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The Road To Damascus (film)
''The Road to Damascus'' (French: ''Le chemin de Damas'') is a 1952 French historical drama film directed by Max Glass and starring Michel Simon, Antoine Balpêtré and Jean-Marc Tennberg.Magerstädt p.81 It was shot at the Joinville Studios in Paris. The film's sets were designed by the art director Guy de Gastyne. Cast * Michel Simon as Caïphe * Antoine Balpêtré as Gamaliel * Jean-Marc Tennberg as Saül de Tarse * Jacques Dufilho as Pierre * Christiane Lénier as Déborah * Line Noro as La mère d'Etienne * François Chaumette as Barnabé * Nathalie Nerval as Magdala * Maurice Teynac as Le Christ * Claude Laydu as Etienne * Georges Vitray as Le chef de la police * Roger Hanin as Un disciple * Charles Vissières as Le vieux * Pierre Palau * Paul Demange * Françoise Goléa * Guy Mairesse * Rivers Cadet * Pierre Moncorbier * Alexandre Mihalesco Alexandre Mihalesco (; born Alexandru Mihăilescu, ; 19 October 1883 – 28 December 1974) was a Romania ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Max Glass
Max Glass (12 June 1881 – 18 July 1965) was an Austrian screenwriter, film director, and producer. Glass was born in Jaroslau, which was then part of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, into a Jewish family, but later converted to Catholicism. He gained a PHD in Philosophy from the University of Vienna. Glass entered the German film industry as a writer, but soon became a producer. By the mid-1920s he rose to be head of production at Terra Film before breaking away to set up his own production company in 1928 Glass' lover the actress Ruth Werner appeared in a number of his films but was unable to marry him until he had secured a divorce from his first wife, Dr. Helene Münz (married 1908–1957), with whom he had two sons, Paul Glass (born 1910) and Georges Glass (born 19 October 1917, Vienna). Following the Nazi takeover of power in Germany in 1933, Glass' production companies were shut down and he was forced to go into exile in France. Glass again worked as a producer, b ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Line Noro
Line Noro (22 February 1900 – 4 November 1985) was a French stage and film actress.Hayward p.172 During the 1930s she played glamorous, often exotic, women in films such as ''Pépé le Moko''. Between 1945 and 1966 Noro was a member of the Comédie Française. She was married to the film director André Berthomieu. Selected filmography * ''The Divine Voyage'' (1929) * ''Montmartre'' (1931) * '' La Tête d'un homme'' (1933) * '' Little Jacques'' (1934) * '' The Flame'' (1936) * ''Pépé le Moko'' (1937) * '' J'accuse!'' (1938) * ''Ramuntcho'' (1938) * '' Street Without Joy'' (1938) * '' The Well-Digger's Daughter'' (1940) * '' The Secret of Madame Clapain'' (1943) * ''The Count of Monte Cristo'' (1943) * '' La Fiancée des ténèbres'' (1945) * ''Girl with Grey Eyes'' (1945) * ''Jericho'' (1946) * ''Pastoral Symphony The Symphony No. 6 in F major, Op. 68, also known as the ''Pastoral Symphony'' (German: ''Pastorale''), is a symphony composed by Ludwig van Beethoven and ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Moncorbier
Pierre is a masculine given name. It is a French form of the name Peter. Pierre originally meant "rock" or "stone" in French (derived from the Greek word πέτρος (''petros'') meaning "stone, rock", via Latin "petra"). It is a translation of Aramaic כיפא (''Kefa),'' the nickname Jesus gave to apostle Simon Bar-Jona, referred in English as Saint Peter. Pierre is also found as a surname. People with the given name * Abbé Pierre, Henri Marie Joseph Grouès (1912–2007), French Catholic priest who founded the Emmaus Movement * Monsieur Pierre, Pierre Jean Philippe Zurcher-Margolle (c. 1890–1963), French ballroom dancer and dance teacher * Pierre (footballer), Lucas Pierre Santos Oliveira (born 1982), Brazilian footballer * Pierre, Baron of Beauvau (c. 1380–1453) * Pierre, Duke of Penthièvre (1845–1919) * Pierre, marquis de Fayet (died 1737), French naval commander and Governor General of Saint-Domingue * Prince Pierre, Duke of Valentinois (1895–1964), father ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rivers Cadet
Rivers Cadet (1 March 1892 – 1 November 1968) was a French actor. Cadet was born Jean Maurice Large in Paris. He was the brother of Fernand Rivers. Selected filmography * '' Maurin of the Moors'' (1932) * '' The Ironmaster'' (1933) * '' Three Sailors'' (1934) * ''Good Luck'' (1935) * '' The Two Boys'' (1936) * ''Street Singer'' (1938) * ''Tricoche and Cacolet'' (1938) * ''Golden Venus'' (1938) * '' Berlingot and Company'' (1939) * ''Behind the Facade'' (1939) * ''Louise'' (1939) * ''Sing Anyway'' (1940) * ''Paris-New York'' (1940) * ''Monsieur Hector'' (1940) * ''Notre-Dame de la Mouise'' (1941) * ''The Last of the Six'' (1941) * '' Les Enfants du Paradis'' (1945) * ''The Woman I Murdered'' (1948) * '' The Red Angel'' (1949) * ''Adémaï au poteau-frontière'' (1950) * '' Mademoiselle Josette, My Woman'' (1950) * ''The Night Is My Kingdom'' (1951) * '' The Sleepwalker'' (1951) * '' Topaze'' (1951) * '' The Road to Damascus'' (1952) * ''The Lottery of Happiness'' (1953) * ''T ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Guy Mairesse (actor)
Guy Mairesse (10 August 1910 – 24 April 1954) was a French racing driver. He participated in three Formula One World Championship ''Grands Prix'', debuting on 3 September 1950. He scored no championship points. Mairesse built a haulage business during the interwar period, and became interested in motor sport in 1946 through his friendship with Le Mans driver, Paul Vallée. He won the Lyon-Charbonnières Rally in 1947 and then purchased a Delahaye from Vallée for 1948, with which he was victorious at Chimay. In 1949 Mairesse joined Vallée's team, Ecurie France, to race the Lago-Talbot and took fourth place at Pau and fifth at Albi. In 1950 he finished second at Le Mans with Pierre Meyrat using a single seat Talbot. Towards the end of that season the Vallée team closed and Mairesse purchased the Le Mans car and a Lago-Talbot T26C, which he used to enter the 1950 Italian Grand Prix, from which he retired, and the Swiss and French Grands Prix in 1951, finishing 11 lap ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Françoise Goléa
Françoise () is a French feminine given name (equivalent to the Italian Francesca) and may refer to: * Anne Françoise Elizabeth Lange (1772–1816), French actress * Claudine Françoise Mignot (1624–1711), French adventuress * Françoise Adnet (1924-2014), French figurative painter * Françoise Ardré (1931-2010), French phycologist and marine scientist * Françoise Arnoul (1931–2021), French actress * Françoise Atlan (born 1964), Moroccan singer * Françoise Balibar (born 1941), French physicist and science historian * Françoise Ballet-Blu (born 1964), French politician * Françoise Barré-Sinoussi (born 1947), virologist and Nobel Prize winner * Françoise Basseporte (1701–1780), French painter * Françoise Bertaut de Motteville (c. 1621–1689), French memoir writer * Françoise Bertin (1925-2014), French actress * Françoise Boivin (born 1960), Canadian politician * Françoise Bonnet (born 1957), French long-distance runner * Françoise Briand (born 1951), French po ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Paul Demange (actor)
Paul Demange (12 April 1901 – 28 November 1983) was a French film actor who had roles in over 200 films from 1933 to 1977. Selected filmography *''Bach the Detective'' (1936) * ''Marinella'' (1936) * ''The Lover of Madame Vidal'' (1936) * ''Excursion Train'' (1936) * '' The Flame'' (1936) *''The Man of the Hour'' (1937) * ''Three Waltzes'' (1938) * ''His Uncle from Normandy'' (1939) * ''The Last of the Six'' (1941) * '' The Black Diamond'' (1941) * ''Mademoiselle Swing'' (1942) * '' The Guardian Angel'' (1942) * ''Malaria'' (1943) *'' The Woman Who Dared'' (1944) *'' St. Val's Mystery'' (1945) * ''The Last Metro'' (1945) * ''Pamela'' (1945) * ''The Black Cavalier'' (1945) *'' Back Streets of Paris'' (1946) *''Her Final Role'' (1946) *''Jericho'' (1946) *'' Roger la Honte'' (1946) *''Women's Games'' (1946) * ''Sylvie and the Ghost'' (1946) *'' Man About Town'' (1947) *'' Cab Number 13'' (1948) * ''Dilemma of Two Angels'' (1948) * '' Night Express'' (1948) * '' Doctor Laennec'' ( ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Palau
Pierre Palau (13 August 1883 – 3 December 1966), often known simply as Palau, was a French actor. Palau was born Pierre Palau del Vitri in Paris and died at age 83 in Meudon, Hauts-de-Seine, France. Partial filmography * '' When Do You Commit Suicide?'' (1931) * ''Luck'' (1931) * ''Monsieur Albert'' (1932) * '' La dame de chez Maxim's'' (1933) * '' Zouzou'' (1934) * ''The Typist Gets Married'' (1934) * ''The Midnight Prince'' (1934) * ''Fanfare of Love'' (1935) * '' Tovaritch'' (1935) * ''Girls of Paris'' (1936) * ''The Green Jacket'' (1937) * '' The Man from Nowhere'' (1937) * ''Rasputin'' (1938) * ''Crossroads'' (1938) * ''The Lafarge Case'' (1938) * ''The Phantom Carriage'' (1939) * '' Annette and the Blonde Woman'' (1942) * '' I Am with You'' (1943) * ''La Main du diable'' (1943) * '' Box of Dreams'' (1945) * ''Mademoiselle X'' (1945) * '' Boule de suif'' (1945) * ''Messieurs Ludovic'' (1946) * ''The Queen's Necklace'' (1946) * ''Jericho'' (1946) * '' The Uncatchable Mr. F ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Charles Vissières
Charles is a masculine given name predominantly found in English and French speaking countries. It is from the French form ''Charles'' of the Proto-Germanic name (in runic alphabet) or ''*karilaz'' (in Latin alphabet), whose meaning was "free man". The Old English descendant of this word was '' Ċearl'' or ''Ċeorl'', as the name of King Cearl of Mercia, that disappeared after the Norman conquest of England. The name was notably borne by Charlemagne (Charles the Great), and was at the time Latinized as ''Karolus'' (as in ''Vita Karoli Magni''), later also as '' Carolus''. Some Germanic languages, for example Dutch and German, have retained the word in two separate senses. In the particular case of Dutch, ''Karel'' refers to the given name, whereas the noun ''kerel'' means "a bloke, fellow, man". Etymology The name's etymology is a Common Germanic noun ''*karilaz'' meaning "free man", which survives in English as churl (< Old English ''ċeorl''), which developed its depre ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Hanin
Roger is a given name, usually masculine, and a surname. The given name is derived from the Old French personal names ' and '. These names are of Germanic origin, derived from the elements ', ''χrōþi'' ("fame", "renown", "honour") and ', ' ("spear", "lance") (Hrōþigēraz). The name was introduced into England by the Normans. In Normandy, the Frankish name had been reinforced by the Old Norse cognate '. The name introduced into England replaced the Old English cognate '. ''Roger'' became a very common given name during the Middle Ages. A variant form of the given name ''Roger'' that is closer to the name's origin is ''Rodger''. Slang and other uses Roger is also a short version of the term "Jolly Roger", which refers to a black flag with a white skull and crossbones, formerly used by sea pirates since as early as 1723. From up to , Roger was slang for the word "penis". In ''Under Milk Wood'', Dylan Thomas writes "jolly, rodgered" suggesting both the sexual double entend ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Georges Vitray
Georges Vitray (1888–1960) was a French film actor.Crisp p.155 Biography Georges Victor Leporcher was born in Paris, France to Constant Leporcher and Victorine Victoire Bricier. Georges took the name Vitray as a stage name. Georges' mother was born in Bréal-sous-Vitré. He participated in 46 French films ( with the exception of two co-productions with Germany and Italy in 1954 ) from 1931 to 1958 as well as a TV movie in 1959. He also played in the theater. He received the Knighthood of the Legion of Honour in 1959 for military service during World War I and 43 years of service to the Comédie-Française. He was married to the American author and newspaper editor Laura Vitray (ne Yard). They had a son in 1924, George Alain Vitray. Selected filmography * ''Happy Hearts (1932 film), Happy Hearts'' (1932) * ''The Mysteries of Paris (1935 film), The Mysteries of Paris'' (1935) * ''Forty Little Mothers (1936 film), Forty Little Mothers'' (1936) * ''The Tender Enemy'' (1936) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Laydu
Claude Laydu (; 10 March 1927 – 29 July 2011) was a Belgian-born Swiss actor on stage and in films. He was renowned for his performance in his film debut in the role of the young priest in Robert Bresson's ''Diary of a Country Priest'' (1951), which has been described as one of the greatest in the history of film. Biography Laydu was born and grew up in Brussels. He moved to Paris to study at the National Academy of Dramatic Arts. He became a member of Madeleine Renaud and Jean-Louis Barrault's company at the Théâtre Marigny, when he was selected by director Robert Bresson for his first role in a film, as the titular young priest in ''Diary of a Country Priest,'' based on the 1936 novel of the same name by Georges Bernanos.Anton Karl Kozlovic"Lights! Camera! Sermon!: Additional Research Notes on Sacred Servant Categories Within the Popular Cinema", Mundane Behavior; accessed 28 May 2008. "The embarrassingly self-conscious Priest of Ambricourt (Claude Laydu) in ''Diary of a ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |