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Monsieur Papa (1977 Film)
''Monsieur Papa'' is a 1977 French comedy film directed by Philippe Monnier and starring Claude Brasseur and Nathalie Baye. It is based on the novel ''Monsieur Papa'' by Patrick Cauvin. Plot The story of the relationship between a father and his young son. Cast * Claude Brasseur - Franck Lanier * Nathalie Baye - Janine * Nicolas Reboul - Laurent * Daniel Auteuil - Dédé * Brigitte Catillon - Martine * Gérard Hérold - Bill * Éva Darlan - Sylviane * Michel Creton - Sport teacher * Moustache - Gilles' father * Josiane Balasko * François Dyrek * Jacqueline Doyen Jacqueline Doyen (14 February 1930 – 3 September 2006) was a French actress. She appeared in 80 films and television shows between 1956 and 1995. Filmography * ''Le salaire du péché'' (1956) - (uncredited) * ''L'étrange Monsieur Steve ... References External links * 1977 films French comedy films 1977 comedy films Gaumont Film Company films 1970s French-language films 1970s French films [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Alain Poiré
Alain Poiré (13 February 1917 – 14 January 2000) was a French film producer and screenwriter. He was born in Paris, and died in Neuilly-Sur-Seine. Life and career Alain Poiré graduated from law school and worked for advertising group Havas. In 1938, he moved to working for the film company Société Nouvelle des Etablissements Gaumont (SNEG) as assistant general manager in order to save the company from financial disaster. SNEG was renamed Gaumont Film Company in 1975. Always passionate about cinema, he didn't leave Gaumont until his death in 2000, becoming one of the most prolific producers in French cinema, particularly from the 1950s on. As producer at Gaumont and manager of Gaumont International, Alain Poiré produced more than 200 films. His final film, released after his death, was La Vache et le President. Poiré and his wife Yvette had two sons, Phillipe and Jean-Marie Poiré. He died of cancer at age 82. Filmography (producer) * 1948: ''Les Casse-pieds'' by Jean Dr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Éva Darlan
Éva Darlan (''née'' Osty, born 3 September 1948) is a French actress, director, producer and writer. Career At the age of 14, she attended acting classes at the Cours Simon and starts at 16 years as an amateur. She took theater studies at the ''École nationale supérieure des arts et techniques du théâtre'', located Rue Blanche and then immediately starts a theatrical career. In 1978, she had been nominated for the César Award for Best Supporting Actress The César Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role (French: ''César de la meilleure actrice dans un second rôle'') is one of the César Awards, presented annually by the ''Académie des Arts et Techniques du Cinéma'' to recognize the outst ..., for A Simple Story in which she played the role of Anna. Writer * * * * Filmography Theatre Notes and references External links * Interview(in French) {{DEFAULTSORT:Darlan, Eva 1948 births 20th-century French actresses 21st-century French actresses A ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gaumont Film Company Films
Gaumont may refer to: * Gaumont (surname) *Gaumont River, France, alias at Lafage-sur-Sombre Companies * Gaumont Film Company (founded 1895), a French company in film production and distribution ** Gaumont International Television, an American television division of the above * Gaumont-British (independent 1922), a former film production company, active during 1898-1938 * Gaumont Buena Vista International, a joint film distribution of Gaumont and Buena Vista International Live performance and theatre venues * Gaumont Cinema, a former theatre in Southend, UK, built by Bertie Crewe * Gaumont Haymarket, a cinema in London, UK 1937–1959 * Gaumont State Cinema, an Art Deco theatre in Kilburn district, London, UK * Gaumont-Palace, a cinema in Paris open from 1907 to 1973 * , a cinema in Buenos Aires * Bradford Odeon, formerly the Gaumont, a theatre in Bradford, UK * Hammersmith Apollo, formerely the Gaumont Palace, a performance venue in London * Mayflower Theatre Mayflower Theat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1977 Comedy Films
Events January * January 8 – Three bombs explode in Moscow within 37 minutes, killing seven. The bombings are attributed to an Armenian separatist group. * January 10 – Mount Nyiragongo erupts in eastern Zaire (now the Democratic Republic of the Congo). * January 17 ** 49 marines from the and are killed as a result of a collision in Barcelona harbour, Spain. * January 18 ** Scientists identify a previously unknown bacterium as the cause of the mysterious Legionnaires' disease. ** Australia's worst railway disaster at Granville, a suburb of Sydney, leaves 83 people dead. ** SFR Yugoslavia Prime minister Džemal Bijedić, his wife and 6 others are killed in a plane crash in Bosnia and Herzegovina. * January 19 – An Ejército del Aire CASA C-207C Azor (registration T.7-15) plane crashes into the side of a mountain near Chiva, on approach to Valencia Airport in Spain, killing all 11 people on board. * January 20 – Jimmy Carter is sworn in as the 39th President ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
French Comedy Films
French comedy films are comedy films produced in France. Comedy is the most popular French genre in cinema. Comic films began to appear in significant numbers during the era of silent films, roughly 1895 to 1930. The visual humour of many of these silent films relied on slapstick and burlesque. Characteristics of French comedy films French comedy films are very often social comedies, which differs largely from American comedies."La comédie française se différencie ..par son aspect social, une lutte des classes généralement absente des comédies américaines." . Social comedy Culture shock, in several French comedies, oftentimes contain several 'clichés', which include: * Religion – ''The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob'' in the 1970s, and ''Serial (Bad) Weddings'' in the 2010s * Social background – ''Life Is a Long Quiet River'' in the 1980s, and ''The Intouchables'' in the 2010s * Difference of life between two places – '' Welcome to the Land of ch'tis'' in the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1977 Films
The year 1977 in film involved some significant events. Highest-grossing films (U.S.) The top ten 1977 released films by box office gross in North America are as follows: Events * February 23 – During a press conference at Sardi's in Manhattan, it is officially announced that Christopher Reeve will be playing the role of Superman. * March 28 – At the 49th Academy Awards, ''Rocky'' picks up the Academy Award for Best Picture. Peter Finch, Faye Dunaway, and Beatrice Straight all win Oscars for their performances in ''Network'' for Best Actor, Best Actress, and Best Supporting Actress, while Jason Robards wins for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in ''All the President's Men.'' He will win again the following year, becoming the only person to win two consecutive Best Supporting Actor awards. * May 25 – ''Star Wars (film), Star Wars'' opens in theatres and becomes the List of highest-grossing films, highest-grossing film of the year. The film revolutionises th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacqueline Doyen
Jacqueline Doyen (14 February 1930 Р3 September 2006) was a French actress. She appeared in 80 films and television shows between 1956 and 1995. Filmography * ''Le salaire du p̩ch̩'' (1956) - (uncredited) * ''L'̩trange Monsieur Steve'' (1957) * ''La roue'' (1957) * ''Fernand clochard'' (1957) * ''Les oeufs de l'autruche'' (1957) - (uncredited) * ''La bonne tisane'' (1958) - La capitaine des girls * ''Asphalte'' (1959) - (uncredited) * ''Zazie dans le M̩tro'' (1960) - Permanent * ''A Very Private Affair'' (1962) - Juliette * ''La Vendetta'' (1962) - (uncredited) * ''Parigi o cara'' (1962) * '' We Will Go to Deauville'' (1962) - Fernande Mercier * ''Fleur d'oseille'' (1967) - Une salope * ''Une veuve en or'' (1969) - La voyante * ''L'homme orchestre'' (1970) - Une automobiliste au feu rouge (uncredited) * ''Le cri du cormoran, le soir au-dessus des jonques'' (1971) * ''Le drapeau noir flotte sur la marmite'' (1971) - L̩ontine Coulibeaux * ''Sex-shop'' (1972) * ''Ursule ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Dyrek
François Dyrek (16 August 1933 – 17 December 1999) was a French actor. He appeared in more than 140 films and television shows between 1964 and 1999. Partial filmography * ''L'assassin viendra ce soir'' (1964) - Un membre du gang des pompes funèbres * '' La baie du désir'' (1964) - Le braconnier * ''Drôle de jeu'' (1968) - Le second clandestin (Serge) * ''La Bande à Bonnot'' (1968) - Édouard Carouy * '' Ho!'' (1968) - Le typographe (uncredited) * ''L'amour c'est gai, l'amour c'est triste'' (1971) * ''Les galets d'Étretat'' (1972) * '' Themroc'' (1973) - Un policier * ''Night Flight from Moscow'' (1973) - - Taxi driver (uncredited) * '' L'emmerdeur'' (1973) * ''Projection privée'' (1973) - L'autre metteur en scène * '' Piaf'' (1974) - Henri * '' Let Joy Reign Supreme'' (1975) - Montlouis * ''The Judge and the Assassin'' (1976) - Released Tramp * '' I Am Pierre Riviere'' (1976) - L'homme de la battue * '' Les Ambassadeurs'' (1976) - Paul * ''Le Juge Fayard dit Le Sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Josiane Balasko
Josiane Balasko (born Josiane Balašković; 15 April 1950) is a French actress, writer, and director. She has been nominated seven times for César Awards, and won twice. Career One of Balasko's most recognized roles among English speakers is as a lesbian in 1995's ''Gazon maudit'' (''French Twist (film), French Twist''). She won the 1996 César Award (shared with Telsche Boorman) for best screenplay, and was also nominated as best director. The movie itself was nominated for best film. Balasko's other César nominations for best actress were for ''Too Beautiful for You'' (1989), ''Tout le monde n'a pas eu la chance d'avoir des parents communistes'' (1993), and ''That Woman (2003 film), That Woman'' (2003). 1973–1980: The beginning Balasko began her career in 1973 and was 23 years old when she first appeared on screen, in the short ''L'Agression'', with Patrick Bouchitey. She was in the movie ''L'an 01'', directed by Jacques Doillon. After an absence of three years she retur ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Moustache (actor)
François-Alexandre Galepides, known by the stage name Moustache, was a French actor and jazz drummer of Greek descent. He was born 14 February 1929 in Paris and died 25 March 1987 in Arpajon in a car accident. Biography In 1948 he joined Lorient, the orchestra of Claude Luter, as a drummer, playing in clubs of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. He also regularly accompanied Sidney Bechet in France. From 1950, he led his own bands (''Les sept complices'' and ''Les gros minets''). With the group Moustache et ses Moustachus, from 1956, he recorded, as a drummer and singer, several rock'n'roll novelty songs (e.g. "Le Croque-Skull-Creux", on a text by Boris Vian). In 1978, he formed the group ''Les petits Français'' (including Marcel Zanini, Michel Attenoux and François Guin), which recorded, among other things, jazz pieces by Georges Brassens. In parallel, Moustache had a career as a restaurateur (the restaurant Moustache, Avenue Duquesne Paris), head of clubs (in the 1960s, The Bilboqu ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Creton
Michel Creton (17 August 1942 in Wassy, Haute-Marne, France) is a French actor. He came to international attention with the release of ''Un homme de trop'' (''Shock Troops'') by Costa Gavras in 1967. Since then, he played in many films, appeared on TV and on stage (for example in 1989 in ''Un fil à la patte'' de Georges Feydeau in Théâtre du Palais-Royal in Paris). While he was in cinema a supporting actor, as one of Bernard Fresson's friends in ''Max an the junkmen'', and mostly rare in major roles like his thief in Nicholas Gessner's ''Le tuer triste'', he was a leading man on TV: alongside to Claude Jade in ''Fou comme François''. For his second TV movie with Claude Jade, ''Treize'', he was the writer of the screenplay. Selected filmography *1967: '' Love in the Night'' by Marcel Camus, with Serge Gainsbourg *1968: '' Un homme de trop (Shock Troops)'' by Costa-Gavras, with Jacques Perrin *1968: ''Le Bourgeois Gentilhomme'' by Bernarde Borderie, with Michel Serrault (C ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gérard Hérold
Gérard Hérold (Mulhouse, 10 September 1939 - Paris, 19 August 1993) was a French actor, appearing in several films, TV series and on theatre. Biography Gérard Hérold was born in Alsace in Mulhouse (Haut-Rhin) on 10 September 1935. He studied acting at the School of Dramatic Art in Strasbourg. In Paris, he was able to complete his artistic training by working with actor and director Antoine Vitez and also Gérard Vergez. He started performing in 1967 in the soap opera La vie begins at midnight in the role of 'Roland Sénéchal' alongside Geneviève Fontanel. In 1973, he played the hero in Les Fraises d'automne and ''King Alphonse V'' in the soap opera Le Secret des Flamands with Isabelle Adjani and Jean-Claude Dauphin. Édouard Molinaro then hired him in 1975 for the role of 'Delorme' in his film '' The Pink Phone'' co-starring with Mireille Darc, then by Michel Drach for '' Tell Me About Love'' (Parlez-moi d'amour), Pierre Granier-Deferre for Farewell, Chicken co-starring ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
