Marius Gaidon

Marius Gaidon

Born: January 6, 1912
Died: July 28, 1983
in Lyon, Rhône, France

Movies for Marius Gaidon...

The Worthless
Title: The Worthless
Character: Garcon
Released: October 15, 1982
Type: Movie
Manne, Harri, and Ville Alfa are rootless twenty-somethings in search of purpose for their banal lives. After Manne steals a priceless painting from a group of petty criminals, Manne and Harri flee from the gangsters across Finland, while Ville goes to Paris. On the road they meet Veera, an old girlfriend of Harri's, and try to avoid the gangsters in pursuit.
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It's Tough for Everybody
Title: It's Tough for Everybody
Released: June 18, 1975
Type: Movie
After losing his job, an idealistic adman starts his own agency, putting himself in the crosshairs of his jaded ex-boss.
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Give Her the Moon
Title: Give Her the Moon
Released: February 25, 1970
Type: Movie
Marie, a young provincial girl, is seduced by an American billionaire. She agrees to stay with him if he moves her village to New York.
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Les gros malins
Title: Les gros malins
Character: Le serveur du restaurant (uncredited)
Released: May 13, 1969
Type: Movie
Paul Blanc runs a butcher's shop with his Neapolitan wife, the vivacious Giulia. One night, thanks to sleeping pills received from his brother in Argentina, he dreams of horse racing and sees in his dream the order of arrival of the horses. Giulia praises her husband's gift at the local café. But the turfmen dissuade her from betting on the nags chosen by Paul, who they consider to be real losers! But her vision proves to be right. When her secret is discovered, everyone wants to buy this miracle medicine. But the product is no longer manufactured, as it is considered dangerous and has been banned by the authorities.
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Don't Take God's Children for Wild Geese
Title: Don't Take God's Children for Wild Geese
Character: The President of the Military Tribunal (uncredited)
Released: September 6, 1968
Type: Movie
Rita is a girl that lives on taking gangsters as lovers. But when the money stops coming, she swears revenge.
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Salut Berthe !
Title: Salut Berthe !
Released: August 20, 1968
Type: Movie
Adrien Chautard, a major industrialist from Abidjan, has been chosen to replace an expert on the official Ivory Coast delegation sent to Paris to discuss the country's association with the Common Market. Chautard is delighted at the prospect of this trip, where he will be reunited with the woman of his dreams: Elisabeth. Alas, at Abidjan airport, a nasty surprise awaits him: Berthe, his lawful wife, has decided to leave with him to consult a leading cardiologist in the capital.
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The Madman of Lab Four
Title: The Madman of Lab Four
Character: Un agent de police (uncredited)
Released: November 29, 1967
Type: Movie
This talkative and unevenly paced feature finds Fou (Jean Lefebvre) the inventor of a gas that makes the users fall in love. He is chased by his boss, the police, and spies, who seek to secure the secret recipe for their own selfish purposes. A shadowy American underworld figure tries to intimidate the inventor. A half-hearted attempt at comedy tries to go along with the double dealing and trickery of the thin plot of the film.
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Diamonds Are Brittle
Title: Diamonds Are Brittle
Released: October 7, 1965
Type: Movie
Bernard Noblet is a modest bank clerk with a passion for billiards. His fiancée Juliette, a schoolteacher, dreams of one day living the high life, and his best friend Roger, a little-known inventor, is equally despairing. After careful consideration, a solution emerges: a cleverly organized hold-up will enable them to live in luxury for the rest of their lives. Bernard soon makes the acquaintance of Bettina and her mother, Madame Ralton, professionals in the "heist" business.
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Rapture
Title: Rapture
Character: Wedding Guest
Released: August 23, 1965
Type: Movie
Agnes, a lonely teenage girl, and her father befriend an escaped convict, named Joseph, who arrives at their farm in Brittany, France. When Joseph develops an attraction to Agnes, her father threatens to break up the union.
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The Sucker
Title: The Sucker
Character: un policier à Bordeaux (uncredited)
Released: March 24, 1965
Type: Movie
In this Frenco-Italian gangster parody, a shop keeper on his way to an Italian holiday suffers a crash which totals his car. The culprit can only compensate his ruined trip by driving an American friends car from Napels to Bordeaux, but as it happens to be filled with such contraband as stolen money, jewelry and drugs, the involuntary and unwitting companions in crime soon attract all but recreational attention from the "milieu".
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The Great Spy Chase
Title: The Great Spy Chase
Character: Stabbed spy (uncredited)
Released: December 10, 1964
Type: Movie
A cold-war spy parody. After the death of an armaments manufacturer, an international group of spies is drawn into a high-stakes battle of wits to obtain the valuable military patents which have been inherited by the lovely widow.
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Cherchez l'idole
Title: Cherchez l'idole
Character: Waiter at the police gala
Released: February 26, 1964
Type: Movie
After stealing a diamond from Mylène Demongeot, Richard hides it inside a guitar. But on returning to the music shop he discovers that the precious instrument has just been sold! The problem is complicated by the fact that five stars all bought the same model that morning...
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Tales of Paris
Title: Tales of Paris
Released: January 17, 1962
Type: Movie
A film made up of four sketches. In Marc Allégret's Sophie, a naive high-school girl invents a love affair with her mother's lover. But it's a guitarist with whom she falls in love. In Françoise, by Claude Barma, a young woman returning to France after living in the United States has an affair with her best friend's lover. In Antonia, by Michel Boisrond, a middle-aged woman tries to convince her ex-lover that she still has many assets to seduce. In Ella, by Jacques Poitrenaud, a Pigalle dancer meets a man in a cab.
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Life Together
Title: Life Together
Character: Un serveur
Released: September 24, 1958
Type: Movie
The writer Pierre Carot became rich and famous with his book "Life as a Couple", which was based on the loving relationships of four couples. Now he's setting up his will and wants to leave his wealth to the couples among the four, which are still as deeply in love - if any: else, his companions get the money. He sends them out to visit the couples and test their love.
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Clandestine Paris
Title: Clandestine Paris
Character: Punter (uncredited)
Released: October 11, 1957
Type: Movie
In the elegant nightclub of Corsican Luciano, known as Lucky, "Les Naturistes", big sums are gambled at the Longchamp races. Lucky not only "welcomes" the new dancers, he also collects the stakes entrusted to him and personally plays the horses recommended to him by Max, a former convict. But Bramati, Lucky's ex-partner, doesn't forgive Max for double-crossing him and has him shot.
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We're Moving the Colonel
Title: We're Moving the Colonel
Released: December 9, 1955
Type: Movie
The dynamic Flora has decided to burglarize Colonel de la Ribodiere's apartment in the company of Romeo and Clotaire. The two men discover the old soldier lifeless on his bed. One after the other, the colonel's goddaughter Annette, the gendarmes and their brigadier, the Grivier cousins, who are sniffing out the inheritance, and the three thieves, who are hoping to get their way, pass by each other and avoid each other in the house. La Ribodière isn't dead, but he listens to what's being said, forms an opinion about everyone, ousts the Griviers, rewards Annette with a betrothal to Clotaire, and gives Flora and Roméo absolution.
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Le Gang des pianos à bretelles
Title: Le Gang des pianos à bretelles
Character: The director of the municipal casino
Released: April 12, 1953
Type: Movie
An accordionist playing in disreputable halls is mistaken for a gangster by a special envoy from the American crime syndicate in charge of investigating the French milieu. The American will prepare a hold-up with a gang of women specialized in scamming tourists. But the accordionist will make the hold-up fail and all the criminals will end up behind bars.
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Massacre in Lace
Title: Massacre in Lace
Character: Un serveur du Triana-Club (uncredited)
Released: March 12, 1952
Type: Movie
Cock-eyed reporter Georges Masse enjoys a peaceful vacation in Venice. Which does not please his boss as he is not supposed to be... in vacation! P'tit Louis, Georges' blundering but faithful photographer, is sent to Venice with a mission: pull up his socks. But Georges is not so dormant as he appears. Behind the scenes, he investigates the activities of a gang that cleans out Venice. Quite logically, he soon finds himself face to face with a bunch of shady brutal characters, among whom Zélos, a Greek nightclub owner, and Alessandro Cassidi, a powerful motor manufacturer married to the alluring Clara, twice younger than he is...