Claude Laydu

Claude Laydu

Born: March 10, 1927
Died: July 29, 2011
in Etterbeek, Belgium

Movies for Claude Laydu...

Mafia alla sbarra
Title: Mafia alla sbarra
Released: February 15, 1963
Type: Movie
The story of a poor family and their relationship with the local mafia.
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Title: Bonne nuit les petits
Character: Le Marchand de sable (voix)
Released: June 2, 1962
Type: TV
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Italienisches Capriccio
Title: Italienisches Capriccio
Character: Carlo Goldoni
Released: June 8, 1961
Type: Movie
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The Dialogue of the Carmelites
Title: The Dialogue of the Carmelites
Character: Le Chevalier de la Force
Released: June 1, 1960
Type: Movie
This drama about the Carmelite order of nuns is set during the French Revolution. A young woman seeks refuge with the Carmelites because she is terrified of dying during the upheaval. The longer she associates with the nuns the more she is transformed by their faith and devotion. 
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The Wheel
Title: The Wheel
Character: Roland Pelletier
Released: July 2, 1957
Type: Movie
Pierre is an engine driver who adopts a small girl, a WWI orphan. A widower, he sees in her the image of her mother.
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Altair
Title: Altair
Character: Mario Rossi
Released: February 9, 1956
Type: Movie
In the military academy of the Nisida Air Force a new course begins which sees among the new recruits called "chicks": Giorgio, forced by his father after he squandered millions at the gaming table; De Montel son of a general, Mario who wants to follow in the footsteps of his father who died in combat; Antonio who declares himself Neapolitan while coming from the province and Ugo who comes from the north.
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Price of Love
Title: Price of Love
Character: Pierre Ménard
Released: January 5, 1955
Type: Movie
Because he loved a trainer named Suzy too much, honest Pierre Menard wasted his life and died. Innocent, but implicated in the ransacking of a jewelry store, he receives a five-year residence ban, which he ignores, only to find himself reduced to joining Paulo's sinister gang. The police finally arrest him and force him to become an informer if he doesn't want to leave Paris. He accepts and signs his death warrant.
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Attila
Title: Attila
Character: Valentiniano Caesar
Released: December 27, 1954
Type: Movie
Attila, the leader of the barbarian Huns and called by the Romans "The Scourge of God", sweeps onto the Italian peninsula, defeating all of the armies of Rome, until he and his men reach the gates of the city itself.
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Symphony of Love
Title: Symphony of Love
Character: Franz Schubert
Released: August 4, 1954
Type: Movie
It is a biopic portraying the life of the composer Franz Schubert.
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Rasputin
Title: Rasputin
Character: Héliodore
Released: July 19, 1954
Type: Movie
Gregory Iefommovich Raspoutine is a monk with healing powers and a liking for debauchery who manages to insinuate himself into the court of the Romanoffs thanks to Princess Dikvona. Being the only person able to heal he son of Czar Nicolas II and Czarina Alexandra from his hemophilia, he becomes a very powerful man, which infuriates many.A group of nobles, determined to save the monarchy, start conspiring to murder him.
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Napoleon Road
Title: Napoleon Road
Released: October 14, 1953
Type: Movie
A greedy advertising executive wants to attract the tourists into a small village:he claims Napoleon slept in the local inn on his was back from Elbe island.
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Napoleon Road
Title: Napoleon Road
Character: Pierre Marchand
Released: October 14, 1953
Type: Movie
A greedy advertising executive wants to attract the tourists into a small village:he claims Napoleon slept in the local inn on his was back from Elbe island.
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Good Lord Without Confession
Title: Good Lord Without Confession
Character: Roland Dupont
Released: October 9, 1953
Type: Movie
Stuck in a loveless marriage, bourgeois industrialist Francois falls in love with Janine, another man's wife. Francois sets up Janine as his mistress, and she, mercenary soul that she is, likes the set-up so much that she continues the relationship even when her own husband returns from WW II. In the long run, however, Janine is the loser in the situation.
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I Was a Parish Priest
Title: I Was a Parish Priest
Character: Andrés
Released: September 30, 1953
Type: Movie
A young priest encounters major problems in the diocese where he must preach the word of the Lord, mainly as a result of hatred caused by differences in classes
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The Road to Damascus
Title: The Road to Damascus
Character: Etienne
Released: December 5, 1952
Type: Movie
Saul De Tarse is a Roman soldier who is making rough all over. He arrives at the Golgotha when the apostles remove the cross. He ruthlessly persecutes the Christians, even though they are his own friends.
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We Are All Murderers
Title: We Are All Murderers
Character: Philippe Arnaud
Released: May 21, 1952
Type: Movie
Originally titled Nous Sommes Tout des Assassins, We Are All Murderers was directed by Andre Cayette, a former lawyer who detested France's execution system. Charles Spaak's screenplay makes no attempt to launder the four principal characters (Marcel Mouloudji, Raymond Pellegrin, Antoinine Balpetre, Julien Verdeir): never mind the motivations, these are all hardened murderers. Still, the film condemns the sadistic ritual through which these four men are brought to the guillotine. In France, the policy is to never tell the condemned man when the execution will occur--and then to show up without warning and drag the victim kicking and screaming to his doom, without any opportunity to make peace with himself or his Maker. By the end of this harrowing film, the audience feels as dehumanized as the four "protagonists." We Are All Murderers was roundly roasted by the French law enforcement establishment, but it won a special jury prize at the 1952 Cannes Film Festival.
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Heart of the Casbah
Title: Heart of the Casbah
Released: January 24, 1952
Type: Movie
Maria-Pilar is the new wife of an Algerian gangster whom the police have just arrested. The son of a first marriage arrives in Algiers from which he has remained far away for a long time. His stepmother, charmed by the teenager, gradually experiences a devouring passion, against which Michel tries in vain to fight: he loves a young girl, Sylvie. Mad with jealousy, his stepmother singles him out for his father's vengeance by distorting the truth. Michel does not escape his father's fury, but when the woman's deception becomes known, Maria-Pilar is strangled to death.
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Trip to America
Title: Trip to America
Character: François Soalhat
Released: October 31, 1951
Type: Movie
As part of the fascination in post World War II France with American culture, a young French couple here travel to the US to see for themselves the prosperity they have heard about.
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Diary of a Country Priest
Title: Diary of a Country Priest
Character: Priest of Ambricourt
Released: February 7, 1951
Type: Movie
An inexperienced, sickly priest shows up in the rural French community of Ambricourt, where he joins the community's clergy. But the locals don't take kindly to the priest, and his ascetic ways and unsociable demeanor make him an outcast. During Bible studies at the nearby girls school, he is continually mocked by his students. Then his attempt to intervene in a family feud backfires into a scandal. His failures, compounded with his declining health, begin to erode his faith.