Christian Duvaleix

Christian Duvaleix

Born: March 13, 1923
Died: July 28, 1979
in Tunis, Tunisia
Christian Duvaleix (1923–1979) was a French stage and film actor. He was born in Tunis which was then part of French Tunisia. He was a character actor appearing in a number of supporting roles. He was one of the members of the acting troupe Branquignols.

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The Fabulous Adventures of the Legendary Baron Munchausen
Title: The Fabulous Adventures of the Legendary Baron Munchausen
Character: Jécoute (Voice)
Released: October 24, 1979
Type: Movie
The Fabulous Adventures of the legendary Baron Munchausen is a French animated feature from Jean Image of 1978, inspired by the adventures of Baron Munchausen. Baron Munchausen is wont to bring his friends to tell them about his imaginary exploits.
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Parisian Life
Title: Parisian Life
Character: Frick
Released: December 14, 1977
Type: Movie
Two young Parisians, Raoul de Gardefeu and Bobinet, are in love with Metella, a beautiful young woman aspiring to high society. Metella rejects them both in favour of a richer and older man.
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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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Shut Up, Gulli
Title: Shut Up, Gulli
Character: Mother Kenavec
Released: October 30, 1974
Type: Movie
A TV channel organizes a super-8 competition, and Kenavec family decides to film their small village in Brittany.
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No Pockets in a Shroud
Title: No Pockets in a Shroud
Character: Jo
Released: October 25, 1974
Type: Movie
In the newspaper he has just founded, journalist Dolannes exposes all the wheeling and dealing and scandals that go on in his town. But the day he exposes the socialist mayor's homosexual crime, he is shot dead by an unknown assailant in a cul-de-sac just before the paper is due to appear.
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Bedmania
Title: Bedmania
Character: L'évadé #1
Released: April 2, 1974
Type: Movie
A large bed recounts stories from its brief existence. Clumsy burglars, adulterated husbands and wives, homosexuals, lesbians, a lady, and her gigolo, a doctor who tries an erotic measurement machine on his assistant.
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Title: Le Grand Échiquier
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 1972
Type: TV
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Promise at Dawn
Title: Promise at Dawn
Character: Hotel Manager
Released: November 25, 1970
Type: Movie
A single mother raises her son in impossible circumstances first in Leningrad, then Krakow, and then France, and is over-ambitious about him but never gives in.
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Solo
Title: Solo
Character: L'inspecteur Larrighi
Released: February 27, 1970
Type: Movie
During an orgy, Some old and wealthy notables are being murdered by a small group of leftist young revolutionaries. Very soon the police are tracking down Virgile Cabral, the leader of the group. Meanwhile, Virgile's brother and only relative, Vincent, a violinist (and a thief), comes back to Paris. They have not seen each other for three years. Vincent does not believe in the revolution. He only tries to live as he wishes to live. But by looking for his hunted down brother, he has no other choice than to be involved in a fight that is not his.
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Isadora
Title: Isadora
Character: Armand
Released: September 14, 1968
Type: Movie
A biography of the dancer Isadora Duncan, the 1920s dancer who forever changed people's ideas of ballet. Her nude, semi-nude, and pro-Soviet dance projects as well as her attitudes on free love, debt, dress, and lifestyle shocked the public of her time.
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Paris When It Sizzles
Title: Paris When It Sizzles
Character: Maitre d'Hotel
Released: March 16, 1964
Type: Movie
Hollywood producer Alexander Meyerheimer has hired drunken writer Richard Benson to write his latest movie. Benson has been holed up in a Paris apartment supposedly working on the script for months, but instead has spent the time living it up. Benson now has just two days to the deadline and thus hires a temporary secretary, Gabrielle Simpson, to help him complete it in time.
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The American Beauty
Title: The American Beauty
Character: Le curé
Released: September 29, 1961
Type: Movie
Marcel, a simple-minded factory worker, is tricked into buying a high-priced American convertable car by a widow determined not to let it fall into the hands of her late husband's secretary/secret lover. Once in pocession of the car, Marcel only encounters one bad luck episode after another with the excessive gasoline consumtion, his wife trying to sell it to make ammends meet, getting into traffic jams, accidently riding into a car wash with the top down, and more.
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A Couple
Title: A Couple
Character: Alex
Released: January 8, 1960
Type: Movie
After testing their love, Pierre and Anne decide to leave each other.
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Life Together
Title: Life Together
Character: Jean Pommier
Released: September 24, 1958
Type: Movie
The writer Pierre Carot became rich and famous with his book "Life as a Couple", which was based on the loving relationships of four couples. Now he's setting up his will and wants to leave his wealth to the couples among the four, which are still as deeply in love - if any: else, his companions get the money. He sends them out to visit the couples and test their love.
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King on Horseback
Title: King on Horseback
Character: Passelacet
Released: February 28, 1958
Type: Movie
Henri La Tour, a strolling player, is also a daring adventurer. So, when, after accomplishing a brilliant feat, he is awarded a title by King Louis XV, the Duke of Saint-Sever takes offense at it and challenges Henri to a duel. However, while they fight, a group of Austrian soldiers appear suddenly and the two rivals instantly unite to repel their enemies. Unfortunately, Saint-Sever is mortally wounded and, feeling he is about to die, he entreats his new friend to offer protection to Toinon, his natural daughter, whose life is being threatened...
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It Happened on the 36 Candles
Title: It Happened on the 36 Candles
Character: Self (uncredited)
Released: October 16, 1957
Type: Movie
Rejecting the union of her daughter Brigitte with a modest worker, Madame Magnin invents an adultery for the lover, then introduces Brigitte to a good-looking man working on the famous RTF entertainment show 36 Chandelles. The show ultimately seals the reunion of the two estranged young lovers. The story features a parade of music-hall stars from the era: Charles Trenet, Charles Aznavour, Georges Guétary, Juliette Gréco, Roger Pierre and Jean-Marc Thibault, Fernand Raynaud, Georges Ulmer and many more.
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Mademoiselle and Her Gang
Title: Mademoiselle and Her Gang
Released: July 11, 1957
Type: Movie
Author of the best-selling crime novel Le Poulet se mange froid (Chicken Eats Cold) under the pseudonym Sam O'Connor, Inspector Bourdieux's daughter, Agnès, is unwillingly drawn into the gangster ring by two small-minded young misfits, Dédé and Juju. She's not insensitive to the charms of M. Paul, a false kingpin who is in fact a son of a good family and a thrill-seeker. Planning a heist at the home of one of Paul's snobbish friends, she arrests the real Sam O'Connor, an escaped convict, with the help of her father. Then she and Paul confess their love for each other.
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Crazy in the Noodle
Title: Crazy in the Noodle
Released: May 14, 1957
Type: Movie
Pierre Cousin, a depressive compositor, wants to die. After five vain attempts at committing suicide, he decides to hire professional hit men to do the job on him. But as he's waiting for death, he accidentally saves a suicidal young woman's life... and falls in love. Having suddenly found a reason to live, he now fears the killers he himself hired. Is there still time to call off his contract?
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Dry Rot
Title: Dry Rot
Character: Polignac
Released: October 31, 1956
Type: Movie
Comedy about a trio of not particularly bright bookmakers who try to fix a horse race.
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Hello Smile!
Title: Hello Smile!
Character: lui-même
Released: February 29, 1956
Type: Movie
A small European Kingdom wants to make a frowning Princess smile for the upcoming Royal photo to be done. A mischievous Prime Minister goes to Paris to kidnap three famous comics to force them to do an act to make the Princess smile. However, the King is not aware of this scheme... especially that this evil minister has to face a "fasting strike" by the prisoners and force them to surrender by telling a recipe of "Coq au Vin" by the radio...
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The Pirates of the Bois du Bologne
Title: The Pirates of the Bois du Bologne
Character: Cyprien
Released: May 31, 1954
Type: Movie
Cyprien and his friends Hector Colomb and Annette are penniless and desperate. They need someone to take an interest in them. One day, they decide to become volunteer castaways. To build their raft, they sawed down trees in the Bois de Boulogne. With the support of Caroline Grossac and her mother, they were backed by M. Grossac, a comfortable businessman with a keen sense of publicity. Launched in Saint-Tropez, the raft made only a short crossing. Nevertheless, the new privateers are acclaimed, and the wilful shipwreck business is so successful that it makes Hector and Annette rich, while Cyprien marries Mlle Grossac.
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Saluti e baci
Title: Saluti e baci
Character: L'huissier Pellegrino
Released: August 13, 1953
Type: Movie
Carlo Mastelli, the young radio presenter of "New Voices" has run short of ideas and his program is likely to be suspended from the radio schedule if he does not find any new ones.
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To Hell with Virtue
Title: To Hell with Virtue
Character: Robert Crémieux
Released: July 16, 1953
Type: Movie
To conceal his nighttime infidelity from his wife Gisele, Pierre calls in a particularly shady private detective to concoct an alibi. He is introduced to a certain Robert Crémieux, who will pass himself off to Gisèle as a childhood friend with whom he spent the night until the early hours of the morning. The so-called childhood friend turns out to be a delinquent accused of burglary and rape on the very night he was supposed to be with Pierre. Pierre is immediately suspected of being his accomplice and, trapped by his own turpitude, arrested. Entangled in his lies and denials, he has to admit his infidelity to get out of the impasse.
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The Tour of the Grand Dukes
Title: The Tour of the Grand Dukes
Released: May 22, 1953
Type: Movie
Gaston is in love with Brigitte, daughter of the Baroness, who claims to have a lover. Gaston sets off for Paris, with 300,000 francs borrowed from the Baroness, to find his rival. He is robbed and forced to work in cabarets, where his father, his fiancée and the Baroness, not to mention the Curé, come looking for him. All ends well.
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The Tour of the Grand Dukes
Title: The Tour of the Grand Dukes
Character: Gaston Fromageot, le fils du notaire
Released: May 22, 1953
Type: Movie
Gaston is in love with Brigitte, daughter of the Baroness, who claims to have a lover. Gaston sets off for Paris, with 300,000 francs borrowed from the Baroness, to find his rival. He is robbed and forced to work in cabarets, where his father, his fiancée and the Baroness, not to mention the Curé, come looking for him. All ends well.
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Crazy for Love
Title: Crazy for Love
Character: Giroult, un autre journaliste, « représentant en crayons »
Released: November 7, 1952
Type: Movie
A comedy about a dimwitted man who must obtain a high-school diploma before he can inherit an inn.
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The King of the Bla Bla Bla
Title: The King of the Bla Bla Bla
Character: Moustique
Released: November 8, 1950
Type: Movie
Prosper Bourrache, who has the gift of the gab, is natural born street vendor. Due to a mistake he gets involved in the burglary of a shady banker's house. In fact, the whole operation is a setup. But Prosper will finally get away with it, have the crooked financier arrested and pinch his girlfriend away from him.
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We Will All Go to Paris
Title: We Will All Go to Paris
Character: Paul Chardon
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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Branquignol
Title: Branquignol
Character: Un branquignol
Released: December 16, 1949
Type: Movie
In this sketch comedy compared to the American film Hellzapoppin, a spectacle is put on to celebrate the wedding of a nobleman, but the results are disastrous.
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Dr. Laennec
Title: Dr. Laennec
Character: Le charlatan
Released: June 17, 1949
Type: Movie
Breton doctor René Laennec fights tooth and nail against consumption, all the more desperately as his brother Michaud has just died of it.
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The Cupid Club
Title: The Cupid Club
Character: Le photographe
Released: May 18, 1949
Type: Movie
Isabelle is a lawyer who has Flip, a private detective, convicted of speeding. But shortly after, a murder is committed of which Isabelle's best friend is suspected. To save her, Isabelle is forced, despite her reluctance, to ask Flip for help, who agrees to look for the culprit.
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Les Aventures des Pieds-Nickelés
Title: Les Aventures des Pieds-Nickelés
Character: A mobster
Released: February 1, 1948
Type: Movie
Sherlock Coco, famous detective, tries to thwart the machiavellian plans of the trio of shock. Croquignol, Ribouldingue and Filochard must be extra vigilant, but the profit motive is too strong. As a corollary, the famous pink diamond is also of interest to their legendary enemy, Jo Papillon. But always inventive, they will work out multiple scams and tricks to reach their goals.
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Mademoiselle Béatrice
Title: Mademoiselle Béatrice
Character: (uncredited)
Released: May 19, 1943
Type: Movie
A law student passed his exam in his first B.A. year in Paris ;he is in love with a girl who is not from the bourgeoisie and the boy is afraid his father might not approve of their union.
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At Your Command, Madam
Title: At Your Command, Madam
Character: Le groom (uncredited)
Released: October 16, 1942
Type: Movie
Hector and Odette Dupuis' car breaks down in the middle of nowhere, but not far from a luxury hotel. The couple are well off but, being miserly, Odette is determined to keep her budget tight. Fortunately for her, the hotel offers rooms for domestics costing only 35 francs, so she decides to pass her husband as her chauffeur. As far as she is concerned, Odette presents herself as Baroness de Garches and takes a 250 franc room. But their stay soon becomes complicated. For instance, Palureau, a widower with five daughters who is planning to remarry, starts courting the 'baroness'. And that is not all since at the same time Angèle, a chambermaid, makes advances to Hector ! To make matters worse, Ferdinand, Angèle's boyfriend, decides to get even with Hector, his 'rival'. The jealous guy steals a jewel from a guest and has poor Hector accused of the theft.
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Her First Affair
Title: Her First Affair
Character: A college student (uncredited)
Released: August 14, 1941
Type: Movie
Micheline Chevassu is a young, naive woman living in an orphanage. Through classified ads, she has a date with an unknown man. She escapes from the orphanage to go to it, dreaming of the Prince Charming. But comes Nicolas Rougemont, an unattractive middle-aged man... He pretends not to be the author of the letters, who could not come...