Gérard Buhr (8 May 19288 January 1988) was a French
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and
television actor
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.
Selected filmography
* ' (1950)
* ''Quai de Grenelle'' (1950) - Petit rôle (uncredited)
* '' Beware of Blondes'' (1950) - Un journaliste (uncredited)
* ''
Monte Carlo Baby
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'' (1951)
* ''
The Straw Lover
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'' (1951) - Gaston's employées
* ''
Maître après Dieu
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'' (1951) - L'officier allemand
* ''
The passer-through-walls
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'' (1951) - (uncredited)
* ''
Paris Vice Squad
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Cast
* Odette Barencey as La concierge (as Odette Barancey)
* Luc Barney as Ma ...
'' (1951) - (uncredited)
* ''Les Mémoires de la vache Yolande'' (1951)
* '' Les Miracles n'ont lieu qu'une fois'' (1951) - (uncredited)
* ''Les Petites Cardinal'' (1951)
* ''
Shadow and Light
''Shadow and Light'' (French: ''Ombre et lumière'') is a 1951 French psychological drama film directed by Henri Calef and starring Simone Signoret, María Casares and Jean Marchat.Hayward p.244
The film's sets were designed by Daniel Guéret and ...
'' (1951) - Le garçon de café (uncredited)
* ' (1951) - Presder
* ''
Atoll K
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'' (1951) - Une sentinelle (uncredited)
* ''
The Cape of Hope
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It was shot at the Billancourt Studios an ...
'' (1951)
* ''Nous irons à Monte Carlo'' (1951)
* ''
Jocelyn
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'' (1952)
* ''
Fanfan la Tulipe
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'' (1952) - Un soldat
* ''Le Chemin de Damas'' (1952)
* ''
My Husband Is Marvelous
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'' (1952)
* '' Follow That Man'' (1953) - Le jeune au flipper (uncredited)
* ''
Les amants de minuit
''Lovers of Midnight''
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* ''La dame aux camélias'' (1953) - (uncredited)
* '' Alarm in Morocco'' (1953) - Bernis
* ''
Le Chevalier de la nuit
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'' (1953) - Un policier
* '' Act of Love'' (1953) - (uncredited)
* '' Daughters of Destiny'' (1954) - Kennedy (segment "Jeanne")
* ''
Tempest in the Flesh
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'' (1954) - Paul, l'ouvrier polonais
* ''
Flesh and the Woman
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'' (1954) - legionnaire
* ''
The Cheerful Squadron
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'' (1954) - Defaulter
* ''
Yours Truly, Blake
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'' (1954)
* ''La rafle est pour ce soir'' (1954)
* ''
One Step to Eternity
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'' (1954) - William Jordan
* ''
To Catch a Thief
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Bob le Flambeur
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'' (1956) - Marc
* ''
Elena and Her Men
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'' (1956) - Un soldat
* ''Alerte au Deuxième Bureau'' (1956) - Battini
* ''
Michel Strogoff
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'' (1956) - Henry Blount
* ''Deuxième Bureau contre inconnu'' (1957) - Yerco
* '' Gates of Paris'' (1957) - Un inspecteur (uncredited)
* ' (1958) - Mario
* ''
Me and the Colonel
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Kaye won a Golden Globe Award for B ...
'' (1958) - German Captain
* ''
A Bullet in the Gun Barrel
''A Bullet in the Gun Barrel'' (french: Une balle dans le canon) is a 1958 French crime film directed by Michel Deville and Charles Gérard.
Cast
* Pierre Vaneck as Tony
* Mijanou Bardot as Brigitte Geoffrain
* Paul Frankeur as Pépère
* ...
'' (1958) - Alberto
* ''Normandie-Niémen'' (1960) - Le capitaine de Liron
* ''
Lovers on a Tightrope
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The film's sets were designed b ...
'' (1960) - Henri
* ''
Spotlight on a Murderer
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Léon Morin, Priest
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'' (1961) - Gunther
* ''Le Monte-charge'' (1962) - Le policier chez la vendeuse #1 (uncredited)
* '' The Law of Men'' (1962) - Le Patron
* ''À couteaux tirés'' (1963) - Ludwig Hermann
* '' The Train'' (1964) - Corporal
* ''
The Counterfeit Constable
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Plot
A French rugby supporter (Robert Dhéry), in ...
'' (1964) - L'ami de Patricia
* ''
Pleins feux sur Stanislas
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'' (1965) - (uncredited)
* ''
The Night of the Generals
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'' (1967) - Colonel
Claus von Stauffenberg
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Despite ...
* ''
Pasha
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'' (1968) - Arsène
* ''
The Night of the Following Day
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Le clan des siciliens
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'' (1969) - Un inspecteur
* ''
The Deadly Trap
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Plot
Jill and ...
'' (1971) - Le psychiatre
* ''
The Day of the Jackal
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'' (1973) - Gendarme talking on the phone
* ''
Love and Death
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'' (1975) - Servant
* ''Les Loulous'' (1977) - Le père de Ben (uncredited)
* ''
The French Woman
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Cast
* Françoise Fabian as Madame Claude ...
'' (1977) - Firmin
* ''
Julia
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'' (1977) - Passport Officer
* ''
An Almost Perfect Affair
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'' (1979)
* ''
Condorman
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Enigma
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*Riddle, someone or something that is mysterious or puzzling
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*ENIGMA, a class of gene in the LIM domain
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* Enigma (company), a New York-based data-technology startup
* Enigma machine, a family ...
'' (1982)
* ''
Five Days One Summer
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Les Morfalous
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'' (1984) - L'officier du camp de ravitaillement
* ''
The Blood of Others
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'' (1984) - Major Allemand restaurant Meurice
* ''
A View to a Kill
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'' (1985) - Auctioneer
References
Bibliography
* Capua, Michelangelo. ''Anatole Litvak: The Life and Films''. McFarland, 2015.