Jean-Pierre Kérien

Jean-Pierre Kérien

Born: March 15, 1913
Died: April 9, 1984
in Le Havre, France

Movies for Jean-Pierre Kérien...

Title: Police Commissioner Moulin
Character: Commissaire Rocart
Released: August 4, 1976
Type: TV
The series follows the adventures of lighthearted Jean-Paul Moulin, a police Commissaire, and his team as they solve crimes.
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Title: Les Cousins de la Constance
Character: Docteur Rey
Released: December 21, 1970
Type: TV
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The War Is Over
Title: The War Is Over
Character: Chardin (uncredited)
Released: May 11, 1966
Type: Movie
Diego is one of the chiefs of the Spanish Communist Party. On his way from Madrid to Paris, he is arrested at the border for an ID check but manages to get free. When he arrives in Paris, he starts searching for one of his comrade to prevent him from going to Madrid where he could be arrested.
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Muriel, or the Time of Return
Title: Muriel, or the Time of Return
Character: Alphonse Noyard
Released: October 1, 1963
Type: Movie
In the seaside town of Boulogne, no one seems to be able to cope with their past, least of all Hélène, an antique furniture saleswoman, her stepson Bernard, and her former lover Alphonse.
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Title: La Belle et son fantôme
Character: le directeur de l'hôtel
Released: April 7, 1962
Type: TV
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Les Bras de la nuit
Title: Les Bras de la nuit
Released: November 29, 1961
Type: Movie
Police inspector, Landais is caught in a tough situation. Daniele has murdered her husband, yet after the inspector starts investigating the case, he is completely overcome by her. Her obvious attractions have him in thrall and eventually he realizes he will do anything not to lose her. His solution is to cover up for her crime, after which things begin to go poorly.
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September Storm
Title: September Storm
Character: LeClerc
Released: September 9, 1960
Type: Movie
American fashion model Anne Traymore, swimming off the isle of Majorca, loses a bracelet, which the handsome Manuel del Rio Montoya returns to her. She believes he owns a beautiful yacht called The Swan, but he merely works on it for the wealthy Rene LeClerc.
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Le 7ème jour de Saint-Malo
Title: Le 7ème jour de Saint-Malo
Character: The mayor of Saint-Malo
Released: April 19, 1960
Type: Movie
End of WW2 : the German officers lock all the men between 18 and 65 into the "Fort National" on an islet in Saint-Malo.
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Prisoner of the Jungle
Title: Prisoner of the Jungle
Character: Van Houcke
Released: February 24, 1960
Type: Movie
The survivors of a forced landing progress in a hostile African bush.
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Tabarin
Title: Tabarin
Character: Larjac
Released: May 21, 1958
Type: Movie
Jacques Forestier, also a choreographer, an art decorator and a stage producer, is the very competent manager of "Tabarin", a renowned Parisian music-hall. A hard worker, he always wants the best for the public, at the expense of his health. He is assisted in his task by his wife Rosine and his lively secretary Mimi. Chance has it that one of the dancers he auditions for a new show is Florence, his former lover. He doesn't want her in the show but the spiteful belle has a rich influential protector who imposes her anyway. Some time later, Jacques falls victim of a heart attack.
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Adventures in Indochina
Title: Adventures in Indochina
Character: Le Toubib
Released: April 30, 1958
Type: Movie
A bunch of losers who can afford the price of the boat travel to Marseille are hired by a blonde woman for a mysterious mission in the jungle.
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Clandestine Paris
Title: Clandestine Paris
Character: Commissioner Bruno
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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The Most Beautiful Life
Title: The Most Beautiful Life
Released: November 16, 1956
Type: Movie
Jean Berthillot and his wife Anne-Marie settle in Guinea. He is a primary-school teacher, fully occupied with his job. Anne-Marie is bored and has the pain of seeing their baby die. Depressed, she tries to hold on to an engineer, Carlier, whom she met when she first arrived in the country. She won't leave with him, but the disagreement between the couple is growing. Convinced that he is leading the best life, Jean does nothing to keep his wife. It's up to the natives to reconcile them and help the young woman share her husband's ideal.
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Operation Thunder
Title: Operation Thunder
Character: Pierre Dumans
Released: June 13, 1956
Type: Movie
The inhabitants of a small provincial town are requisitioned to take part in the French army's major maneuvers. A foreign spy takes advantage of these maneuvers to steal secret documents. The pursuit and capture of the spy and his accomplices are successfully carried out by all those taking part in the maneuvers.
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In the Manner of Sherlock Holmes
Title: In the Manner of Sherlock Holmes
Character: Marval
Released: June 5, 1956
Type: Movie
A horrific and, on the face of it, incomprehensible murder has just been committed on the unsympathetic person of a loan shark. The victim's body is found lifeless, but the circumstances of his death are far from clear. For want of anything better to go on, the police immediately suspect a penniless gentleman who had the bad idea and misfortune to be present at the time of the crime. The police don't take the time to look for other possible suspects, and are not at the end of their surprises. A dark story seems to lie behind this imbroglio of incoherent facts.
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Trapeze
Title: Trapeze
Character: Otto
Released: May 30, 1956
Type: Movie
A pair of men try to perform the dangerous "triple" in their trapeze act. Problems arise when the duo is made into a trio following the addition of a sexy female performer.
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Passion de femmes
Title: Passion de femmes
Released: January 4, 1955
Type: Movie
Nicole Montigny leaves her husband, surgeon Paul, to live with her lover in Canada. Anna, her husband's assistant, thinks she can take advantage of the situation to console the man she loves. She convinces Nicole to fake an accident. However, Paul starts seeing his wife's twin sister, Mireille. Anna, mad with jealousy, brings Nicole back and tries to break up the new couple by blackmail. Nicole decides to eliminate Anna.
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Palace of Shame
Title: Palace of Shame
Character: Inspecteur Million
Released: July 18, 1954
Type: Movie
Tongues start to wag after a famous Parisian music hall dancer is rushed to hospital after being found poisoned by arsenic at the Concert Mayol.
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Zoé
Title: Zoé
Character: Doctor Louis Delay
Released: March 8, 1954
Type: Movie
Barbara Laage essays the title role in Zoe. Our heroine's adventures begin when she catches the eye of a big-city playboy named Arthur (Michel Auclair), who is attracted not only to Zoe's beauty, but by her insistence upon telling nothing but the whole truth. This trait causes no end of comic complications when Zoe moves into the palatial home of Arthur's family. The limit comes when Zoe botches a big business deal formulated by Arthur's not-altogether-honest father (Louis Seigner). Zoe is based on a stage farce by Jean Marsan.
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Le petit Jacques
Title: Le petit Jacques
Released: September 3, 1953
Type: Movie
Noël Rambert is overwhelmed by fate. Marthe, his wife, has left him. His son, little Jacques, sickly and touching, has psychic gifts. Life is not a happy one. A crime is committed. Poor Rambert is unjustly suspected. A good-looking man convinces him to confess his guilt. In doing so, he secures his child's future. Resigned to everything, the sad Rambert is ready for the scaffold. The little medium brings the truth to light and Mme Mortal denounces her husband, Daniel Mortal, the man behind the despicable bargain, as the murderer. Happiness returns with a bang, as the repentant Marthe Rambert continues to watch over little Jacques during the ordeal.
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Smuggler's Ball
Title: Smuggler's Ball
Character: Pierre
Released: June 8, 1952
Type: Movie
Smuggler's Ball is the English-language title for this French-Belgian seriocomedy. The action takes place along the borders separating Belgium, Holland and France. It is here that the worldly Pierre (J. P. Kieran) carries on a profitable smuggling operation, all the while romancing Siska (Christian Lenier), the daughter of a local customs official. Various subplots and secondary characters weave in and out as the plotline guides the viewer through the WW II years. Towards the end, the story shifts gears when the Benelux Frontier Agreement eliminates all government regulations. The film's screenplay is by Charles Spaak, himself the descendant of a Belgian political family, and thus well-versed in bureaucracy and red tape.
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His First Affair
Title: His First Affair
Character: Giuseppe Léandri
Released: January 9, 1952
Type: Movie
The beautiful Domenica makes a student believe that her husband is a Corsican bandit, while he is a teacher.
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Le cas du docteur Galloy
Title: Le cas du docteur Galloy
Released: June 20, 1951
Type: Movie
Madame Guérin, who has been suffering from cancer, benefits from a period of remission and she tries to regain health at any price. That is why she decides to consult a healer. But when her friend, also affected by cancer, is saved by an operation, she hesitates between traditional and parallel medicine.
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Born of Unknown Father
Title: Born of Unknown Father
Character: Claude Nogent
Released: December 12, 1950
Type: Movie
By taking the defense of Raymond Denis, accused of having killed his mistress, when she committed suicide because he did not want to recognize his child, the lawyer Claude Nogent, learns that he himself was born of unknown father.
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A Smile in the Storm
Title: A Smile in the Storm
Character: Jean Langrand
Released: November 24, 1950
Type: Movie
In the Canadian Far North, a couple is looking for a gold mine. They meet a sergeant and his friend. But the man is killed during a fight with an adventurer.
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A Man Walks in the City
Title: A Man Walks in the City
Character: Jean Sauviot
Released: March 22, 1950
Type: Movie
Le Havre, France, in 1949. In a town that still shows the scars of war, several friends meet up in Albert's café. One of them, Laurent, has lost his job on the docks and his marriage to Madeleine is falling apart. He knows that his wife wants to start an affair with friend, Jean Sauviot. Jean is a lonely man who is attracted to Madeleine but doesn't want to commit himself to the wife of a friend. On the day that Madeleine tells her husband that she is seeing Jean, Laurent goes looking for Jean to find an explanation. Arriving on the docks in the evening, he attacks an American sailor who looks like Jean, but the man fights back and runs away after killing Laurent accidentally. Madeleine thinks that Laurent was killed by Jean and believes that she can start a new life with her lover. The police have other ideas...
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Sorceror
Title: Sorceror
Character: Lebray
Released: January 27, 1950
Type: Movie
A young rogue kills an old lady to rob her. Arrested, he believes it is for this crime, hides nothing from his lawyer, who soon tells him that he is only accused of another theft prior to his crime. Sentenced to six months suspended prison sentence, he will also have to answer for the crime of the old lady.
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The Inn of Sin
Title: The Inn of Sin
Character: Briquet
Released: December 15, 1949
Type: Movie
Two murders are committed in an inn for the possession of a bag containing a fortune.
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Troubled Waters
Title: Troubled Waters
Released: August 26, 1949
Type: Movie
A woman returns to her hometown along the French coast, seeking answers about the death of her brother.
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Last Love
Title: Last Love
Character: Paul
Released: February 6, 1949
Type: Movie
Hélène has an affair with Alain for ten years, but does not want to divorce her husband. Alain receives one letter from a girl Michelle one day. Hélène, who is very jealous, receives that letter by chance and interprets it incorrectly.
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Une mort sans importance
Title: Une mort sans importance
Character: Gervais
Released: May 12, 1948
Type: Movie
A man who has made a pact with death must designate the member of a family who must die the next day. After many hesitations, he will sacrifice the innocent young girl so that she does not know the infamy of her family.
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A Dog's Life
Title: A Dog's Life
Character: Grégorius
Released: June 25, 1943
Type: Movie
Mr. Gustave Bourdillon loves hopelessly the wife of the director of the institution where he is the only teacher. Soon a widow, the pretty wife of Mr. Calumet, agrees to marry the brave professor, but believes each onstant that her husband has returned in the form of his brave little dog Medor. After incredible situations and an immeasurable pursuit, Gustave Bourdillon and widow Émilie will live a deserved happiness.
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Love Letters
Title: Love Letters
Character: Le postillon
Released: December 23, 1942
Type: Movie
A plucky businesswoman agrees to receive love letters to a prefect’s wife from a young official, and soon finds herself embroiled in a scandal that inflames a town’s class tensions.
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The Italian Straw Hat
Title: The Italian Straw Hat
Character: Félix
Released: June 1, 1941
Type: Movie
Fadinard is going through the woods on his horse en route to his wedding. Unfortunately, his horse eats the straw hat of a married woman who is having a secret rendezvous with her lover. In order to save the woman's honor, Fadinard must find the exact same type of hat to replace the one his horse ate and still be able to get to his wedding on time.
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Maxim's Porter
Title: Maxim's Porter
Released: November 10, 1939
Type: Movie
The hunter at Maxim's, whose family is unaware of the profession, turns around and plans to marry his daughter to a marquis when he recognizes a regular in this nobility. Everyone meets at Maxim's where, unmasked, the hunter agrees to marry his daughter to the reveler but repentant Marquis.
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The Tamer
Title: The Tamer
Character: Raphaël
Released: December 14, 1938
Type: Movie
A very shy person inherits a traveling circus on the express condition that he manages to present a number on the ring.
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Courier of Lyons
Title: Courier of Lyons
Character: Jean Bruer
Released: November 10, 1937
Type: Movie
A courier carrying a large sum of money intended for Bonaparte's army is attacked. A miscarriage of justice will lead an innocent person to the guillotine.