Louis Arbessier

Louis Arbessier

Born: April 9, 1907
Died: March 23, 1998
in Vienne, Isère, France

Movies for Louis Arbessier...

Title: Spartakus and the Sun Beneath the Sea
Character: Shag-shag
Released: September 24, 1985
Type: TV
The Arkadians are a civilization that survived a great cataclysm and moved to the center of the earth, thriving under the power of their artificial sun, The Tehra, until one day it began to fail. In desperation, the Arkadians broke the ancient law and entered the Forbidden Archives to search for an answer. They used their special powers and created a messenger to the people above, naming her Arkana. She meets up with Matt and Rebecca, two ordinary kids from the surface world, Bic and Bac, two strange anteaters from Arkadia, and Spartakus, a mysterious warrior. Together they search the worlds of the strata for a way to save a people and possibly the world.
bee
Mesrine
Title: Mesrine
Character: Lelièvre
Released: February 29, 1984
Type: Movie
Mesrine was the foremost criminal, public enemy N°1, the man most wanted in France, guilty of 39 crimes. "In the police or newspaper history, Mesrine broke all records". The film begins with his escape on May 8, 1978. Mesrine was the only man to escape from La Santé. We relive the 18 crazy months he spent on the run and his encounter with Sylvia who is swept into his madness.
bee
Title: Ulysses 31
Character: Sysiphe (voice)
Released: October 3, 1981
Type: TV
Ulysses and his crew struggle against the divine entities that rule the universe, the ancient gods from Greek mythology.
bee
La Dame de chez Maxim
Title: La Dame de chez Maxim
Character: Vidauban
Released: February 12, 1981
Type: Movie
bee
Les femmes savantes
Title: Les femmes savantes
Character: Chrysale
Released: August 19, 1978
Type: Movie
bee
La poudre aux yeux
Title: La poudre aux yeux
Character: Malingear
Released: October 9, 1976
Type: Movie
Created in 1861, this comedy by Eugène Labiche depicts two bourgeois families obsessed with appearances who intend to marry off their children. Labiche exposes the social rivalry between the two families through tyrannical female characters and submissive husbands, whose only concern is to create illusions in society.
bee
Les Rosenberg ne doivent pas mourir
Title: Les Rosenberg ne doivent pas mourir
Released: May 24, 1975
Type: Movie
A French film about a famous American trial - that of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who became the first people in American history to receive the death penalty for espionage.
bee
Charlotte
Title: Charlotte
Character: Le père du Charlotte
Released: November 26, 1974
Type: Movie
Starting as an investigation, the film begins with the discovery of a murdered young woman. Gradually we go back in time to realize that this crime is altogether the logical continuation of a philosophy of life where neither sex nor death are taboo, and where a lust for pushing limits meets it ultimate conclusion.
bee
The End of the Tether
Title: The End of the Tether
Character: Elliot
Released: August 15, 1973
Type: Movie
An experienced but aging captain in command of the Sofala must hide the fact that he is becoming blind.
bee
La Station Champbaudet
Title: La Station Champbaudet
Released: December 27, 1972
Type: Movie
The widow Champbaudet believes herself loved by an architect. But the young man actually has views on the neighbor upstairs. Cunning, he multiplies his visits to the widow with the sole aim of getting closer to the beautiful Aglaé. It was without counting on the husband of this one, whose jealousy could well play nasty tricks on the heartthrob of these ladies!
bee
The Lion's Share
Title: The Lion's Share
Released: September 8, 1971
Type: Movie
A writer is reunited with an old childhood friend, who gives him the opportunity to devise a heist.
bee
Title: Arsène Lupin
Character: Dr. Fisher
Released: March 18, 1971
Type: TV
Arsène Lupin is a French TV show which was co-produced with German, Canadian, Belgian, Dutch, Swiss, Italian and Austrian TV stations. It was only loosely based on Maurice Leblancs novels. Georges Descrières' portrayal of Arsène Lupin showed more similarity to Graf Yoster than to Maurice Leblanc's original. He behaved in the first place as a perfect gentleman who never got angry. He was always relaxed, because whatever could possibly had bothered him in daily life was taken care of by his butler. It wasn't questioned how he had come to his financial independence although the series sometimes discreetly implied that he was a professional criminal. Besides rescuing damsels in distress Lupin took on criminals, competing with their wit and intelligence. Either he stole paintings from rich people who had to be considered white-collar criminals or he acted as a detective who derailed criminal schemes. However, when he was attacked, he could defend himself effortlessly by using elegant jujutsu methods. Among the guest stars were German actors such as Günter Strack and Sky du Mont. Jean-Paul Salomé said in his commentary on the DVD version of his film Arsène Lupin he had like this series as a child. German TV, one the investors, would broadcast the show eventually between 18:00-20:00 o'clock because it was only allowed to show commercials within that very timeslot. For them to get a financial return on investment the show had to be appropriate for families and also for children who would watch it alone. Subsequently it was nearby to ask to defuse and flatten some of Leblanc's plots in order to avoid possible complaints that could force the station to broadcast the show beyond the "Vorabendprogramm".
bee
La visite de la vieille dame
Title: La visite de la vieille dame
Character: Alfred III
Released: January 5, 1971
Type: Movie
Adaptation for TV of the play by Friedrich Durrenmatt. A very rich old lady arrives in her nearly bankrupt native village. She is ready to come to the rescue but only if her old lover who had once abandoned her pregnant is killed.
bee
Under the Sign of the Bull
Title: Under the Sign of the Bull
Character: Robert Augagneur, ancien camarade d'Albert
Released: March 28, 1969
Type: Movie
In this film, Albert is an eccentric inventor of missiles who comes under fire from his investors when his first prototype explodes. Even his sympathetic mistress has her doubts, as Albert lashes out in a verbal tirade condemning those of little faith in his genius.
bee
Title: Fortune
Character: Sutter père
Released: March 2, 1969
Type: TV
bee
Pasha
Title: Pasha
Character: le directeur de chez Boucheron
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...
bee
Title: Les Dossiers de l'Agence O
Character: Commissaire Janvier
Released: March 11, 1968
Type: TV
L’Agence O is a famous Parisian private detective firm. Its premises are located in the Passage Choiseul. In front, Torrence leads the shop. In fact, the agency's team is complemented by Émilie le Roux, Mademoiselle Berthe and Barbet, who scrutinize clients through a one-way mirror located behind the desk. Getting hold of a man disguised as an old lady, solving the mystery of the Prisoner of Lagny or discovering who is blackmailing the painter Tigrane Alban does not worry the experts at the O Agency. Les Dossiers de l’Agence O is a French-Canadian television series in thirteen episodes of approximately 55 minutes created by Marc Simenon and broadcast first in Quebec from December 14, 1967 to March 13, 1968 on Télévision de Radio-Canada, then in France from March 11 to June 3, 1968 on the first channel of the ORTF.
bee
Title: Les Dossiers de l'Agence O
Character: Inspector Janvier
Released: March 11, 1968
Type: TV
L’Agence O is a famous Parisian private detective firm. Its premises are located in the Passage Choiseul. In front, Torrence leads the shop. In fact, the agency's team is complemented by Émilie le Roux, Mademoiselle Berthe and Barbet, who scrutinize clients through a one-way mirror located behind the desk. Getting hold of a man disguised as an old lady, solving the mystery of the Prisoner of Lagny or discovering who is blackmailing the painter Tigrane Alban does not worry the experts at the O Agency. Les Dossiers de l’Agence O is a French-Canadian television series in thirteen episodes of approximately 55 minutes created by Marc Simenon and broadcast first in Quebec from December 14, 1967 to March 13, 1968 on Télévision de Radio-Canada, then in France from March 11 to June 3, 1968 on the first channel of the ORTF.
bee
Title: Les Dossiers de l'Agence O
Character: Commissioner Janvier
Released: March 11, 1968
Type: TV
L’Agence O is a famous Parisian private detective firm. Its premises are located in the Passage Choiseul. In front, Torrence leads the shop. In fact, the agency's team is complemented by Émilie le Roux, Mademoiselle Berthe and Barbet, who scrutinize clients through a one-way mirror located behind the desk. Getting hold of a man disguised as an old lady, solving the mystery of the Prisoner of Lagny or discovering who is blackmailing the painter Tigrane Alban does not worry the experts at the O Agency. Les Dossiers de l’Agence O is a French-Canadian television series in thirteen episodes of approximately 55 minutes created by Marc Simenon and broadcast first in Quebec from December 14, 1967 to March 13, 1968 on Télévision de Radio-Canada, then in France from March 11 to June 3, 1968 on the first channel of the ORTF.
bee
Title: L'Âne Culotte
Character: Abbé Chichambre
Released: November 27, 1967
Type: TV
bee
To Skin a Spy
Title: To Skin a Spy
Character: le Colonel
Released: August 24, 1966
Type: Movie
A French secret agent gets a license to kill when he is sent to Vienna to plug a security leak in this routine spy saga. He is caught in the crossfire of international enemy agents trying to eliminate the French.
bee
Title: Illusions perdues
Character: Monsieur de Bargeton
Released: March 5, 1966
Type: TV
1819, Angouleme, France, a young ambitious poet, Lucien Chardon is introduced in the salon of Mme de Bargeton where meets the high society of the city. Lucien dreams of going to Paris to conquer the glory. But if Paris is the city where he can find fame, it is also that of great disappointments.
bee
The Thunder of God
Title: The Thunder of God
Character: Bricard, le ministre
Released: September 8, 1965
Type: Movie
Brassac is a drunken veterinarian who can't resist bringing home stray animals and humans. Lilli Palmer plays his long-suffering wife Marie. When he brings home the prostitute Simone, Brassac is not sure he is acting out of concern or lust. He beats up the pimp who comes looking for Simone, and Brassac is happy when she later falls in love with his neighbor, and they make Brassac a "grandfather."
bee
Rope Around the Neck
Title: Rope Around the Neck
Released: August 4, 1965
Type: Movie
Arthur can no longer stand married life. He wants to get rid of his wife and live with his mistress. In doing so, he makes a mistake and kills his mistress Clara. But did he really commit the crime? His wife is accused. Who killed Clara?
bee
The Great Spy Chase
Title: The Great Spy Chase
Character: Swiss colonel
Released: December 10, 1964
Type: Movie
A cold-war spy parody. After the death of an armaments manufacturer, an international group of spies is drawn into a high-stakes battle of wits to obtain the valuable military patents which have been inherited by the lovely widow.
bee
Blood on His Sword
Title: Blood on His Sword
Character: Comte Hesselin
Released: September 6, 1961
Type: Movie
Charles le Temeraire asks in marriage Jeanne de Beauvais, daughter of King Louis XI, wishing to get her valuable lands in dowry. The King is wise to this, and since his daughter does not feel inclined to accept, he refuses. Charles sets up a plan to abduct the prince, in a way that the suspicions will fall upon Robert de Neuville, a noble enamoured of the princess. Robert manages to free her from the castle where she was being kept. Charles keeps setting traps, and managing people to perjure against Jeanne, and the King himself. Finally, Jeanne escapes alive from a pack of wolves, who set watching the lady alone in the snow covered woods, instead of attacking her. Charles does yet accuse her of being a witch - wishing to have her dead rather than being the wife of Robert... Robert will be her champion in a Judgement of God. Will the 'miracle of the wolfs' repeat itself, or fearless Charles defeat Robert in the sword duel?
bee
The President
Title: The President
Character: Jussieu, un parlementaire
Released: March 1, 1961
Type: Movie
Aged 73, the former President of the French Council Émile Beaufort still plays a central role in the political life of the country. Writing his memoirs allows him to look back on his career and discuss his relationships with Philippe Chamalont, about to become President of the Council.
bee
The Truth
Title: The Truth
Character: Le professeur
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.
bee
Liberty Bar
Title: Liberty Bar
Character: Commissaire Maigret
Released: June 19, 1960
Type: Movie
Superintendent Maigret is sent to Antibes to elucidate the murder of William Brown, a rich Australian who regularly disappeared to indulge in formidable drinking binges. In his footsteps, Maigret makes the rounds of bars until discovering the Liberty Bar, its welcoming patroness La Grosse Jaja and its equivocal clientele. It is without a doubt here that the key to the murder is to be found.
bee
The Crab Basket
Title: The Crab Basket
Character: The professor
Released: May 20, 1960
Type: Movie
Charles is a student in Strasbourg. Abandoned by Liliane, his fiancée, who has inexplicably given up on marriage, he moves to Paris, where he decides to pursue a career in cinema. He founded a film club and became a journalist, then assistant to a famous director. Little by little, he came face to face with the various compromises inherent in this professional milieu. After writing a screenplay about his experiences, he enlists the help of Chantal, a young actress, to bring his film project to fruition.
bee
Tonight We Kill
Title: Tonight We Kill
Character: Interpol Man
Released: September 15, 1959
Type: Movie
In Antwerp, Belgium, in 1959, a succession of Interpol agents are gunned down without obtaining what they're looking for: a list of all the influential crooks. Only one remains, Larry Laine, who is about to show them what he's made of.
bee
The Coin
Title: The Coin
Character: Le juge
Released: July 1, 1959
Type: Movie
Bob recruits Jacques, a desperate blacksmith, to "recover" smuggled diamonds from de Belar. The heist goes badly wrong. The crooks kill each other for the money, but the diamonds are gone and Jacques returns to his life as an honest man.
bee
End of Desire
Title: End of Desire
Character: Monsieur Dandieu
Released: September 24, 1958
Type: Movie
Normandy, second half of the nineteenth century. Jeanne Dandieu lives in a manor house with her parents and their servant Rosalie. She gets to know Julien, a handsome man, whom she soon marries. Her happiness is short-lived as she finds out that not only has Julien married her for her money but he cheats on her as well, with Rosalie to crown it all.
bee
Women's Prison
Title: Women's Prison
Released: July 15, 1958
Type: Movie
Alice Rémon, a pharmacist, is a prostitute who managed to leave the streets by getting married. Her husband dies one day, poisoned. Her mother-in-law, who hates her, accuses her of murder.
bee
Les Misérables
Title: Les Misérables
Character: Le préfet
Released: March 12, 1958
Type: Movie
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
bee
Les Violents
Title: Les Violents
Character: Me Rodier
Released: January 10, 1958
Type: Movie
Pierre Tercelin who used to be a prosperous industrialist is now ruined and embittered, having become a mere lock keeper. A widower, he lives with his daughter Evelyne, a music-hall dancer. Claiming he is being persecuted by his cousin Edgar he gets in touch again with another cousin of his he hates, Bernard, a millionaire gun runner,who is also a victim of Edgar. It must be said that both Pierre and Bernard once caused Edgar to go bankrupt... Pierre offers Bernard to join efforts against Edgar. Soon after, Bernard dies of poison, which is only the first of a series of acts of violence. Tiercelin is shot at while going back home, Bernard's son is gunned down while his sister Luciane disappears. Chief-inspector Malouvier - who oddly enough looks very much like the suspect- investigates....
bee
To Catch a Spy
Title: To Catch a Spy
Character: Colonel
Released: March 15, 1957
Type: Movie
The blueprints of an aeroplane built from an ultra-secret metal are stolen from national security. French secret service agent Walder believes that the documents are now in Switzerland, in the hands of a man named Lindbaum. The latter agrees to hand over the blueprints in return for a large sum of money. Another agent, Francis Coplan, is sent to Switzerland to handle the deal, but Lindbaum only has half of the documents because he was double-crossed by Kalpannen, an international crook. With the help of Heidi, a Swiss correspondent, Coplan sets out to identify the members of Kalpannen’s gang, only to find that they have all been murdered…
bee
Michael Strogoff
Title: Michael Strogoff
Character: Czar Alexander II
Released: December 14, 1956
Type: Movie
When Emir Feofar Khan, leader of the Tartar hordes, takes up arms and invades the steppes of Eastern Siberia, Czar Alexander II of Russia entrusts the brave officer Michael Strogoff with a dangerous mission.
bee
Mémoires d'un flic
Title: Mémoires d'un flic
Character: President of the Court
Released: December 27, 1955
Type: Movie
In Marseille, crime squad captain Dominique fights against racketeers and tries to put a young man back on the right track.
bee
Série noire
Title: Série noire
Character: Le commissaire Lefranc
Released: March 4, 1955
Type: Movie
Léo Fardier is a police inspector who goes to prison undercover as a convict. He shares a cell with Mariani, a Corsican mafioso, whose trust he earns. The day Léo leaves prison, the criminal entrusts him with a letter to deliver to his estranged wife. He finds her, and she falls under his spell. The problem is that he, too, has fallen in love with her.
bee
Queen Margot
Title: Queen Margot
Character: L'amiral de Coligny
Released: November 25, 1954
Type: Movie
Marguerite de Valois, daughter of Catherine de Médicis, celebrates her wedding with Henri de Navarre. Officially, it's a rapprochement between the League and the Huguenots. In fact, it was an opportunity to bring all the Huguenots to Paris and kill them all at once. King Charles IX fails in his attempt on Coligny's life. Queen Margot tries to save her husband from the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre by preventing the annulment of his marriage, forcing Henri to share her bed. Two knights from opposing camps are wounded and, saved în extremis, are hidden together by the queen and her cousin. Margot falls in love with one of them, but has to run to warn her husband of a new attack and cannot prevent the two knights from being beheaded.
bee
The Beautiful Otero
Title: The Beautiful Otero
Character: Directeur du Café
Released: November 4, 1954
Type: Movie
An Italo-French biopic about one of the most famous women of Belle Époque, Spanish-born dancer and actress, star of Folies-Bèrgere: Carolina Otero.
bee
Royal Affairs in Versailles
Title: Royal Affairs in Versailles
Character: Louis XIII
Released: February 10, 1954
Type: Movie
Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours, and those of his two successors, are followed in more detail to the start of the Revolution, after which the story is brought rapidly up to date. A huge cast plays mainly historical persons who appear briefly.
bee
The Three Musketeers
Title: The Three Musketeers
Character: Louis XIII
Released: October 7, 1953
Type: Movie
The umpteenth adaptation of Dumas' novel finds d'Artagnan and his friends promoting the love affairs of Anne of Austria and the Duke of Buckingham, incurring the wrath of the Cardinal and exposing themselves to the cold cruelty of Milady de Winter. Also featured are the tender Mme Bonacieux, the hilarious Planchet, the Queen's ferrets and Bethune's executioner, against a backdrop of clanging swords.
bee
Mandat d'amener
Title: Mandat d'amener
Released: August 2, 1953
Type: Movie
Appointed public prosecutor in a small provincial town, Gérard Latour befriends Delanglade, whose young wife becomes his mistress. Shortly afterwards, a fire ravages Delanglade's factory. During the ensuing investigation, the Public Prosecutor discovers the troubled past of the industrialist and his front man, Jacques Perthuis, an ex-convict. They themselves set fire to the factory to collect the insurance premium. Gérard Latour, suspecting his mistress of complicity in her husband's machinations, leaves her after a stormy argument.
bee
Imperial Violets
Title: Imperial Violets
Character: Napoleón III
Released: December 12, 1952
Type: Movie
Violeta, an Andalusian gypsy, foretells a lady she will become empress. The lady is Eugenia de Montijo, and when she marries emperor Luis Napoleón of France she takes the young girl with her. The empress'cousin readily makes her his focus of attention, then she discovers a criminal attempt against the empress.
bee
The Happiest of Men
Title: The Happiest of Men
Character: Valise
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.
bee
We Are All Murderers
Title: We Are All Murderers
Character: L'avocat du tribunal pour enfants
Released: May 21, 1952
Type: Movie
Originally titled Nous Sommes Tout des Assassins, We Are All Murderers was directed by Andre Cayette, a former lawyer who detested France's execution system. Charles Spaak's screenplay makes no attempt to launder the four principal characters (Marcel Mouloudji, Raymond Pellegrin, Antoinine Balpetre, Julien Verdeir): never mind the motivations, these are all hardened murderers. Still, the film condemns the sadistic ritual through which these four men are brought to the guillotine. In France, the policy is to never tell the condemned man when the execution will occur--and then to show up without warning and drag the victim kicking and screaming to his doom, without any opportunity to make peace with himself or his Maker. By the end of this harrowing film, the audience feels as dehumanized as the four "protagonists." We Are All Murderers was roundly roasted by the French law enforcement establishment, but it won a special jury prize at the 1952 Cannes Film Festival.
bee
Thirst of Men
Title: Thirst of Men
Released: March 31, 1950
Type: Movie
The establishment of a French family who came to cultivate vines in Algeria.
bee
Suzanne and Her Brigands
Title: Suzanne and Her Brigands
Released: June 15, 1949
Type: Movie
Suzanne is a lawyer, she's just got her degree and she is married to a cop. We follow her through three investigations.
bee
Les paysans noirs
Title: Les paysans noirs
Released: May 6, 1949
Type: Movie
Guillon, a young administrator is appointed by the French government in Ivory Coast to replace the former one, who has been assassinated. He is soon confronted to a caste oppressing the local peasants. By joining forces with the doctor and engineer he manages to restore calm. The oppressors then try terror. But the administrator refuses to be intimidated, and with the support of the natives, will be able to avenge the former administrator.
bee
Télévision, œil de demain
Title: Télévision, œil de demain
Released: January 1, 1947
Type: Movie
Télévision, oeil de demain predicted smartphones and video calling. The film was based on a premise from the science fiction author René Barjavel, called Cinema Total, 1944.
bee
Little Nothings
Title: Little Nothings
Released: December 16, 1942
Type: Movie
Following a broadcast on the radio, each of the listeners remembers these "little nothings" (the title is borrowed from a play by Mozart), which have often changed their lives. Each of these stories told will prove that a tiny detail in life can change an entire destiny.