André Pousse

André Pousse

Born: October 20, 1919
Died: September 9, 2005
in Paris, France
André Pousse (20 October 1919 – 9 September 2005) was a noted French actor and, in his youth, also a notable cyclist

While primarily known as a leading French actor, André Pousse began his professional career as a cyclist (primarily track). His greatest cycling achievements took place in the infamous Vél d'Hiv (Vélodrome d'Hiver or Winter Velodrome), in Paris, where he won the prestigious "six days of Vél d'Hiv" races from 1942 to 1949. Indeed, Pousse is the record holder in this event, and will remain so as the Vél d'Hiv has since been torn down. The "race," as it was, took place in front of 20,000 spectators and was a major French cultural and sporting event. It lasted six days and nights and, until two-man teams were established, it was apt to land exhausted participants in hospital, as Pousse himself remarked. Alain Delon, who as a child attended the races as an ardent admirer of Pousse, remembers competing with other children for the honor of bringing Pousse his bicycle at the beginning of a race. André Pousse retired from the track in 1950; and later, from 1960, went on to his better known years as an actor in cinema and television. He played mostly gangster roles in police films of the time. For many years, he was the artistic director of the Moulin Rouge in Paris and many other establishments, including the Casino of Lebanon. He also served as the agent of many French actors.

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Qui mange quoi ?
Title: Qui mange quoi ?
Character: Etienne
Released: December 10, 2002
Type: Movie
Rose, a health and fraud inspector, wants to have a child with Marc, a biologist in the same organization as her. But first, she decides to settle her problems with René, her ex-husband's uncle. Their restaurant is on the verge of bankruptcy despite the efforts of Joseph, the cook. As for Marc, he is afflicted with a possessive sister, Chantal, psychorigid and adept at macrobiotics.
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Like a Fish Out of Water
Title: Like a Fish Out of Water
Character: 'Le Faucheur'
Released: May 5, 1999
Type: Movie
A seductive femme fatale (Monica Bellucci) and two con men -- one cool as ice, and one who just likes to "ice" his victims -- enlist a mild-mannered, unsuspecting man in their mission to steal a rare and valuable fish. They plan to sell it back to its grieving owner at an enormous profit (talk about "sleeping with the fishes!"). Tcheky Karyo, Michel Muller and Dominique Pinon co-star.
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L'Âme sœur
Title: L'Âme sœur
Character: Archbishop Lacaze
Released: April 5, 1999
Type: Movie
Remi and Valentina are two angels who love each other for 2000 years. Old Balthazar does not let them meet in Paradise, so they meet in Paris. She is a Spanish rock star who gets assassinated. He works in the funeral home to which she is brought. One touch of Remi and she comes back to life, only to die again because she can't live in his absence.
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Title: Vivement dimanche
Character: Self
Released: September 20, 1998
Type: TV
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Christmas at Bunny's
Title: Christmas at Bunny's
Character: Un Sapin pour Deux segment
Released: December 24, 1997
Type: Movie
Santa Claus is depressed and refuses to give away gifts as he usually does. Bugs Bunny is charged with finding him and cheering him up back into his job, including showing him some of his own old cartoons.
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Le Retour de Lemmy Caution
Title: Le Retour de Lemmy Caution
Character: Le commissaire Schmidt
Released: July 2, 1989
Type: Movie
The owner of Black Angel is shot by Mamba, a killer in the pay of the Chinese mafia. The victim's daughter, who witnessed the murder and knows she is threatened, refuses to collaborate with the police and prefers to call on an old friend of her father's, Lemmy Caution, but is this man, who lives on an island paradise, still old enough to play the vigilante?
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Title: Maguy
Character: Malabou
Released: September 8, 1985
Type: TV
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Quarter to Two Before Jesus Christ
Title: Quarter to Two Before Jesus Christ
Character: Centurion
Released: October 6, 1982
Type: Movie
In antique Rome, a simple pepboy for chars becomes involved in a coup against Cesar. Rahatlocum is a North African Roman colony where Julius Caesar came to spend an expensive holiday. The revolt rumbles among the small people who find a leader in the person of Ben-Hur Marcel.
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Title: Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 1982
Type: TV
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The Seventh Company Outdoors
Title: The Seventh Company Outdoors
Character: Lambert, chef de la milice française locale
Released: December 7, 1977
Type: Movie
The third part of Seventh Company adventures.
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Forget Me, Mandoline
Title: Forget Me, Mandoline
Released: March 3, 1976
Type: Movie
The young and charming Mandoline, accountant of the advertising agency Publi-Pub, has stolen documents proving that the company kept double accounts. Remorseful when she wanted to pass this evidence to a tax inspector, she decides to put the documents back in the agency's safe, but does not really know how to go about it. Her friend Marie-Charlotte, a transvestite, helps him find a young safe-drilling man in his condition, who will help him open the safe - but of course, the matter is not so simple.
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Let's Make a Dirty Movie
Title: Let's Make a Dirty Movie
Character: Rotberger
Released: February 17, 1976
Type: Movie
A bumbling film crew attempts to make a porno movie.
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From Hong Kong with Love
Title: From Hong Kong with Love
Character: René
Released: December 17, 1975
Type: Movie
Bons baisers de Hong Kong (From Hong Kong with Love) is a 1975 French film directed by Yvan Chiffre. It is a parody of James Bond movies featuring Les Charlots with scenes shot in Hong Kong. Mickey Rooney featured in the film as well as Bernard Lee and Lois Maxwell, stars of the James Bond films who appeared as M and Moneypenny respectively.
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Flic Story
Title: Flic Story
Character: Jean-Baptiste Buisson
Released: October 1, 1975
Type: Movie
The film story depicts Emile Buisson, following the death of his wife and child, escaping from a psychiatric institution in 1947 and returning to Paris. Buisson, who three years later would become France's public enemy number one, begins a murderous rampage through the French capital.
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Title: Numéro un
Character: Self
Released: April 5, 1975
Type: TV
A French variety show.
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Bons baisers... à lundi
Title: Bons baisers... à lundi
Character: L'automobiliste
Released: November 27, 1974
Type: Movie
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OK Patron
Title: OK Patron
Character: Charles Laurent
Released: June 1, 1974
Type: Movie
Mario, the head of the Mafia in France, has just been mortally wounded. His "companion" decides to find him a successor, before the New York "organization" appoints one. She instructs her two bodyguards to take on anyone who likes money, doesn't have any and, above all, doesn't want to work too hard - in short, "the average Frenchman"... They discover Léon Bonnet, a representative of "magic crosses". They send him gifts: champagne, weapons (a mistake...), a ring for his fiancée, and a meal worthy of the finest gourmets. In return, they take him to Mario's dying bedside, and have him sign over the estate. It's then that Leon, with his angelic good looks, restores order within the Mafia, surprising all his adversaries with his manners, and outwitting the police...
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Profession: Adventurers
Title: Profession: Adventurers
Character: Le juge
Released: May 24, 1973
Type: Movie
Henry, a rich Londoner bored, shipwrecked in the Atlantic and ends up in San Francisco. The adventure has just begun. From the novel "Naufrage en eaux troubles" by François Ponthier.
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The Insolent
Title: The Insolent
Character: Milan
Released: January 25, 1973
Type: Movie
Having escaped from prison Ristack contacts his partner, to organize an attack on a van full of gold. The heist goes well but each man is trying to keep all the loot for himself...
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Some Too Quiet Gentlemen
Title: Some Too Quiet Gentlemen
Character: Gérard
Released: January 25, 1973
Type: Movie
The sleepy little village of Loubressac is well on its way to becoming a ghost town. To save the town, the local citizenry hatch a plan to attract tourists. To their horror, the plan misfires when a group of hippies are the first to move in. The hippies' free and unconventional ways quickly upset the staid lives of the locals. Then one of the locals is found murdered, and suspicion inevitably falls on the newcomers. Eventually, the locals and the hippies join forces to solve the mystery, and in the course of their adventures learn to respect each others' ways.
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Un Flic
Title: Un Flic
Character: Marc Albouis
Released: October 1, 1972
Type: Movie
A Parisian police chief has an affair, but unbeknownst to him, the boyfriend of the woman he’s having an affair with is a bank robber planning a heist.
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She No Longer Talks, She Shoots
Title: She No Longer Talks, She Shoots
Character: Max
Released: August 23, 1972
Type: Movie
Rosemonde, hailed as "the Princess" reign over a slum in the Paris suburbs. Herbert, a reporter who came to investigate on the pollution, ends up in a grinding machine of her invention. Rosemonde resells the bones to the church authorities who use them as holy relics. Inspector Adrian Bondu is handling the case... But a young hippie who looks like Jesus will have Rosemonde suddenly feel very earthly feelings...
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The Black Flag Waves Over the Scow
Title: The Black Flag Waves Over the Scow
Character: Balloche
Released: October 13, 1971
Type: Movie
Victor, grocer and tyrannical boss, never stops telling his family about his seafaring past, although they never believe him. When his nephew wins a model-boat contest and is commissioned to build a full-scale boat, Victor tries to make his mark.
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Too Small My Friend
Title: Too Small My Friend
Character: Inspector Terrell
Released: August 6, 1971
Type: Movie
Ticky Edriss, a dwarf, develops a scheme to avenge him on society and extort a bank.
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Tumuc Humac
Title: Tumuc Humac
Released: January 13, 1971
Type: Movie
When Marc, with the help of a juvenile court judge, is old enough to leave thewelfare system, he leaves mainland France for French Guiana to try and find the only relative he knows, his grandfather, who was deported to the penal colony of this French overseas territory. During his odyssey, he meets Françoise, a young woman with whom he falls in love, and experiences many adventures.
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Title: Samedi soir
Character: Self
Released: January 9, 1971
Type: TV
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Hurrah for Adventure!
Title: Hurrah for Adventure!
Released: July 1, 1970
Type: Movie
Two Parisians and inseparable friends, Alexandre and Philippe, decide to spend their vacations in Palma. Philippe arrives by car, accompanied by his young wife, while the flighty Alexandre has hired a blonde hitchhiker. But what a surprise to find the villa, rented by correspondence, inhabited by strange and worrying occupants... Soon mistaken for secret agents, Philippe and Alexandre embark on extravagant adventures involving a mysterious shipment of gold.
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Countdown to Vengeance
Title: Countdown to Vengeance
Character: Gilbert Levasseur
Released: January 29, 1970
Type: Movie
10 years ago, François Nolan and his brother have been betrayed by one of their accomplices after a break-in. During the fight with the police, Francois's brother was killed, and a cop disfigured by François. Now, François is back for revenge. As nobody knows who the traitor was, the former accomplices lose their head. The disfigured cop is also waiting for the right moment to take his revenge on François.
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The Sicilian Clan
Title: The Sicilian Clan
Character: Malik
Released: December 5, 1969
Type: Movie
An ambitious mobster plans an elaborate diamond heist while seducing the daughter-in-law of a ruthless mob patriarch as a determined police commissioner closes in on all of them.
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A Golden Widow
Title: A Golden Widow
Character: Pierre Déricourt de Savignac
Released: October 23, 1969
Type: Movie
A woman learns that she is sole legatee of her forgotten rich uncle, but there is a small problem: she's got to be a widow to latch onto the dough or the fortune will go to a vague sect...
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Catherine
Title: Catherine
Character: Barnabé
Released: August 8, 1969
Type: Movie
Paris, 1418. The city is occupied by the Armagnacs, besieged by Philip of Burgundy. Caboche, a butcher's guild member and supporter of the Burgundians, wants to marry a young woman. To do so, he denounces his father, who is soon after murdered. The Grand Conétable of Burgundy also has his eye on Catherine, but will not be able to take her because Duke Philippe has fallen in love with her.
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Don't Take God's Children for Wild Geese
Title: Don't Take God's Children for Wild Geese
Character: Fred aka 'L'élégant', fiancé of Rita
Released: September 6, 1968
Type: Movie
Rita is a girl that lives on taking gangsters as lovers. But when the money stops coming, she swears revenge.
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Pasha
Title: Pasha
Character: Marcel Lurat, dit Quinquin
Released: March 14, 1968
Type: Movie
Six months before his retirement from the criminal police, inspector Joss finds his colleague Gouvion dead, in a poorly faked suicide attempt. Joss loses his temper, and investigates on his own, which leads him through the bas-fond of Paris...
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Sorrel Flower
Title: Sorrel Flower
Character: Albert Roza, caïd d'une bande
Released: September 22, 1967
Type: Movie
Catherine is left unmarried and pregnant when her mobster sweetheart is killed in this gangster comedy. With the help of another unmarried mother-to-be, Catherine goes looking for the stash of cash buried by her lover before his death. Soon other thugs and her suspicious neighbors are following their every move in an attempt to recover the lost loot...
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Idiot in Paris
Title: Idiot in Paris
Character: Marcel, le chauffeur de taxi
Released: March 22, 1967
Type: Movie
Goubi, the simpleton of his village in the French Department Allier, has but one wish: to see Paris. One day, the truckers Grafouillère deposit a drunk Goubi in the biggest market of Paris (the "Halles"). The poor man is completely lost, but the meat merchant Dessertine takes him under his wings when he hears that Goubi was likewise 'raised by the State'...
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Let's Not Get Angry
Title: Let's Not Get Angry
Character: un truand en fuite
Released: April 20, 1966
Type: Movie
One-time gangster Antoine is enjoying retirement on the coast, now managing a boating club. He receives a visit from a former accomplice who asks for a loan. The money will be repaid by a crook who is now in hiding; Antoine intends to recover his money.
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Where Are You From, Johnny?
Title: Where Are You From, Johnny?
Character: M. Franck
Released: October 29, 1963
Type: Movie
Without knowing it, Johnny, a young rock musician, finds himself involved with a Parisian drug gang. Realising he is being set up, he throws the drugs into the Seine and takes refuge in the Camargue with his family and his fiancée, Gigi. Meanwhile, the dealers are hot on their heels.