Achille Zavatta

Achille Zavatta

Born: May 6, 1915
Died: November 16, 1993
in La Goulette, French Protectorate of Tunisia [now Tunisia]
Achille Zavatta (6 May 1915 – 16 November 1993) was a French clown, artist and circus operator.

Zavatta was born in La Goulette, Tunisia, the son of Federico Zavatta, a circus owner. He started performing in his family's circus show at the age of three, forming with his brothers Michel and Rolph, the Zavatta Trio. He was the interval act at the 1962 Eurovision Song Contest in Luxemburg. To this day the Zavatta Circus tours France and surrounding countries, these performances include live tiger acts, which means the circus cannot tour Britain under the Animal Welfare Act. The circus is rated as a top show in France.

He became famous for his skills as a pantomime.

He committed suicide in 1993 in Ouzouer-des-Champs, Loiret and was interred in the Père Lachaise Cemetery in Paris.

Source: Article "Achille Zavatta" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

Movies for Achille Zavatta...

Title: Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 1982
Type: TV
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Title: Nick Verlaine ou Comment voler la tour Eiffel
Character: Hagenfeld
Released: July 8, 1976
Type: TV
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Title: Système 2
Character: Self
Released: January 19, 1975
Type: TV
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Title: Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 1975
Type: TV
A talk show presented by Michel Drucker
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La Grande Maffia
Title: La Grande Maffia
Character: Le Papa 2
Released: September 17, 1971
Type: Movie
After receiving a mobster's heart as a transplant, a modest bank teller embarks on a life of criminal exploits.
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Title: Samedi soir
Character: Self
Released: January 9, 1971
Type: TV
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The Curse of Belphegor
Title: The Curse of Belphegor
Character: Hubert Delaroche
Released: November 8, 1967
Type: Movie
At the Opera of Toulon, the cast and crew hoping to put on a Satanism / human sacrifice-themed ballet entitled “La malédiction de Belphégor” soon find their numbers dwindling.
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Fire of Love
Title: Fire of Love
Character: Pierre Michaux
Released: April 28, 1967
Type: Movie
Maroîs, the fairground bon vivant, spends most of his time around a bottle of wine, in the company of his friend Michaux, with whom he was once a sailor. He neglects his wife Monique, a pretty girl much younger than himself. Suffering from this indifference, she seeks imperfect and fleeting consolation, first from Michel, their friend's son, then from Jean-Louis, a young mechanic who has helped out with Maroîs' truck and won his trusting friendship. Michel, jealous, tells the showman of his misfortune. He leaves to kill his wife's lover. The latter, wishing to separate the antagonists, seriously burns herself by knocking over an autogenous welding block, which explodes. Taken to hospital, she asks for and receives her husband's forgiveness.
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Rien ne va plus
Title: Rien ne va plus
Released: June 18, 1964
Type: Movie
Achille and Roméo, handymen at a casino, one day find a corpse at the bottom of the pool they're cleaning. Fearing they might be accused of murder, they hide the body, but it disappears.
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Title: Le Trésor des treize maisons
Character: Cristobal
Released: October 22, 1961
Type: TV
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Match contre la mort
Title: Match contre la mort
Released: December 2, 1959
Type: Movie
The Lourmel couple are taking part in the final round of a TV game show: the wife has to answer questions; if she fails, her husband drives a racing car to make up the lost minutes. Moments before the start of the show, a phone call informs Lourmel that her six-year-old son has been kidnapped, and that the ransom is the amount to be won on the game show.
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The Green Mare
Title: The Green Mare
Character: Déodat, postman
Released: October 29, 1959
Type: Movie
A green mare makes the fortune of her owner, the horse dealer Haudouin. Shortly after his death, war broke out in 1870. One day, his neighbor Zèphe Maloret denounces Honoré, Haudouin's son, a maverick, to the Prussians. Following this denunciation, their non-commissioned officer enters the Haudouin home and rapes the mother while Honoré is hidden under the bed. The resentment already existing between the Haudouin and Maloret families turns to hatred... A letter recalling the events is lost, which doesn't help matters.
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Visa to Hell
Title: Visa to Hell
Character: Le Gitan
Released: May 24, 1959
Type: Movie
The action takes place on the coast of the eastern Pyrenees near the Spanish border. Mario Balducci escaped from prison, after settling his account with his former accomplice who had given him away, he joins his ex-mistress, Mado, a bellowing singer whom he asks her to help him get to Spain.
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Du sang sous le chapiteau
Title: Du sang sous le chapiteau
Released: May 29, 1957
Type: Movie
A crime is committed in a circus during the performance of a sketch between two clowns. One of them is killed. They accuse the other, Sylvia's fiancé, to whom the victim was courting. After many twists and turns, the murderer is discovered to be the troupe's dwarf.
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Over the waves
Title: Over the waves
Character: Self
Released: May 11, 1951
Type: Movie
Panorama of the programs and hosts who made the heyday of radio in the 1950s.