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Georges Wilson
Georges Wilson (16 October 1921 – 3 February 2010) was a French film and television actor. He was the father of French actor Lambert Wilson. Biography Wilson was born in Champigny-sur-Marne, Seine (now Val-de-Marne) as the illegitimate son of a French father and an Irish mother. His professional surname, Wilson, derives from his Irish grandmother; his birthname has not been made public. He was nominated for a BAFTA Film Award, and also nominated for a César Award. Georges Wilson's last film was '' Mesrine: Public Enemy Number One''. From 1963 to 1972 Georges Wilson was the director of the Théâtre national de Chaillot (formerly known as the Théâtre National Populaire). Georges Wilson died in Rambouillet in 2010, aged 88, from undisclosed causes. Selected filmography * ''Martin Roumagnac'' (1946) – Un jeune homme dans le convoi funèbre (uncredited) * ''Maître après Dieu'' (1951) – Un passager juif (uncredited) * ''Open Letter'' (1953) – Un locataire * '' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Champigny-sur-Marne
Champigny-sur-Marne (, literally ''Champigny on Marne'') is a commune in the southeastern suburbs of Paris, France. It is located from the centre of Paris. Name Champigny-sur-Marne was originally called simply Champigny. The name Champigny ultimately comes from Medieval Latin ''Campaniacum'', meaning "estate of Campanius", a Gallo-Roman landowner. In 1897 the name of the commune officially became Champigny-sur-Marne (meaning "Champigny upon Marne"), in order to distinguish it from other communes of France also called Champigny. Demographics Immigration Transport Champigny-sur-Marne is served by Les Boullereaux – Champigny station on Paris RER line E. Champigny-sur-Marne is also served by Champigny station on Paris RER line A. This station, although administratively located on the territory of the neighboring commune of Saint-Maur-des-Fossés, lies immediately across the river Marne from the town center of Champigny-sur-Marne and is thus used by people in Champigny. ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Open Letter (film)
''Open Letter'' (French: ''Lettre ouverte'') is a 1953 French comedy film directed by Alex Joffé and starring Robert Lamoureux, Geneviève Page and Jean-Marc Thibault.Bessy & Chirat p.187 The film's sets were designed by the art director Robert Clavel. Location shooting took place around Paris. Synopsis Martial Simonet is very jealous of his wife Colette and when he sees her writing a letter he demands to know who it is to she refuses to tell him. After she has posted it he bribes the postman to allow him to have it, but has so borrow the money from his parents in law. In cahoots with Colette, the postman has actually passed him a fake letter. It is only in the end that Martial becomes assured of his wife's fidelity. Cast * Robert Lamoureux as Martial Simonet * Geneviève Page as Colette Simonet * Jean-Marc Thibault as Gaston * Paul Bonifas as Honoré - le beau-père * Rosy Varte as La concierge - Madame Pépin * Sophie Mallet as La bonne - Hortense * Jacques Hilling as ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Le Diable Et Les Dix Commandements
''Le Diable et les Dix Commandements'' ( en, The Devil and the Ten Commandments) is a French film from 1962 directed by Julien Duvivier that consists of seven sketches (eight in the versions shown in Germany and Japan) played by an ensemble cast that includes Michel Simon, Micheline Presle, Françoise Arnoul, Mel Ferrer, Charles Aznavour, Lino Ventura, Fernandel, Alain Delon, Danielle Darrieux, Jean-Claude Brialy, and Louis de Funès. The film contrasts a series of human failings with the ever-present hope of redemption and a snake (voiced by Claude Rich) adds the Devil's comments. Plot Episode 1 Jérôme, the old handyman at a convent, is warned that he will lose his job if he continues to take the name of the Lord in vain, but is saved when the visiting bishop proves to be an old school friend. Episode 2 To obtain a beautiful necklace, Françoise succumbs to the wealthy Philip, husband of her friend Micheline. Her husband Georges finds the necklace she had hidden and g ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Disorder (1962 Film)
''Disorder'' (Italian: ''Il disordine'', French: ''Le Désordre'') is a 1962 Italian-French comedy-drama film directed by Franco Brusati. The story is a series of vignettes, in which a poor, uneducated young man (Renato Salvatori) tries to earn enough money to take his mother out of a nursing home and find a place where they both might live. For his performance, Georges Wilson won the Golden Gate Award for Best Supporting Actor at the San Francisco International Film Festival. Cast * Louis Jourdan : Tom * Susan Strasberg : Isabella * Curd Jürgens : the father * Alida Valli : the mother * Renato Salvatori : Mario * Georges Wilson : Don Giuseppe * Sami Frey : Carlo * Jean Sorel : Andrea * Antonella Lualdi : Mali * Tomas Milian : Bruno * Adriana Asti Adriana Asti (born 30 April 1931) is an Italian stage, film, and voice actress. Biography On stage, she starred in ''Saint Joan'' by George Bernard Shaw, ''Happy Days'' by Samuel Beckett, ''The Mistress of the Inn'' by Carlo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Seven Deadly Sins (1962 Film)
''Les Sept péchés capitaux'' is a 1962 French film composed of seven different segments, one for each of the seven deadly sins, each being by different directors and featuring different casts. At the time it served as a showcase for rising directors and stars, many of whom achieved later fame. Segments ''Anger'' Directed by Sylvain Dhomme and Max Douy from a script by Eugène Ionesco. Anger seizes a man who finds a fly in his Sunday soup. It spreads through his neighborhood, his city, his country and soon the whole world. ''Envy'' Directed by Édouard Molinaro. Starring Dany Saval (Rosette) and Claude Brasseur (Riri). Envious of a movie star who is staying at the hotel where she works, the waitress Rosette does everything she can to seduce the actress's lover. Some time later, after having realized her ambition, she returns to the hotel as a client. ''Sloth'' Written and directed by Jean-Luc Godard. Eddie Constantine, who plays himself, is approached by a starlet who he t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Captain Haddock
Captain Archibald Haddock (french: Capitaine Archibald Haddock, link=no, ) is a fictional character in ''The Adventures of Tintin'', the comics series by Belgian cartoonist Hergé. He is one of Tintin's best friends, a seafaring pipe-smoking Merchant Marine Captain. Haddock is initially depicted as a weak and alcoholic character under the control of his treacherous first mate Allan, who keeps him drunk and runs his freighter. He regains his command and his dignity, even rising to president of the Society of Sober Sailors (''The Shooting Star''), but never gives up his love for rum and whisky, especially Loch Lomond, until the final Tintin adventure, ''Tintin and the Picaros'', when Professor Calculus 'cures' him of his taste for alcohol. In the adventure '' Secret of the Unicorn'' (and continuing in ''Red Rackham's Treasure'') he and Tintin travel to find a pirate's treasure captured by his ancestor, Sir Francis Haddock (François de Hadoque in French). With newfound wealt ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Fascist
''The Fascist'' ( it, Il federale) is a 1961 Italian film directed by Luciano Salce. It was coproduced with France. It was also the first feature film scored by Ennio Morricone. Plot The movie takes place in 1944, when Italy was divided between the fascist puppet state Repubblica Sociale Italiana (RSI), which retained control only of the northern half of the country, and the Allied-occupied southern half. Fascist bosses gathered in Cremona (in the far North of Italy and well away from the line of fire) pick enthusiast militant Primo Arcovazzi (played by Ugo Tognazzi) to take into custody professor Bonafè, a noted anti-fascist philosopher and agreed upon new government leader among the opposition forces who are preparing the new democratic government after the war. During a first raid at the professor's home, Arcovazzi does not recognize him and Bonafè can escape to his family residence in rural Abruzzo. The fascist is hence appointed again to capture him there, and to lea ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Une Aussi Longue Absence
''The Long Absence'' (french: Une aussi longue absence, "Such a long absence") is a 1961 French film directed by Henri Colpi. It tells the story of Therese (Alida Valli), a Puteaux café owner mourning the mysterious disappearance of her husband sixteen years earlier. A tramp arrives in the town and she believes him to be her husband. But he is suffering from amnesia and she tries to bring back his memory of earlier times. ''The Long Absence'' shared the ''Palme d'Or'' prize with the Luis Buñuel film ''Viridiana'' at the 1961 Cannes Film Festival. Plot Sixteen years after the end of World War II, Thérèse Langlois owns a pub in Puteaux, Paris. Wrapping up the season, she plans her annual vacation in Chaulieu with her lover, but is growing emotionally distant towards him. At the pub, a tramp walks by daily singing ''The Barber of Seville'' aria and other opera songs. Intrigued, Thérèse has her bartender Martine call the tramp in for a drink. The tramp, who says he lives by the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Wasteland (1960 Film)
''Wasteland'' (french: Terrain vague) is a 1960 French Drama film directed by Marcel Carné and starring Danielle Gaubert and Maurice Caffarelli. The story is loosely based on the novel ''Tomboy'' by Hal Ellson. Plot Around a newly built HLM stretch wasteland and brownfield providing refuge to young people fleeing the unfathomable tedium of family life in the Paris suburbs. They share their secrets, the products of their thefts, submit to strict rituals. The sanctity of their revolt is highlighted by the initiation by jumping blindfolded and blood rite of passage. Dan, a beautiful young tomboy, rules the clan. But the gang threatens increasingly sliding into serious crime, which is condemned by Dan and Lucky, a big brawler boy but who begins to consider an orderly life. Now they are ostracized along with the young Babar, accused of being a stool pigeon. Lucky, on the run, and Dan discover a mutual romantic inclination, while Babar, cruelly mistreated and humiliated, commits su ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Joker (1960 Film)
''The Joker'' (french: Le Farceur) is a 1960 French comedy film directed by Philippe de Broca. Plot Edouard Berlon is a young, incorrigible seducer who moves very lightly from one affair to the next. He meets Helene Larouch, a woman married to André, a rich financier who is very busy with his affairs, leaving her in an emotionally arid life. Initially Helene resists Edouard's wooing, but as she gets to know his lively character, his eccentric lifestyle and his very unusual family environment, including his old uncle Théodose, his brother Pilou, servat Olga, some infants, and a few stray dogs, she lets herself become seduced. Their relation, however, turns out to be an ephemeral one as Edouard is busy seducing another woman. Cast * Anouk Aimée as Helene Larouch * Jean-Pierre Cassel as Edouard Berlon * Pierre Palau as Théodose * Geneviève Cluny as Pilou Berlon * Georges Wilson as Guillaume Berlon * Anne Tonietti as Olga * François Maistre as André Laroche * Jean-Pierre Ramb ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Dialogue With The Carmelites
''Dialogue with the Carmelites'' (french: Le dialogue des Carmélites, it, I dialoghi delle Carmelitane, also known as ''The Carmelites'') is a 1960 French-Italian historical drama film written and directed by Raymond Léopold Bruckberger and Philippe Agostini. It is based upon the play by Georges Bernanos, which in turn was adapted from the novel by Gertrud von Le Fort. It's the story of the Martyrs of Compiègne, Carmelite nuns who were guillotined in Paris in 1794 in the waning days of the Reign of Terror during the French Revolution, after refusing to renounce their vocation. Plot During the difficult years of the French Revolution, the young noblewoman Bianca, on the advice of her father, the Marquis de la Force, decided to enter the cloistered convent of the Carmelites of Compiègne. The need to find a safe refuge is accompanied by a certain religious vocation, but, despite this, Bianca is afraid of facing sacrifices and suffering and is afraid of not being up to her ch ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Green Mare (film)
''The Green Mare'' () is a 1959 French comedy film directed by Claude Autant-Lara, starring Bourvil, Francis Blanche, Sandra Milo and Yves Robert. The story is set during the latter half of the 19th century and follows two feuding peasant families. It is based on the novel ''The Green Mare'' by Marcel Aymé. The film premiered on 29 October 1959. It had 5,294,328 admissions in France. Cast * Bourvil as Honoré Haudouin * Francis Blanche as Ferdinand Haudouin * Sandra Milo as Marguerite Maloret * Yves Robert as Zèphe Maloret * Julien Carette as Philibert * Valérie Lagrange as Juliette Haudouin * Marie Déa Marie Déa (born Odette Alice Marie Deupès 17 May 1912 – 1 March 1992) was a French actress. She appeared in more than 50 films from 1939 to 1983. She was married to the actor Lucien Nat Lucien Nat (born Lucien Maurice Natte; 11 January ... as Anaïs Maloret * Guy Bertil as Toucheur References External links IMDb 1959 comedy films 1959 films Films bas ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |