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Victor Lanoux
Victor Lanoux (18 June 1936 – 4 May 2017) was a French actor best known to English speaking audiences for his role as Ludovic in ''Cousin, Cousine''. Biography Victor Lanoux, born Victor Robert Nataf was the son of a Tunisian Jew from Sfax and a Catholic mother from Normandy. He was evacuated from Paris during the Second World War. Lanoux refers to the name used during his stay in La Chapelle-Taillefert during the French occupation where he lived until the age of 11, when he returned to Paris. He left school at age 14 to become an apprentice varnisher. He worked a variety of jobs, including the Simca automotive assembly line, until he served in the French Army during the Algerian War and was wounded, being awarded the Medal for War Wounded (Médaille des blessés de guerre). His father got him a job at the Studio de Billancourt. He learned acting by correspondence course, then a real course. Career In 1961 he met Pierre Richard who was looking for someone to partner his c ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Vaux-sur-Mer
Vaux-sur-Mer () is a commune in the Charente-Maritime department in southwestern France. Population See also *Communes of the Charente-Maritime department The following is a list of the 463 communes of the Charente-Maritime department of France. The communes cooperate in the following intercommunalities (as of 2020):Communes of Charente-Maritime Populated coastal places in France {{CharenteMaritime-geo-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
François Villiers
François Villiers (2 March 1920 – 29 January 2009) Chevalier of the Legion of Honor was a French film director. He was responsible for several films, from '' Hans le marin'' in 1949, to ''Manika, une vie plus tard'', in 1989, which won the Prix du Public at Cannes. Family He was the younger brother of actor Jean-Pierre Aumont and therefore uncle of Tina Aumont. His mother's uncle was well-known stage actor Georges Berr Georges Berr (30 July 1867 – 21 July 1942) in Paris, was a French actor and dramatist, a member and sociétaire of the Comédie-Française from 1886 to 1923. Under the pseudonyms Colias and Henry Bott he wrote several plays, particularly in c ... (died 1942). Filmography Television References External links *The Complete Index To World Film since 1895 2009 deaths 1920 births French military personnel of World War II Chevaliers of the Légion d'honneur Film directors from Paris Place of death missing {{France-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Common Man (film)
''The Common Man'' (french: Dupont Lajoie) is a 1975 French drama film directed by Yves Boisset and produced by Sofracima. It was entered into the 25th Berlin International Film Festival, where it won the Silver Bear - Special Jury Prize. Cast * Jean Carmet as Georges Lajoie * Pierre Tornade as Colin * Jean Bouise as Detective Boulard * Michel Peyrelon as Albert Schumacher * Ginette Garcin as Ginette Lajoie * Pascale Roberts as Madame Colin * Jean-Pierre Marielle as Léo Tartaffione * Robert Castel as Loulou * Pino Caruso as Vigorelli * Isabelle Huppert as Brigitte Colin * Jacques Chailleux as Léon Lajoie * Henri Garcin as the senior official * Odile Poisson as Mme Schumacher * Victor Lanoux as the Strong man * Mohamed Zinet as Saïd's brother See also * Isabelle Huppert on screen and stage Isabelle Huppert is a French actress who has appeared in more than 120 feature films, mostly in starring roles. Regarded as one of the most respected actresses in French cinema, sh ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Michel Fermaud
Michel Jean Roger Edouard Fermaud (6 September 1921 – 7 June 2007) was a French author, dialoguist, film director, and screenwriter. Filmography (selection) * 1960 ', co director with Jacques Poitrenaud * 1977 ''L'Homme qui aimait les femmes'' by François Truffaut (co screenwriter) * 1983 ''The Man Who Loved Women'' by Blake Edwards Blake Edwards (born William Blake Crump; July 26, 1922 – December 15, 2010) was an American film director, producer, screenwriter and actor. Edwards began his career in the 1940s as an actor, but he soon began writing screenplays and radio s ..., original script * 1983 ', (director) References External links * 20th-century French screenwriters Mass media people from Bordeaux 1921 births 2007 deaths {{France-film-bio-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Jacques Ertaud
Jacques Ertaud (18 November 1924 – 18 November 1995) was a French film director and screenwriter. Along with Marcel Ichac, he co-directed the film '' Stars at Noon'', which entered into the 9th Berlin International Film Festival The 9th annual Berlin International Film Festival was held from 26 June – 7 July 1959. The festival welcomed the cinematic movement known as the New Wave and screened the work of directors such as Jean-Luc Godard, Agnès Varda and Françoi .... Selected filmography * '' Stars at Noon'' (1959) * '' The Link and the Chain'' (1963) * ''Sans famille'' (1981) References External links * 1924 births 1995 deaths French film directors French male screenwriters 20th-century French screenwriters Mountaineering film directors Writers from Paris 20th-century French male writers {{France-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
I Don't Know Much, But I'll Say Everything
''I Don't Know Much, But I'll Say Everything'' (french: Je sais rien, mais je dirai tout) is a 1973 French comedy film directed by Pierre Richard. Plot Pierre Gastié-Leroy (Pierre Richard) is the son of a wealthy director of a factory of weapon manufacturing (Bernard Blier). Despite his parents, two generous uncles and a bishop godfather who try to inculcate in him the rigid values of his social level, Pierre is a dreamer, antimilitaristic, social educator who dreams of saving three thugs, his "little guys," at the limit of delinquency. After several resounding failures that sent him to prison, Pierre is ordered by his father to join his factory to direct the social service. Tired of the venality of his father and the foolishness of the "little guys", Pierre hires them at the factory. They will have fun making mischief and being overzealous to convince the supervisors on increasing the working rhythms, denouncing the trade union leaders, battling a strike and finally, stealing 50 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
José Giovanni
José Giovanni (22 June 1923, Paris, France – 24 April 2004, Lausanne, Switzerland) was the pseudonym of Joseph Damiani, a French writer and film-maker of Corsican origin who became a naturalized Swiss citizen in 1986. A former collaborationist and criminal who at one time was sentenced to death, Giovanni often drew his inspiration from personal experience or from real gangsters, such as Abel Danos in his 1960 film '' Classe tous risques'', overlooking that they had been members of the French Gestapo. In his films as well as his novels, while praising masculine friendships and advocating the confrontation of the individual against the world, he often championed the underworld but was always careful to hide his own links with the Nazi occupiers of France during World War II. Biography Youth Of Corsican descent, Joseph Damiani received a good education, studying at the Collège Stanislas de Paris and the Lycée Janson de Sailly. His father, a professional gambler who was sen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Two Men In Town (1973 Film)
''Two Men in Town'' (french: Deux hommes dans la ville a.k.a. ''Two Against the Law'') is a 1973 Franco-Italian film directed by José Giovanni. The film was remade in 2014. Synopsis Germain Cazeneuve left the police to work as a prison trainer, teaching inmates how to live once out of jail and how to stay out. He stands guarantor when Gino Strabliggi, a printer by trade, is paroled two years before his twelve-year sentence for bank robbery expires. Germain and his family offer friendship to Gino and his wife Sophie, who has waited faithfully for ten years, until two criminals racing along a country road kill Sophie by accident. Gino gets a steady job as a printer and meets Lucy, a bank employee, who moves into his flat. On a regular visit to the police station to renew his parole, he is seen by Inspector Goitreau who originally arrested him and immediately follows him. As he stops for petrol, some old associates spot him and give him the address of their hideout. Goitreau, sus ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Claude Santelli
Claude Santelli (17 June 1923 – 14 December 2001) was a French film director and screenwriter. He directed 25 films between 1968 and 1996. Selected filmography * ''Histoire vraie'' (1973) * ''Madame Baptiste ''Madame Baptiste'' is a 1974 French film directed by Claude Santelli. Cast * Isabelle Huppert - Blanche * Francine Bergé - The mother * Jean-Marc Bory - The father * Roger Van Hool - Raoul Aubertin * Christian Bouillette - Baptiste * Laure ...'' (1974) References External links * 1923 births 2001 deaths French film directors French male screenwriters 20th-century French screenwriters People from Metz 20th-century French male writers {{France-film-director-stub ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
The Dominici Affair (film)
''The Dominici Affair'' (French: , Italian: ) is a 1973 French-Italian crime drama film directed by Claude Bernard-Aubert and starring Jean Gabin, Victor Lanoux and Gérard Depardieu.Kitchin p.xviii It is based on the Dominici affair of 1952. Location shooting took place in Ribiers and Peipin in Hautes-Alpes where the real events occurred. Synopsis After a British family are found murdered on the road near his family's farm in rural Provence Provence (, , , , ; oc, Provença or ''Prouvènço'' , ) is a geographical region and historical province of southeastern France, which extends from the left bank of the lower Rhône to the west to the Italian border to the east; it is bor ..., the old villager Gaston Dominici is arrested and apparently confesses to the crime. He is tried and sentenced to death, but his punishment is commuted on health grounds amid growing doubts about his guilt. Cast References Bibliography * Harriss, Joseph. ''Jean Gabin: The Actor Who Was Fr ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Gérard Pirès
Gérard Pirès (born 31 August 1942) is a French film director and writer. Filmography * '' Guo bao zong dong yuan'' (''Adventures in the NPM'') (2007) * '' Les Chevaliers du ciel'' (''Sky Fighters'') (2005) * '' Double zéro'' (2004) * ''Steal'' (2002) * ''Taxi A taxi, also known as a taxicab or simply a cab, is a type of vehicle for hire with a driver, used by a single passenger or small group of passengers, often for a non-shared ride. A taxicab conveys passengers between locations of their choic ...'' (1998) * '' De Serge Gainsbourg à Gainsbarre de 1958 - 1991'' (1994) (V) (segment "Monsieur William" 1968) * '' Rends-moi la clé!'' (1981) * '' L'Entourloupe'' (''The Swindle'') (1980) * '' L'Ordinateur des pompes funèbres'' (''The Probability Factor'' aka. ''The Undertaker Parlor Computer'') (1976) * '' Attention les yeux!'' (''Let's Make a Dirty Movie'') (1976) * ' (''Act of Aggression'') (1975) * '' Elle court, elle court la banlieue'' (''The Suburbs Are Everywhere ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Roger Pigaut
Roger Pigaut (birth name Roger Paul Louis Pigot) (8 April 1919 – 24 December 1989) was a French actor and film director. He appeared in 40 films between 1943 and 1980. Partial filmography * ''Retour de flamme'' (1943) - Maurice * '' Love Story'' (1943) - Fabien Marani * ''Twilight'' (1944) - Petit rôle (uncredited) * ''The Eleventh Hour Guest'' (1945) - Le docteur Rémi Lambert * '' The Bellman'' (1945) - Pierre * '' The Murderer is Not Guilty'' (1946) - Roger Pigaut (uncredited) * ''The Sea Rose'' (1946) - Jérôme * '' Night Warning'' (1946) - Pierre * ''The Bouquinquant Brothers'' (1947) - Pierre Bouquinquant * ''Antoine and Antoinette'' (1947) - Antoine Moulin * ''Les condamnés'' (1948) - Le docteur Auburtin * '' Night Express'' (1948) - Robert * ''Bagarres'' (1948) - Antoine * ''Vire-vent'' (1949) - Paul Chapus * '' Cartouche, King of Paris'' (1950) - Louis Dominique Bourguignon dit Cartouche * ''Un sourire dans la tempête'' (1950) - Francois Mercier * ''La peau d ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
