The Wolf Farm

as Le juge d'instruction
Released: 1943-12-13

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

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La Reine des resquilleuses

as uncredited
Released: 1937-03-12

A young unemployed girl pretends to be a boy and gets a job as a car washer.

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Love and Companionship

as Mr. Paulau, a board member
Released: 1950-01-27

The accountant of an insurance company, rather eccentric and quick to push the song, is...

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Vacances payées

as uncredited
Released: 1938-12-14

Prosper, the accountant of a fashion house, takes a vacation to Monte Carlo without his wife...

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Girls of Paris

as uncredited
Released: 1936-11-09

A few colorful characters, with very different social origins and whose destinies are not always...

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La Peau d'un autre

as Jules Bongrand
Released: 1937-01-08

The very chic Parisian couturier Jean Granet has trouble with the police, and will find himself...

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Gigolo

as Monsieur Paul
Released: 1951-11-08

Back from the war, Marceau Le Guern remembers. Educated in an orphanage run by Dominican...

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The Duraton Family

as uncredited
Released: 1940-03-06

Unbeknownst to the members of a French family, a radio announcer makes them the subject of a...

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The Bride of Darkness

as uncredited
Released: 1945-03-22

Sylvie, a young woman who believes to be cursed, lives in the town of Carcassonne with her...

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Midnight Prince

as uncredited
Released: 1934-11-02

A record seller, and not very serious, Henry spends his nights in a cabaret where there is a...

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Un trou dans le mur

as uncredited
Released: 1950-02-22

André de Kerdec, a young lawyer buys an old parchment in an antique shop and discovers that a...

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The Blue Ones of the Sky

as uncredited
Released: 1933-11-24

An obscure mechanic falls in love with a an champion pilot.

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Trois artilleurs à l'opéra

as L'adjudant
Released: 1939-05-10

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The Beauty of Montparnasse

as Baron Fléchard
Released: 1937-06-11

Mr. Pontbichot has long dreamed of cheating on his wife. To achieve his goals, he looks for a...

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Triplepatte

as Boucherot
Released: 1922-11-17

Robert de Houdan is indecisiveness itself. He keeps hesitating, shilly-shallying and never reach...

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Knock

as Le docteur Parpalaid
Released: 1933-11-08

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The Lottery of Happiness

as (uncredited)
Released: 1953-02-15

Mr Lucas, a grocer, wants to attract the clientele; he imagines a lottery; every week, you can...

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The Rose of the Sea

as Sidobre
Released: 1946-09-11

Jérôme owns a boat with his crook of an uncle, La Rose de la Mer. They sail with a band of...

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Dakota 308

as Violette
Released: 1951-04-25

A Dakota plane is carrying a ton of gold bound for Brazzaville, but it is hijacked over the...

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Touche-à-tout

as Monsieur Corbin
Released: 1935-11-01

A young supervisor is expelled from his high school after misleading his students during an...

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Le coeur dispose

as Parainneaux
Released: 1937-05-14

An aristocratic family wants to marry off their young Helene. The mother and grandmother each...

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Florence is Crazy

as Monsieur Borel
Released: 1944-06-01

Monsieur Benoit's existence is transformed when his dour wife suddenly thinks in a bout of folly...

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The Green Dress

as uncredited
Released: 1937-10-27

Count Hubert de Latour Latour is the lover of the Duchess de Maulévrier. The day he is surprised...

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Rasputin

as Piotr
Released: 1938-01-28

Story of the Siberian monk Gregory Rasputin and the hold he exerted over the court of the last...

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Les deux 'Monsieur' de Madame

as Oscar
Released: 1933-04-14

A tradesman authorizes his wife's first husband to replace him in order to hide from a brave,...

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Carrefour du crime

as Simone's father
Released: 1948-06-16

Suffering from mental disorders, a detective is trapped by his own associate who compromises him...

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La Dame de chez Maxim's

as Le docteur Mongicourt
Released: 1933-04-01

Dr. Lucien Petypon is usually a serious man, but, drawn by his friend Corignon, he once paints...

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Eight Men in a Castle

as Le notaire
Released: 1942-12-09

The Paladines write crime novels together. In a cinema, they happen to see a report on the...

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Le Paradis des voleurs

as uncredited
Released: 1939-06-15

A fairground boss is ruined. He steals his aunt's jewelry, but being chased he gives the jewelry...

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Ladies Hairdresser

as Pluvinat
Released: 1932-05-19

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The Free Trade Hotel

as Le commissaire Boucard
Released: 1934-11-10

There's never a dull moment at the Hôtel du Libre Echange. Deceptions, hitches and other...

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The Brazilian thing

as uncredited
Released: 1932-12-09

A young man who loves his wife wants rid of his troublesome mistress. He dresses up as a wealthy...

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