Léon Belières

Léon Belières

Born: December 14, 1880
Died: January 10, 1952
in Paris - France

Movies for Léon Belières...

Paris Still Sings!
Title: Paris Still Sings!
Character: The President of the old comedians
Released: November 28, 1951
Type: Movie
A famous comedian decrees that his fortune will go to whoever collects as many pop star autographs as quickly as possible. When he dies, two cousins ​​embark on the race for signatures.
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Millionaires for One Day
Title: Millionaires for One Day
Character: Jules Flamand
Released: December 13, 1949
Type: Movie
A typographer makes a mistake by printing the winning number of the national lottery. Many people believe they have won the jackpot. Pursued by his newspaper editor, the worker appears in court where all mystified people are invited to testify.
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The Wizard of Heaven
Title: The Wizard of Heaven
Character: Mr. Mandy, the mayor of Ars
Released: January 11, 1949
Type: Movie
The Wizard of Heaven tells the compelling and remarkable story of St. John Marie Baptist Vianney, the humble pastor of Ars, France, who battled with the devil himself, not only for the faith of his parish, but even for that of his country. Starting with the Saint's arrival at Ars, this film brings to life the hardships, indifference, ridicule and opposition he encountered, as well as the zeal with which he strove to overcome them.
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The Private Life of an Actor
Title: The Private Life of an Actor
Character: Albert Bloch, le directeur du théâtre
Released: February 26, 1948
Type: Movie
Biography of Lucien Guitry, stage comedian, by his son, movie director, and a poetic reflection on the passionate love of both men for their chosen art forms.
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La Dame de Haut-le-Bois
Title: La Dame de Haut-le-Bois
Character: The priest
Released: March 5, 1947
Type: Movie
The son of the Comtesse de Brévannes dies. She, who has never wanted to meet her daughter-in-law and who wants to take care of her grandson, goes to their house under the guise of a governess.
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Master Love
Title: Master Love
Character: The pastor
Released: July 24, 1946
Type: Movie
Director of a music hall, the dubious Ribero, to save himself from bankruptcy, only hopes for the victory of his horse. An English lord enlists his crack Master Love in the race. Ribero will try to prevent its departure. He is thwarted in his dark projects by the lord's daughter, captain of a troop of girls, and by a wise and determined sportsman who does not hesitate, for the occasion, to become a jockey. Master Love wins the race, Ribero is confused, a few weddings are celebrated.
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The Grand Hotel Affair
Title: The Grand Hotel Affair
Released: March 29, 1946
Type: Movie
In Marseilles, the fisherman Tonin closely monitors the actions of the wreckage workers led by a certain Mr. Léon. Could these bizarre individuals have something to do with the double murder at the Grand Hotel?
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Le bal des passants
Title: Le bal des passants
Character: Monsieur Ozanne
Released: April 1, 1944
Type: Movie
Fabienne believes herself to be cheated on by her husband Claude and divorces her. He leaves for America and does not return until eight years later. He then meets his daughter.
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The Murderer Lives at Number 21
Title: The Murderer Lives at Number 21
Character: Businessman (uncredited)
Released: August 7, 1942
Type: Movie
Paris, France. Commissaire Wens follows the lead of a ruthless murderer to an unexpected place.
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Dernière aventure
Title: Dernière aventure
Character: Abbe Jocasse
Released: March 26, 1942
Type: Movie
Comte de Larzac, an aging seducer, leaves Paris for Lannemezan. Accompanied by his friend Charmeuil, he goes there to acknowledge the paternity of Jean, a twenty-year old young man who knows nothing about his biological father. Jean, after falling for Jeanne, the daughter of a farmer, now courts Georgina, a middle-class woman of Romanian origin. After Father Jocasse has told Jean that he is Comte de Larzac's son, the young man follows his father to Paris. But he finds it hard to comply with the usages of high society and when his father refuses to consent to his marriage with Georgina, he returns to Lannemezan. Georgina is so upset by the count's refusal that she comes to see him and tells him very candidly about her past life. Moved by her plea, de Larzac drives her back to Lannemezan so that she can marry Jean. What was not expected is that, during the trip, they discover they are close to each other.
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Ce n'est pas moi
Title: Ce n'est pas moi
Character: Parizot
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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Miquette
Title: Miquette
Character: Lahirel
Released: May 1, 1940
Type: Movie
Miquette is a young woman whose beauty and vivacity increase the clientele of her mother's tobacco shop. A Barrymoresque actor believes that Miquette has star potential, but he hasn't sufficient capital to finance her theatrical debut. He manages to get the money by practicing a bit of genteel blackmail on an aging marquis who has romantic designs on the heroine.
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Marseille mes amours
Title: Marseille mes amours
Character: Maître Pastèque
Released: April 15, 1940
Type: Movie
Filmed operetta about a wealthy Provencal man who puts those lining up for his inheritance through a series of colorful adventures, only to reveal to them at the end that the whole thing was just a joke.
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Three from St. Cyr
Title: Three from St. Cyr
Character: monsieur Le Moyne
Released: August 13, 1939
Type: Movie
Three students from Saint-Cyr are sent to Syria to fight the rebels in the desert.
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Monsieur Brotonneau
Title: Monsieur Brotonneau
Released: August 4, 1939
Type: Movie
A man leaves his adulterous wife for his secretary, but then the wife apologizes and wants her husband back again.
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Raphaël le tatoué
Title: Raphaël le tatoué
Character: le président Réginald Brick
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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Conflit
Title: Conflit
Character: Buisson
Released: December 21, 1938
Type: Movie
Claire Buisson becomes enamored with Gerard and soon afterwords she becomes pregnant. Gerard advises her to abort the child but, at the last moment, Claire decides to keep her child and leaves for her sister's place in the province.
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Vacances payées
Title: Vacances payées
Released: December 14, 1938
Type: Movie
Prosper, the accountant of a fashion house, takes a vacation to Monte Carlo without his wife Sabine. And if he goes alone it is for a very good reason: he has a rendezvous with Olga, a beautiful woman. Once in Monte Carlo, he wins a large sum of money at the casino. Unfortunately for him he immediately becomes the prey of three gangsters who proceed to relieve him of his newly acquired fortune.
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Heartbeat
Title: Heartbeat
Character: Meyerboom
Released: April 15, 1938
Type: Movie
A pompous grocer’s assistant in Marseille annoys a visiting film crew so much that they prank him with a phony acting contract; believing it to be real, the “schpountz” heads to Paris for his new career.
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The Gateway Streak
Title: The Gateway Streak
Character: Trichet
Released: October 22, 1937
Type: Movie
A brave man accidentally gives some good tips to a client who immediately hires him as a secretary. But he is kidnapped by a rival bank and there is a queue to get his predictions. He finally understands that he makes everyone's fortune except his own. He opens a private pharmacy where he earns everything he wants and even love.
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L'amour veille
Title: L'amour veille
Character: Abbe Merlin
Released: April 9, 1937
Type: Movie
Believing that her husband is cheating on her, Jacqueline decides to take revenge and goes to find Ernest, a chilled sigh. But in her bachelor apartment, she cannot decide to push her revenge to the end.
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The Marriages of Mademoiselle Levy
Title: The Marriages of Mademoiselle Levy
Released: October 16, 1936
Type: Movie
The tailors Moïse and Salomon Lévy decide to marry Mina, Salomon's daughter to a good match, to save themselves from the competition that Cohen makes for them. Mina will eventually succeed in marrying Pierre, from a marriage of love, without this harming the family business.
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Topaze
Title: Topaze
Character: Régis Castel-Bénac
Released: January 1, 1936
Type: Movie
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Moïse et Salomon parfumeurs
Title: Moïse et Salomon parfumeurs
Released: December 13, 1935
Type: Movie
Brothers Moïse and Salomon run a modest bazaar near the Butte Montmartre, under the sign of "everything for nothing". There are office items, perfumes and leather goods. Their niece, the beautiful Lia, twenty years old, a graduate in synthetic chemistry, lives under their roof. She is less close to her pennies than the old grigous, and willingly visits the store "Aux femmes françaises", administered by the very Christian Valois family, where she hopes to place products. of its creation; perfumes, make-up and ointments of all kinds.
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Jonny, haute-couture
Title: Jonny, haute-couture
Character: Rocaille
Released: April 12, 1935
Type: Movie
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Le Billet de mille
Title: Le Billet de mille
Character: A pickpocket
Released: January 11, 1935
Type: Movie
The tribulations of a banknote, from its exit from a counter to its destruction, passing through dozens of hands.
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The Queen of Biarritz
Title: The Queen of Biarritz
Released: December 20, 1934
Type: Movie
Elenita from Sierra Mirador is the darling of Biarritz. For her, a young groom abandons his wife, a forty-year-old suddenly becomes inflamed and cheats on his young wife. But Elenita, watched by her mother, resigns herself to becoming honest and returns to her husband.
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The Voyage of Mr. Perrichon
Title: The Voyage of Mr. Perrichon
Released: May 11, 1934
Type: Movie
Perrichon, a well-off self-satisfied bourgeois, goes on holiday with his wife and his pretty daughter Henriette. He is more or less willingly followed by two young men, Armand Desroches et Daniel Savary, who both have fallen in love with Henriette after meeting her at a ball. The Perrichons's vacation will be eventful with, among other misadventures, two accidents (one real, the other fake) and the threat of a duel.
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Charlemagne
Title: Charlemagne
Released: December 22, 1933
Type: Movie
After the sinking of their boat, seven passengers from a wealthy background find themselves on a desert island. The man who saves them from drowning then proposes to the sailor Charlemagne to become the king of the peninsula.
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The Ironmaster
Title: The Ironmaster
Character: Monsieur Moulinet
Released: November 30, 1933
Type: Movie
A young noblewoman is unhappy about needing to marry the village ironmaster for financial reasons, but later comes to appreciate her husband.
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Abbot Constantine
Title: Abbot Constantine
Character: L'abbé Constantin
Released: October 19, 1933
Type: Movie
A rich American lady has bought the Castle of Longueval. Her sister is being courted by two young villagers, one that fell in love with her, and the other one that fell in love with the Castle.
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Le mari garçon
Title: Le mari garçon
Released: April 28, 1933
Type: Movie
Wanting to hide in the countryside, a young couple finds all the friends they were fleeing from.
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Les surprises du divorce
Title: Les surprises du divorce
Released: March 10, 1933
Type: Movie
A young husband, annoyed by his stepmother, divorces and marries a young girl whose father is a widower. When the two new spouses return from their honeymoon, the stepfather has married his son-in-law's first wife.
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Aviator Rouletabille
Title: Aviator Rouletabille
Character: Sainclair
Released: December 9, 1932
Type: Movie
Rouletabille interrupts his vacation in Hungary to fight a gang of air pirates with his boss Sainclair and the daughter of Budapest's chief of Police.
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Une petite femme dans le train
Title: Une petite femme dans le train
Character: Mr. Pommerois, the husband
Released: September 30, 1932
Type: Movie
Sophisticated romantic comedy of suspicious husbands, straying wives, handsome lovers, with various misunderstandings thrown in for good measure. (Including a gender-reversal of the old Pirandello plot twist from "The Late Mathias Pascal" of the protagonist changing identities after supposedly perishing in a train wreck.)
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To the Polls, Citizens
Title: To the Polls, Citizens
Released: March 11, 1932
Type: Movie
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The Levy Department Stores
Title: The Levy Department Stores
Released: January 29, 1932
Type: Movie
Now that they have inherited a huge sum of money Moïse Lévy and his brother Salomon are the prosperous owners of a a department store, the Galeries Lévy & Cie. Life is sweet but unexpectedly sours the day a fake Lévy cousin gets into their lives, claiming that the business is his, not theirs.
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Scent of the Woman in Black
Title: Scent of the Woman in Black
Character: Sainclair
Released: November 6, 1931
Type: Movie
The story takes place on the Riviera, where the title character may or may not be involved in various shades of skullduggery, including murder.
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One Night at the Front
Title: One Night at the Front
Released: March 20, 1931
Type: Movie
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The Mystery of the Yellow Room
Title: The Mystery of the Yellow Room
Character: Sainclair
Released: September 18, 1930
Type: Movie
Mathilde Strangerson, the daughter of an eminent scientist, narrowly escapes being murdered in her own bedroom by an unknown assailant. As the room was locked from the inside, no one can understand how the attacker managed to enter or leave the room. Reporter and amateur sleuth Joseph Rouletabille arrives on the scene to protect Mathilde and resolve the mystery of the yellow room.
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A hole in the wall
Title: A hole in the wall
Released: June 6, 1930
Type: Movie
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Paroles et musiques
Title: Paroles et musiques
Character: L'imprésario
Released: January 1, 1930
Type: Movie
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The Road Is Fine
Title: The Road Is Fine
Character: Le fripier Samuel Ginsberg
Released: December 20, 1929
Type: Movie
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La Dame de bronze et le monsieur de cristal
Title: La Dame de bronze et le monsieur de cristal
Released: October 4, 1929
Type: Movie
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Figaro
Title: Figaro
Character: Batholo
Released: March 4, 1929
Type: Movie
A silent adaptation of the 1778 Beaumarchais play The Marriage of Figaro, with material also used from its two sequels.
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Le Bouif errant
Title: Le Bouif errant
Released: December 24, 1926
Type: Movie
Bicard nicknamed Le Bouif earns 1,000 francs for lending his body to the experiments conducted by Professor Caligari. Further adventures await him when he encounters Ladislas, a young reveler, who happens to be the crown prince of Corinthia. This one, who favors living it up over his royal duty, commissions Bicard to replace him on the throne.
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La Bohème
Title: La Bohème
Character: Schaunard
Released: March 14, 1912
Type: Movie
The story of a free-spirited Bohemian. Capellani would remake the film in the U.S. in 1916 with a longer runtime.
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Max and His Mother-in-Law
Title: Max and His Mother-in-Law
Released: April 28, 1911
Type: Movie
Max and his young bride attempt to enjoy an Alpine honeymoon, despite the presence of her mother.