Nicole Courcel

Nicole Courcel

Born: October 21, 1931
Died: June 25, 2016
in Saint-Cloud, Seine-et-Oise [now Hauts-de-Seine], France
Nicole Marie Jeanne Andrieu (21 October 1931 – 25 June 2016), better known as Nicole Courcel, was a French actress who achieved popularity through the 1950s and 1960s, though she is mostly unknown outside of France. Born in Saint-Cloud, in the western suburbs of Paris, she appeared in 43 films between 1947 and 1979. After working as an extra in a few films, she won a major role in Rendez-vous de juillet (1949), with Brigitte Auber. In 1970 she turned to television, appearing in different television films and miniseries, in which she continued to work until 2004. Courcel is best known for her role in Serge Bourguignon's Sundays and Cybele (1962). She had notable parts in: La Marie du port (1950, opposite Jean Gabin), Sacha Guitry's Royal Affairs in Versailles (1954), and La Sorcière (1956, opposite Marina Vlady).

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Milady
Title: Milady
Character: Jeanne De Breuil
Released: January 6, 2004
Type: Movie
Milady De Winter, a beautiful femme fatale without scruples, plays with the feelings of her suitors. And sometimes very dangerously.
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Credo
Title: Credo
Character: Olga Talberg
Released: January 26, 1983
Type: Movie
Based on an actual Cold War incident in which a Ukrainian prisoner of conscience was forced to defend his Christian faith while under Soviet interrogation
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Title: Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 1982
Type: TV
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L'Esprit de famille
Title: L'Esprit de famille
Character: Hélène Moreau
Released: February 28, 1979
Type: Movie
Charles Moreau, general practitioner, and Hélène, his wife, have four girls aged 11 to 20 years. The eldest, Claire, plays the piano when she does not let her mind indulge in solitary reverie. Bernadette has a real passion for horses, while Cecile, the youngest, plays from a young age to realize all her whims. As for Pauline, at the age of 17, she decided that she would become a novelist. So she writes a book telling the story of family life. One day, when she comes out of high school, she meets Pierre, a penniless painter, from whom she immediately falls.
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Title: Numéro un
Character: Self
Released: April 5, 1975
Type: TV
A French variety show.
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Thomas
Title: Thomas
Character: Florence, the mother
Released: March 5, 1975
Type: Movie
In Troyes, Thomas, the son of a bourgeois family, is in the final stages of his adolescence. He's almost an adult when he discovers that his mother has a lover. At the same time, he realizes that his father is turning a blind eye, and that the estranged couple are only together for show. Thomas rebels, but has to hide his dismay and satisfy his great need for tenderness at the same time.
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Title: Apostrophes
Character: Self
Released: January 10, 1975
Type: TV
Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years (724 episodes) from January 10, 1975, to June 22, 1990, and was one of the most watched shows on French television (around 6 million regular viewers). It was broadcast on Friday nights on the channel France 2 (which was called "Antenne 2" from 1975 to 1992). The hourlong show was devoted to books, authors and literature. The format varied between one-on-one interviews with a single author and open discussions between four or five authors.
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Madame Bovary
Title: Madame Bovary
Character: Emma Bovary
Released: November 29, 1974
Type: Movie
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The Slap
Title: The Slap
Character: Madeleine
Released: October 23, 1974
Type: Movie
A Parisian teacher loses his cool when his teenage daughter tells him she plans to drop out of school and move in with her boyfriend.
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A Police Officer Without Importance
Title: A Police Officer Without Importance
Released: April 12, 1973
Type: Movie
Camille, Dov and Joëlle live on the edge of society and are involved in petty theft helping them to buy their drug doses and to survive as best they can. One day, while attempting to rob a movie theater, they activate the alarm signal and it is Pierre, Camille's brother, who is doing a heist in the same building, who is arrested red-handed. The three young people decide to kidnap a police officer and exchange him for Pierre.
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The Beguines
Title: The Beguines
Character: Tamara
Released: September 19, 1972
Type: Movie
Hélène, a fragile and romantic teenager, discovers that her father, a rich business man, has a mistress. Curious, she decides to go and meet this woman who is described as strange. At the first chance she has she goes to her house in the Ramparts of Béguines... from then on she goes back often, discovering a new world of artists and nightowls where she also experiences love in the arms of Tamara.
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The Strangler
Title: The Strangler
Character: Claire, the prostitute
Released: September 13, 1972
Type: Movie
Émile targets women he believes are too depressed to go on living. As multiple victims fall to his suffocating white scarf, an inspector resorts to unorthodox methods to get him with the assistance of a potential victim.
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Money Money Money
Title: Money Money Money
Character: Nicole
Released: May 4, 1972
Type: Movie
When they realize the times are changing, five crooks decide to switch from bank robberies to personality abductions.
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Title: Midi trente
Character: Self
Released: March 6, 1972
Type: TV
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Title: Le Grand Échiquier
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 1972
Type: TV
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La Parisienne
Title: La Parisienne
Character: Clotilde Dumesnil
Released: July 25, 1967
Type: Movie
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The Night of the Generals
Title: The Night of the Generals
Character: Raymonde
Released: January 29, 1967
Type: Movie
A German intelligence officer investigates a prostitute's killing in Warsaw during World War II. He lands on three major Nazi generals as suspects, two of whom are also involved in a plot to kill Adolf Hitler.
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The Devil's Tricks
Title: The Devil's Tricks
Character: La patronne de la guinguette
Released: June 15, 1966
Type: Movie
Ginette Chaluzac, who has left Central France for Paris, now works as a seamstress in a modest workshop in the Marais district. Her life is quiet and uneventful until the day when, to her surprise, she receives a letter containing a hundred-franc banknote. The sender, who remains anonymous, renews his gift day after day and Ginette grows accustomed to the situation. Her material situation improves but after a while she starts asking herself questions about the one who sends her the money and his/her intentions. Till obsession. To make it clear in her mind she eventually decides to investigate...
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Nick Carter and Red Club
Title: Nick Carter and Red Club
Character: Dora Beckmann
Released: November 26, 1965
Type: Movie
A secret agent uncovers four atomic rockets with a lethal gas warhead which have been stolen from a secret factory, and a dastardly plot.
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Stop Train 349
Title: Stop Train 349
Character: Nurse Kathy
Released: June 26, 1963
Type: Movie
Cold War drama about an East German man trying to escape to the West via a U.S. military train passing through the Soviet Occupation Zone of Germany.
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Sundays and Cybele
Title: Sundays and Cybele
Character: Madeleine
Released: November 12, 1962
Type: Movie
The tragic story of a young orphan girl who is befriended by an innocent but emotionally disabled veteran of the French Indochina War.
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Konga Yo
Title: Konga Yo
Character: Marie
Released: May 1, 1962
Type: Movie
Two Congolese men and three Europeans are thrown together as they try to avoid the political turmoil of the Congo.
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Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love!
Title: Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love!
Character: Jacqueline de Bueil
Released: April 4, 1961
Type: Movie
Henri IV falls in love with the young Charlotte de Montmorency, 40 years his junior. The king decided to marry her off to his nephew, Henri de Condé, so that he could later make her his mistress.
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Amazons of Rome
Title: Amazons of Rome
Character: Lucilla, Porcenna's wife
Released: March 24, 1961
Type: Movie
Marching down the Italian peninsula to sack ancient Rome, Etruscan warrior Drusco instead offers to hold back his onslaught if the Romans hand over hostages, including Clelia, the sexy leader of a clan of woman warriors. But before long, intrigue and betrayal unravel the fragile peace. Directors Carlo Ludovico Bragaglia and Vittorio Cottafavi helm this vintage sword-and-sandal epic.
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Paris Loves
Title: Paris Loves
Character: Nicole Lasnier
Released: February 10, 1961
Type: Movie
Les amours de Paris focuses on three disparate couples and their problems in the arena of romantic love. One couple is comprised of a faithful husband and a sick wife whose stay in the hospital is not so bad because she has taken a sudden interest in her doctor. In the second pairing, a womanizer comes to see that the model who is in love with him is worth more than yet another conquest. And to complete the trio, two zany people finally realize they are a couple.
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Tomorrow Is My Turn
Title: Tomorrow Is My Turn
Character: Florence
Released: October 27, 1960
Type: Movie
Following the defeat of France by Germany during WWII, two French soldiers are taken to a German farm as forced laborers.
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Arden de Faversham
Title: Arden de Faversham
Character: Alice
Released: February 23, 1960
Type: Movie
Faversham's Arden, the first tragedy to be about ordinary people, is both a realistic, social painting of 16th-century England and a psychological portrait. Alice and her lover Mosbie, with whom she has a complex and passionate relationship, decide to murder her husband Thomas Arden, but their plan repeatedly fails.
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Testament of Orpheus
Title: Testament of Orpheus
Character: The Young Mother (uncredited)
Released: February 18, 1960
Type: Movie
Outside time and reality, the experiences of a poet. The judgement of the young poet by Heurtebise and the Princess, the Gypsies, the palace of Pallas Athena, the spear of the Goddess which pierces the poet's heart, the temptation of the Sphinx, the flight of Oedipus and the final Assumption. This film is the third part of Cocteau's Orphic Trilogy, which consists of The Blood of a Poet (1930), Orpheus (1950) and Testament of Orpheus (1960).
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Ein Mann geht durch die Wand
Title: Ein Mann geht durch die Wand
Character: Yvonne Steiner - eine Französin
Released: October 14, 1959
Type: Movie
Mr. Buchsbaum, third class taxes employee, lives a peaceful life until the new chief immediately criticizes his work. His only confort is his stamps collection. Sadly, even this consolation and his peace are threatened by a new, charming, neighbour who teaches piano. Increasingly infuriated, he discovers accidentally one evening that he has the ability to go through walls. With this power, he decides to settle the scores, firstly with his boss who downgraded him.
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The Lady and the Gipsy
Title: The Lady and the Gipsy
Character: Georgina Welles
Released: August 21, 1958
Type: Movie
Georgina comes to see her sister Gladys in Paris in order to dissuade her from becoming attached to Rigo, a gypsy conductor. When she meets the latter, it is love at first sight. Louis, Georgina’s husband, does not accept this situation.
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La peau de l'ours
Title: La peau de l'ours
Released: August 30, 1957
Type: Movie
A police commissioner lives with his two children, wife, mother-in-law and maid. But he discovers that he has been poisoned with arsenic, and that the culprit must be someone close to him.
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The Inspector Likes a Fight
Title: The Inspector Likes a Fight
Released: June 12, 1957
Type: Movie
To protect him, Georges takes the place of his twin brother, Jacques, suspected of murdering an aircraft manufacturer and stealing the plans for a revolutionary engine. He sets out to compromise the police investigation and the actions of the document smugglers seeking to recover the plans.
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The Case of Dr. Laurent
Title: The Case of Dr. Laurent
Character: Francine Payot
Released: April 3, 1957
Type: Movie
Le Cas Du Dr. Laurent (The Case of Dr. Laurent) stars Jean Gabin as a Paris-based doctor who tries to spread the gospel of Natural Childbirth. Working in a cloistered rural community, Gabin runs up against the stone walls of fear and prejudice. His theories are proven sound when unwed mother Nicole Courcel gives birth within Gabin's methodology. The childbirth sequence is filmed straight-on with a delicate combination of taste and frankness. Nonetheless, the lurid ad campaign of Cas Du Dr. Laurent sensationalized this sequence all out of proportion.
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The Blonde Witch
Title: The Blonde Witch
Character: Kristina Lundgren
Released: June 6, 1956
Type: Movie
Brulard, a French civil engineer on assignment in a remote Swedish village, meets Ina, who has been raised in forested isolation by her haggish mother and believes herself to be a witch. He falls in love with her and tries to convert her to civilization; but in the meantime, his female boss, Kristina, has fallen in love with him, while the villagers turn against him for consorting with someone they believe is cursed by the Devil.
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Club of Women
Title: Club of Women
Character: Nicole Leroy
Released: May 18, 1956
Type: Movie
A remake of a pre-war French film success, Club de femmes is a seriocomedy centralized in an all-female boarding house. Forced to band together because of a housing shortage, the film's heroines set up camp in a deserted structure, despite the tongue-cluckings of local busybodies and do-gooders. Complications ensue when a huge corporation announces plans to raze the building and erect a factory. Amazingly, the ladies are saved by the very company that wants to evict them.
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Title: Cinépanorama
Character: Self
Released: February 4, 1956
Type: TV
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Papa, Mama, My Wife and Me
Title: Papa, Mama, My Wife and Me
Character: Catherine Langlois, l'épouse de Robert
Released: October 18, 1955
Type: Movie
Robert Langlois is now married to Catherine, the former housemaid. And they would live happily ever after if the housing crisis did not force them to live together with Gabrielle and Fernand, Robert's parents. For, despite the good will on either side, tension soon arises. What else to expect when there is too little space in their Montmartre apartment for four people (then for six then eight, the couple having... two pairs of twins!) ; the continued presence there of Fernand (who loves peace and quiet) after he is driven to retirement ; the difficult beginnings of Robert as a lawyer in a room of the apartment, etc... Other troubles follow and the harried family is on the verge of implosion...
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No Exit
Title: No Exit
Character: Olga
Released: December 22, 1954
Type: Movie
The scene is a tawdry hotel room in Limbo, where several damned souls are gathered. At first, the group fails to comprehend where they are or why they're there. When the horrible truth dawns upon them, they carp and snipe at one another, blaming everyone but themselves for their dismal fate.
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Papa, Mama, the Maid and I
Title: Papa, Mama, the Maid and I
Character: Catherine Liseray, la jeune voisine
Released: November 26, 1954
Type: Movie
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Vice Dolls
Title: Vice Dolls
Character: Véronique Gaudin
Released: October 18, 1954
Type: Movie
In this French crime drama, a young man gets revenge upon the criminals who caused his grandfather to kill himself. Unfortunately, the fellow doesn't realize how bad the criminals are. Fortunately, a kindly hooker, who does know the crooks, saves him from the same fate.
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Nights of Shame
Title: Nights of Shame
Character: Maria
Released: August 4, 1954
Type: Movie
Marie-Thérèse is firmly involved in a charity dedicated to the rehabilitation of prostitutes. She approaches Marcelle who, for the love of Pierre, an honest painter, hides her dishonorable profession, and she befriends Maria, in love with the gentle René. Marcelle's aunt is murdered, and her daughter arrested. Marie-Thérèse sets out to prove her innocence, but the two boys learn all about the two unfortunate women. Pierre is unforgiving. Happier, Maria will start a new life with René.
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The Big Flag
Title: The Big Flag
Character: Madeleine
Released: June 21, 1954
Type: Movie
For Naval officers duty comes first. Navy Lieutenant Favrel is one of these men. He has promised his wife Simone to stay with her all the time but a last mission aboard a training cruiser makes him realize that his life is tied to the sea. For his part, Navy cadet Pierre Hardouin understands that sailing is his vocation. The prospect of staying home alone while Pierre is on mission, frightens Madeleine, the girl of his heart. But the young woman ends up accepting the ordeal and marrying Pierre.
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Le collège en folie
Title: Le collège en folie
Released: June 16, 1954
Type: Movie
Charming, charming but unstable, Rudy is married to Lydia. He dreams of becoming a famous painter. His father-in-law offers him a contract: if he stays in the same job for at least two months, he can devote himself to painting. Under the name of his friend Ravot, Rudy is hired to teach gymnastics at a girls' college. Things soon get complicated. The jealous Lydia, who plays student, keeps an eye on her husband. The headmistress glares at him, and the arrival of the real Mme Ravot doesn't help matters. The contract is almost not honored, but as in the best comedies, everything works out.
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Boom on Paris
Title: Boom on Paris
Character: Self
Released: February 19, 1954
Type: Movie
In the early 1950s, the popular radio show "La Kermesse aux Étoiles", hosted by the famous Jean Nohain, mixing lottery games and performances of various artists, will be disrupted by the adventures of a man and his fiancée seeking to recover a dangerous bottle of perfume (explosive) which was unfortunately mixed with the prizes to be won ...
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Royal Affairs in Versailles
Title: Royal Affairs in Versailles
Character: Mme de Chalis
Released: February 10, 1954
Type: Movie
Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours, and those of his two successors, are followed in more detail to the start of the Revolution, after which the story is brought rapidly up to date. A huge cast plays mainly historical persons who appear briefly.
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Fatal Affair
Title: Fatal Affair
Character: Léone Fassler
Released: April 9, 1953
Type: Movie
Didier's wife is ill, and he does the best he can to take care of her. But he's often absent and he has casual love affairs. But Leone he meets in Bruxelles wants to become his one and only mistress.
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Gigolo
Title: Gigolo
Character: Dominique
Released: November 8, 1951
Type: Movie
Back from the war, Marceau Le Guern remembers. Educated in an orphanage run by Dominican brothers, he fell into misery when he left it. His only asset was his good looks, which did not escape the attention of Madame Alice, a shady woman who persuaded him to pose for pornographic photos meant for lonely aging women. Marceau also served as a gigolo before the war and captivity put an end to this juicy business. Now he wants to start a new life, all the more as ha has found love in the person of a pure young lady named Dominique. But Madame Alice won't hear of it...
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The Lovers of Bras-Mort
Title: The Lovers of Bras-Mort
Character: Monique Levers
Released: May 10, 1951
Type: Movie
Jean Michaut is a bargeman who lives nearby an old barge cemetery named "Bras-Mort". He is in love with Monique, the daughter of a wealthy boat owner. The girl returns his affection but runs her head against the wall of her family's class prejudices. Her "nearest and dearest" prove indeed prepared to do everything to separate the two lovers. But Monique will not buy in. On the contrary, she leaves her intolerant family to live with Jean among simple, more tolerant bargemen.
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Marie of the Port
Title: Marie of the Port
Character: Marie Le Flem
Released: February 27, 1950
Type: Movie
Henri Chatelard is well into his forties, owns a restaurant and a cinema in the city, and appreciates women. When he meets Marie, an 18-ish strong-head who just lost her father in a small fishing village, it is not clear who is the hunter and who is the prey.
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Rendezvous in July
Title: Rendezvous in July
Character: Christine Courcel
Released: December 6, 1949
Type: Movie
Hopes and love and ambitions and friendship in a group of young jazz-loving Parisians.
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In the Eyes of Memory
Title: In the Eyes of Memory
Character: A student from the Simon course
Released: November 24, 1948
Type: Movie
Director Jean Delannoy's immediate followup to his brilliant Les Jeux sont Faits was the more conventional Aux Yeux du Souvenir (aka Souvenir and To the Eyes of Memory). The film is based on a true story, wherein an France airliner managed to survive a journey from Rio De Janeiro to Dakar with two of its engines incapacitated. To this already intensely dramatic situation has been added a romantic subplot involving Claire Magny (Michele Morgan) and Jacques Forester (Jean Marais). The love story adds very little to the film; fortunately, neither does it detract from the film's overall quality. As was the case with many French productions of the 1940s, Aux Yeux du Souvenir benefits immeasurably from the Wagnerian musical score by Georges Auric.
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Monelle
Title: Monelle
Character: La serveuse du restaurant (uncredited)
Released: September 15, 1948
Type: Movie
A beautiful young pianist falls for her mentor.
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Monelle
Title: Monelle
Character: La serveuse du restaurant
Released: September 15, 1948
Type: Movie
A beautiful young pianist falls for her mentor.
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Antoine & Antoinette
Title: Antoine & Antoinette
Released: September 27, 1947
Type: Movie
She's working in a big store, he's a typographer and they lost their winning lottery ticket.