Michel Jonasz

Michel Jonasz

Born: January 21, 1947
in Drancy, Seine-Saint-Denis, France
Michel Jonasz (born 21 January 1947 in Drancy, France) is a French composer-songwriter, singer and actor. His compositions include: La boîte de jazz, Joueurs de blues and Les vacances au bord de la mer.

Born of Hungarian immigrant parents, Michel Jonasz left school at the age of 15 to find his way in the arts. Painting, theatre and music interested him, but he began his artistic career as a pianist. After working with both Vigon and The Lemons, in 1966 he created the band King Set with his friend, the guitarist Alain Goldstein.

Two radio successes made his voice and his talent for rhythm known: an original composition, Apesanteur (Weightlessness), in 1967, and Jezebel in 1968.

His solo career began slowly with a single ("45t") at the end of 1968 under the name of Michel Kingset, the next in 1970 under his own name. He had to wait until 1974 to find a large audience with two simultaneous hits ("tubes"): Dites-Moi and Super Nana.

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Movies for Michel Jonasz...

Title: Le Négociateur
Character: Papy Cathou
Released: March 25, 2024
Type: TV
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Double foyer
Title: Double foyer
Character: Jacques
Released: February 21, 2024
Type: Movie
Lili and Simon are in love. They don't live together but are loving it. And then, here comes Abel, the fruit of their love. And then, the mishaps of life which, someday, will call their way of life into question.
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Oldies But Goodies
Title: Oldies But Goodies
Character: Albert
Released: February 14, 2024
Type: Movie
As the Lino Vartan shelter, which takes orphans and seniors in, has to shut down for health issues, Milann has no choice but to accept the invitation of a retirement home in the south of France.
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Tous les chanteurs s'appellent Michel
Title: Tous les chanteurs s'appellent Michel
Released: April 22, 2023
Type: Movie
Documentary on popular French singers spanning over three decades (60s, 70s, 80s).
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Rendez-vous avec le crime
Title: Rendez-vous avec le crime
Character: Joseph
Released: December 20, 2022
Type: Movie
When Samson Brion, an undercover cop, arrives in his native village in the depths of Brittany, fifteen years after having abruptly left it, most of the inhabitants see this return in a very bad light. Notably Lila Sept-Vents, an impetuous native entrepreneur, who is trying to save her online dating agency from bankruptcy. When a series of suspicious deaths strikes this quiet village, and Lila discovers that all the victims were clients of her agency, having a cop under her roof could prove invaluable.
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Alain Souchon - One Day, One Fate
Title: Alain Souchon - One Day, One Fate
Character: Self
Released: October 1, 2022
Type: Movie
Alain Souchon has never been able to be as it should be and that has long saddened him. His failures in the baccalaureate and in the competitions to become a steward or postman opened up another path for him. Inspired by the music of Laurent Voulzy, he used the words that floated in his head and became the poet of life. This mixture of sweet melancholy and humor, his imagination and his sense of observation, this strong bond with the public have given him, in fifty years of career, a special place in the French musical landscape. It is his story and his repertoire filled with hits that his relatives, friends and musicians reveal here, including his sons Pierre and Charles, Laurent Voulzy, Michel Jonasz, Louis Chedid, Thierry Lhermitte, but also Jane Birkin, Vincent Delerm and Edward Baer.
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Ces chansons de nos vacances
Title: Ces chansons de nos vacances
Character: Self
Released: September 2, 2022
Type: Movie
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Title: Seeds of Change
Character: Maire de Buis
Released: August 29, 2022
Type: TV
Provence, 1847. The son of a wealthy landowner in the south of France, Jean-Baptiste, loses his mother in a tragic accident. His truculent father, who was always envious of his son and his relationship with his mother, takes a harlot he met a few months earlier as his new bride. Soon after, Jean-Baptiste is falsely accused by his "stepmother" of trying to take advantage of her. In disgust, his father banishes him forever from the family home. Jean-Baptiste's only solution is to live with Blanche, his mother's sister, in the mountains.
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À mon tour
Title: À mon tour
Character: Ferdinand Moreno
Released: January 4, 2022
Type: Movie
Chateauneuf-sur-Valone, Mayor Félix de Ponte is preparing for his re-election, hoping to beat the far-right candidate Jean-Luc Molment Martinez. But when a video revealing his extra-marital affair is broadcast on the networks, Félix's life will be turned upside down. Devastated, betrayed and humiliated, his wife, Rose, decides to react and runs against him in the elections.
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Chroniques de l'âge tendre
Title: Chroniques de l'âge tendre
Character: Self
Released: October 7, 2021
Type: Movie
This document proposes an immersion in the French society of the 60s and 70s and in the youth of the time with the testimonies and confidences of Sheila, Salvatore Adamo, Antoine, Hervé Vilard, Michel Fugain, Nicoletta, Michel Jonasz, Laurent Voulzy and the photographer Tony Frank. They tell with hindsight and humor, their beginnings in the 60s and 70s, and before becoming idols. It is also an opportunity to leaf through the pages of the successful magazines of the time "Salut les copains" and "Mademoiselle Age tendre". Created by Daniel Filipacchi, they highlighted the idols of the moment, music, fashion, sexuality, consumer objects and questions about society.
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Bad Seeds
Title: Bad Seeds
Character: Gaidz Bogossian
Released: February 7, 2021
Type: Movie
Jean Bogossian has set up a reorientation center in a small village, his ambition being to save young petty criminals from ending up like he did, in the wrong place at the wrong time. He'll do all he can to get them back on the right path.
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Title: He Even Has Your Eyes
Character: M. Vidal
Released: February 12, 2020
Type: TV
When Sali and Paul Aloka, a Black couple, adopted Benjamin, their white son, they knew they were heading into unchartered territory, right until the day Benjamin announces he wants to meet his birth parents.
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The Vets
Title: The Vets
Character: Michel
Released: November 4, 2019
Type: Movie
In the heart of Morvan, Nico, the last vet in the area, struggles to save his patients, his clinic, and his family. When Michel, his partner and mentor, announces his retirement, Nico knows that the hard part is yet to come. "Don't worry, I've found the next generation" Except that ... The next generation is Alexandra, a 24-hour graduate, brilliant, misanthropic, and not at all willing to return to bury herself in the village of her childhood. Will Nico manage to make her stay?
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The Swallows of Kabul
Title: The Swallows of Kabul
Character: Professeur Arash Bayazid (voice)
Released: September 4, 2019
Type: Movie
Summer 1998—Kabul under Taliban rule. Zunaira and Mohsen are young and in love. Despite the daily violence and misery, they hope for a better future. One day, a foolish gesture causes life to take an irrevocable turn.
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Vagabondes
Title: Vagabondes
Released: August 24, 2019
Type: Movie
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Roxane
Title: Roxane
Character: Kerborgne father
Released: June 12, 2019
Type: Movie
What does Cyrano de Bergerac do at a chicken farmer? This is the problem of Raymond, who has always kept his passion for the theater hidden. But when he is threatened with bankruptcy, he decides to try everything for the whole.
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In Her Hands
Title: In Her Hands
Character: Monsieur Jacques
Released: December 26, 2018
Type: Movie
A young man from a modest family gets the chance of a lifetime to reveal his hidden talent for piano but can he find the strength and courage to live up to the challenge?
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Murder on Omaha Beach
Title: Murder on Omaha Beach
Character: Robert Gentil
Released: October 20, 2018
Type: Movie
Captain Eloïse Gentil, of Caen police, hasn't been on speaking terms with her father Robert, an expert on WWII, for twenty years. But the two are brought together to investigate the death of James Crawley, a 91 year-old former GI, found tied to a pole and in his uniform, apparently executed "as an example".
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Let It Snow
Title: Let It Snow
Character: M. Morgeot
Released: December 13, 2017
Type: Movie
Jean-Gabriel intends to spend Christmas in the mountains quietly with his family. Many unforeseen events occur, but Jean-Gabriel will do everything to overcome them...
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Baby Phone
Title: Baby Phone
Character: Hubert
Released: March 8, 2017
Type: Movie
During a dinner, the revelations made through the baby-phone of a child's room will create a real cataclysm within a family and a group of friends ...
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He Even Has Your Eyes
Title: He Even Has Your Eyes
Character: Charles Vidal
Released: January 18, 2017
Type: Movie
Paul is married to Sali. Everything would be fine if they could get a child. Until the day when Sali receives the call that they have been waiting for so long: their adoption file is approved. He is adorable, he is 6 months old, his name is Benjamin. He is blond with blue eyes and white. They - are black.
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The Eiffel Tower Mystery
Title: The Eiffel Tower Mystery
Character: Gustave Eiffel
Released: April 19, 2016
Type: Movie
The daughter of one of the architects who built the Eiffel Tower gets framed for a murder that has taken place there, so she and her girlfriend embark on a quest across Paris to solve the mystery.
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Dieumerci !
Title: Dieumerci !
Character: Daniel
Released: March 9, 2016
Type: Movie
A 44 year old guy gets out of jail and wants to become an actor.
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Title: Lebowitz vs Lebowitz
Character: Georges Warnier
Released: March 2, 2016
Type: TV
Paule is a brilliant 50-year-old lawyer who has dedicated her life to the firm she created with her ex-husband, Simon Lebowitz. Her life changes the day she discovers that Simon has secretly remarried with Irene, a partner of 20 years younger than she had recruited herself. And when Simon died suddenly of a heart attack, Paule and Irene found themselves inevitably bound to lead the Lebowitz cabinet. Two big rivals. A proper chignon crepe to get their share of Simon's legacy.
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Family Business
Title: Family Business
Character: René Perez
Released: December 3, 2014
Type: Movie
Brothers Yvan and Max are total opposites. One is a hypochondriac; the other, a carefree optimist. Their little sister Hélène suffers from kidney problems and urgently needs a transplant. Both are called upon but only one will be chosen.
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The Law
Title: The Law
Character: Gaston Defferre
Released: November 26, 2014
Type: Movie
Directed by French Director Christian Faure and released in 2014, The Law brilliantly traces three days, in late Fall 1974, of stormy debate in the French National Assembly, around a bill which would make "voluntary termination of pregnancy" legal. Behind this bill stands a lone woman brilliantly played by a remarkable Emmanuelle Devos (also in The Other Son): Simone Veil the Minister of Health in the Jacques Chirac government during the presidency of Valéry Giscard d'Estaing. During these three days of violent debate Veil, a Jew and Holocaust survivor, is spared nothing: political negotiations, solitude, sparring arguments, insults and violence to her family. In spite of all of this, Veil never wavers.
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ADN, l'âme de la terre
Title: ADN, l'âme de la terre
Character: Yacim
Released: September 10, 2014
Type: Movie
Akim is a young uneducated Tunisian born with the gift of healing. Confronted by an unscrupulous pharmaceutical company who seeks to profit from his gift, Akim realizes that his unique blood chemistry can either be used as a weapon of mass destruction or to help save his people from a global pandemic.
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Title: Murders in...
Character: Constantin Ravel
Released: April 23, 2013
Type: TV
Murders in... is a collection of French-Belgian police TV movies taking place each time in a different French city and region.
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Les pieds dans le plat
Title: Les pieds dans le plat
Character: Maurice Benhaim
Released: July 24, 2012
Type: Movie
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Title: Our dear neighbors
Character: Alex's Father
Released: June 4, 2012
Type: TV
Large family or recomposed, teenagers tortured by their hormones, mothers overwhelmed family, students and party rascals, pretty sexy neighbor, retired always on the lookout for a gossip ... Life and relations - sometimes friendly, sometimes tense , but always funny of a band of neighbors who cross every day, like millions of French ... In front of the landing, in the elevator, while leaving the garbage cans or leaving to work ...
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Title: Clash
Character: Yvan Sebag, père d'Olivia
Released: May 9, 2012
Type: TV
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J'étais à Nüremberg
Title: J'étais à Nüremberg
Character: François Bloch
Released: November 15, 2011
Type: Movie
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Title: L'Homme de la situation
Character: Charles Beaumont
Released: September 15, 2011
Type: TV
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Title: Mystère à Paris
Character: Gustave Eiffel
Released: June 10, 2011
Type: TV
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La Résidence
Title: La Résidence
Character: Martial Node
Released: May 24, 2011
Type: Movie
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Un excellent dossier !
Title: Un excellent dossier !
Released: May 6, 2010
Type: Movie
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Fais danser la poussière
Title: Fais danser la poussière
Character: Camille
Released: February 9, 2010
Type: Movie
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The First Star
Title: The First Star
Character: Monsieur Morgeot
Released: March 25, 2009
Type: Movie
A married father of three, lives in Créteil doing odd jobs and spends his time at the local PMU bar. One day, to please his daughter, he promises a little too quick to take the whole family on vacation to ski. The only problem: if he breaks his promise, his wife will divorce him.
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Michel Jonasz : Trio
Title: Michel Jonasz : Trio
Released: January 1, 2009
Type: Movie
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Behind the Walls
Title: Behind the Walls
Character: Director - Institution of Supervised Education
Released: April 30, 2008
Type: Movie
A young runaway rejects society's condemnation and dares to fulfill his dreams. France, 1930s. 14-year-old orphan Yves Tréguier sees the world through the bars of "educational homes" where he is raised in conditions worthy of a penal colony, and dreams of a dramatic escape across the ocean to New York.
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Two Lives Plus One
Title: Two Lives Plus One
Character: Guidalé
Released: October 17, 2007
Type: Movie
Everyone knows that Eliane Weiss is dedicated in everything she does, from her husband, to her daughter and pupils. But not everyone knows that she longs for more - more time for her, more fun, more thrills. So when she decides to start working on her passion, writing, and incidentally meets an attractive publisher, everyone is taken by surprise. As their seemingly perfect life starts to fall apart, everyone will have to readjust to the new Eliane Weiss.
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Agathe contre Agathe
Title: Agathe contre Agathe
Character: Alexis
Released: February 3, 2007
Type: Movie
Agathe is turning 30 and has finished her thesis on secret societies in France. A young woman is found dead in the Seine, murdered for a specific ritual. She is an image of Agathe, has the same first name and is similarly dressed. The traces lead to one of the secret societies this included in Agathe's study.
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The Valet
Title: The Valet
Character: André Pignon
Released: March 29, 2006
Type: Movie
Caught by tabloid paparazzi with his mistress Elena, a famous and beautiful fashion model, billionaire Pierre Levasseur tries to avoid a divorce by inventing a preposterous lie. He uses the presence of a passerby in the photo to claim to his wife that it's not him Elena is seeing but the other man, one François Pignon. Pignon is a modest little man who works as a parking valet. To make the story convincing, Elena has to move in with Pignon.
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Nina's House
Title: Nina's House
Character: The generous donor
Released: October 12, 2005
Type: Movie
Starting in 1944 in the wake of the Liberation and continuing into the '60s, 'houses of hope' were established to lend a semblance of continuity to youngsters orpahaned by the war. Nina's Home takes place between September 1944 and January 1946 in an orphanage housed in a chateau outside Paris. At the outset, the country residence is run by Nina who has a core population of French Jewish children whose parents are probably dead. Food is scarce. News of the Concentration Camps hasn't hit yet, but some months later, a contingent of youths arrive form the liberated camps. The children are a disparate, wild, damaged group and conflicts ensue. Nina's challenge is to help them make their first delicate moves toward the future and in the process restore all of them, including herself, to life.
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A Love to Hide
Title: A Love to Hide
Character: Armand Lavandier
Released: March 7, 2005
Type: Movie
A young Jewish girl, Sara, is looking to escape the clutches of the Third Reich after seeing her parents and sister brutally slain by a smuggler who betrayed them while attempting to escape to England. Terrified, she is sheltered by her childhood friend Jean, a homosexual in a clandestine relationship with his lover Philippe.
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Le Triporteur de Belleville
Title: Le Triporteur de Belleville
Character: Elie Leïzer
Released: February 28, 2005
Type: Movie
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Title: Le Triporteur de Belleville
Character: Elie Leïzer
Released: February 28, 2005
Type: TV
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The Rashevski Tango
Title: The Rashevski Tango
Character: Simon Rashevski
Released: September 3, 2003
Type: Movie
Adolphe 'Dolfo' Rashevski travels to Israel with grandson Ric, but his brother, orthodox rabbi Samuel 'Shmouel, refuses to come attend their fellow Auschwitz survivor sister Rosa's funeral. Back in their home, the whole well-integrated family and their 'gojim' (non-Jewish and would-be) partners regularly wrestle with the meaning of Jewish blood, traditions and religion. For one it seems the way to gain a wife, for others the bomb under or the obstacle for a marriage. Yet love tends to conquer all but death.
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Lisa
Title: Lisa
Character: Benjamin
Released: January 9, 2001
Type: Movie
Stumbling across an uncompleted 1939 film called "Princess Marushka", filmmaker Sam becomes intrigued with the young actor Sylvain Marceau, who last appeared in the film. Hoping to discover the mystery behind Sylvain's disappearance, Sam decides to make a documentary and sets off to interview those who knew Sylvain, including elderly Lisa Morain. Through her interview, Sam learns the story of Lisa and Sylvain's doomed love affair on the eve of World War II.
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Fugues
Title: Fugues
Character: Tremblay
Released: April 19, 2000
Type: Movie
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One 4 All
Title: One 4 All
Character: Le passager sympathique
Released: December 29, 1999
Type: Movie
Olivia, Irina and Masha are improving their acting skills. They no longer believe in Prince Charming, and their career is waning. Olivia works at the front desk at the airport and offers a wonderful plan: he would do so that friends will be aboard the Paris - New York plane and will sit next to wealthy men. Their task is to seduce the rich and pull them out of money. But the fraudsters do not suspect that Comissaire Bayard and his young assistant are closely watching them...
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Babel
Title: Babel
Character: Patrick Carat
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
An elaborate fantasy tale intended for family audiences, Babel tells the story of the Babels, a strange breed of four-foot-tall creatures who once coexisted happily with human beings on planet Earth. However, when the humans built a huge tower to taunt God, he became angry and drove the Babels underground, while scattering the humans to the corners of the Earth and giving them different languages to keep them separate. Thousands of years later, three Babels are searching underground for the Babel Stone presented to them by God when they lose the map -- which is soon snapped up by a dog, who presents it to his master, an advertising man named Patrick. The Babels are desperate to recover the map, and they recruit Patrick's son David to help them find it (and the Babel Stone) before the evil Nemrod can steal the stone and claim its powers.
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Title: Vivement dimanche
Character: Self
Released: September 20, 1998
Type: TV
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Michel Jonasz au Zénith
Title: Michel Jonasz au Zénith
Released: May 20, 1993
Type: Movie
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Title: Zone interdite
Character: Self
Released: March 7, 1993
Type: TV
The zone interdite refers to two distinct territories established in German-occupied France during the Second World War after the signature of the Second Armistice at Compiègne.
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Le Testament d'un poète juif assassiné
Title: Le Testament d'un poète juif assassiné
Character: Paltiel Kossover
Released: February 26, 1988
Type: Movie
This somber drama chronicles the writings of Paltiel Kossover (Michel Jonasz), a Rumanian Jew who was incarcerated in a Stalinist prison. Zupanev (Erland Josephson) is a sympathetic court registrar who smuggles the documents and later presents them to the poet's son Grisha (Vincent David).
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Title: Victoires de la musique
Character: (Musical Show of the Year)
Released: November 23, 1985
Type: TV
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Title: Victoires de la musique
Character: Self
Released: November 23, 1985
Type: TV
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Title: Victoires de la musique
Character: Self (Male Artist & Song of the Year)
Released: November 23, 1985
Type: TV
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Fire on Sight
Title: Fire on Sight
Released: September 5, 1984
Type: Movie
Inept policemen try to stop an amoral young duo on a spree of robbery and murder in France.
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Qu'est-ce qui fait courir David ?
Title: Qu'est-ce qui fait courir David ?
Character: Simon
Released: June 5, 1982
Type: Movie
David, a Jewish filmmaker in his thirties, is working on a screenplay with autobiographical overtones. His girlfriend, Anna, with whom he lives, finds his story very narcissistic.
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Title: Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 1982
Type: TV
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Title: Collaro Show
Character: Self
Released: October 6, 1979
Type: TV
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Title: Numéro un
Character: Self
Released: April 5, 1975
Type: TV
A French variety show.
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Title: Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 1975
Type: TV
A talk show presented by Michel Drucker
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Title: Midi Première
Character: Self
Released: January 6, 1975
Type: TV
Midi Première is a French variety show presented by Danièle Gilbert, directed by Jacques Pierre and broadcast from January 6, 1975 until January 1, 1982 on TF1. The program was generally broadcast between 12:15 p.m. and 12:55 p.m., then giving way to the 1:00 p.m. TV news. However, the broadcast schedule could change, depending on the guests, and the setting where the recording of the program was shot. Certain performances by artists who have become cult like the one where Ringo jostles with a demonstrator in interpretation (1977), that of Dalida with the title There is always a song with the soundtrack that does not start, twice, at the right speed (1978), Claude François and his Clodettes, who, in the provinces, are unable to join "the set" in order to interpret his song, the latter being taken by the crowd of delirious fans (summer 1977) . The group Supertramp performed there with the title "Dreamer" on March 8, 1975.
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Title: Midi trente
Character: Self
Released: March 6, 1972
Type: TV
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Title: Le Grand Échiquier
Character: Self - Main Guest
Released: January 12, 1972
Type: TV
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Title: Le Grand Échiquier
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 1972
Type: TV
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Hyacinthe
Title: Hyacinthe
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie