Robert Le Vigan

Robert Le Vigan (born Robert Coquillaud, January 7, 1900 – October 12, 1972), was a French actor.

He appeared in more than 60 films between 1931 and 1943 almost exclusively in small or supporting roles. He was, according to film academic Ginette Vincendeau, a "brilliant, extravagant actor" who "specialised in louche, menacing or diabolical characters".Ginette Vincendeau (ed) ''Encyclopedia of European Cinema'', London: Casell/BFI, 1995, p.262

A collaborator with the Nazis during the occupation, who openly expressed fascist attitudes,Rémi Fournier Lanzoni ''French Cinema: From Its Beginnings to the Present'', New York and London: Continuum, 2002, p.139. According to Fournier Lanzoni, Le Vigan found exile in Argentina. he vanished while playing Jéricho in '' Children of Paradise'' (''Les Enfants du Paradis''), a film deliberately released in May 1945 shortly after the liberation of Europe; Le Vigan was replaced by Pierre Renoir. He was sentenced to forced labour for 10 years in 1946. Released on parole after three years working in a camp, Le Vigan absconded to Spain, and then Argentina, dying there in poverty on October 12, 1972, in the city of Tandil.

Selected filmography

* '' Moon Over Morocco'' (1931) - Donald Strawber
* ''Radio Follies'' (1931)
* '' The Yellow Dog'' (1932) - Le docteur Ernest Michoux
* ''Une jeune fille et un million'' (1932) - L'employé brouillon de l'agence
* ''Coquin de sort'' (1932)
* ''Boubouroche'' (1933) - Potasse
* ''Knock, ou le triomphe de la médecine'' (1933) - Mousquet, le pharmacien
* ''The Little King'' (1933) - Le fou
* '' The Tunnel'' (1933) - Brooce - un Ouvrier Félon
* ''L'homme à la barbiche'' (1933) - Jérôme de Valvert / Le demi-frère de Jérôme de Valvert
* ''Madame Bovary'' (1934) - Lheureux
* ''La femme idéale'' (1934) - Girardin
* ''Street Without a Name'' (1934) - Vanoël
* ''Famille nombreuse'' (1934) - L'adjudant-chef Sandri
* ''Maria Chapdelaine'' (1934) - Tit-Sèbe, le rebouteux
* ''Bien mal acquis'' (1934)
* ''L'affaire Coquelet'' (1935) - Poireau, le jardinier
* '' Golgotha'' (1935) (known as ''Behold the Man'' in English) - Jésus Christ
* ''La bandera'' (1935) - Fernando Lucas
* ''Jérôme Perreau héros des barricades'' (1936) - Cardinal Mazarin
* ''Les mutinés de l'Elseneur'' (1936) - Charles Davis
* ''La ronde du brigadier Bellot'' (1936)
* ''Le prince des Six Jours'' (1936) - Fouilloux, un spectateur
* '' A Legionnaire'' (1936) - Leduc
* ''Jenny'' (1936) - L'Albinos
* '' Hélène'' (1936) - Le docteur Régnier
* ''The Lower Depths'' (1936) - L'acteur alcoolique
* ''Romarin'' (1937) - Le brigadier Napoléon Orsini
* '' The Man from Nowhere'' (1937) - Le comte Papiano
* ''Franco de port'' (1937) - Henri
* ''The Citadel of Silence'' (1937) - Granoff
* '' Harvest'' (''Regain'') (1937) - Le gendarme (uncredited)
* ''La femme du bout du monde'' (1937) - Arlanger, l'armateur
* ''The West'' (1938) - Taïeb el Haïn
* '' Boys' School'' (1938) - César le passe-muraille
* '' Storm Over Asia'' (1938) - Sir Richard
* ''Le Quai des brumes'' (1938) - Le peintre
* '' The Little Thing'' (1938) - Roger
* ''L'avion de minuit'' (1938) - Le Docteur
* ''Ernest the Rebel'' (1938) - Le gouverneur-président de Mariposa
* ''The Fatted Calf'' (1939) - Grussgolt
* '' Louise'' (1939) - Le peintre Gaston
* ''The World Will Shake'' (1939) - Le Greffier
* ''Le Dernier Tournant'' (1939) - Le cousin maître-chanteur
* ''The Phantom Carriage'' (1939) - Le père Martin
* '' Paradise Lost'' (1940) - Édouard Bordenave
* ''Romance of Paris'' (1941) - Monsieur Lormel
* ''Who Killed Santa Claus?'' (1941) - Léon Villard, le maître d'école
* ''Dédé la musique'' (1941) - Fernand l'Américain
* ''Chambre 13'' (1942) - Fenouil
* ''Patrouille blanche'' (1942) - Le commissaire Pascal
* ''Vie privée'' (1942) - Rémi Géraud
* ''Andorra ou les hommes d'Airain'' (1942) - Asnurri
* ''Le mariage de Chiffon'' (1942) - Maître Blondin - l'huissier
* ''Les affaires sont les affaires'' (1942) - Phinck
* ''La grande marnière'' (1943) - Fleury
* ''The Heart of a Nation'' (1943) - L'oncle Michel Froment (uncredited)
* ''It Happened at the Inn'' (1943) - Goupi-Tonkin
* ''Ne le criez pas sur les toits'' (1943) - Le professeur Léonard Bontagues
* ''L'homme qui vendit son âme'' (1943) - Grégori
* ''La collection Ménard'' (1944) - Amédée Garbure
* ''Bifur 3'' (1945) - Paul (uncredited)
* '' The King's Mail'' (1951) - Peabody
* ''The Orchid'' (1951) - The father
* ''Ley del mar'' (1952) - Rafael
* ''Rio turbio'' (1952) - Levignan (final film role)

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1900 births
1972 deaths
Male actors from Paris
French Popular Party politicians
Louis-Ferdinand Céline
French collaborators with Nazi Germany
French male film actors
French male stage actors
20th-century French male actors
20th-century French novelists

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