Fred Pasquali

Fred Pasquali

Born: October 31, 1898
Died: June 12, 1991
in Constantinople, Ottoman Empire [now Istanbul, Turkey]

Movies for Fred Pasquali...

Salut la puce
Title: Salut la puce
Released: January 12, 1983
Type: Movie
Robert Dumortier and his son "La Puce" live on a barge moored to an island of the Seine and Robert dreams of cruising remote and exotic seas.
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Prends ta Rolls et va pointer
Title: Prends ta Rolls et va pointer
Character: Pépé, de la ferme du cousin
Released: August 12, 1981
Type: Movie
Camille Vigault, takes advantage of his vacation to visit a cousin winemaker in Roussillon. Quickly tired by work in the countryside, he prefers to buy an old abandoned Rolls Royce from his cousin.
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Signé Furax
Title: Signé Furax
Character: Hardy Petit
Released: April 1, 1981
Type: Movie
The notorious and mysterious criminal Furax steals France's famous monuments, replacing them with replicas.
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Peau de vache
Title: Peau de vache
Character: Colinet
Released: December 19, 1980
Type: Movie
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Make Room for Tomorrow
Title: Make Room for Tomorrow
Character: M. Vallet
Released: June 6, 1979
Type: Movie
Four generations of Oppenheim men gather in Paris for Isaac's 90th birthday. He's "Romeo," still a lady's man, waiting to hear from a woman to whom he has proposed, threatening suicide if she says no. They gather at Isaac's grandson's, Ben, who lives with Peggy and their son Mathias who's 10. Joining them, from Israel, is Isaac's son Elie. Against a backdrop of Elie's attempts to call his ex-wife, Ben and Peggy's marital difficulties, Mathias's budding sexuality, everyone's love of chess and practical jokes, Ben's house (shifting dangerously on its foundation), and the twentieth-century struggles of the Jews, the film explores their relationships and Isaac's aging.
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The Small Timers
Title: The Small Timers
Character: M. Feuillard
Released: September 27, 1978
Type: Movie
A gang of small time crooks, prosecuted by an stubborn police inspector, is unfairly accused of a breaking and entering. After being set free by the inspector's wife, she becomes their boss and starts planning their first big score.
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Dis bonjour à la dame !..
Title: Dis bonjour à la dame !..
Character: Gontran's father (TV series)
Released: March 30, 1977
Type: Movie
Robert Ferry, a PTT employee, is having problems with his two sons. The elder has impregnated his girlfriend, a young hippie, and the younger, Daniel, is said to have homosexual tendencies. Determined to put his son back on the straight and narrow, Robert decides to go against his principles and force a young girl on him...
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Title: Mort au jury
Character: Léonard
Released: September 24, 1974
Type: TV
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The Three Musketeers
Title: The Three Musketeers
Character: Louis XIII
Released: January 2, 1974
Type: Movie
D'Artagnan and his musketeer comrades must thwart the plans of Cardinal Richelieu to usurp King Louis XIII's power.
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Line Up and Lay Down
Title: Line Up and Lay Down
Character: Lulu la Bricole
Released: August 29, 1973
Type: Movie
Erotic comedy about an incorrigible womanizer whose lecherous love life becomes too much to handle. Things culminate when his jealous friends arrange for his fiancee and his mistresses to meet him at the same time.
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La Vénus de Milo
Title: La Vénus de Milo
Character: Le Général Pauquet, ami de la maison
Released: May 26, 1973
Type: Movie
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L'Atlantide
Title: L'Atlantide
Character: Le Mesje
Released: February 24, 1972
Type: Movie
Two young French officers get lost in the Sahara desert and find themselves prisoners of Antinéa, who rules over the lost city of Atlantis. Under her evil influence, one of them, blinded by his love for her, loses his mind and goes so far as to murder his comrade... Jean Kerchbron adapts Pierre Benoît's book for this film, which is more concerned with social reflection than fantasy.
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Mais qui donc m'a fait ce bébé ?
Title: Mais qui donc m'a fait ce bébé ?
Released: October 27, 1971
Type: Movie
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Aladdin and His Magic Lamp
Title: Aladdin and His Magic Lamp
Character: Le génie de la boule (Voice)
Released: January 28, 1970
Type: Movie
He travels to Aladdin's village, identified as being near the border with China, where he enlists Aladdin's help by pretending to be his long-lost uncle and offering to leave his wealth to Aladdin. At one point, the Magician character tells the story of his travels to China, India and Persia and we see a montage of these adventures and it's kind of interesting because of the way it invokes other cultures of the era. There is some unnecessary padding throughout as characters break into songs that do nothing but tell parts of Once upon a time, somewhere in Africa, a local magician dreamed of owning the Magic Lamp. Thanks to a Magic Ball he learned that the Lamp could be found in an Asian village and that only the innocent hand of a young person could snatch it. He traveled to the place, a village called Three Hill City, close to the Chinese border. There lived Aladdin
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La Honte de la famille
Title: La Honte de la famille
Released: November 7, 1969
Type: Movie
On the day of his marriage, the son of a Marseille king declares to his family that he wishes to engage in the police.
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Aux frais de la princesse
Title: Aux frais de la princesse
Released: July 4, 1969
Type: Movie
The Eloi family, who have just won the "model family" competition, set off for winter sports. Also on the trip are Aunt Gabrielle and Dagobert, the village warden. For the eccentric little group, the initiation to the joys of skiing begins with a lot of excitement. The vacation gets complicated when a Hindu prince has a precious diamond stolen from the local hotel.
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Tintin et la SGM
Title: Tintin et la SGM
Character: Professeur Tournesol
Released: April 30, 1969
Type: Movie
This short animated advertising cartoon promotes the Société Générale des Minerais belges, a Belgian mining company. Tintin follows the company endeavours in Belgium, Congo, the USA, France and Japan.
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La 99ème minute
Title: La 99ème minute
Released: August 23, 1966
Type: Movie
Death live! In the middle of filming a detective drama, the main actor Gérard Gérard dies from a gunshot. This returning star was hated by her partners... So, suicide, accident or crime? The investigation takes place before our eyes until the 99th minute. Let the masks fall!
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Title: At Theatre Tonight
Character: Pierre
Released: July 21, 1966
Type: TV
At Theater tonight is a TV show broadcasted from 25th August 1966 to 21st September 1985. The show is broadcast plays recorded in two or three days, during public performances at the Théâtre Marigny on the Champs-Élysées, or sometimes Edouard VII theater.
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Title: At Theatre Tonight
Character: Le Général Pauquet, ami de la maison
Released: July 21, 1966
Type: TV
At Theater tonight is a TV show broadcasted from 25th August 1966 to 21st September 1985. The show is broadcast plays recorded in two or three days, during public performances at the Théâtre Marigny on the Champs-Élysées, or sometimes Edouard VII theater.
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Title: At Theatre Tonight
Character: Blaise
Released: July 21, 1966
Type: TV
At Theater tonight is a TV show broadcasted from 25th August 1966 to 21st September 1985. The show is broadcast plays recorded in two or three days, during public performances at the Théâtre Marigny on the Champs-Élysées, or sometimes Edouard VII theater.
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The Big Scare
Title: The Big Scare
Released: October 28, 1964
Type: Movie
Two police inspectors pursue a dangerous counterfeiter on the run.
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Thank Heaven for Small Favors
Title: Thank Heaven for Small Favors
Released: August 28, 1963
Type: Movie
Bad financial conditions compel an aristocratic family to do strange work.
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It's Not My Business
Title: It's Not My Business
Character: Jacques Meunier, l'impresario de Fernand Raynaud
Released: November 7, 1962
Type: Movie
A small-scale cabaret troupe is touring the provinces. One afternoon while canoeing, Monique Darzel, one of the troupe's singers, spots an angler whose resemblance to Fernand Raynaud strikes her. She discusses this with Jean Duroc, the troupe's director, who laments the meagre revenues his show is raking in. He then had the idea of meeting this fisherman to convince him to imitate Fernand Raynaud in his shows. It turns out that the Fernand Raynaud impersonator is in fact Fernand Raynaud himself, who has come for a week's incognito vacation in the provinces. Raynaud is finally persuaded to play the novice comedian, in order to further develop the script for his next film, Les cabotins à travers les âges.
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It's Not My Business
Title: It's Not My Business
Released: November 7, 1962
Type: Movie
A small-scale cabaret troupe is touring the provinces. One afternoon while canoeing, Monique Darzel, one of the troupe's singers, spots an angler whose resemblance to Fernand Raynaud strikes her. She discusses this with Jean Duroc, the troupe's director, who laments the meagre revenues his show is raking in. He then had the idea of meeting this fisherman to convince him to imitate Fernand Raynaud in his shows. It turns out that the Fernand Raynaud impersonator is in fact Fernand Raynaud himself, who has come for a week's incognito vacation in the provinces. Raynaud is finally persuaded to play the novice comedian, in order to further develop the script for his next film, Les cabotins à travers les âges.
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Snobs !
Title: Snobs !
Character: Richard Archambault
Released: September 5, 1962
Type: Movie
The director of a dairy cooperative in La Manche dies in a vat of milk. In line to succeed him are his four deputy managers, all with very different temperaments: the aristocratic Dufaux, the seductive Courtin, the pious Lainé and the wait-and-see Tousseur. Each of them pulls out all the stops to win a major order from Morloch. Once this is achieved, election to the post of director by the cooperators is all but assured.
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À rebrousse-poil
Title: À rebrousse-poil
Released: February 8, 1961
Type: Movie
Two scientists have invented a kindness serum which can turn the fiercest human being into the sweetest kindest person. Testing the product on a wild lion proves successful. The "vaccination " becomes compulsory in the whole France, then in Europa. Mrs Durand ,who was a sour-tempered shrew, becomes tender and pampers her husband, happy as he has never been. The bossy colonel of the fourth floor surrounds his neighbors with attentions .But new problems appear, caused by this universal goodness:for instance, Mr Durand's boss's lover does not want to tell him she does not love him anymore for fear he may be grieved.Besides, a country in which people were not inoculated against nastiness becomes aggressive.
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A Girl in a Pocket
Title: A Girl in a Pocket
Character: Bataillon
Released: November 6, 1957
Type: Movie
A professor experimenting in suspended animation accidentally shrinks his dog and later, his female lab assistant, when she drinks the liquid by accident and shrinks to 3 inches tall. The professor keeps her in his pocket until he can find an antidote. Sometimes she's naked, too.
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The Crazy Hostel
Title: The Crazy Hostel
Released: June 12, 1957
Type: Movie
As a favor to his grandmother, singer Rudy Hirigoyen agrees to sing incognito, under the name Romano, in the nightclub his cousin Gustave has just opened in a small seaside resort. The staff and musicians are students camping out in the pine forest near "L'Auberge Fleurie". Grandma has rented the apartment above the club to summer guests: Commandant Portafaux and his wife.
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Sénéchal the Magnificent
Title: Sénéchal the Magnificent
Character: (uncredited)
Released: May 24, 1957
Type: Movie
Sénéchal, an actor touring the provinces with the "Tournées Carlini" does not meet the success he thinks he deserves. One night in Dreux, he finds himself without his luggage and dressed up as a Foreign Legion officer, he is invited to a party thrown by a colonel. He creates a sensation there and does not leave the colonel's wife ... indifferent! Back in Paris, Sénéchal goes through a similar experience. This time around, wearing tuxedo and top hat, he gets mistaken for a diplomat and charms the guests of a wedding party. Arrested by the police, he chooses to do without an attorney at his trial and his brilliant eloquence has him acquitted. A question remains unanswered though : will all those people who give an ovation in real life ever go to see him on stage ?
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Fernandel the Dressmaker
Title: Fernandel the Dressmaker
Character: Picrafos
Released: April 13, 1956
Type: Movie
A modest taylor the women found irresistible inherit a Maison de couture in financial difficulty. Decided to save it he prepare a great collection. But when his wife discovered his relations with one of the mannequin, how would he prevent the scandale without loosing... both of them?!
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Les deux font la paire
Title: Les deux font la paire
Character: Theater director
Released: February 11, 1955
Type: Movie
Two third-rate actors, longing to be famous, try to make the headlines by feigning a murder.
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My Seven Little Sins
Title: My Seven Little Sins
Released: November 29, 1954
Type: Movie
The Count of Courvallon, whose gallant exploits have made the headlines, has uncoupled and lives in a pleasant estate in the C te. He has a son, Edouard, and a stylish valet, Antonio. This peaceful life is disrupted by a battalion of penniless girls living in a neighboring villa. Luisella has the nerve to introduce herself to André de Courvallon as his daughter, and immediately her comrades follow suit. The supposed father is not fooled, but his son takes it badly, especially as he has fallen in love with Luisella. Fairy tales always have happy endings.
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Les amoureux de Marianne
Title: Les amoureux de Marianne
Released: July 2, 1954
Type: Movie
Gaston Duboutois and Catherine Berton love each other, and are about to play Romeo and Juliet in their small provincial town. The industrialist Duboutois is opposed to his accountant Berton, both of whom are running for parliament. Tempers flare and invective quickly escalates. In the end, Duboutois wins and Berton loses his position. Although futile and foolish, it's the excellent Mme Duboutois who brings peace to the situation, brings about reconciliation and helps the two children to unite.
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Ma petite folie
Title: Ma petite folie
Released: May 28, 1954
Type: Movie
Raoul Morel, a shy young man without a fortune, is an instructor at a driving school. During a lesson, he is disturbed by the ravishing and capricious Lolita Perez, the wealthy daughter of a South American who, despite her father's opposition, wants to marry a seductive adventurer, Marcel d'Arcy, who covets her fortune. At his instigation, she plans to marry Raoul - a sham marriage - in order to gain possession of his fortune. She divorces him and remarries Marcel. But Lolita falls in love with Raoul, who has been warned of her machinations and refuses the marriage...
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One Hundred Francs Per Second
Title: One Hundred Francs Per Second
Character: Mr Bourdinet
Released: January 9, 1953
Type: Movie
Philippe, an employee at the Bourdinet firm, having been caught kissing Jacqueline, his boss's daughter, is fired. Some time later, Bourdinet launches a radio quiz show to boost his business. Philippe then decides to compete in the hope of telling the thousands of listeners what he thinks of the industrialist. A blow on the head having given him a gift of second sight, the competitor becomes impeccable and wins astronomical sums to the great despair of Bourdinet. Everything will work out in the end and Philippe will be able to marry Jacqueline.
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The Turkey
Title: The Turkey
Character: Narcisse Pacarel
Released: November 21, 1951
Type: Movie
Paris at the Belle Epoque. Monsieur de Pontagnac, a perfect honest man, loves pretty women too much and that plays him many tricks. What need does he have to follow the pretty Lucienne Vatelin, home, to find himself in the presence of the husband, the notary Vatelin, who is part of his circle? From there, many characters will meet, avoid each other, find each other. Adultery, domestic scenes and reconciliation will be their lot.
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No Vacation for Mr. Mayor
Title: No Vacation for Mr. Mayor
Character: Tracassin
Released: November 4, 1951
Type: Movie
Annie, the ward of Monsieur Joachim, a nightclub manager, has fallen in love with Philippe Lebon, a singer who could easily re-float her guardian's failing business. The trouble is that Joachim has already - and hurriedly - betrothed Annie to his business partner. To make matters worse the young lady suspects Philippe of being unfaithful. In order to thwart the wedding of Annie and his rival, Philippe hires two of his friends, the resourceful Beaudubec and Tracassin.
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The Merry Pilgrims
Title: The Merry Pilgrims
Character: Rameau
Released: May 25, 1951
Type: Movie
With no contract in view, Aimé Barelli, the leader of the band of the same name, decides to take a holiday. As this is the Holy Year, the young artist accepts to follow his mother on a pilgrimage to Rome. His band members - complete with their agent - decide to follow suit. Good idea because on the train to Rome, there is a whole class of charming schoolgirls, including charming Rosita and - surprise ! - Nicole, Aimé's pretty but elusive beloved. The trip is cheerful but eventful and life gets even more complicated with the interference of Duranval, a fake talent agent but genuine trouble shooter. At a time confusion is such that a bomb explodes and the whole gang find themselves in ... heaven! But Saint Peter has pity on them and sends them back to earth. At long last Aimé can marry Nicole while his musicians spread mirth around them.
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Les Mémoires de la vache Yolande
Title: Les Mémoires de la vache Yolande
Character: Cocantin
Released: May 2, 1951
Type: Movie
A drama teacher works as an extra in the cinema: he has to milk a cow. Left alone with the animal in the studio, he is forced to bring it up to his apartment. The police, the Humane Society and the government get involved.
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Cœur-sur-Mer
Title: Cœur-sur-Mer
Character: Endive-Meunier
Released: March 2, 1951
Type: Movie
Endive-Meunier, a prosperous silk dealer from Lyon has an affair with his secretary he tries hard to keep secret. One day, he nevertheless accepts to accompany her to the seaside resort of Coeur-sur-Mer. Unfortunately for him, once there, he finds himself in the presence of Claudius Paquito, the popular barman of a fashionable club. The trouble is that the man is no other than one of his former employees he once fired for insolence...
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Johnny the Giant Killer
Title: Johnny the Giant Killer
Character: Various characters
Released: December 13, 1950
Type: Movie
Johnny and his friends embark on a journey to rid their land of an evil giant. While inside the giant's castle, the children are trapped by the giant and put through a magical shrinking machine. Johnny narrowly escapes the castle, but he is now the size of a small insect. Johnny will find that the world of insects is no picnic. The bees are feuding with the hornets, and Johnny is right in the middle of it. Johnny must now gain the trust of the insects to help him rescue his friends from the giant. Can he do it in time?
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Le Trésor des Pieds-Nickelés
Title: Le Trésor des Pieds-Nickelés
Character: Sherlococos
Released: March 8, 1950
Type: Movie
Although suspected and hunted down by policeman Sherlock Coco and inspector Hector, the Pieds Nickelés (Croquignol, Filochard and Ribouldingue) manage to save the legacy of Monsieur Miradoux, who will be very grateful to them.
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We Will All Go to Paris
Title: We Will All Go to Paris
Character: Mr. Grosbois
Released: February 8, 1950
Type: Movie
The film tells the story of three presenters on Radio X, an amateur clandestine radio station.
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Forbidden to the Public
Title: Forbidden to the Public
Character: Saturnin
Released: December 2, 1949
Type: Movie
Hervé Montagne, a famous but awfully self-satisfied playwright, is furious when he learns that the actress signed to lead in his latest play will not be able to play the part on account of pregnancy. All the more as no other great actress is available. Well, in fact there IS one, Gabrielle Tristan, a great name of the French stage. The only trouble is that she is Hervé's ex-wife and that they have not been on speaking terms for ten tears.
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Toute la famille était là!
Title: Toute la famille était là!
Character: Van Bico
Released: December 17, 1948
Type: Movie
Mr. Catignac, a pork butcher in Perigueux, plans to marry Victor, his son, to the daughter of a magistrate. What he does not know, for his son does it in hiding, is that Victor writes songs and has made his debut as a singer in a cabaret. To make matters worse, the young man has a mistress. When word of it leaks out, the whole family are outraged. One night, as Victor goes back home, they are all here, waiting for him.
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La parade du rire
Title: La parade du rire
Character: Mr. de Saint-Jules
Released: March 26, 1948
Type: Movie
A debate on the definition of the word laughter, organized by Madame de Saint-Jules and two academicians, illustrated by film extracts, turns into a huge battle of cream pies.
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Les Aventures des Pieds-Nickelés
Title: Les Aventures des Pieds-Nickelés
Character: Sherlock Coco
Released: February 1, 1948
Type: Movie
Sherlock Coco, famous detective, tries to thwart the machiavellian plans of the trio of shock. Croquignol, Ribouldingue and Filochard must be extra vigilant, but the profit motive is too strong. As a corollary, the famous pink diamond is also of interest to their legendary enemy, Jo Papillon. But always inventive, they will work out multiple scams and tricks to reach their goals.
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Thirty and Forty
Title: Thirty and Forty
Character: Silvergot Publisher
Released: July 3, 1946
Type: Movie
The scene is set during the Second Empire. Captain Bitterlin watches jealously over his lovely daughter Madeleine but he cannot prevent nature from demanding its rights and Madeleine soon finds herself a suitor in the person of Mario, a dashing young songwriter. Bitterlin, who wishes his daughter to "evade the grip" of the young man, takes her away to Monte Carlo. There, the captain does what he had sworn he would never do, he gambles in a casino. And even more upsetting: Mario might well be hereabouts...
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Happy Go Lucky
Title: Happy Go Lucky
Character: Germain
Released: May 15, 1946
Type: Movie
After lovers fight, the boy leaves for the Riviera. On her way to rejoin him, the girl meets a distinguished but embittered novelist and decides to spend time comforting him.Which is not going to help when she returns to her boyfriend.
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Women's Games
Title: Women's Games
Character: Simon
Released: May 13, 1946
Type: Movie
The agency À Votre Service has the reputation of meeting all needs. This is what Stanislas observes when his uncle replaces his mistress with a fiancée provided by the agency.
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Le Capitan (1ère époque) Flamberge au vent
Title: Le Capitan (1ère époque) Flamberge au vent
Released: March 27, 1946
Type: Movie
France under Louis XIII. 1615. The Duke of Angoulême is at the head of a group of gentlemen who are conspiring to drive the Florentines out of court, of whom Concini is the all-powerful leader. A cadet from Gascony, Adhémar de Capestang, who was later to become the Capitan, left his native province to come and try his luck in Paris. Along the way, he saves a young girl, Gisèle d'Angoulême, from a masked individual who wanted to kidnap her.
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Behind These Walls
Title: Behind These Walls
Character: Advisor
Released: March 13, 1946
Type: Movie
June 1944, a French town towards the end of the occupation. Following several attacks perpetrated by the resistance, the inhabitants who listen to English radio are rounded up by the Germans in a prison and considered as hostages. In one of the cells are found men from all walks of life: an aristocrat, the Viscount of Saint-Leu, Doctor Noblet, a resistance fighter, Béquille the wanderer with a wooden leg, and a strange character nicknamed "Black Market". The latter arouses mistrust among the prisoners, because it could well have been introduced by the enemy.
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The Queer Assignment
Title: The Queer Assignment
Character: Le duc Rodrigue del Montes
Released: October 3, 1945
Type: Movie
A young man, Robert Dupont, with suicidal tendencies and a bit stupid to boot, is saved by a stranger who pretends to be a well-known banker. This stranger then entrusts him with a suitcase full of mysterious documents, which he asks him to take with him to Indochina. But in reality, the suitcase is stuffed with banknotes from a scam.
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Coup de tête
Title: Coup de tête
Character: Flyweight
Released: October 12, 1944
Type: Movie
A sporty and chivalrous young man creates, with some comrades, a society whose goal is to protect honest people against rogues. He finds himself thrown into unforeseen adventures, at the end of which he will discover love.
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My Last Mistress
Title: My Last Mistress
Character: Le peintre
Released: November 24, 1943
Type: Movie
A renowned sculptor aged about fifty years, François Bressolles falls for the young Catherine Collet whom he convinces without difficulty to pose for him. Complications ensue when he starts to go blind.
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Fou d'amour
Title: Fou d'amour
Character: Bettor
Released: June 16, 1943
Type: Movie
Claude, who temporarily replaces his father at the head of a department store, falls in love at first sight with a pretty female customer. He finds out that she is named Solange and that she is the goddaughter of Professor Hauteclerc, who runs a private psychiatric hospital. To come closer to the girl of his dreams, Claude has a crazy idea: he pretends to be mad so as to be placed in Hauteclerc's institution.
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A Star to the Sun
Title: A Star to the Sun
Released: February 24, 1943
Type: Movie
Martine, who has become a major star of the song in Paris, wants to return to visit her hometown. Confronted with Merlerault, a very haughty and noble character who wants to teach her how to live, she succumbs after a time of anger, to the charms of the gentleman. They get married but she forgot to tell her husband that her father is in fact the most famous poacher in the area.
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The Honorable Catherine
Title: The Honorable Catherine
Character: The chime vendor
Released: February 4, 1943
Type: Movie
Catherine's technique to sell her clocks is to blackmail illegitimate couples such as Jacques and Gisèle. However when Gisèle's husband Pierre walks in on them, Catherine pretends to be Jacques's lover to save the day. Jacques then gets caught up in her schemes when the next couple she deals with turn out to be jewel thieves who kidnap them.
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The Count of Monte Cristo Part 1 - The Prisoner of Kastell
Title: The Count of Monte Cristo Part 1 - The Prisoner of Kastell
Character: Joannès
Released: January 22, 1943
Type: Movie
Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner whom everyone believes to be mad. The Abbe tells Edmond of a fantastic treasure hidden away on a tiny island, that only he knows the location of. After many years in prison, the old Abbe dies, and Edmond escapes disguised as the dead body. Now free, Edmond must find the treasure the Abbe told him of, so he can use the new-found wealth to exact revenge on those who have wronged him.
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The Newspaper Falls at Five O'Clock
Title: The Newspaper Falls at Five O'Clock
Character: Fragonard
Released: May 21, 1942
Type: Movie
The everyday life and activity of "La Dernière Heure", a major evening newspaper, seen through the eyes of Hélène Perrin, a cub reporter trained by Pierre Rabaud, a star in his field. Side by side they will investigate several events: an air show that ends tragically, the coming to France of a Hollywood actress, a lightship caught in a terrible storm...
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Pension Jonas
Title: Pension Jonas
Released: March 6, 1942
Type: Movie
A tramp has taken up residence in the belly of a museum whale.
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Whims
Title: Whims
Released: February 16, 1942
Type: Movie
Caprices tells the story of two young rich people. A famous actress poses as a poor florist, and a distinguished society man camouflages himself as forger and swindler. This game leads them to make close relations in a series of adventures.
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Ce n'est pas moi
Title: Ce n'est pas moi
Character: Don José
Released: December 23, 1941
Type: Movie
Cambo, a banker, has been in trouble since a certain Parizot has tried to extort stocks from him. Following the advice of his friend Quincampoix, Cambo decides to trade places with Bardac, a painter, who happens to be his lookalike. Bardac slips into Cambo's shoes with delight although he does not really live up to his task. But Cambo, who manages to ruin Parizot, makes a 100% profit on the situation. There are of course some misunderstandings when one man is mistaken for the other, notably as concerns Lulu and Geneviève, respectively Bardac's and Cambo's sweethearts, but things finally return to their initial state.
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Sins of Youth
Title: Sins of Youth
Character: Edmond Vacheron
Released: November 16, 1941
Type: Movie
A rich businessman living alone is deprived of the nephew he was to have brought up decides on his doctor's advice to search for the four illegitimate children he once fathered, which leads him to accept responsibility for his actions.
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Paris Romance
Title: Paris Romance
Released: October 3, 1941
Type: Movie
Georges Gauthier is an electrician who lives with his mother and his sister Madeleine. He is the son of a womanizing singer who made his mother miserable. For all that, Georges is attracted to show business all the more as he falls in love with Jeanne, the daughter of singer Lormel. Georges is spotted by Cartier, the manager of the Folies Concert and makes his debut as a singer under the assumed name of Jean Papillon.
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The Last Turning
Title: The Last Turning
Character: Un joueur
Released: May 17, 1939
Type: Movie
Frank, a hobo, ends up in a garage-truck stop in the middle of nowhere. Nick Marino, its older, kind and naive owner, is married to Cora, a sexy and mercenary woman half his age. Frank, although not a fan of hard work, accepts Nick's offer to work for him. Of course, it is not for Nick's sake that the young man becomes his attendant, but for the love of Cora under whose spell he has fallen at once. It does not take long before Cora, who despises her husband, asks her lover to help her get rid of him. Frank is reluctant at first but ...
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Raphaël le tatoué
Title: Raphaël le tatoué
Character: le maître d'hôtel
Released: February 9, 1939
Type: Movie
Modeste is a timid watchman at an automobile factory which is run with an iron hand by its owner, Roger Drapeau. One evening, Modeste leaves his post to visit a fairground, where he meets the attractive Aline. Having glimpsed his employer, Modeste makes a hasty return to the factory. When Monsieur Drapeau appears, Modeste explains that it must have been his twin brother that his boss saw at the fairground, a nasty piece of work named Raphaël. Not only does Drapeau fail to see through this unconvincing lie, but it gives him an idea to win a marathon car race. Modeste and Raphaël will take alternate turns in the stages of the race and, because they are so similar, no one will be any the wiser. Unable to admit that he has no brother but afraid of losing his job, Modeste allows himself to be coerced into taking part in the race...
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The Curtain Rises
Title: The Curtain Rises
Character: Doublure de Marcel Dalio dans la version sous l'Occupation
Released: October 6, 1938
Type: Movie
1938, France, Paris, at the Superior Conservatory of Dramatic Art ("Conservatoire Supérieur d'Art Dramatique"). The first-year entrance exams are in full swing. Many applicants, few accepted. Isabelle (Janine Darcey) is one of the few chosen. She joins former students from the second and third years, including François (Claude Dauphin) and Cécilia (Odette Joyeux). They attend the drama class run by Professor Lambertin (Louis Jouvet). The young people, passionate and eager to become comedians, clash in tumultuous love affairs, because by dint of acting, they imagine that life is a farce. François, for example, is in love with Isabelle, who also loves him, but is pursued by Cecilia, his former mistress... "Put art in your life and life in your art!"
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Lights of Paris
Title: Lights of Paris
Character: Beaurivage
Released: October 5, 1938
Type: Movie
A celebrated singer in Paris meets a young woman and courts her by pretending to be a driving instructor.
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The Virgin Bride
Title: The Virgin Bride
Character: Le détective
Released: August 6, 1937
Type: Movie
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Un mauvais garçon
Title: Un mauvais garçon
Character: P'tit Louis
Released: December 18, 1936
Type: Movie
Monsieur Serval has made a deal with his daughter Jacqueline. She can be a lawyer and act her own way provided that, in a given period of time, she becomes a great name of the profession. If she does not, she must pledge herself to marry the son of a rich man, Monsieur Feutrier. Jacqueline accepts and starts her career by defending Pierre Besnard, a bad Boy. Not only does she get the case dismissed but she falls in love with Pierre as well. But she is not famous for all that and sooner or later she will have to bring herself to marry Feutrier's son.
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In the Service of the Tsar
Title: In the Service of the Tsar
Released: November 13, 1936
Type: Movie
At the turn of the last century, a beautiful spy takes advantage of a handsome officer to get across the Russian border without her passport. They fall in love. But the Grand Duke also falls in love with the young woman, who has in fact been assigned to kill him. A jealous mistress kills the spy before she can commit the crime.
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The Call
Title: The Call
Released: May 1, 1936
Type: Movie
The story of Charles de Foucauld, a cavalry officer, who became an explorer, and then became a Catholic priest and hermit in the Sahara
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Un homme de trop à bord
Title: Un homme de trop à bord
Character: Wrensky
Released: December 6, 1935
Type: Movie
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Jonny, haute-couture
Title: Jonny, haute-couture
Released: April 12, 1935
Type: Movie
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Rothchild
Title: Rothchild
Character: Flip
Released: May 4, 1934
Type: Movie
An ex-businessman, ruined and reduced to living under bridges, uses the name of one of his companions in misfortune, Rothchild, to organize a vast scam.
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To Be Loved
Title: To Be Loved
Character: Emilien
Released: October 27, 1933
Type: Movie
Gérard d'Ormoise, a young millionaire tired of the easy loves that his income earned him, takes the place of a friendly bartender. He marries the young and pretty duchess who first believed him to be an honest bartender, then a vulgar burglar.
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Âme de clown
Title: Âme de clown
Character: Teddy
Released: October 13, 1933
Type: Movie
Suzette and Jack form a very nice and rather well-matched couple. The latter is the partner of the new clown Teddy who seems to please the young lady a lot.
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Miss Helyett
Title: Miss Helyett
Released: August 25, 1933
Type: Movie
The daughter of the austere professor Smithson, during a walk on skis, loses her balance, revealing her underwear. An indiscreet photographed the scene. Smithson demands that his daughter marry this man, but who is he? He luckily turns out to be the young man she loves.
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La fusée
Title: La fusée
Character: Baltan
Released: May 1, 1933
Type: Movie
The rise of a canning maker and then his abandonment of the factory because his ideal of social progress for his workers is undermined by the Board of Directors.
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I Sing for You Alone
Title: I Sing for You Alone
Character: Gilbert
Released: April 2, 1933
Type: Movie
Marcello, a shy tenor, is afraid of singing in public. Two friends of his think of having an elegant youth on the stage pretending to be singing while Marcello dubs him behind the scenes. The scam is successful but after a while Marcello summons the courage to go on stage himself.
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Monsieur de Pourceaugnac
Title: Monsieur de Pourceaugnac
Released: October 16, 1932
Type: Movie
Two young lovers. An arranged marriage. An older groom. The lovers develop a plan to convince the groom that she is unworthy and also to discredit him. A surprise ending convinces the father that he should bless the lovers' marriage.
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My Wife as a Businessman
Title: My Wife as a Businessman
Released: September 5, 1932
Type: Movie
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Un coup manqué
Title: Un coup manqué
Released: August 3, 1932
Type: Movie
A burglar breaks into an apartment but can not get out.
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Fantômas
Title: Fantômas
Released: May 20, 1932
Type: Movie
The Marquise de Langrune invites her friends at her castle in Beaulieu. Among them is Lord Beltham who also came to bring her a significant sum of money. The mysterious Fantômas kills the Marquise during the night. Inspector Juve is sent on his trail.
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La jalousie du barbouillé
Title: La jalousie du barbouillé
Released: January 1, 1927
Type: Movie
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Le complexe de Philemon
Title: Le complexe de Philemon
Character: Blaise
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie