Marie-France Boyer

Marie-France Boyer

Born: April 22, 1938
in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France
Marie-France Boyer (born 22 April 1938 in Marseille) is a French actress, singer and the author of many internationally published non-fiction books on France. She appeared from 1959 until 1976 in more than a dozen feature films and several TV shows.

During her career as actress she worked with many directors, among them François Villiers, Henri Verneuil, Agnès Varda, Riccardo Freda, Luc de Heusch, John Krish and Gilles Grangier.

Marie-France Boyer also had the female leading part in the TV series Quentin Durward, playing Isabelle de Croye, whose fate becomes a subject of dispute between the duke of Burgundy and the king of France. As a part of this role, she sings two medieval songs. Isabelle's beauty and loveliness inspire the protagonist to surpass himself, and when he is finally offered high positions at either ruler's courts, he refuses both because he prefers to live by her side.

In 1967, she participated in screen tests for the search of the new male actor for the figure of James Bond in the film On Her Majesty's Secret Service.

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Movies for Marie-France Boyer...

Title: Quentin Durward
Character: Isabelle de Croye
Released: January 28, 1971
Type: TV
Quentin Durward is a French-German swashbuckler TV series. It was produced in 1970, directed by Gilles Grangier and broadcast in 1971. The series starred the German actor Amadeus August as the protagonist and the French actress Marie-France Boyer as Isabelle de Croye. The series was based on Sir Walter Scott's in 1823 published novel Quentin Durward. It concerns a Scottish soldier who serves French King Louis XI while the King has to overcome the schemes of his rival Charles the Bold and Jean Balue. The TV series kept close to the classic novel and was often shot at historic French locations. The French version consists of 7 instalments of 52 minutes each, while the dubbed German version had 13 episodes of about 25 minutes apiece. Both versions have been made available on DVD.
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Piège blond
Title: Piège blond
Character: Yselle
Released: December 20, 1970
Type: Movie
Film shot in subjective camera, often in voice-over which tells the love affair of the blonde Yselle, surprised by her extremely jealous and very possessive husband.
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The Man Who Had Power Over Women
Title: The Man Who Had Power Over Women
Character: Maggie
Released: August 12, 1970
Type: Movie
A successful talent agent enjoys the good life until his wife leaves him. Moving in with his friend and igniting an affair with the man's wife, he also acquires a difficult new client whose public image must be preserved at any cost.
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Une fille nommée Amour
Title: Une fille nommée Amour
Released: April 2, 1969
Type: Movie
A pleasingly pump female gets behind the wheel of a car during a party game and has an accident. Now temporarily confined to a wheelchair, the girl is holed up in her apartment. Watching through binoculars, she sees a man in a Mardi Gras clownsuit fight with another man and flee. Somehow the clown ends up in the girl's apartment where the two make love. Later, he returns to her after the man he had fought with shoots him. Though his clownsuit is stained with blood, she allows him in once again and hopes that love has long last arrived.
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Sin with a Stranger
Title: Sin with a Stranger
Character: Barbara/Sylvie
Released: June 21, 1968
Type: Movie
François, a journalist, is approached on the train home by pretty a blonde. She leaves at the same station as him and follows him until he ends up inviting her to his house.
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The Unknown Man of Shandigor
Title: The Unknown Man of Shandigor
Character: Sylvaine
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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Thursday We Shall Sing Like Sunday
Title: Thursday We Shall Sing Like Sunday
Character: Nicole
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
A bitter-sweet story of a young sales assistant and a truck driver trapped between their dreams and the economic depression.
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Title: Comment ne pas épouser un milliardaire
Character: Myriam Barlett
Released: October 10, 1966
Type: TV
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Trap for the Assassin
Title: Trap for the Assassin
Character: Suzanne Laroque
Released: June 15, 1966
Type: Movie
This one is generally looked upon as the best version of the old-fashioned melodrama by Jules Mary.Riccardo Freda,who was mainly known for his horror movies,tried also his hand at spy thrillers in the wake of James Bond ("Coplan Ouvre Le Feu à Mexico") ,and had a penchant for old French melodramas (before "Roger la Honte" ,he redid "Les Deux Orphelines " -D.W.GRiffith's "orphans of the storm-. Georges Géret replaces Lucien Coedel and Irene Pappas takes on Maria Casarès's part of his mistress.Freda 's movie is more compact ,with a running time of 105 min,whereas Cayatte's version (1945-46) spread over two episodes with a total time exceeding 3 hours.It also benefited from the use of color .But all in all,it's the same old story.
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The Real Bargain
Title: The Real Bargain
Released: March 9, 1965
Type: Movie
The eccentric Comtesse de Saint-Plâs sells a black Citroën DS to car dealer Paul Souflé. He sells it to the young mathematics teacher Jacques Denzac who is about to marry.
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Title: Dim Dam Dom
Character: The Angel
Released: March 7, 1965
Type: TV
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Title: Dim Dam Dom
Character: Self
Released: March 7, 1965
Type: TV
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Happiness
Title: Happiness
Character: Émilie Savignard
Released: February 10, 1965
Type: Movie
A young husband and father, perfectly content with his life, falls in love with another woman.
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Weekend at Dunkirk
Title: Weekend at Dunkirk
Character: Jacqueline
Released: December 18, 1964
Type: Movie
In June 1940, during the Dunkirk evacuation of Allied troops to England, French sergeant Julien Maillat and his men debate whether to evacuate to Britain or stay and fight the German troops that are closing-in from all directions.
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Les baisers
Title: Les baisers
Character: Diane (Episode 1: 'Baiser d'été')
Released: May 14, 1964
Type: Movie
A portmanteau film in which the producer, instead of as usual using already well known directors with a commercial draw, allowed five new young directors to each have a crack at an episode about romance.
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Green Harvest
Title: Green Harvest
Character: Sophie
Released: December 2, 1959
Type: Movie
In 1943, a group of high school students decide to take action against the Nazi occupying forces. Showing courage and imagination, they manage to blow up the Kommandantur and to release hostages. But after the killing of a German soldier the Nazi police apparatus strikes back. The young resisters are arrested and two of them are condemned to death.