1930-10-01 Lille, Nord, France
Philippe Noiret (1 October 1930 – 23 November 2006) was a French film actor. Noiret was born in Lille, France, the son of Lucy (Heirman) and Pierre Noiret, a clothing company representative. He was an indifferent student and attended several prestigious Paris schools, including the Lycée Janson de Sailly. He failed several times to pass his baccalauréat exams, so he decided to study theater. He trained at the Centre Dramatique de l'Ouest and toured with the Théâtre National Populaire for seven years, where he met Monique Chaumette, whom he married in 1962. During that time he developed a career as a nightclub comedian in a duo act with Jean-Pierre Darras, in which he played Louis XIV in an extravagant wig opposite Darras as the dramatist Jean Racine. In these roles they satirized the politics of Charles de Gaulle, Michel Debré and André Malraux. Noiret's screen debut (1949) was an uncredited role in Gigi. In 1955 he appeared in La Pointe Courte directed by Agnès Varda. She said later, "I discovered in him a breadth of talent rare in a young actor." Sporting a pudding-basin haircut, Noiret played a lovelorn youth in the southern fishing port of Sète. He later admitted: "I was scared stiff, and fumbled my way through the part—I am totally absent in the film." He was not cast again until 1960 in Zazie dans le Métro. After playing second leads in Georges Franju's Thérèse Desqueyroux in 1962, and in Le Capitaine Fracasse, from Théophile Gautier's romantic adventure, he became a regular on the French screen, without being cast in major roles until A Matter of Resistance directed by Jean-Paul Rappeneau in 1966. He became a star in France with Yves Robert's Alexandre le Bienheureux. "When I began to have success in the movies," Noiret told film critic Joe Leydon at the Cannes Film Festival in 1989, "it was a big surprise for me. For actors of my generation—all the men of 50 or 60 now in French movies—all of us were thinking of being stage actors. Even people like Jean-Paul Belmondo, all of us, we never thought we'd become movie stars. So, at the beginning, I was just doing it for the money, and because they asked me to do it. But after two or three years of working on movies, I started to enjoy it, and to be very interested in it. And I'm still very interested in it, because I've never really understood how it works. I mean, what is acting for the movies? I've never really understood." Noiret was cast primarily as the Everyman character, although he did not hesitate to accept controversial roles, such as in La Grande Bouffe, a film about suicide by overeating, which caused a scandal at Cannes in 1973, and in 1991 André Téchiné cast Noiret in J'embrasse pas (I Don't Kiss), as a melancholy old homosexual obsessed with young male flesh. And in 1987, in The Gold Rimmed Glasses based on Giorgio Bassani's novel about the cramped social life of post-war Ferrara in Italy, he played an elderly and respectable doctor who is gradually suspected of being a covert homosexual with a passion for a beautiful young man (Rupert Everett). Noiret won his first César Award for his role in Vieux Fusil in 1976. His second César came in 1990 for his role in Life and Nothing But. ... Source: Article "Philippe Noiret" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA.
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Rochefort, Marielle, Noiret: Les copains d'abord | Self (archive footage) | 2021-12-13 |
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Jean Rochefort, l'irrésistible | Self (archive footage) | 2020-11-30 |
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L'Extravagant Monsieur Piccoli | Self - Actor (archive footage) | 2017-05-28 |
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Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4) | Self (archive footage) | 2009-10-13 |
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Les Plages d'Agnès | Self (archive footage) | 2008-12-17 |
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3 Amis | Serano, le concessionnaire Mercedes-Benz | 2007-08-22 |
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Marco Ferreri - Il regista che venne dal futuro | Self | 2007-09-06 |
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A Bear and a Mouse in Paradise | Self | 2006-12-01 |
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Marcello, una vita dolce | Self | 2006-05-21 |
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Edy | Louis | 2005-11-02 |
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Hitler, la folie d'un homme | Narrator (voice) | 2005-05-03 |
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Père et fils | Léo | 2003-05-16 |
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Le Chien, le général et les oiseaux | Récitant / Narrator (voice) | 2003-05-15 |
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Ripoux 3 | René Boirond | 2003-12-10 |
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Les Côtelettes | Léonce | 2003-05-28 |
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Un Honnête commerçant | Louis Chevalier | 2002-08-31 |
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Un jour dans la vie du cinéma français | Self | 2002-05-20 |
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Le Pique-nique de Lulu Kreutz | Joseph Steg | 2000-01-19 |
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Marianna Ucrìa | Duke Signoretto | 1997-08-13 |
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Les Palmes de M. Schutz | Professor Rodolphe Schutz | 1997-04-09 |
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Soleil | Joseph Lévy | 1997-06-11 |
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Le Bossu | Duke Philippe d'Orléans | 1997-12-03 |
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Balthus de l'autre côté du miroir | Récitant / Narrator | 1996-01-01 |
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Le Veilleur de nuit | Monsieur | 1996-12-27 |
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Les Grands Ducs | Victor Vialat | 1996-02-21 |
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Fantôme avec chauffeur | Philippe Bruneau-Teissier | 1996-03-20 |
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Příliš hlučná samota | Haňťa | 1995-03-30 |
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Facciamo paradiso | Padre di Claudia | 1995-12-22 |
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Le Roi de Paris | Victor Derval | 1995-01-11 |
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Les Milles | Le Général | 1995-08-22 |
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Grosse Fatigue | Philippe Noiret | 1994-05-18 |
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La Fille de d'Artagnan | D'Artagnan | 1994-08-24 |
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Il postino | Pablo Neruda | 1994-09-22 |
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Veillées d'armes | Self | 1994-11-23 |
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Tango | L'Elégant | 1993-02-03 |
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Nous deux | Toussaint | 1992-04-22 |
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Zuppa di pesce | Alberto | 1992-02-27 |
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Max et Jérémie | Robert 'Max' Maxendre | 1992-10-14 |
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Rossini! Rossini! | Gioacchino Rossini | 1991-09-12 |
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Contre l’oubli | Self (segment "Pour Joaquim Elema Boringue, Guinée Équatoriale") | 1991-12-11 |
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J'embrasse pas | Romain | 1991-11-20 |
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La domenica specialmente | Amleto | 1991-09-26 |
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Uranus | Watrin | 1990-12-12 |
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Faux et Usage de faux | Anatole Hirsch | 1990-08-22 |
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Ripoux contre Ripoux | René Boirond | 1990-02-07 |
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Dimenticare Palermo | Gianni Mucci | 1990-02-02 |
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The Return of the Musketeers | Cardinal Mazarin | 1989-04-12 |
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La Vie et rien d'autre | Commander Delaplane | 1989-09-06 |
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Les Œuvres de Frédéric Back | Narrateur | 1988-01-01 |
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Chouans ! | Savinien de Kerfadec | 1988-03-23 |
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Il giovane Toscanini | Dom Pedro II. | 1988-10-07 |
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Il frullo del passero | Gabriele Battistini | 1988-01-01 |
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Nuovo Cinema Paradiso | Alfredo | 1988-11-17 |
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Gli occhiali d'oro | Dr. Athos Fadigati | 1987-09-25 |
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L'homme qui plantait des arbres | Narrator (voice) | 1987-05-13 |
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Masques | Christian Legagneur | 1987-02-11 |
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Noyade interdite | Inspector Molinat | 1987-12-02 |
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La famiglia | Jean-Luc | 1987-12-01 |
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'Round Midnight | Redon | 1986-09-23 |
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Twist again à Moscou | Igor Tataïev | 1986-10-22 |
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La Femme secrète | Pierre Franchin, the painter | 1986-09-17 |
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Speriamo che sia femmina | Leonardo | 1986-02-06 |
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Avant minuit | Self (archive footage) | 1986-01-01 |
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Les Rois du gag | In person at the César Awards ceremony (uncredited) | 1985-03-12 |
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L'Été prochain | Edouard | 1985-01-09 |
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Le 4ème Pouvoir | Yves Dorget | 1985-10-02 |
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Qualcosa di biondo | André | 1984-02-01 |
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Fort Saganne | Dubreuilh | 1984-05-11 |
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Les Ripoux | René Boirond | 1984-09-19 |
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Souvenirs souvenirs | Le proviseur | 1984-09-19 |
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Le Grand Carnaval | Étienne Labrouche | 1983-12-07 |
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L'Ami de Vincent | Albert Palm | 1983-09-28 |
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L'africain | Victor | 1983-10-22 |
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L'Étoile du Nord | Edouard Binet | 1982-03-31 |
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Amici miei - Atto II° | Giorgio Perozzi | 1982-12-22 |
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Tre fratelli | Raffaele Giuranna | 1981-03-19 |
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Coup de torchon | Lucien Cordier | 1981-11-04 |
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Il faut tuer Birgitt Haas | Athanase | 1981-09-02 |
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Une semaine de vacances | Michel Descombes | 1980-06-02 |
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Pile ou face | Inspecteur Louis Baroni | 1980-08-30 |
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On a volé la cuisse de Jupiter | Antoine Lemercier | 1980-02-06 |
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Due pezzi di pane | Peppe Dorè | 1979-01-26 |
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Rue du Pied de Grue | Le père | 1979-11-07 |
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Tendre Poulet | Antoine Lemercier | 1978-01-18 |
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La Barricade du Point-du-Jour | Eugène Pottier | 1978-11-12 |
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Le Témoin | Robert Maurisson | 1978-09-20 |
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Who Is Killing the Great Chefs of Europe? | Jean-Claude Moulineau | 1978-09-13 |
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Un taxi mauve | Philippe Marchal | 1977-05-25 |
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Il comune senso del pudore | Giuseppe Costanzo | 1976-03-09 |
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Le Juge et l'Assassin | Juge Rousseau | 1976-03-10 |
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Il deserto dei Tartari | General | 1976-10-29 |
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Monsieur Albert | Albert | 1976-03-30 |
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Une femme à sa fenêtre | Raoul Malfosse | 1976-11-10 |
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Amici miei | Il Perozzi | 1975-10-24 |
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Le Jeu avec le feu | Georges de Saxe | 1975-02-19 |
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Que la fête commence ! | Philip of Orléans | 1975-03-23 |
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Le Vieux Fusil | Julien Dandieu | 1975-08-20 |
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L'école est finie | Self - Narrator(voice) | 1975-01-01 |
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Les Gaspards | Gaspard de Montfermeil | 1974-02-06 |
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Touche pas à la femme blanche | Gen. Terry | 1974-01-23 |
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Un nuage entre les dents | Malisard | 1974-05-01 |
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Le Secret | Thomas Berthelot | 1974-10-09 |
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L'Horloger de Saint-Paul | Michel Descombes | 1974-01-16 |
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Poil de carotte | François Lepic | 1973-08-29 |
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La Grande Bouffe | Philippe | 1973-05-16 |
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Le Serpent | Lucien Berthon | 1973-04-07 |
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La Mandarine | Georges Lapierre | 1972-03-17 |
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La Vieille Fille | Gabriel Marcassus | 1972-01-05 |
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Le Trèfle à cinq feuilles | Alfred | 1972-08-22 |
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A Time for Loving | Marcel | 1972-04-01 |
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L'Attentat | Pierre Garcin | 1972-10-04 |
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Murphy's War | Brezan | 1971-01-13 |
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Siamo tutti in libertà provvisoria | Judge Francesco Langellone | 1971-12-24 |
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Les Aveux les plus doux | Inspecteur Muller | 1971-05-19 |
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Les Caprices de Marie | Gabriel | 1970-02-25 |
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Topaz | Henri Jarre | 1969-12-17 |
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Clérambard | Count Hector de Clérambard | 1969-02-17 |
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Justine | Pombal | 1969-08-06 |
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Mr. Freedom | Moujik Man | 1969-01-08 |
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The Assassination Bureau | Monsieur Lucoville | 1969-03-09 |
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Alexandre le bienheureux | Alexandre Gartempe | 1968-02-09 |
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Adolphe ou l'âge tendre | Pourtalain | 1968-06-03 |
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L'Une et l'Autre | André | 1967-10-10 |
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Woman Times Seven | Victor | 1967-09-29 |
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The Night of the Generals | Inspector Morand | 1967-01-29 |
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La Fin de la nuit | Bernard Desqueyroux | 1966-05-10 |
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La Vie de château | Jérôme | 1966-01-25 |
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Les Sultans | Michou | 1966-05-06 |
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Tendre voyou | Bibi Dumonceaux | 1966-12-12 |
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Qui êtes-vous, Polly Maggoo ? | Jean-Jacques Georges, le journaliste | 1966-10-21 |
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Le Voyage du père | Disgruntled traveler | 1966-09-16 |
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Les Copains | Bénin | 1965-01-15 |
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Lady L | Ambroise Gérôme | 1965-12-17 |
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Mort, où est ta victoire ? | Brassy | 1964-01-10 |
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Les Amoureux du France | Récitant / Narrator (voice) | 1964-04-29 |
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Cyrano et d'Artagnan | King Louis XIII | 1964-10-22 |
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Clémentine chérie | Edgar Hoover | 1964-08-04 |
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Frenesia dell'estate | Jean | 1964-02-04 |
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Monsieur | Edmond Bernadac, Industrialist | 1964-04-22 |
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La Porteuse de pain | Jacques Garraud | 1963-08-29 |
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Ballade pour un voyou | L'inspecteur Mathieu | 1963-03-27 |
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Comme un poisson dans l'eau | Lucien Barlemont | 1962-05-18 |
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Le crime ne paie pas | Monseigneur Hughes | 1962-07-06 |
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Le massaggiatrici | Bellini | 1962-09-20 |
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Le Mal court | Parfait XVIII | 1962-04-03 |
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Thérèse Desqueyroux | Bernard Desqueyroux | 1962-09-21 |
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Tout l'or du monde | Victor Hardy | 1961-11-01 |
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Flore et Blancheflore | King Félix | 1961-12-24 |
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Le Rendez-vous | Inspector Maillard | 1961-11-10 |
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Le Capitaine Fracasse | Hérode | 1961-04-21 |
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Amours célèbres | Louis XIV | 1961-11-03 |
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De fil en aiguille | M. Van Dam | 1960-11-20 |
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Cyrano de Bergerac | Lignère | 1960-12-25 |
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Ravissante | Maurice | 1960-12-14 |
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Zazie dans le métro | Oncle Gabriel | 1960-10-28 |
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Macbeth | Macduff | 1959-10-20 |
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La Pointe courte | Him | 1956-01-04 |
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Agence Matrimoniale | A passerby (uncredited) | 1952-05-21 |
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Olivia | Béatrice's Lover (uncredited) | 1951-04-27 |
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Gigi | Bit Part (uncredited) | 1949-10-05 |
