Daniel Emilfork

Daniel Emilfork

Born: April 7, 1924
Died: October 17, 2006
in Providencia, Santiago, Metropolitan Region, Chile
Daniel Emilfork Berenstein (April 7, 1924 – October 17, 2006) was a Chilean stage and film actor.

Emilfork was born in Providencia, Chile after his Jewish socialist parents from Kiev fled a pogrom in Odessa. At age 25, he left Chile and settled in France, because, according to his friend Alejandro Jodorowsky, he didn't feel comfortable being a homosexual man in Chile. Emilfork's face was out of the norm and had made him a choice character actor for films such as The City of Lost Children (1995). He specialized in roles of villains. Previously he had played in The Devil's Nightmare (1971), Travels with My Aunt (1972) and Fellini's Casanova (1976), in Roman Polanski's Pirates (1986) and in Taxandria (1994). He carried on acting up until his death, his last film appearing in 2007. Emilfork's voice and accent when speaking French was extremely striking and unique. He died in Paris, France.

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Patrice Chéreau, the body at work
Title: Patrice Chéreau, the body at work
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: October 15, 2010
Type: Movie
In this documentary, Stéphane Metge, friend and collaborator of Patrice Chéreau, offers a portrait of the artist through archives of his plays, films, and interviews.
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Title: The Accursed Kings
Character: Maître Martin
Released: November 7, 2005
Type: TV
A sequence of seven episodes detailing the French monarchy.
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Taxandria
Title: Taxandria
Character: First Minister
Released: February 21, 1996
Type: Movie
A lighthouse guardian leads a young prince towards an imaginary world, Taxandria, where the boy learns about the power of love and the value of liberty. A totalitarian regime has forbidden time: time watches have been confiscated, photo cameras are illegal as they freeze a point in time. A typical Servais theme: a power is oppressed by a constraint that denies what is best in the individual, and therefore has to be twisted in various ways, to establish an entirely artificial world, that has rules that may question some of the rules of our world at this side of the mirror.
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The City of Lost Children
Title: The City of Lost Children
Character: Krank
Released: May 17, 1995
Type: Movie
A scientist in a surrealist society kidnaps children to steal their dreams, hoping that they slow his aging process.
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Lou Didn't Say No
Title: Lou Didn't Say No
Character: (voice)
Released: December 21, 1994
Type: Movie
The turbulent relationship between a filmmaker and a volatile actor.
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The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober
Title: The Tribulations of Balthazar Kober
Character: Rector
Released: December 26, 1988
Type: Movie
Story about the young Balthazar thrown from one remarkable event to the other. On his way through a plague hit the landscape, he meets the Kabbalists, priests - and himself.
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Riviera
Title: Riviera
Character: Messenger
Released: January 1, 1987
Type: Movie
TV-movie directed by Alan Smithee (John Frankenheimer).
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The Passage
Title: The Passage
Character: La Mort
Released: December 3, 1986
Type: Movie
Film-maker Jean Diaz lives with his son David after separated from his wife. On their way to the new house near the sea, Jean and David have a car accident provoked by The Death (portrayed here like a grim-reaper). The doctor actually can save Jean, but The Death sabotages the equipment with his computer. The Death offers Jean to wake David from his coma, but Jean must make an animation movie against the violence for him.
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Pirates
Title: Pirates
Character: Secretaire
Released: May 8, 1986
Type: Movie
Captain Red runs a hardy pirate ship with the able assistance of Frog, a dashing young French sailor. One day Capt. Red is captured and taken aboard a Spanish galleon, but thanks to his inventiveness, he raises the crew to mutiny, takes over the ship, and kidnaps the niece of the governor of Maracaibo. The question is, can he keep this pace up?
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The Beautiful Prisoner
Title: The Beautiful Prisoner
Character: Inspector Francis
Released: February 16, 1983
Type: Movie
Walter is told by his boss, Sara, to deliver an urgent letter to Henri de Corinthe. On the way he finds a beautiful woman he had been eying in a nightclub, lying in the road, bound up. He takes her to a villa to get a doctor, and ends up being locked in a bedroom with her. While she is making love to him, he has visions of surrealistic images from René Magritte's paintings. In the morning, the girl, Marie-Ange, has vanished, the villa looks derelict, and his neck is bleeding. Was it all just a nightmare?
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Meurtres A Domicile
Title: Meurtres A Domicile
Character: Julius Zepernick
Released: October 13, 1982
Type: Movie
A murder is committed in the building where Aurélia Maudru, inspector of the judicial police in charge of the investigation, lives.
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Quarter to Two Before Jesus Christ
Title: Quarter to Two Before Jesus Christ
Character: Tatouius
Released: October 6, 1982
Type: Movie
In antique Rome, a simple pepboy for chars becomes involved in a coup against Cesar. Rahatlocum is a North African Roman colony where Julius Caesar came to spend an expensive holiday. The revolt rumbles among the small people who find a leader in the person of Ben-Hur Marcel.
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Subversion
Title: Subversion
Character: Cagliostro
Released: May 28, 1979
Type: Movie
A blind, paralyzed president uses his remarkable hearing and his corrupt daughter to keep his country in line. His beautiful, clever daughter works her own agenda while striving to be the equal of men. She appoints herself Chief of Firefighters and then commits arson to ensure that her job is needed.
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The Thief of Baghdad
Title: The Thief of Baghdad
Character: Genie
Released: January 10, 1978
Type: Movie
A resourceful thief helps a handscome prince fight an evil wizard and win the hand of a beautiful princess.
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Fellini's Casanova
Title: Fellini's Casanova
Character: Marquis Du Bois
Released: December 10, 1976
Type: Movie
Casanova is a libertine, collecting seductions and sexual feats. But he is really interested in someone, and is he really an interesting person? Is he really alive?
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Title: Chéri-Bibi
Character: Le Kanak
Released: December 20, 1974
Type: TV
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Travels with My Aunt
Title: Travels with My Aunt
Character: Colonel Hakim
Released: December 17, 1972
Type: Movie
At his mother's funeral, stuffy bank clerk Henry Pulling meets his Aunt Augusta, an elderly eccentric with more-than-shady dealings who pulls him along on a whirlwind adventure as she attempts to rescue an old lover.
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Title: Midi trente
Character: Self
Released: March 6, 1972
Type: TV
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Kill!
Title: Kill!
Character: Mejid
Released: December 10, 1971
Type: Movie
Interpol investigates the freelance killings of drug and porn peddlers.
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The Devil's Nightmare
Title: The Devil's Nightmare
Character: Satan
Released: November 14, 1971
Type: Movie
Seven tourists sent by Satan to a castle are caught by a ghastly woman as they commit deadly sins.
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Title: Samedi soir
Character: Self
Released: January 9, 1971
Type: TV
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Moon and Midnight
Title: Moon and Midnight
Character: Robert Lorrain
Released: June 9, 1970
Type: Movie
A woman marries into a family of insane psychopaths in this bizarre French horror film with strong sadomasochistic overtones.
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The Hand
Title: The Hand
Character: Le professeur
Released: December 17, 1969
Type: Movie
Screenwriter Philippe (Duchaussoy) imagines a crime committed by his wife Sylvie (Delon) and a mutual friend Pierre (Serre): a dead body is put in a trunk but the hand sticks out. Sylvie and Pierre begin to have an affair and things get very dangerous and the imaginary crime is on its way to becoming prophetic.
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Title: Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre
Character: Pietro
Released: September 15, 1967
Type: TV
Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre [French title: Le comte Yoster a bien l'honneur] is a TV series which followed the adventures of the title’s amateur gentleman detective. It was a success in particular in Germany and in France. Originally the show was a German production in black-and-white but it evolved into a European co-production in colour.
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Title: Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre
Character: Jacques Lasalle
Released: September 15, 1967
Type: TV
Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre [French title: Le comte Yoster a bien l'honneur] is a TV series which followed the adventures of the title’s amateur gentleman detective. It was a success in particular in Germany and in France. Originally the show was a German production in black-and-white but it evolved into a European co-production in colour.
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The Unknown Man of Shandigor
Title: The Unknown Man of Shandigor
Character: Von Krantz
Released: May 1, 1967
Type: Movie
Crazed scientist Herbert Von Krantz has invented a device to sterilize all nuclear weapons -- and a mad herd of rival spies are desperate to get their hands on the device, including a sect of bald, turtleneck-wearing assassins.
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Lotosblüten für Miss Quon
Title: Lotosblüten für Miss Quon
Character: Inspector Gonsart
Released: March 31, 1967
Type: Movie
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Trans-Europ-Express
Title: Trans-Europ-Express
Character: le policier
Released: December 31, 1966
Type: Movie
A movie producer, director and assistant take the Trans-Europ-Express from Paris to Antwerp. They get the idea for a movie about a drug smuggler on their train and visualize it while taping the script.
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Lady L
Title: Lady L
Character: Kobeleff
Released: December 17, 1965
Type: Movie
Lady L is an elegant 80-year-old woman who recalls her amorous life story, including past loves and lusty, scandalous adventures she has lived through.
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Tell Me Whom to Kill
Title: Tell Me Whom to Kill
Released: November 26, 1965
Type: Movie
On the Côte d'Azur, a beautiful adventuress and a strange German tourist set themselves the courteous challenge of discovering a war treasure lying at the bottom of a bay. But Basta, an old original who alone knew the location of the wreck, is murdered. And Pitou, the jovial nightclub owner, is determined to get his hands on all the loot.
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The Liquidator
Title: The Liquidator
Character: Gregory
Released: November 1, 1965
Type: Movie
Spy spoof about Boysie Oakes, a British secret agent who specialises in Liquidating. In actual fact he contracts out the work and pretends it is was himself. This leads to complications.
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L'or du duc
Title: L'or du duc
Released: September 23, 1965
Type: Movie
A young duke marries a girl, also penniless, and moves into a bus left him by an uncle, with their ten children. At last he finds the bus is made of solid gold.
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Le commissaire mène l’enquête
Title: Le commissaire mène l’enquête
Released: July 28, 1965
Type: Movie
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What's New Pussycat?
Title: What's New Pussycat?
Character: Gas Station Man
Released: June 22, 1965
Type: Movie
A playboy who refuses to give up his hedonistic lifestyle to settle down and marry his true love seeks help from a demented psychoanalyst who is having romantic problems of his own.
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Mission to Venice
Title: Mission to Venice
Released: April 23, 1964
Type: Movie
An American polo player in Paris gets roped into intrigue when he's asked to find a family friend whom has gone missing.
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Jeff Gordon, Secret Agent
Title: Jeff Gordon, Secret Agent
Character: Yanakos
Released: March 11, 1964
Type: Movie
Jeff Gordon, FBI agent, infiltrates a gang and finds himself in the midst of a gang war.
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L'assassin viendra ce soir
Title: L'assassin viendra ce soir
Released: March 10, 1964
Type: Movie
A woman's father, a scientist, receives repeated death threats and eventually ends up dead. Receiving no help from the police, the woman begins to realize that she is next.
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Nutty, Naughty Chateau
Title: Nutty, Naughty Chateau
Character: Gunther
Released: November 20, 1963
Type: Movie
An old castle in Sweden, inhabited by a family of 18th century dressing eccentrics, holds secrets, deception, and rumors of murder.
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OSS 117 Is Unleashed
Title: OSS 117 Is Unleashed
Character: Sacha
Released: June 18, 1963
Type: Movie
An American agent disappears after a scuba diving reconnaissance mission in Corsica. The Secret Service sends agent code name OSS 117 to investigate.
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Ballad for a Hoodlum
Title: Ballad for a Hoodlum
Character: Donacil
Released: March 27, 1963
Type: Movie
Vincent Vivant agrees to Stephan the spy's proposal: he is to cross the border with a mysterious suitcase.
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Seul... à corps perdu
Title: Seul... à corps perdu
Released: March 20, 1963
Type: Movie
An unscrupulous reporter investigates the discovery of a corpse in the trunk of a car stolen by his young brother, a petty criminal.
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Who Stole the Body?
Title: Who Stole the Body?
Released: February 1, 1963
Type: Movie
Edouard and Félix work in a real estate agency. One day, they are threatened with dismissal if they don't manage to sell a very isolated house to an elderly, silver and somewhat unusual Englishwoman. In the house, they discover a corpse. The visit is spent dragging the corpse from room to room, cupboard to chest, so as not to frighten the otherwise impressed buyer. But the corpse disappears. He has to be found before the deed can be signed. The two salesmen become detectives, tracking down the dead man's many female acquaintances. All the seducer's conquests are sifted through, to find the one who left her jewels at the scene of the crime.
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The Doll
Title: The Doll
Released: November 7, 1962
Type: Movie
An avant-garde political satire that takes place in a mythical country in South America. The dictator has been replaced by a look-alike revolutionary, and the dictator's wife has been replaced by a robot.
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The Triumph of Michael Strogoff
Title: The Triumph of Michael Strogoff
Character: Ben Routh
Released: December 15, 1961
Type: Movie
In this adaptation of the Jules Verne novel, the Czarina asks an intrepid colonel to protect her nephew as he fights an invasion in 19th century Russia.
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Midnight Meeting
Title: Midnight Meeting
Character: Le joueur de baccara
Released: January 1, 1961
Type: Movie
A woman becomes distressed by the resemblance between the plot of a film and the reality of her own life. But what is reality: life or film?
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Danger in the Middle East
Title: Danger in the Middle East
Released: September 2, 1960
Type: Movie
A criminal making plans to pull off one big score before he retires, comes into possession of secret papers worth a fortune, but dies while attempting the hit. His wife takes those papers for herself, while discovering there are rival criminals, a powerful organization and a sleazy blackmailer.
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Pantalaskas
Title: Pantalaskas
Character: The baron
Released: February 8, 1960
Type: Movie
An off-beat, uneven tale about a man intent on suicide and the three people who try to talk him out of it, Pantalaskas stars American Carl Studer in the title role of the morose, would-be suicide. Set in Paris and taking place over an entire night, the story has a complication in that the trio who want to prevent the suicide do not speak the man's language -- he is Lithuanian and speaks no French. So the protagonists comb the underbelly of a nighttime Paris, looking high and low but mostly low for anyone who speaks Lithuanian. Depending mainly on dialogue for its impact, the verbose drama reveals how the protagonists undergo a transformation as the night wears on.
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Riff Raff Girls
Title: Riff Raff Girls
Character: Luigi le Napolitain
Released: May 20, 1959
Type: Movie
Vicky de Berlin, a female gangster, haunted by wartime memories , runs a floating night-club in Brussel. Marcel, her partner and lover, is in charge of the banknotes forgery manufacture concealed in the bottom of the boat. He decides to rob the Bank of Belgium and exchange a huge sum of counterfeit money for its equivalent in genuine one. But things get complicated when Yoko, the she leader of another gang and her lover The Bug interfere...
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Goha
Title: Goha
Character: L'aveugle Ibrahim
Released: May 6, 1959
Type: Movie
As far as can be determined, Goha was Tunisia's first entry in the Cannes Film Festival. Omar Sharif stars as a naïve young man who is taken for granted by friends and family. Little do they know that he has more intelligence, tenacity and imagination than all of them put together. The story takes an unexpectedly dramatic turn when the man falls in love with the young wife of his village's elderly "wise man". Based on an ancient Tunisian folk tale, Goha boasts impressive production values and sure-handed direction (by Jacques Baratier).
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The Motorcycle Cops
Title: The Motorcycle Cops
Character: Funeral parlor spy
Released: March 18, 1959
Type: Movie
Marc, a motorcycle brigadier, is engaged to the charming Véronique. But his future brother-in-law, the clumsy Roger, leader of a Sunday motorcycle gang, has set his sights on joining the motorcycle police.
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Hardboiled Egg Time
Title: Hardboiled Egg Time
Character: L'expert en tableaux
Released: March 19, 1958
Type: Movie
A shy, penniless employee of the garage owner Grillot, the gentle Louis wins $10 million in the lottery. Flitting along the banks of the Seine, he takes in Raoul Grandvivier, an unknown, untalented painter who has just botched a spectacular suicide intended to draw attention to himself. Raoul takes him back to his studio, where he meets his charming daughter Lucie. In order to see Lucie again, with whom he is in love, Louis offers to sell the paintings. In reality, he's the one paying for them, to make it look like a wealthy art lover.
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Sans famille
Title: Sans famille
Character: George, Milligan's valet
Released: January 1, 1958
Type: Movie
The Remi abandoned by his foster father sold to the troubadour Vasalis, in his living through the rural villages the people to entertain, gehoplen his three dogs and a monkey. In the beginning Remi takes its new master, but a demanding and hard man, and the animals have not been too much with the clumsy boy. But gradually creates a bond between Remi and his new comrades, until their friendship is suddenly disrupted when Vasalis is arrested for vagrancy and sentenced. Then Remi, alone in the world, along with his animal friends in position to try to keep ...
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La Parisienne
Title: La Parisienne
Character: Un huissier d'ambassade (uncredited)
Released: December 16, 1957
Type: Movie
The spoiled daughter of the French Ambassador tricks one of his aides into marrying her.
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The Spies
Title: The Spies
Character: Peterson
Released: October 10, 1957
Type: Movie
A doctor at a run-down psychiatric hospital is offered a large sum of money to shelter a new patient. Soon the place is full of suspicious and secretive characters, all apparently international secret agents trying to find out who and what the patient is.
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No Sun in Venice
Title: No Sun in Venice
Released: May 31, 1957
Type: Movie
Cute Sophie is an amoral French girl living in a sumptuous Venetian palazzo. She is the kept woman of a very rich but undesirable fellow named Eric von Bergen, an ex-nazi turned forger.
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Girl on the Third Floor
Title: Girl on the Third Floor
Character: Le barman du Montana (uncredited)
Released: August 2, 1955
Type: Movie
A Parisian reporter tries to exonerate a fugitive neighbor of charges he murdered his wife.
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Frou-Frou
Title: Frou-Frou
Character: Le critique en peinture (uncredited)
Released: June 19, 1955
Type: Movie
A story of the love of Frou-Frou - an actress and singer in the in the beginning of her career.
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School for Love
Title: School for Love
Character: Le professeur de violon
Released: April 25, 1955
Type: Movie
At the Conservatory of Vienna the students only have eyes for their beautiful singing teacher, tenor Eric Walter.
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Tower of Lust
Title: Tower of Lust
Released: March 18, 1955
Type: Movie
France, the beginning of the XIV century. Every night, Queen Margaret of Burgundy and her two sisters arrange orgies, to which beautiful nobles are invited. The young men were brought blindfolded, and after a night of love they were killed and their corpses thrown into the river, because the queen was afraid that her husband would learn about her adventures. One of her lovers managed to escape death. He knows the secrets of the queen, knows that she once gave birth to a son from him, claims that he has evidence that Margarita wanted to kill her father and blackmails her.