Jean Marchat

Jean Marchat

Born: June 8, 1902
Died: October 2, 1966

Movies for Jean Marchat...

Title: At Theatre Tonight
Character: Le père
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 Other Truth
Title: The Other Truth
Character: Montaud's lawyer
Released: April 19, 1966
Type: Movie
Middle-aged attorney Pierre falls for a young woman who dances in a discotheque to work her way through medical school. The lovestruck lawyer can't bring himself to leave his wife over the young woman. When the dancer's wealthy suitor is murdered, Pierre is accused of the crime.
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Daggers Drawn
Title: Daggers Drawn
Released: March 25, 1964
Type: Movie
Via Something Weird: "Four men representing the world’s great criminal organizations unite to locate a cache of sunken treasure. The treasure is in fact a fortune in diamonds and secret documents that was lost by the Germans in the seas off Monte Carlo during the war. Following their every move are representatives from every secret agency in the world, amongst them, the British, the Russians, the Germans, and the Americans, all seeking the important papers contained within the treasure."
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Les trois chapeaux claques
Title: Les trois chapeaux claques
Character: Don Sacramento
Released: June 26, 1962
Type: Movie
For 7 years Don Dionisio has been engaged to Marguerite, a young girl from a good family. Every year he comes from the distant village where he is a civil servant to spend a day with his beloved. But that evening is the last time he moves in with Don Rosario, the innkeeper: the next day he marries Marguerite. But the arrival of a troupe of music hall artists who settle in the neighboring rooms and the meeting with the pretty Paula, will disturb his projects ...
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Climates of Love
Title: Climates of Love
Released: April 11, 1962
Type: Movie
The Marcenat couple seem to have everything they need to be happy. However, Odile's frivolity and Philippe's jealousy drive the couple apart. Philippe, manager of the family printing business, finds solace in Isabelle, a long-time employee at the paper mill. Isabelle's routine life, entirely devoted to her work, leads Philippe to strike up a romantic relationship with the playful young Misa. But, faced with Isabelle's grief, Philippe puts an end to the romance. When Odile, inconsolable since their break-up, finally commits suicide, Philippe realizes that she was his true love.
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Blood on His Sword
Title: Blood on His Sword
Character: L'évêque
Released: September 6, 1961
Type: Movie
Charles le Temeraire asks in marriage Jeanne de Beauvais, daughter of King Louis XI, wishing to get her valuable lands in dowry. The King is wise to this, and since his daughter does not feel inclined to accept, he refuses. Charles sets up a plan to abduct the prince, in a way that the suspicions will fall upon Robert de Neuville, a noble enamoured of the princess. Robert manages to free her from the castle where she was being kept. Charles keeps setting traps, and managing people to perjure against Jeanne, and the King himself. Finally, Jeanne escapes alive from a pack of wolves, who set watching the lady alone in the snow covered woods, instead of attacking her. Charles does yet accuse her of being a witch - wishing to have her dead rather than being the wife of Robert... Robert will be her champion in a Judgement of God. Will the 'miracle of the wolfs' repeat itself, or fearless Charles defeat Robert in the sword duel?
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Polyeucte
Title: Polyeucte
Character: Félix
Released: March 31, 1961
Type: Movie
In a frightening dream, Pauline, daughter of Felix the Roman governor, foresees the death of Polyeucte and cannot agree to let her husband leave the Palace. In love, Polyeucte leaves however on the advice of his Christian friend Néarque who encourages him to neglect the tears of his wife and urges him to be baptized...
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La mort de Pompée
Title: La mort de Pompée
Released: February 7, 1961
Type: Movie
Political ambitions sometimes lead to the downfall of those who formulate them. For Ptolemy, assassinating Pompey was an opportunity to get into Caesar's good graces. Once the crime is committed, Ptolemy impatiently awaits recognition from Caesar. But a completely different fate awaits Cleopatra's brother.
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Tomorrow Is My Turn
Title: Tomorrow Is My Turn
Character: Delmas
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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The Ambitious One
Title: The Ambitious One
Character: Albert Rancourt
Released: October 14, 1959
Type: Movie
This Yves Allegret film is set in French Polynesia and stars Edmond O'Brien, Richard Basehart, Andrea Parisy, Nicole Berger and Reg Lye. Basehart is the black sheep of a wealthy family of mining financiers based in France. He dumps the family life style and heads to Tahiti to make it on his own. His wife, Andrea Parisy, is less than amused with Basehart's choice.
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Cherchez la femme
Title: Cherchez la femme
Released: August 26, 1955
Type: Movie
Barbara Van Looren is the lively, clever daughter of the well-known shipowner. For her, life is a breeze, even when she's kidnapped by Mike Cortez's men. A young journalist, Mercier, who tried to defend her and was forced to follow her, doesn't share her optimism and manages to escape. Barbara is sequestered because her father has caught wind of a diamond deal. If he renounces the customs action, his daughter will be returned to him. Mercier, with the help of a couple of loyal friends, discovers the instigator of the traffic, a member of the board of directors, and finds Barbara, still as petulant as ever.
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Nights of Montmartre
Title: Nights of Montmartre
Character: Mureau
Released: August 8, 1955
Type: Movie
Bobby earns his living in Montmartre by duping naïve provincials, along with his pal Julien, as well as crooks and drug dealers, replaced by bicarbonate. His friend Monique, who dances at Le Paradou, is frightened by such a life. A crime of which he is not guilty occurs while he is robbing drug dealer Mureau. Bobby flees, but prefers to let himself be imprisoned. A serious accident is avoided. The brave Inspector Doirel is determined to set the boy straight. Monique will do her bit too.
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La rue des bouches peintes
Title: La rue des bouches peintes
Character: Mollison
Released: July 22, 1955
Type: Movie
An English governor in India, deceived by his wife, proposes to him either to accuse the lover of embezzlement, or to condemn her to end her days as a prostitute in the rue des Bouches Peintes. She chooses the second solution...
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Mademoiselle from Paris
Title: Mademoiselle from Paris
Released: June 28, 1955
Type: Movie
Micheline Bertier is as wise as she is graceful, and is the perfect assistant to her boss, couturier Maurice Darnal. Darnal's business is faltering and he has to close down. Micheline's family is also in trouble. Her crazy-headed sister is about to steal her fiancé away from her. At the suggestion of singer Jacqueline François, Micheline goes on tour as an accompanist, and meets up with Darnal in Nice, full of projects he wants to involve her in. Micheline, who arrives in time to save her sister from a suicide attempt, will know how to run the new fashion house.
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Napoleon
Title: Napoleon
Character: General Bertrand (uncredited)
Released: March 25, 1955
Type: Movie
The film follows the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint Helena. The film is notable for its use of location shooting for numerous scenes, especially at the French estates of Malmaison and Fontainebleau, the Palace of Versailles, and sites of Napoleonic battles including Austerlitz and Waterloo.
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Zoé
Title: Zoé
Character: Mr. Pounet
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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The Most Wanted Man
Title: The Most Wanted Man
Character: General District Attorney
Released: December 2, 1953
Type: Movie
Joe Calvert (Fernadel) is a nearsighted, friendly man who works as a clerk in a large department store, who gets into embarrassing situations when he isn't wearing his glasses. Since Joe works in the department that sells cowboy clothes to kids, his boss is adamant against his wearing glasses as cowboys and glasses don't go together. After a series of near-blind misadventures, Joe is fired. Dejected, he goes to the movies and seats himself next to a dangerous gangster and, when he leaves, takes the man's raincoat. In the subway, on a crowded train, he removes a heavy object from coat pocket. It's a gun and the passengers are in a panic and Joe is arrested, and the police announce they have captured Public Enemy No. 1. The leader's mob, unaware that it isn't their boss the police have, plan an escape, with most of the plans made by gun moll Lola (Zsa Zsa Gabor.) Soon, Joe finds both the police and the gangsters after him.
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Desperate Decision
Title: Desperate Decision
Character: The inspector
Released: October 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Ireland, 1922. In the midst of a national uprising, Catherine, a young orphan employed in household chores, goes in search of her brother whom she has heard in a dream calling for help.
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They Were Five
Title: They Were Five
Character: Fredo - un patron de cabaret louche
Released: January 23, 1952
Type: Movie
Now that the world conflict is over, five inseparable wartime buddies swear eternal friendship now to each other. But there's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip. Jean becomes a postman, Marcel a boxer, Roger an actor, André a student and Philippe remains what he has always been, a young man of good social standing. Roger, who can't find any role, is introduced through his singer sister Valérie, to Frédo, a shady nightclub owner.Roger soon becomes one of Frédo's henchmen. To make matters worse, he swipes Jean's fiancée, Simone. Marcel, who loses fight after fight, ends up joining Fredo's gang as well. André, who wanted to redeem the faults of his father during the Occupation, gets killed in the Indochina war. Marcel is shot down while taking part in a robbery. In her turn, Valérie is bumped off by an accomplice of Fredo and Roger is sent to jail.
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Les quatre sergents du Fort Carré
Title: Les quatre sergents du Fort Carré
Released: January 18, 1952
Type: Movie
André, Pierre, Finot and Le Guen are cadets in the Fort Carré Military Academy of Antibes and they are the best friends in the world. One of them, André falls madly in love with Catherine, a charming orphan. But Catherine is kidnapped by bandits and when André comes to after being knocked out, she has disappeared. André reacts promptly and aided by his three inseparable friends, tracks down the bandits and frees Catherine. The two lovebirds marry and live happily ever after.
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Shadow and Light
Title: Shadow and Light
Character: Shurman
Released: June 27, 1951
Type: Movie
A few years ago, Isabelle Leritz, a famous pianist, suffered a fit of madness, in the middle of a concert. Now recovered, she fell in love with Jacques whom she plans to marry. She does not know that he is having an affair with Caroline, his sister, director of a fashion house.
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The Red Needle
Title: The Red Needle
Released: June 7, 1951
Type: Movie
A young woman, Maya, is treated in a mountain hotel, where her husband joins her every Saturday. She falls in love with an attractive lawyer, who has come to this hotel in Savoie to successfully climb the Aiguille Rouge. The lawyer rejects Maya at first, but ends up becoming her lover and promises to run away with her... once the Aiguille Rouge has been climbed. But a storm breaks out during the ascent, and the lawyer dies, struck down.
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The Passerby
Title: The Passerby
Character: Me. Darbel
Released: May 18, 1951
Type: Movie
A woman who has a terrible secret to conceal takes refuge on a barge.
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Over the waves
Title: Over the waves
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: May 11, 1951
Type: Movie
Panorama of the programs and hosts who made the heyday of radio in the 1950s.
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Véronique
Title: Véronique
Character: The Baron
Released: September 1, 1950
Type: Movie
The king orders viscount Florestan to take mademoiselle de Solanges for his wife. But the viscount doesn't know the young lady at all. The latter decides to seduce her future husband by introducing herself to him with the name Veronique...
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Sorceror
Title: Sorceror
Character: Me Lebondit
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 Barton Mystery
Title: The Barton Mystery
Character: Olivier
Released: August 19, 1949
Type: Movie
Following the assassination of a financier, several people who had an interest in seeing him disappear are suspected.
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Three Boys, One Girl
Title: Three Boys, One Girl
Character: Georges Dourville
Released: October 4, 1948
Type: Movie
A seemingly united family is suddenly shaken by the turmoil caused by the discovery of a letter from the father. He announces his intention to divorce. The children immediately mobilize to preserve the nest, they just manage to do so. The family building will be consolidated.
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Last Chance Castle
Title: Last Chance Castle
Character: M. Tritonel
Released: July 16, 1947
Type: Movie
Rather than commit suicide, it is better to stay at the clinic of Professor Patureau-Duparc. This practitioner experiments on his clients with a serum that modifies their personality. Thus Yolande and Albert become new Romeo and Juliet. They end up marrying each other after having regained their primitive selves. Their married life is then a hell and they welcome with joy the proposal of a new injection of serum.
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Le Mystérieux Monsieur Sylvain
Title: Le Mystérieux Monsieur Sylvain
Character: Morgat
Released: April 16, 1947
Type: Movie
In an aero-naval base, a marine engineer who was about to deliver the name of a redoubtable spy is murdered. Shortly afterwards three different men appear on the crime scene, each of them claiming to be Monsieur Sylvain, the expected sleuth. But which of the three investigators is actually Sylvain? And what about this delightful young lady who arouses one of the police inspectors? Couldn't she be the murderous spy?
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Mensonges
Title: Mensonges
Character: Olivier Dumas-Beaulieu
Released: July 25, 1946
Type: Movie
Marie Leroux, who is married to Charles, an honest, understanding country doctor, lives an uneventful, rather monotonous life.Her husband is a kind man but he does not give her any thrill or excitement. One day, Marie meets Olivier Dumas-Beaulieu, a handsome industrialist, who is in the process of leaving his fiancée Corinne, despite her being pregnant by him. It is easy for the confirmed womanizer he is, to seduce Marie, who very foolishly thinks she has found true love. Shortly afterward Charles is shot dead by Olivier while the two men were having a quarrel about Marie. The latter, who finds the corpse, believes her husband has committed suicide. Which is not the police's opinion and Marie is arrested and condemned to ten years in prison. Annihilated by such unfair treatment and, worse, by the separation from her beloved eight-year-old daughter, she still manages to survive and to serve her sentence.
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Les Dames du bois de Boulogne
Title: Les Dames du bois de Boulogne
Character: Jacques
Released: September 21, 1945
Type: Movie
A love story that follows the maneuverings of a society lady as she connives to initiate a scandalous affair between her aristocratic ex-lover and a prostitute.
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Majestic Hotel Cellars
Title: Majestic Hotel Cellars
Character: Fred Petersen
Released: August 11, 1945
Type: Movie
In my “cellar” where case workers all the people of a great hotel, the head of the café, Donge, finds the corpse of Mrs Petersen, a rich client. The investigation by Maigret allows him to rub the husband of the victim, a Swede, Teddy, Ms Petersen’s son, his housekeeper, a social dancer and Donge himself who is the natural father of Teddy. The child he will go to his real father or not he will leave the rich Petersen who adores? The murder mystery and enigma sentimental are resolved by Maigret.
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The Hunchback
Title: The Hunchback
Character: The Regent
Released: December 26, 1944
Type: Movie
The knight Henri de Lagardère wants to avenge the death of his friend, the duke Philippe de Nevers assassinated by the prince de Gonzague, a few years before.
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Love Around the Clock
Title: Love Around the Clock
Released: November 10, 1943
Type: Movie
Symbolizing the destiny of man, Hora imposes her destiny on everyone. She appears to a petty bourgeois trying to escape from his mediocre life, to a frivolous mother, to a reveler in nightclubs, to a man stranded without money in a restaurant, to a young sportsman, to a singer tired of the selfishness of his listeners and to a condemned man. To each, she brings the imperative message of Time...
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Mermoz
Title: Mermoz
Character: The intellectual
Released: November 3, 1943
Type: Movie
Biography and apology of the famous pilot, nicknamed by some the Archangel, who organized the airmail network of South America, flew the first over the Andes Cordillera, maintained the mystique of the South Atlantic, militated in the Crosses of Fire and perished at the controls of "La Croix du Sud" during its twenty-fourth crossing.
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L'Appel du bled
Title: L'Appel du bled
Character: Pierre Moreuil
Released: October 18, 1942
Type: Movie
A famous singer and a settler love each other. She lives only for her home and the child she is expecting. At birth, she suffered an accident and could no longer be a mother. Desperate, she wants to leave her husband but the war breaks out and he is missing. She faces, courageously, alone the life of the bled.
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Sideral Cruises
Title: Sideral Cruises
Character: Robert Monier, le mari de Françoise
Released: April 19, 1942
Type: Movie
Robert and Françoise Monier make a hot air balloon to fly to the stratosphere. After a visit to Venus, they return home, but have only aged 15 days whereas 25 years have passed on Earth.
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Pontcarral, Empire Colonel
Title: Pontcarral, Empire Colonel
Character: Hubert de Rozans
Released: January 2, 1942
Type: Movie
For 15 years after Waterloo, a baron refuses to accept the defeat. He reluctantly marries one of 2 Bourbon sisters but lands up dueling with the wife's former lover. Finally he gets a chance to prove himself again in battle.
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The Pavilion Burns
Title: The Pavilion Burns
Character: Engineer Risay
Released: December 17, 1941
Type: Movie
Denise, a young employee of the mine, is courted by the engineer Risay while she is engaged to Daniel, a simple underground worker. A betrayal has occurred that compromises the mine. An accident occurs and about fifteen workers, including Denise's fiancé, are buried under rubble in a collapsing shaft.
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Stormy Waters
Title: Stormy Waters
Character: Marc, le capitaine du « Mirva »
Released: November 27, 1941
Type: Movie
A married tugboat captain falls for a woman he rescues from a sinking ship.
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Marie des angoisses
Title: Marie des angoisses
Character: Ramon
Released: July 24, 1935
Type: Movie
A neglected young woman comes up against the equivocal feelings of a steward.
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La marche nuptiale
Title: La marche nuptiale
Released: January 11, 1935
Type: Movie
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Le cas du docteur Brenner
Title: Le cas du docteur Brenner
Released: March 17, 1933
Type: Movie
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Burning chair
Title: Burning chair
Released: September 30, 1932
Type: Movie
A young bourgeois lady leaves her husband to spend three passionate, violent days with a criminal she is in love with.
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In the Name of the Law
Title: In the Name of the Law
Character: Marcel
Released: April 15, 1932
Type: Movie
The story is about a drug ring and the finally successful efforts of the Paris police to break it up. A young detective goes into a den in Paris' Chinatown, following a clue, and that is the last seen of him until his body is found floating in the Seine several days later. The only clue is a woman's glove. The dead man's friends on the force vow to avenge him, and receive information leading them to suspect one Sandra, a beautiful foreigner, played by the stunning Marcelle Chantal.
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Departure
Title: Departure
Character: Jacques Largy
Released: September 13, 1931
Type: Movie
An opera singer travelling with her company on a passenger ship encounters a mysterious young man who she falls in love with.
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Checkmate
Title: Checkmate
Released: August 21, 1931
Type: Movie
After his engagement party with beautiful Aline, Claude, a struggling writer, meets his two closest friends. The trio sets up a daring publicity stunt, involving a fake murder. The scheme backfires as the fake victim gets really dead.
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The Malay Dagger
Title: The Malay Dagger
Released: January 30, 1931
Type: Movie
Lucien asks his father for money to support his girlfriend. The father refuses. Lucien's GodMother is found dead.