Henri Charrett

Henri Charrett

Born: August 22, 1901
Died: August 24, 1972
in Paris, France

Movies for Henri Charrett...

La parole est au témoin
Title: La parole est au témoin
Released: November 17, 1963
Type: Movie
Mustapha, a cab driver in Paris, charges a customer in a hurry, without realizing that he is in a hurry to escape his pursuers after robbing a jewelry store. The next day, reading the newspapers, Mustapha becomes aware of the role he has played in this affair, and would gladly assist the police if a fortuitous incident didn't make him fear the criminals' vengeance. It's a cruel dilemma in which he is both suspected by some and threatened by others. Weak but honest, he manages to get out of this predicament at the risk of his life!
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Port of Point-du-Jour
Title: Port of Point-du-Jour
Character: The fake sent from the Renault factories
Released: April 13, 1960
Type: Movie
Emile is a steelworker in a car factory ;a confirmed bachelor going on fifty, he leads a peaceful life .One night, he is woken up by a burst of machine gun fire. The cafe in the corner of the street has been burglarized.A distraught young girl rushes into his apartment building and hides in his room .When the police make a search, he makes her out to be his lover for the night.Madeleine tells her about her sad past : she has severed all links with her parents ,she's an unwed mother and in the underworld's clutches. Emile sends his protegee to old mommy Dupont's place ,in the suburbs of Paris.
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Let's Be Daring, Madame
Title: Let's Be Daring, Madame
Character: Un gendarme
Released: June 7, 1957
Type: Movie
Two couples of friends who have arranged to meet in the woods get lost and find themselves in an embarrassing situation: the husband of one with the wife of the other? Each couple tries to get through this forced cohabitation honestly, but everything is turned upside down when two young Sunday gangsters appear. What follows is a cross-country chase through the woods, which leads the whole gang back to the house, where one of the couples manages to leave, free at last, on an old tandem, bound for... Africa!
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Flukt fra paradiset
Title: Flukt fra paradiset
Character: M. Dubois
Released: December 26, 1953
Type: Movie
Norwegian film's great charmer, Frank Robert, plays an associate professor and bachelor whose waking desire for life brings him to Paris, where he breaks free.
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The Bonnadieu House
Title: The Bonnadieu House
Character: Monsieur Cahuzac - un habitué de la brasserie
Released: November 27, 1951
Type: Movie
Felix is a middle-aged bourgeois husband. Much to his discomfort, he learns that his wife Gabrielle is carrying on with a young man--a very young man. Rather than express outrage, Felix decides that there's something lacking in him. He spends the rest of the picture trying to keep his wife by altering his own personality and outlook.
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My Friend Sainfoin
Title: My Friend Sainfoin
Character: Father Machin
Released: May 10, 1950
Type: Movie
The honeymoon in Italy of Guillaume and Eugénie de Puycharmois escorted by friend Sainfoin, a second-hand driver. Sainfoin's humor displeases Eugenie. Guillaume takes the wheel in such a way that it is necessary to hire a "driver", Yolande. Jealous, Eugenie asks Sainfoin to conquer Yolande. In the working car, two happy couples drive through the Italian landscapes.
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The Ferret
Title: The Ferret
Character: Inspector Poignant
Released: February 10, 1950
Type: Movie
A mysterious figure signing himself "The Ferret" keeps sending letters to the police, tipping them off about murders that are to be committed around Paris. Among those caught up in the police manhunt is a fraudulent clairvoyant.
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We Will All Go to Paris
Title: We Will All Go to Paris
Character: Member of the constabulary
Released: February 8, 1950
Type: Movie
The film tells the story of three presenters on Radio X, an amateur clandestine radio station.
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A Royal Affair
Title: A Royal Affair
Character: Cormeau
Released: December 14, 1949
Type: Movie
Mme Beaudrier, the wife of a Parliamentary Senator, hurls a pastry at visiting King Joan IV of Cerdagne, sparking off a series of farcical events involving all levels of the government and their mistresses.
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Night Round
Title: Night Round
Character: Tenant with the eiderdown
Released: September 9, 1949
Type: Movie
During Christmas night, two police officers make their nocturnal rounds, in their round they meet tramps, brawlers in a café, a naked man, a concierge, a sexton, revelers in a nightclub, and end by signing in their report to the police station.
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Les Dieux du dimanche
Title: Les Dieux du dimanche
Character: Gustave
Released: February 9, 1949
Type: Movie
A soccer enthusiast like his father, Martin Lambert is the (gifted) goalkeeper of the local team. He falls in love with Jeanette and soon marries her. Alongside a happy marital life, Martin becomes a successful professional. Which proves a mixed blessing since fame makes him vain and haughty and his marriage gets seriously affected. But the Second World War breaks out and Martin is drafted. Taken prisoner a few months later, he is sent to a camp. When he is released, he tries resume his career but his wounds hurt too much and he has to give in. But not soccer: he will now proudly train young shoots.
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Scandal
Title: Scandal
Released: December 1, 1948
Type: Movie
A young woman who inherits her uncle's nightclub, invents a gangster husband in order to gain respect.
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The Private Life of an Actor
Title: The Private Life of an Actor
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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Square of Knaves
Title: Square of Knaves
Character: Un invité
Released: December 10, 1947
Type: Movie
Summoned by his mother to plead, a very young lawyer has a trio of pathetic criminals acquitted. The daughter of one of them reveals to the lawyer that the three accomplices hoped to find food and board in prison. For the beautiful eyes of the young girl, Master of La Bastide attaches the three rogues to his service. Disasters, confusion, clumsiness follow one another until the planned wedding.
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Les maris de Léontine
Title: Les maris de Léontine
Released: October 29, 1947
Type: Movie
Léontine, an old baroness, opposes her granddaughter's wedding for moral reasons. But Adolphe, her first husband reminds her that her own conduct in the past was far from irreproachable. Didn't she cheat on him ? And after her divorce from him and her remarriage with a baron, didn't she do the same thing to her second husband? Léontine then realizes she is in no position to lecture her granddaughter, all the more as she loves her fiancé truly.
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Not Guilty
Title: Not Guilty
Released: September 24, 1947
Type: Movie
An alcoholic doctor accidentally kills someone and manages to make the death look like an accident. The episode triggers a sense of confidence and he resolves to correct the miseries of his life.
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Carbon Copy
Title: Carbon Copy
Character: Mr. Charles
Released: July 9, 1947
Type: Movie
A smooth criminal, who turns to be Manuel Ismora, and his gang successfully and peacefully pull off con after heist. Elsewhere a timid office worker, Gabriel Dupon, is pressured by his boss...
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Once Is Enough
Title: Once Is Enough
Released: October 23, 1946
Type: Movie
Christine Jourdan is a highly rated sculptor who, to oust her impresario Ancelin, invented a lover named Nicolas. Soon she marries Jacques, but he proves to be jealous of the supposed lover. The newspapers publishing the death of a Nicolas, Christine takes the opportunity to announce the death of her lover. But the man in question was murdered by a woman. Jacques and Ancelin suspect Christine and indulge in the worst eccentricities.
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The Murderer Is Not Guilty
Title: The Murderer Is Not Guilty
Character: Inspector Vétillard
Released: July 29, 1946
Type: Movie
In a film studio, several actors are the victims of attempted murders. Julien Brisseau, a writer, decides to use these facts as the backbone of his new novel. But while he is working on his detective story, young actors are actually killed. Julien thence gets suspected by police inspector Vétillard. To clear his name, Julien undertakes to investigate and find the killer on his own.
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Devil's Daughter
Title: Devil's Daughter
Character: Ludovic Mercier
Released: April 17, 1946
Type: Movie
Pursued by the police, Saget usurps the identity of a man who was returning to his town after having made his fortune in the United States. Under this new name, he deceives his compatriots with the exception of a doctor and the savage Isabelle. During an explanation Saget understands that Isabelle secretly admires him. She denounces him and Saget surrenders without a fight. Thus he ruins all his prestige with the young Amazon.
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L'ange qu'on m'a donné
Title: L'ange qu'on m'a donné
Released: March 27, 1946
Type: Movie
During the 1940 exodus, a young girl takes in a baby to whom she becomes deeply attached.
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The Temptation of Barbizon
Title: The Temptation of Barbizon
Character: L'inspecteur de la brigade mondaine (uncredited)
Released: March 13, 1946
Type: Movie
Daniel Gelin and Juliette Faber star as a blissfully happy honeymooning couple. They are so happy that they arouse the jealous attentions of Satan. The Dark Prince sends an emissary to beak up the romance, but his advocate is promptly challenged by a representative from "up above."
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Long Live Liberty
Title: Long Live Liberty
Released: February 7, 1946
Type: Movie
Two-sided painting of the German occupation in France: the acts of heroism of the maquis are opposed to the villainies of the profiteers and the drafts, all treated in the manner of the imagery of Épinal.
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As Long As I Live
Title: As Long As I Live
Released: January 21, 1946
Type: Movie
Following a trivial road accident, Ariane, an international adventuress, falls in love with Bernard Fleuret, a young artist-painter with diseased lungs. Being pursued by the police, she chooses to hide in the sanatorium where the young man is treated. Ariane proves so smitten by love that she finally changes her ways: she decides to let herself be arrested, sure as she is she will be reunited with her loved one later on.
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Bifur 3
Title: Bifur 3
Character: (uncredited)
Released: August 29, 1945
Type: Movie
Two hitch-hikers are on the way to Marseilles pursued by her husband.
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Check on the King
Title: Check on the King
Released: May 15, 1945
Type: Movie
Jeanne De Pincret refuses to marry Viscount Haussy De Villefort, having discovered his frivolity. After a duel against the Duke De Montgobert, whom Louis XIV recommended to Jeanne, the king forced De Villefort to marry Jeanne, then sent her to war. Separated from her husband, Jeanne discovers that she loves him.
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Paméla
Title: Paméla
Character: Baudu
Released: May 2, 1945
Type: Movie
During the Directory, a handful of royalists tried to get the Dauphin Louis XVII to escape from the Temple.
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Farandole
Title: Farandole
Released: February 10, 1945
Type: Movie
A ruined banker is abandoned by his mistress. He commits suicide after entrusting a prostitute with twenty-thousand francs. The money changes hands. A crook is arrested in the house of an an actress he had fooled. In a luxury hotel, a typist kills her lover's wife. The trial of the murderer is followed by the bankruptcy of another financier and the money finally returns to the mistress of a suicide in the restaurant in which she had first appeared.
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Coup de tête
Title: Coup de tête
Character: (uncredited)
Released: October 12, 1944
Type: Movie
A sporty and chivalrous young man creates, with some comrades, a society whose goal is to protect honest people against rogues. He finds himself thrown into unforeseen adventures, at the end of which he will discover love.
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Night Shift
Title: Night Shift
Released: April 19, 1944
Type: Movie
A devoted switchboard operator is the village guardian angel.
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Le bal des passants
Title: Le bal des passants
Character: The impresario
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 Wolf Farm
Title: The Wolf Farm
Released: December 13, 1943
Type: Movie
Bastien and Furet are a journalist and a photographer working together as a team on the newspaper 'L'Echo du Jour'. Just as they are about to go off on a weekend break with Micky, their boss's secretary, they are sent to a crime scene to report the murder of a Russian named 'le Moujik'.
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The Man Who Sold His Soul to the Devil
Title: The Man Who Sold His Soul to the Devil
Character: Papavert
Released: September 20, 1943
Type: Movie
A banker who lost everything in the stock market is on the verge of committing suicide when the Devil appears to him and offers to give him a fortune every day on one condition: he must do evil things with the money! Will the banker keep his end of the deal...
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Le Soleil de minuit
Title: Le Soleil de minuit
Character: Engineer
Released: June 30, 1943
Type: Movie
Going to take up his post in Moukden, the forest engineer finds in a trainer from the cabaret "the midnight sun" a Russian princess, Armide, whom he once loved. He had met her in 1917 when the princess and her father were driven from their domain. Prince Ireniev is a gambler, a trickster, a matchmaker. Out of love for Armide, Forestier flew, and yet when he finds the two wrecks, he cannot resist. Abandoning everything, his position and his honor, he leaves with the woman of his destiny.
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Fou d'amour
Title: Fou d'amour
Character: Grocer
Released: June 16, 1943
Type: Movie
Claude, who temporarily replaces his father at the head of a department store, falls in love at first sight with a pretty female customer. He finds out that she is named Solange and that she is the goddaughter of Professor Hauteclerc, who runs a private psychiatric hospital. To come closer to the girl of his dreams, Claude has a crazy idea: he pretends to be mad so as to be placed in Hauteclerc's institution.
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The Wolf of the Malveneurs
Title: The Wolf of the Malveneurs
Released: May 12, 1943
Type: Movie
A legend about the Malveneur family tells of how their ancestor sold his soul to the devil and was cursed: man by day, wolf by night. The last of the Malveneurs is a scientist who carries out strange experiments on... nobody knows exactly what the does in the underground. The wife has a heart condition, her sister-in-law is a authoritarian lady. And nights in the old castle are not exactly peaceful.
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Picpus
Title: Picpus
Character: (uncredited)
Released: February 12, 1943
Type: Movie
Picpus is a street and a subway stop where a number of murders have been committed. Maigret tries to find the killer.
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Homeport
Title: Homeport
Character: Auguste
Released: February 10, 1943
Type: Movie
A discharged seaman winds up on an old man's farm: his children left the place for the broader horizons of the evil city; the walls are near decay ,the fields lie fallow.
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Love Marriage
Title: Love Marriage
Character: Belote player
Released: December 23, 1942
Type: Movie
Pierre, who is a Fine Arts student, and Denise, who is a chemistry student, work for a department store where, wearing wedding suits, they distribute flyers to passers-by. The store manager, Bernard, falls in love with Denise and arranges to take her to an inn not far from Paris, run by the handsome Robert. This one opens Denise's eyes who ends up returning to her home. After a fight between Pierre and Bernard, Denise ends up choosing to stay with Pierre.
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Montmartre on the Seine
Title: Montmartre on the Seine
Released: November 19, 1941
Type: Movie
Maurice loves Juliet and Michael loves Lily. Romance blossoms on the hill. They are workers, artisans, and Lily has a real talent as a singer. But Claude's arrival brings trouble to their relationships. Maurice, jealous, approaches Lily. Singing in the streets, Lily quickly becomes a cabaret star.
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Moulin Rouge
Title: Moulin Rouge
Character: Inspector
Released: December 8, 1940
Type: Movie
A poor wretch, who has just been hired as a music-hall artist, in spite of himself becomes the tenant of a particular Parisian building.
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Ma tante dictateur
Title: Ma tante dictateur
Released: July 13, 1939
Type: Movie
A young man who wishes to launch his girlfriend in the theater, borrows money from his aunt, making her believe that he wants to buy groceries. His aunt arrives and then wishes to visit “her” grocery store; to save the day he borrows the store of a credulous grocer.
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Fric-Frac
Title: Fric-Frac
Character: Le joueur de bonneteau (uncredited)
Released: June 15, 1939
Type: Movie
An employee at a jewelry store falls in love with a woman who secretly plans to rob the store.
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The Rebel
Title: The Rebel
Released: October 28, 1938
Type: Movie
Pimaï, the strong-headed anarchist, joined the navy out of bravado. But the sweet influence of a young girl leads him to prove that he is worthy of the profession he has chosen and the flag he serves.
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The Tower of Nesle
Title: The Tower of Nesle
Released: July 30, 1937
Type: Movie
In the 13th century, lovers hurried to the door of Marguerite de Bourgogne. The aristocrat who every day was indulged in orgies that were famous throughout the country. What the suitors do not know is that they will inevitably be executed the day after these festivities and thrown to the Seine.
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Vaccin 48
Title: Vaccin 48
Released: April 12, 1935
Type: Movie
Professor Poponof, an old scientist, has just discovered a truth serum. Amédée, a burglar who has been surprised in his apartment, will become the perfect guinea-pig for testing the prof's last find. And it works well. Too well in fact, for if Amédée tells the truth he tells it to everybody and in every circumstance, thus causing disasters around him.