Hélène Duc

Hélène Duc

Born: March 22, 1917
Died: November 23, 2014
in Bergerac, Dordogne, France
Marcelle Duc (22 March 1917 – 23 November 2014), known professionally as Hélène Duc, was a French actress. She appeared in Edward and Caroline (1951), Je sais rien, mais je dirai tout (1973), and Tanguy (2001).

Duc played the role of Mahaut, Countess of Artois in the 1972 miniseries Les Rois maudits, and later played Marguerite de Bouville in the 2005 adaptation of the same novels.

In 1983, she performed at the Théâtre de la Gaîté-Montparnasse in a production of Chienne Dactylographe. She was named an officer of the Legion of Honour and Righteous Among the Nations in 2005.

Duc was married to René Catroux, with whom she had two daughters.

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Title: The Accursed Kings
Character: Mme de Bouville
Released: November 7, 2005
Type: TV
A sequence of seven episodes detailing the French monarchy.
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Tanguy
Title: Tanguy
Character: Grand-Mère
Released: November 21, 2001
Type: Movie
Tanguy is 28 years old and still living with his parents. They think it's time he moves out. He doesn't, so they hatch a plan.
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Angel
Title: Angel
Character: Natacha
Released: June 20, 2001
Type: Movie
Léa is a strong person, but when she comes out of prison, she decides to get a fresh start. She would like to forget her cold and aloof father Vittorio Pastore, her young and irresponsible brother Samy for who she went in jail and the Zach's gang, the thug she used to love. But nothing elapses as she expected.
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Title: Vivement dimanche
Character: Self
Released: September 20, 1998
Type: TV
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Les Sœurs Soleil
Title: Les Sœurs Soleil
Character: la dame chez le vétérinaire
Released: April 2, 1997
Type: Movie
This gently satirical French comedy centers on the resulting brouhaha that erupts when the preadolescent daughter of a very conservative bourgeoisie couple gets the chance to appear in a raucous music video starring a raunchy, aging female rocker. When pipe-puffing patriarch and solid citizen Brice learns that his daughter Clemence has been to selected for the music video with tacky has-been rocker Gloria, he nearly comes unglued. His prim wife, Benedicte, the organist for the local congregation, has a different perspective and understands her daughter's eagerness. She quietly agrees to secretly accompany Clemence during the shoot. Once there, the two are filmed dancing around and having fun. Neither realize that they will become special-effects victims by time production on the film ends and find themselves apparently dancing amongst men who but for the presence of small rubber sea creatures, would be buck naked.
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Des cadavres à la pelle
Title: Des cadavres à la pelle
Character: Aunt Gianni
Released: July 12, 1995
Type: Movie
Three friends, Robert, Michel and Jean, would be three happy men if Robert's aunt, who has inherited a magnificent nightclub, the King Club, in which they work, didn't torment them. Friendly and small-minded, they think they're tough and don't hesitate to traffic. Their latest find is not without imagination: to bring from Amsterdam diamonds hidden in the diaper of a baby of whom Michel is the father.
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Samson le magnifique
Title: Samson le magnifique
Character: Madame Brachart
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
Adaptation of a French boulevard play, in which a parvenu businessman marries a young lady from a noble family who need his money.There is no love lost between them.
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Promised... sworn!
Title: Promised... sworn!
Character: Bonne Maman
Released: December 9, 1987
Type: Movie
The life and love affairs of a 12-year-old boy Pierre who lived in France during the Nazi occupation in 1944. We see his family, his chubby friend, the girl who ignores him - and the German defector who hides in the cellar. He suffers from a slightly more prominent nasal appendage than the average of his congeners. This complex initially serving it, will ultimately be the detonator of his success with women and the entire population of the city.
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Miss Mona
Title: Miss Mona
Released: January 28, 1987
Type: Movie
An aging trans woman dreams of becoming a real woman before she dies.
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Père Noël et fils
Title: Père Noël et fils
Released: December 24, 1983
Type: Movie
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La chienlit
Title: La chienlit
Character: Madame Cornebugle
Released: September 26, 1983
Type: Movie
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Alors... Heureux ?
Title: Alors... Heureux ?
Character: L'examinateur Mlle Chaufour
Released: January 9, 1980
Type: Movie
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Title: Claudine
Character: Tante Coeur
Released: April 12, 1978
Type: TV
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Appelez-moi maître
Title: Appelez-moi maître
Character: Mme Gonzales
Released: May 26, 1977
Type: Movie
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Voyez-vous ce que je vois
Title: Voyez-vous ce que je vois
Character: Dorothée Paulin
Released: July 31, 1976
Type: Movie
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The Phoney
Title: The Phoney
Character: Mamy
Released: October 14, 1975
Type: Movie
While the President of a West African Republic arrives in France to sell uranium to the State, spies from around the world are on hand to thwart the transaction. France then decides to put one of its worst agents on the case, a certain Maxime, who has a very loose tongue. All they have to do is send him false information, hoping that it will fall into the ears of their enemies...
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Title: Numéro un
Character: Self
Released: April 5, 1975
Type: TV
A French variety show.
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Title: Poker d'As
Character: La comtesse de Rhuys
Released: October 31, 1973
Type: TV
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I Don't Know Much, But I'll Say Everything
Title: I Don't Know Much, But I'll Say Everything
Character: Gastié-le-Roy mère
Released: September 11, 1973
Type: Movie
Pierre Gastié-Leroy is the son of a wealthy director of a factory of weapon manufacturing. Despite his parents, two generous uncles and a bishop godfather who try to inculcate him the rigid values of his social level, Pierre is a dreamer, antimilitaristic, social educator who dreams of saving three thugs, his "little guys" at the limit of delinquency. After several resounding failures that sent him to prison, Pierre is ordered by his father to join his factory to direct the social service. Tired of the venality of his father and the foolishness of the "little guys", Pierre hires them at the factory...
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Title: La Duchesse d'Avila
Character: La duègne de Leonor
Released: July 4, 1973
Type: TV
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Title: The Accursed Kings
Character: Mahaut d'Artois, comtesse, tante de Robert
Released: December 21, 1972
Type: TV
It is the start of the 14th century and Philip IV the Fair reigns supreme over France. His three sons would rule after him. Isabelle, his only daughter, is married to King Edward II of England. Under Philip's reign, France is great but its people are unhappy. Only one power dares to stand up to him: the order of the Knights Templar. When the last Grand Master of the Temple, Jacques de Molay, is burned at the stake, he curses Philip and so begins a dark period, full of blood and violence, death and tears ...
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Le lys dans la vallée
Title: Le lys dans la vallée
Character: Madame de Vandenesse
Released: May 16, 1970
Type: Movie
Félix de Vandenesse's youthful love for the beautiful, inaccessible Madame de Mortsauf, who devotes her life to a half-mad husband and two fragile children. Madame de Mortsauf maintains a friendly, tender relationship. But when she learns of the young man's affair with an Englishwoman, she dies of jealousy and regret.
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Les assassins associés
Title: Les assassins associés
Character: Thérèse
Released: April 22, 1970
Type: Movie
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The Great Chase
Title: The Great Chase
Character: Albert's wife
Released: October 2, 1968
Type: Movie
A gang of young tugs led by Frankie, opens a nightclub just in front of a gangster's hideout. Morelli is his name and he prepares the stealing of the century.
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Title: L'Amateur ou S.O.S. Fernand
Released: September 15, 1967
Type: TV
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Title: At Theatre Tonight
Character: Mme Decluze
Released: July 21, 1966
Type: TV
At Theater tonight is a TV show broadcasted from 25th August 1966 to 21st September 1985. The show is broadcast plays recorded in two or three days, during public performances at the Théâtre Marigny on the Champs-Élysées, or sometimes Edouard VII theater.
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Les malabars sont au parfum
Title: Les malabars sont au parfum
Character: Tante Berthe
Released: February 2, 1966
Type: Movie
All sorts of spies are buzzing around Michel, whose cow, Dorothée, produces 200 liters of milk a day thanks to a treatment of his own invention. Dorothée is kidnapped and found. But now everyone disowns her. No matter! Dorothée's productivity will enrich Michel and his wife Nicole, who have opened a rotisserie; milk cocktails are in fashion.
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Les baratineurs
Title: Les baratineurs
Released: February 1, 1965
Type: Movie
A precious work of art from the Italian Renaissance is stolen and passes through many hands before ending up in the shed of the farmhouse of Mr. and Mrs. Dujardin, fishmongers, who are inaugurating their luxury fish shop that very day. But the antique dealers, the free-riders and the bargain-hunters are there. They are jealously careful not to pass on the fruit of their clever investigations to their rivals, for all of them, after a picturesque treasure hunt, know that the Dujardin family own the famous Duranti altarpiece. But where have they hidden it themselves?
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Male Hunt
Title: Male Hunt
Character: Madame Armande
Released: September 18, 1964
Type: Movie
A few stories about marriage and its problems. Antoine is about to marry Gisèle. His friend Julien, an established bachelor, desperately tries to convince him not to do it, recounting his own painful experiences.
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How to Succeed in Love
Title: How to Succeed in Love
Character: La femme du directeur des Editions du Soleil
Released: November 16, 1962
Type: Movie
Bernard, a young, serious publisher of religious books, finds himself embroiled in amusing and eventful adventures with Sophie, a wacky twist dancer. Having lost his own situation, he joins Editions du Soleil thanks to his friend Marcel's manuscript "Comment réussir en amour". Freed of his shyness, he succeeds brilliantly in his career; and having put to good use the teachings of the manuscript, Bernard ends up marrying Sophie. But he soon finds himself confronted by the impetuous young woman's fantasies.
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Famous Love Affairs
Title: Famous Love Affairs
Character: une marquise
Released: November 3, 1961
Type: Movie
Anthology of four love stories that have some historical basis.
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The Boss
Title: The Boss
Released: May 31, 1960
Type: Movie
Pursued by a rival gang after a violent robbery, Toni escapes with nearly thirty million francs. On the train to Paris, to avoid arousing suspicion, he has no choice but to threaten an honorable philosophy professor, Justin Mignonnet, with his gun, so that he will carry the loot for him. To make sure he returns the money, he takes his papers and makes him promise to be present at the exchange appointment at the Pigalle Hotel the next day. Completely lost, Mignonnet decides to obey orders, but just as he is about to return the money, a young woman, a member of the enemy gang, comes to collect it.
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Picnic on the Grass
Title: Picnic on the Grass
Character: Isabelle, la secrétaire du biologiste
Released: November 11, 1959
Type: Movie
Etienne Alexis, a candidate for president of the new Europe, is a scientist promoting artificial insemination for social betterment and therapy to eliminate passion. To celebrate his engagement to a cousin, he hosts an aseptic picnic, where mother nature asserts herself. A shepherd's flute conjures a windstorm that throws Alexis together with the luscious Nénette, a farm lass who wants to have a baby but is unimpressed with men.
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The Grand Manoeuvre
Title: The Grand Manoeuvre
Character: La préfète
Released: October 25, 1955
Type: Movie
Armand, a boastful womaniser, makes a bet that he can seduce any girl he wants. He soon crosses paths with a beautiful Parisian divorcee, who is nothing like anyone he has ever met before.
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The Happiest of Men
Title: The Happiest of Men
Character: The worldly lawyer
Released: November 26, 1952
Type: Movie
An industrialist who prefers painting to business is cheated on by his wife with a painter who prefers business to painting.
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Edward and Caroline
Title: Edward and Caroline
Character: L'invitée mélomane
Released: April 6, 1951
Type: Movie
Newlyweds Edward & Caroline are preparing for an important evening when a quarrel over Caroline's dress sets off a series of domestic brouhahas.
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Paris Frills
Title: Paris Frills
Character: Une employée de la maison de couture (uncredited)
Released: June 20, 1945
Type: Movie
Philippe Clarence, a famous Parisian dressmaker, seduces his friend's fiancee. But, for the first time in his life, this is for real. The film is also a sharp picture of the fashion world.