Pierre Durou

Pierre Durou

Born: October 23, 1924
Died: November 17, 2009
in Septfonds, Tarn-et-Garonne, France

Movies for Pierre Durou...

The Stud
Title: The Stud
Released: February 13, 1970
Type: Movie
Veterinary surgeon William Chaminade is having a peaceful holiday in the South of France when he is witness to an event that will change not only his life but the destiny of France! A young woman tries to kill herself by jumping from the upstairs window of the hotel where he is staying. Thanks to the services of a passing athlete, the woman is unharmed, and she reveals that her distress is down to her husband’s apparent lack of interest in her. Immediately, Chaminade has a brainwave. He will open a special centre for people like this unfortunate young woman, who will be able to satisfy their romantic needs, at the tax payers’ expense. All is well until this innovative ’pleasure centre’ draws the attention of an over-zealous tax inspector, Dupuis...
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The Big Wash
Title: The Big Wash
Released: November 12, 1968
Type: Movie
Sickened to see his students always sleeping in class, a teacher with a colleague and an anarchist start a war against the television. They climbed on Paris roofs to coat the T.V. antennas with a special product cutting the signal reception.
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Les Compagnons de la marguerite
Title: Les Compagnons de la marguerite
Character: Emile
Released: January 20, 1967
Type: Movie
Jean-Louis Matouzec works for French National Library as an expert looking after the restoration of old manuscripts.He falsifies marriage certificates as his wife refuses divorce.
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Your Money or Your Life
Title: Your Money or Your Life
Character: Le garçon de café
Released: April 26, 1966
Type: Movie
Pétepan learns that his money has been lost by Robinhoude brothers.He asks his assistants to withdraw his amount from the bank.
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The Big Scare
Title: The Big Scare
Released: October 28, 1964
Type: Movie
Two police inspectors pursue a dangerous counterfeiter on the run.
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Thank Heaven for Small Favors
Title: Thank Heaven for Small Favors
Character: Discontented sacristan (uncredited)
Released: August 28, 1963
Type: Movie
Bad financial conditions compel an aristocratic family to do strange work.
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Snobs !
Title: Snobs !
Character: Ernest Lesourd, boxer
Released: September 5, 1962
Type: Movie
The director of a dairy cooperative in La Manche dies in a vat of milk. In line to succeed him are his four deputy managers, all with very different temperaments: the aristocratic Dufaux, the seductive Courtin, the pious Lainé and the wait-and-see Tousseur. Each of them pulls out all the stops to win a major order from Morloch. Once this is achieved, election to the post of director by the cooperators is all but assured.
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Les livreurs
Title: Les livreurs
Released: July 24, 1961
Type: Movie
These two friendly delivery boys from a Parisian department store not only take their job to heart as much as possible, but also consider themselves responsible for the happiness of the customers they have to deliver to. This leads them successively to help, at the cost of incredible acrobatics, a young couple celebrating the first anniversary of their marriage, to mingle with the clientele of a rather disquieting doctor, to almost perish in an ambush that was of course not intended for them, and to avoid a domestic quarrel.
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The Truth
Title: The Truth
Character: Un gardien de la paix (uncredited)
Released: November 2, 1960
Type: Movie
As Dominique Marceau is being tried for the murder of Gilbert Tellier, accounts by different witnesses paint a picture of the kind of relationship the two used to share.
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Rendezvous
Title: Rendezvous
Released: July 13, 1960
Type: Movie
In France, during the Second World War, journalist Paul Roy is a member of the Resistance, while his colleague and friend Jacques Médina is a collaborator. But it's thanks to Jacques that Paul is able to remain free, as he shelters him in his home after a roundup. The two friends co-wrote various Nazi propaganda articles, which appeared under Jacques' byline. The situation becomes complicated when Paul becomes the lover of Jacques' wife.
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The Heirs
Title: The Heirs
Character: (uncredited)
Released: March 9, 1960
Type: Movie
Rival brother and sister Gaëtan and Chantal, the last heirs of the late billionaire financier Omar Porassis, use every trick in the book to try and claim his fabulous inheritance when two of Omar's natural sons, Roger and Marc, are found. The brother and sister try to manipulate Marc and Roger into stealing their inheritance. After discovering the deception, the two half-brothers join forces to escape the many traps set by Gaëtan and Chantal, who try to eliminate them by any means necessary.
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Sunday Encounter
Title: Sunday Encounter
Character: Un homme attendant le bus (uncredited)
Released: November 19, 1958
Type: Movie
Jean Brevent still did not understand the departure of his wife, Danielle Darieux. It's been five years, but he still can't forget her. In spite of a work of writer originator in a newspaper, in which it tried to be invested completely, time did not make its work. One day, by chance, he meets her in the bus...
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Love Is My Profession
Title: Love Is My Profession
Character: (uncredited)
Released: September 17, 1958
Type: Movie
Married French lawyer Andre defends succesfully the case of Yvette, who committed a robbery. He falls in love with her, but she isn't true to him.
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Tabarin
Title: Tabarin
Released: May 21, 1958
Type: Movie
Jacques Forestier, also a choreographer, an art decorator and a stage producer, is the very competent manager of "Tabarin", a renowned Parisian music-hall. A hard worker, he always wants the best for the public, at the expense of his health. He is assisted in his task by his wife Rosine and his lively secretary Mimi. Chance has it that one of the dancers he auditions for a new show is Florence, his former lover. He doesn't want her in the show but the spiteful belle has a rich influential protector who imposes her anyway. Some time later, Jacques falls victim of a heart attack.
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The Cat
Title: The Cat
Released: April 19, 1958
Type: Movie
During the Occupation, Cora takes the place of her dead husband at the head of a Resistance network. One evening, she sympathizes with Bernard, a Swiss journalist. However, he is actually an undercover German officer who is close to the man ordered to find her using an Identikit picture...
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Hardboiled Egg Time
Title: Hardboiled Egg Time
Character: Un homme apportant des faux billets
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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Thérèse Étienne
Title: Thérèse Étienne
Released: February 7, 1958
Type: Movie
Her father having served a prison sentence, there is unending gossiping about Therese's family. Unable to put up with it any longer, the young woman leaves her native village for the canton of Bern where she manages to be hired by Anton Muller, a wealthy, authoritarian farmer. Under the young woman's spell, Anton wants to make his servant his mistress but Thérèse refuses energetically.. Later on, she nevertheless accepts to marry Anton. On the wedding day, she meets Gottfried, her bridegroom's son, and they instantly fall passionately in love with each other.