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The Counterfeit Constable
''The Counterfeit Constable'' (French: ''Allez France!'') is a 1964 French comedy film directed by Robert Dhéry and Pierre Tchernia and starring Ronald Fraser, Diana Dors and Arthur Mullard. Plot A French rugby supporter (Robert Dhéry), in England for a match at Twickenham, is accidentally elbowed in the face and loses two teeth. He goes to the dentist who fits new teeth and tells him he musn't open his mouth for two hours, to allow the cement holding them to set properly. He starts to wait, and in the waiting room he sees the uniform of another patient, who's a policeman (Bernard Cribbins). He tries it on for fun, and while wearing it by sheer chance he saves Diana Dors, a movie star who lives next door. He is congratulated by police chiefs who take him for a true police officer. He can't tell them he isn't because he can't open his mouth and besides, he doesn't speak English. He becomes lost in London, and many misunderstandings and misadventures follow. And to make matters ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Robert Dhéry
Robert Dhéry (27 April 1921 – 3 December 2004) (born Robert Léon Henri Fourrey or Robert Foullcy) was a French comedian, actor, director and screenwriter. He was married to actor Colette Brosset, with whom he appeared onstage in ''La Plume de Ma Tante''. He appeared on Broadway from 1958 to 1960 in ''La Plume de Ma Tante'', and was, along with the rest of the entire cast (Pamela Austin, Colette Brosset, Roger Caccia, Yvonne Constant, Genevieve Coulombel, Michael Kent, Jean Lefevre, Jacques Legras, Michael Modo, Pierre Olaf, Nicole Parent, Ross Parker, Henri Pennec) awarded a Special Tony Award 1959 for contribution to the theatre. Selected filmography * '' Night Shift'' (1944) * '' Branquignol'' (1949) * ''I Like Only You'' (1949) * '' Bernard and the Lion'' (1951) * ''Love Is Not a Sin'' (1952) * ''La demoiselle et son revenant'' (1952) * ''The Pirates of the Bois de Boulogne ''The Pirates of the Bois de Boulogne'' (French: ''Les Corsaires du Bois de Boulogne'') is a 1954 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Rugby Union
Rugby union, commonly known simply as rugby, is a close-contact team sport that originated at Rugby School in the first half of the 19th century. One of the two codes of rugby football, it is based on running with the ball in hand. In its most common form, a game is played between two teams of 15 players each, using an oval-shaped ball on a rectangular field called a pitch. The field has H-shaped goalposts at both ends. Rugby union is a popular sport around the world, played by people of all genders, ages and sizes. In 2014, there were more than 6 million people playing worldwide, of whom 2.36 million were registered players. World Rugby, previously called the International Rugby Football Board (IRFB) and the International Rugby Board (IRB), has been the governing body for rugby union since 1886, and currently has 101 countries as full members and 18 associate members. In 1845, the first laws were written by students attending Rugby School; other significant even ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Amy Dalby
Amy Mary Dalby (3 January 1888 – 10 March 1969) was an English actress of stage and screen, often in kindly or eccentric spinster roles. Amy first acted at the age of six. Her final performance was in the 8 March 1969 episode "The Battle of Godfrey's Cottage" of ''Dad's Army'', portraying the sister of Private Godfrey. She died in London on 10 March—two days after the episode aired. Partial filmography * ''On the Night of the Fire'' (1939) - Hospital Nurse (uncredited) * ''Quiet Wedding'' (1941) - Miss Dacres (uncredited) * ''Penn of Pennsylvania'' (1942) - Hannah - Penn's Maid (uncredited) * ''The Night Has Eyes'' (1942) - Miss Miggs * ''The Great Mr. Handel'' (1942) * ''The Gentle Sex'' (1943) - Lady Behind the Bar at the Dance (uncredited) * ''Variety Jubilee'' (1943) - A Suffragette (uncredited) * ''Dear Octopus (film), Dear Octopus'' (1943) - (uncredited) * ''Millions Like Us'' (1943) - Mrs. Bourne - Hostel Matron (uncredited) * ''Waterloo Road (film), Waterloo Road'' ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Percy Herbert (actor)
Percy Herbert (31 July 1920 – 6 December 1992) was an English actor. He worked predominantly from the 1950s into the 1970s and became one of the most recognisable faces in post-war British cinema. Biography He served in the Royal Army Ordnance Corps during the Second World War and spent four years in the Japanese prisoner of war camp Changi. After the war, he was helped by Dame Sybil Thorndike to secure an interview with the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art where he won a scholarship. His acting career began in the theatre, which included working at John Gielgud's Old Vic Company. Beginning in 1954, he went on to make nearly seventy films, often playing soldiers, most notably in ''The Cockleshell Heroes'', ''The Bridge on the River Kwai'' (for which he also worked as consultant as well as suggesting the use of the well-known "Colonel Bogey March" which the prisoners whistled in the film), ''Sea of Sand'', ''Tunes of Glory'', '' The Guns of Navarone'', ''Guns at Batasi'', ''Tob ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Catherine Sola
Catherine Sola (1941–2014) was a French film and television actress.Cowie & Elley p.135 Selected filmography * '' The Trip to Biarritz'' (1963) * ''The Counterfeit Constable'' (1964) * ''The Champagne Murders'' (1967) * ''Sweet Movie'' (1974) * ''Joséphine, ange gardien'' (1998) - 1 Episode * ''Joséphine, ange gardien'' (2008) - 1 Episode * ''The First Man ''The First Man'' (french: Le Premier homme) is Albert Camus' unfinished final novel. On January 4, 1960, at the age of forty-six, Camus died in a car accident. The incomplete manuscript of ''The First Man'', the autobiographical novel Camus wa ...'' (2011) References Bibliography * Peter Cowie & Derek Elley. ''World Filmography: 1967''. Fairleigh Dickinson University Press, 1977. External links * 1941 births 2014 deaths French film actresses {{France-film-actor-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Richard Vernon
Richard Evelyn Vernon (7 March 1925 – 4 December 1997) was a British actor. He appeared in many feature films and television programmes, often in aristocratic or supercilious roles. Prematurely balding and greying, Vernon settled into playing archetypal middle-aged lords and military types while still in his 30s. He is perhaps best known for originating the role of Slartibartfast in ''The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy''. Other notable roles included Edwin Oldenshaw in ''The Man in Room 17'' (1965–67), Sir James Greenley, alias "C" in ''The Sandbaggers'' (1978–80) and Sir Desmond Glazebrook in ''Yes Minister'' (1980–81) and its sequel series ''Yes, Prime Minister'' (1987). Early life Vernon was born in Kenya in 1925 to British parents. Vernon and his parents moved to Britain in 1937 where Vernon attended Reading School and Leighton Park School (both in Reading, Berkshire). During the Second World War served in the Royal Navy. He trained as an actor at the Central S ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pierre Tornade
Pierre Tornade (21 January 1930 – 7 March 2012) was a French actor. He appeared in more than 120 films and television shows between 1956 and 1998. Biography He was born Pierre Tournadre on 21 January 1930 in Bort-les-Orgues in the department of Corrèze. He began his theatrical career at 25 in ''Elle est folle, Carole'' at the théâtre du Palais-Royal. In 1956, he played in the musical comedy ''Irma la douce'' by Alexandre Breffort and Marguerite Monnot and then made his film debut in ''Les Truands'', where he adopted his stage name, Tornade. The next year, he played a theater role in ''Pericles, Prince of Tyre'' before joining the Branquignols troupe of Robert Dhéry, which also included Jean Lefebvre, Michel Serrault and Micheline Dax. He then became very demanded on television and appeared in several sitcoms such as '' Thierry la Fronde'' (1963), ''Le Chevalier d'Harmental'' (1966), ''Les Sept de l'escalier quinze B'' (1967) and ''Les Dossiers de l'agence O'' (1968). B ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Raymond Bussières
Raymond Bussières (3 November 1907 – 29 April 1982) was a French film actor. He appeared in more than 160 films between 1933 and 1982. He was born in Ivry-la-Bataille and died in Paris. He is buried in Marchenoir. He was married to the actress Annette Poivre. Selected filmography * ''Ciboulette'' (1933) * ''Lights of Paris'' (1938) * ''Romance of Paris'' (1941) * ''The Murderer Lives at 21'' (1942) * ''The Stairs Without End'' (1943) * ''Pamela'' (1945) * '' The Last Judgment'' (1945) * '' The Two Orphans'' (1947) * ''Le Bataillon du ciel'' (1947) * ''Cab Number 13'' (1948) * ''I Like Only You'' (1949) * ''Marlene'' (1949) * ''Five Red Tulips'' (1949) * ''Branquignol'' (1949) * ''Justice Is Done'' (1950) * ''Moumou'' (1951) * ''The Nude Dancer'' (1952) * ''Les Belles de nuit'' (1952) * ''Casque d'or'' (1952) * '' The Porter from Maxim's'' (1953) * ''My Brother from Senegal'' (1953) * ''The Enchanting Enemy'' (1953) * ''The Lottery of Happiness'' (1953) * ''The Tour of the ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Richard (actor)
Jean Richard (18 April 1921 – 12 December 2001) was a French actor, comedian, and circus entrepreneur. He is best remembered for his role as Georges Simenon's ''Maigret Jules Maigret (), or simply Maigret, is a fictional French police detective, a '' commissaire'' ("commissioner") of the Paris ''Brigade Criminelle'' ('' Direction Régionale de la Police Judiciaire de Paris:36, Quai des Orfèvres''), created b ...'' in the eponymous French television series, which he played for more than twenty years, and for his circus activities. Richard was born in Bessines, Deux-Sevres. In the 1970s–1980s, he owned and managed three major circuses, two theme parks near Paris, La Mer de Sable and La Vallée des Peaux-Rouges, and a private zoo in his property of Ermenonville, Oise. He died on 12 December 2001 in Senlis, aged 80. Filmography *1947: ''Six heures à perdre'' (directed by Alex Joffé Jean Lévitte) – Le sergent de ville *1949: ''Mission à Tanger'' (directed by André ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Carmet
Jean Carmet (25 April 1920 – 20 April 1994) was a French actor. Life and career Jean Carmet began working on stage and then in film in the early 1940s becoming a very popular comedic actor in his native country. He is best known internationally for his role as a French colonist in the 1976 film, '' La Victoire en Chantant'' (Black and White in Color). Because of his good-natured manner, he was as popular with members of the film crew as he was with the audiences. During his long career, he appeared in more than 200 films, and although he played dramatic parts, he usually acted in a supporting role as a comedic character. He was nominated for the César Award for Best Actor for his leading role in the 1986 film, '' Miss Mona''. Twice he won the César Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role and was nominated on two other occasions. In February 1994, to celebrate his 50th year in film, he was honored by the French motion picture industry with a special César Award. Just ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jean Lefebvre
Jean Marcel Lefebvre (3 October 1919Some sources indicate he was born in 1922. – 9 July 2004) was a French film actor. His erratic studies were interrupted by World War II. Taken prisoner and then requisitioned as a laborer, he escaped to join his family evacuated near Châteauroux and Neuvy-Saint-Sépulcre. He was a tram driver time in Limoges and seller of underwear. At the end of the war he returned to his home, in his house in Valenciennes, where he worked briefly for his father, and then entered the Conservatoire in Paris in 1948. Selected filmography *1934: ''Judex'' – Roger de Trémeuse *1947: ''Un flic'' – Un jeune homme chez le coiffeur (uncredited) *1951: ''Bouquet de joie'' – Georges *1952: ''Une fille sur la route'' – Loulou – le pianiste *1952: ''L'amour toujours l'amour'' – Jacques *1955: '' Les Diaboliques'' – Le soldat *1955: ''La villa Sans-Souci'' *1955: ''Cherchez la femme'' – Joe *1955: ''Gas-Oil'' – Le chauffeur de car *1955: ''Une fil ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Henri Génès
Henri Génès (2 July 1919 – 22 August 2005) was a French singer and actor who appeared in such films as '' The Sucker'', ''La Grande Vadrouille'', ''The Brain'', '' The Counterfeit Constable'', and '' The Little Bather''. He was born in Tarbes, and died, aged 86, in Saint-Cloud. Partial filmography * '' Hanged Man's Farm'' (1945) – Jérôme * ''Plume la poule'' (1947) * ''The Chocolate Girl'' (1949) – Félicien Bédarride * ''We Will All Go to Paris'' (1950) – Julien * ''Pigalle-Saint-Germain-des-Prés'' (1950) – Gustave dit Tatave * ''Les amants de Bras-Mort'' (1951) – Nestor * ''Paris Is Always Paris'' (1951) – Paul Gremier * ''Nous irons à Monte Carlo'' (1951) – Antoine Lacassagne * ''A Hundred Francs a Second'' (1953) – Fernand * ''Une fille dans le soleil'' (1953) – Virgile * ''Au diable la vertu'' (1953) – Pierre Montabrel * ''Jeunes mariés'' (1953) – Le garagiste * ''Les détectives du dimanche'' (1953) – Molot * ''L'Œil en coulisses'' (1953) ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
