Bernard Dhéran

Bernard Dhéran

Born: June 17, 1926
Died: January 27, 2013
in Dieppe, France
Bernard Yves Raoul Dhéran (17 June 1926 – 27 January 2013) was a French actor, who was active in film, television and theatre in a career spanning over six decades. Dhéran was well remembered in French cinema's as the French dub of David Niven, Anthony Hopkins, Christopher Plummer, Ian McKellen and Leslie Nielsen. He was also recognized in dubbing as the voice of Count Dooku in the animated series Star Wars: The Clone Wars, he also dubbed Christopher Lee's performance in Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones and Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith.

In 1961, Dhéran was inducted into Sociétaires of the Comédie-Française.

He died at his home in Marrakech on the 27 January 2013, he had originally been commissioned to record his lines for Odin in the French dub of Thor: The Dark World, but due to his death Jean-Pierre Moulin (who is the official French dub of Hopkins) recorded the lines.

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Character: Fred
Released: September 13, 2008
Type: Movie
The adventures and misadventures of a group of patients with OCD appointed at the same time.
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Hunting & Gathering
Title: Hunting & Gathering
Character: Philibert's Father
Released: March 21, 2007
Type: Movie
When Camille falls ill, she is forced to live with Philibert and Franck.
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Mademoiselle Gigi
Title: Mademoiselle Gigi
Character: Bernard Maugis
Released: April 29, 2006
Type: Movie
Paris, 1900. The 16-year-old Gigi lives in a world of mere women, inspired by Anna Karenina and Madame Bovary, she doesn't want to surrender to the "bondage of a loveless marriage".
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The Antidote
Title: The Antidote
Character: Salanches de Foiry
Released: March 30, 2005
Type: Movie
JAM (Christian Clavier), a French "master of the universe" is on the brink of a major takeover when he starts suffering from anxiety attacks. His doctor (Lhermite) thinks it is to do with childhood experiences and suggests he searches back in his mind to something that could be the trigger and will prove to be the antidote.
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Antigone
Title: Antigone
Character: Le Choeur
Released: May 5, 2003
Type: Movie
Having defied the ban on Creon and offered a burial to Polynice, her treacherous homeland brother, Antigone is condemned to a slow death in a stone tomb, despite the interposition of Hémon, her fiance, the son of Creon . Nevertheless, Creon ends up following the advice of his diviner Tiresias and, fearing the wrath of the gods, buries Polynices with dignity. When he is about to free Antigone, the young woman had already hanged herself. Mad with pain, Hémon commits suicide by his side.
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Hôtel des deux mondes
Title: Hôtel des deux mondes
Released: October 18, 2002
Type: Movie
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L'Année des Guignols - Je peux dire une connerie ?
Title: L'Année des Guignols - Je peux dire une connerie ?
Character: (voice)
Released: June 30, 2001
Type: Movie
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Title: Blague à part
Character: Jean-Do, le père d'Isabelle
Released: October 24, 1998
Type: TV
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La dernière fête
Title: La dernière fête
Character: The Duke of Bourbon
Released: December 21, 1996
Type: Movie
The story of Marquise De Prie, the wife of Marquis De Savoy and the mistress of King Louis XV.
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Ridicule
Title: Ridicule
Character: Montalieri
Released: May 9, 1996
Type: Movie
To get royal backing on a needed drainage project, a poor French lord must learn to play the delicate games of wit at court at Versailles.
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Tiercé gagnant
Title: Tiercé gagnant
Character: Henri de la Haie
Released: September 21, 1990
Type: Movie
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Title: Sacrée soirée
Character: Self
Released: September 2, 1987
Type: TV
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Title: Le Gerfaut
Character: Pierre-Augustin Caron de Beaumarchais
Released: July 8, 1987
Type: TV
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Les Princes
Title: Les Princes
Character: Le mari de Jeanne
Released: November 2, 1983
Type: Movie
Nara, a 30-year-old gypsy, lives with her nine-year-old daughter Zorka and her grandmother in a public housing project in the Paris region.
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Les Plaisirs de l'île enchantée
Title: Les Plaisirs de l'île enchantée
Character: Iphitas
Released: July 8, 1981
Type: Movie
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La Dame de chez Maxim
Title: La Dame de chez Maxim
Character: Marollier
Released: February 12, 1981
Type: Movie
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La Puce à L'oreille
Title: La Puce à L'oreille
Character: Rugby
Released: December 1, 1978
Type: Movie
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On ne badine pas avec l'amour
Title: On ne badine pas avec l'amour
Character: The Baron(
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
While Camille refuses Perdican's advances, she takes offense when he courts Rosette. Then begins a confrontation of pride, where each seeks to establish his ascendancy over the other in the name of love.
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Le Misanthrope
Title: Le Misanthrope
Character: Oronte
Released: September 13, 1977
Type: Movie
Alceste hates all of humanity, denounces its hypocrisy, cowardice and compromise. But he nevertheless loves Célimène, flirtatious and slanderous. The virtuous thus launches into battles lost in advance which force him to flee.
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Les Anneaux de Bicêtre
Title: Les Anneaux de Bicêtre
Character: Besson
Released: January 5, 1977
Type: Movie
At fifty, René Maugras has lost everything. This wealthy press boss fell into a coma and was rushed to hospital. He has since emerged from his worrying state of health but remains unable to move and communicate. He must also begin rehabilitation, which turns out to be particularly humiliating. Fortunately for him there is Blanche, his nurse, who surrounds him with affection. Blanche takes her case to heart.
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The Seventh Company Has Been Found
Title: The Seventh Company Has Been Found
Character: Colonel Voisin
Released: December 10, 1975
Type: Movie
The second part of the Seventh Company adventures.
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Tarzoon: Shame of the Jungle!
Title: Tarzoon: Shame of the Jungle!
Character: Narrator (voice)
Released: September 4, 1975
Type: Movie
Shame, the ape man of the jungle, is aghast when his woman, June, is kidnapped by a gang of giant penises. They take her to their queen, Bazunga, a bald woman with fourteen breasts. After tangling with a gang of great white hunters, a marauding lion and the Molar Men, Shame sets off to rescue her with only his faithful friend Flicka at his side. He heads for that darkest of areas
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The Silent One
Title: The Silent One
Character: M.Chat
Released: February 10, 1973
Type: Movie
Who is Anton Haliakov, who has just been abducted by the M.I.5 in London? A Soviet scientist apparently. But sixteen years before the man had another identity, Clément Tibère, and another nationality, French. So what led him to become Russian and to change identity? And why are the British secret services interested in him?
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Qui êtes-vous Monsieur Renaudot ?
Title: Qui êtes-vous Monsieur Renaudot ?
Character: Théophraste Renaudot
Released: November 30, 1972
Type: Movie
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Les fausses confidences
Title: Les fausses confidences
Character: The count
Released: November 22, 1971
Type: Movie
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Don't Deliver Us from Evil
Title: Don't Deliver Us from Evil
Character: L'automobiliste
Released: April 5, 1971
Type: Movie
Anne and Lore, neighbors and best friends, barely into their teens, board at a convent school where they have taken a vow to sin and to serve Satan. Anne keeps a secret diary, they read a salacious novel, they get a classmate in trouble, they spy on the nuns, they set aside their communion wafers; they make a pact of devotion.
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La Manière forte
Title: La Manière forte
Character: Tony Lagorce
Released: November 7, 1970
Type: Movie
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Vingt-neuf degrés à l'ombre
Title: Vingt-neuf degrés à l'ombre
Character: M. Adolphe
Released: October 12, 1969
Type: Movie
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La Coquine
Title: La Coquine
Character: Le comte Adriano
Released: November 28, 1968
Type: Movie
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Le Dindon
Title: Le Dindon
Character: Vatelin
Released: October 18, 1968
Type: Movie
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Young Wolves
Title: Young Wolves
Character: Jean-Noël
Released: April 1, 1968
Type: Movie
Alain, "a young wolf", elegant and racy, is maintained by the princess Linzani. At the same time, he goes out with a girl of his age, Sylvie, who despite her bold attitude has never had a lover.
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Monsieur le Trouhadec saisi par la débauche
Title: Monsieur le Trouhadec saisi par la débauche
Character: Benin
Released: March 7, 1968
Type: Movie
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The Man in the Buick
Title: The Man in the Buick
Character: M. de La Motte, l'assureur
Released: January 12, 1968
Type: Movie
Mr Jo, nicknamed "the man with the Buick", is the darling of the small town of Honfleur. But he is in fact a trafficker with a bad reputation who would like to forget about his past, now limiting himself to smuggling rubies under the cover of a charitable organization which offers underprivileged children holidays in Switzerland. However, Mr. Jo is in love with a pretty widow and, in order to marry her, he is willing to get involved in a hold-up again. And "the man with the Buick", who seemed so honorable, will surprise the inhabitants of Honfleur when Inspector Menard reveals his secret activities.
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The Great Gadget
Title: The Great Gadget
Character: Morrisson
Released: June 21, 1967
Type: Movie
A scientist from the East happens in France where it is supposed to improve one of his inventions. But it is much more interested in the fact to enjoy it and have fun ...
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Domino
Title: Domino
Character: Crémone
Released: April 27, 1967
Type: Movie
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Title: At Theatre Tonight
Character: Le comte Adriano
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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Title: At Theatre Tonight
Character: Crémone
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 Femmes savantes
Title: Les Femmes savantes
Character: Trissotin
Released: June 7, 1966
Type: Movie
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Title: Marie Tudor
Character: Dudley
Released: April 23, 1966
Type: TV
Based on the play by Victor Hugo, portraying the rise, fall and execution of Fabiano Fabiani, a fictional favourite of Mary I of England.
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Une femme en blanc se révolte
Title: Une femme en blanc se révolte
Released: March 25, 1966
Type: Movie
Preparing her gynecology thesis, Claude Sauvage, at the urging of a village doctor, Vincent Ferrière, agrees to replace him for a few days. During this time, she took it upon herself to abort the schoolteacher, who was afraid of giving birth to a handicapped child. But an anonymous letter denounces her, and she goes on trial.
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How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning
Title: How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning
Character: L'avocat de la Baronne Seychelles du Hautpas (Le Procès)
Released: October 28, 1965
Type: Movie
The film consists of three novels. The film begins with the fact that the Bernard Blier hero removes a lantern from the entrance to a brothel. The second part is about how the lantern and jewelery were stolen from a young baroness. And in the third part the hero of Louis de Funes hangs a lantern at the entrance to his house.
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Le cardinal d'Espagne
Title: Le cardinal d'Espagne
Released: November 24, 1964
Type: Movie
This play by Henry de Montherland, takes place in 1517 and depicts the Cardinal de Cisneros, an authoritarian man approaching his end, regent of the throne of Spain oscillating between his desire for power and his tendency to inaction. Thinking himself invulnerable, he awaits the arrival of young Charles on the throne, but his beliefs will be shaken.
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On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts
Title: On Murder Considered as One of the Fine Arts
Released: November 19, 1964
Type: Movie
The habits and customs of a strange association, "La Sociéte des Gentlemen Redempteurs", which has turned assassination into a veritable art form. But all the fine mechanics of this secret organization go haywire when each member offers his wife to become the next victim.
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The Spy
Title: The Spy
Character: Harry Williams
Released: February 27, 1964
Type: Movie
The British Admiralty is worried: several cargo ships carrying troops have mysteriously jumped off Gibraltar. The Admiralty calls in the Intelligence Service to find out the cause of the destruction before new units arrive. Lieutenant Jackson, of the Marine Infantry Regiment stationed in Gibraltar, spends all his duty time in Tangier, where he is attracted by his love of poker and a beautiful dancer, Lola. Despite the objurgations of his general and the tender friendship of Cathie, his general's daughter, he can't stop playing and loses a very large sum one evening.
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Who Stole the Body?
Title: Who Stole the Body?
Released: February 1, 1963
Type: Movie
Edouard and Félix work in a real estate agency. One day, they are threatened with dismissal if they don't manage to sell a very isolated house to an elderly, silver and somewhat unusual Englishwoman. In the house, they discover a corpse. The visit is spent dragging the corpse from room to room, cupboard to chest, so as not to frighten the otherwise impressed buyer. But the corpse disappears. He has to be found before the deed can be signed. The two salesmen become detectives, tracking down the dead man's many female acquaintances. All the seducer's conquests are sifted through, to find the one who left her jewels at the scene of the crime.
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The Count of Monte Cristo
Title: The Count of Monte Cristo
Character: Henri de Villefort
Released: December 6, 1961
Type: Movie
Edmund Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. While imprisoned, he meets the Abbe Faria, a fellow prisoner whom everyone believes to be mad. The Abbe tells Edmund of a fantastic treasure hidden away on a tiny island, that only he knows the location of. After many years in prison, the old Abbe dies, and Edmund escapes disguised as the dead body. Now free, Edmund must find the treasure the Abbe told him of, so he can use the new-found wealth to exact revenge on those who have wronged him.
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The American Beauty
Title: The American Beauty
Character: M. Jean
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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Captain Fracasse
Title: Captain Fracasse
Character: Chevalier de Vidalenc
Released: April 21, 1961
Type: Movie
A ruined Baron Philippe de baron, meets one day a troupe of traveling actors led by Herod. Attracted by the one who plays the role of the ingenue: Isabella, and by the dynamism and enthusiasm of his companions, he takes the place of the deceased poet of the troupe. And during performances, Philippe became the captain Sunder. For his part, Isabelle loves Philip, but does not consider marriage, nobility him missing, she refuses to harm the career of Baron. And one day, the Duke of Vallombrosa, seduced by Isabella, finds himself challenged to a duel by Philippe for touching the girl. Defeated, he launched his men against Sunder, then removes Isabelle. The actors throw themselves then to storm the castle where she is being held. This time Vallombrosa was seriously injured, and the duke's own father, rushed to the scene, Isabelle discovers the girl he had once been an actress. Nothing stands now the union of Sunder and Isabella, under the tender gaze of the actors Herod and Scapin.
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The Big Risk
Title: The Big Risk
Character: Blastone (non crédité)
Released: March 23, 1960
Type: Movie
On crowded Milan streets, two men execute a split-second payroll heist-in broad daylight-then begin a lightning-paced getaway, via every conveyance available. But after all, when a tough guy's returning to France (where he's been sentenced to death in absentia) after holing up in Italy for nearly a decade, he's got to have some startup money--particularly if he's going back with the wife and kids.
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The Three Musketeers
Title: The Three Musketeers
Character: le Duc de Buckingham
Released: December 25, 1959
Type: Movie
The Three Musketeers (French: Les trois mousquetaires) is a 1959 French TV film based on a play adaptation of the 1844 novel by Alexandre Dumas. It is notable for featuring Jean Paul Belmondo in the lead.
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Katia
Title: Katia
Character: Stéphane Ryssakov
Released: December 22, 1959
Type: Movie
Tsar Alexandre II meets a young student, Katia. He understands that he loves her and try to send her away but they end up seeing each other again and becomes his mistress. With the help of Katia, Alexandre prepares a liberal constitution, but these reforms make him hostile to the more privileged subjects without satirising the revolutionaries against the regime.
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Rue de Paris
Title: Rue de Paris
Character: Moineau
Released: October 21, 1959
Type: Movie
Life in a one-parent family with a focus on the parent, Henri Neveu (Jean Gabin), is the topic of this standard drama with a dash of comedy. While Henri was a POW during the war, his wife passed away and he returned to face the challenges of bringing up three children alone. Henri may get drunk and angry at times but he also has a better side that will not stay buried. Since handling three children alone is no easy task, the single father has the choice of growing in the process or not.
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Soupe au lait
Title: Soupe au lait
Released: July 1, 1959
Type: Movie
Roland Lasserre is a shy boy, which would be nothing if he weren't also prone to the violent tantrums that have earned him his nickname "Soupe au lait". It's when Francine announces her engagement that he decides to declare his love for her. Francine is not at all keen on the husband her parents are forcing on her - a wealthy record manufacturer - but she gives in under their pressure and asks Roland to give her up. But fate has other plans. A car accident provokes the young man's anger, and with Francine on board, he chases after the hit-and-run driver and ends up in a ditch, luckily undamaged, 50 km from Paris. Torrential rain, lack of transport, welcoming hostelry. All Roland and Francine have to do is confess their guilt, and for the sake of honor, get married... All would be well were it not for René, the neglected fiancé, who provokes "Soupe au lait" and triggers a scandal during the ceremony.
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Title: Discorama
Character: Self
Released: February 4, 1959
Type: TV
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Christine
Title: Christine
Character: Captain Lansky
Released: December 19, 1958
Type: Movie
Vienna, 1906. A passionate love story develops between Franz Lobheiner and the young Christine. Lobheiner is, however, currently seeing the married Baroness von Eggersdorf. Upon learning of his wife's infidelity, the Baron von Eggersdorf provokes a duel with Lobheiner. But the former is no longer a real threat to the Baron. Lobheiner is now passionately in love with Christine. How will this love quartet end?
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In Six Easy Lessons
Title: In Six Easy Lessons
Character: Le comte Philippe de Bergen
Released: February 26, 1958
Type: Movie
A bossy count has trouble marrying off any of his six sons. When one of them, Adam, finally makes wedding arrangements, something happens to his bride to be: she develops amnesia after an accident.
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Holiday Island
Title: Holiday Island
Character: Pierre Tissot
Released: December 20, 1957
Type: Movie
Intersecting lives on an island holiday: A lawyer anxious he caused a youth's death.An engineer suspecting his wife after being teased by pranksters.A young man falling for a nurse.A Frenchman seeing his wife wooed by a local.
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Le quadrille des diamants
Title: Le quadrille des diamants
Character: Fox
Released: November 19, 1957
Type: Movie
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White Smoke
Title: White Smoke
Released: November 1, 1957
Type: Movie
Sophie Mallet is the lively manager of a detective agency, assisted by Emile Gachit, her conscientious but not very effective right-hand man. One day a fellow named David entrusts her a pack of cigarettes that she is supposed to hand over to a certain John Smith. But David soon disappears while John Smith is murdered. Moreover, a lot of dubious characters prove "very interested" in the pack of cigarettes... Which will keep Sophie and Emile for some time...!
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Quelle sacrée soirée
Title: Quelle sacrée soirée
Character: Denise's friend
Released: September 4, 1957
Type: Movie
Jean Duclos has extraordinary adventures after taking the train and mistakenly taking the luggage of a young dancer, Lola Wanda. An oil tycoon appoints him as a proxy for his future company, and then he marries his beautiful cousin, Suzy.
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La peau de l'ours
Title: La peau de l'ours
Released: August 30, 1957
Type: Movie
A police commissioner lives with his two children, wife, mother-in-law and maid. But he discovers that he has been poisoned with arsenic, and that the culprit must be someone close to him.
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Explosive Vacation!
Title: Explosive Vacation!
Character: Monsieur Fred
Released: August 9, 1957
Type: Movie
Arlette thinks she has made a wonderful gift to her daughter Sylvie, who has just married François Morel, a young journalist. And, to tell the truth, not everybody receives a posh little bar like the Royal Montmartre as a gift. The trouble is that Monsieur Jo, the former owner of the joint is also the boss of a gang of drug traffickers. And that he has managed to persuade the pair of naive lovebirds to drop a painting to a friend on their way to their honeymoon place. Now the picture is stuffed with drugs! The honeymoon trip promises to be eventful...
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The Inspector Likes a Fight
Title: The Inspector Likes a Fight
Released: June 12, 1957
Type: Movie
To protect him, Georges takes the place of his twin brother, Jacques, suspected of murdering an aircraft manufacturer and stealing the plans for a revolutionary engine. He sets out to compromise the police investigation and the actions of the document smugglers seeking to recover the plans.
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The Big Bluff
Title: The Big Bluff
Released: May 14, 1957
Type: Movie
A penniless adventurer, Eddie Morgan survives on his wits and good humor. He's a bluffer. To help the owner of an oil field, he launches a vast investment campaign, with the help of a few friends, to benefit the French people. A rival group, led by Serge Colonna and Dominique Ardan, tried to buy the land from him, because according to an expert, there was no oil to exploit. But the expert had lied, and Colonna had just signed the purchase contract. Eddie, with the help of Dominique, whom he has seduced in the meantime, snatches the famous paper from Colonna's hands. The oil can flow.
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Miss Catastrophe
Title: Miss Catastrophe
Released: April 24, 1957
Type: Movie
A talented but crazy painter, Elvire Mercier agrees to sell one of her canvases to Pierre Leroy, a rich heir. But after a string of misunderstandings, she hands her painting over to a swindler. And her problems have only just begun.
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La Garçonne
Title: La Garçonne
Character: Max Delaume
Released: April 5, 1957
Type: Movie
La Garçonne is a 1957 French film directed by Jacqueline Audry. It follows Monique, an ingenue and a clueless girl who believes in true love. When she discovers her future husband has a lover, she rebels against her bourgeois life:s he will lead a free and wild life and she will live like a man. Soon she becomes the toast of Gay Paris, sleeping with all the men around, and even with a woman.
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Title: Plaisir du théâtre
Character: M. Criqueville, artiste-peintre et flatteur profressionel
Released: July 3, 1956
Type: TV
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Tonight the Skirts Fly
Title: Tonight the Skirts Fly
Character: Bobby un amoureux de Marlène
Released: June 14, 1956
Type: Movie
At Christmastime, the love affairs of five clothing models working for Pierre Roussel, a renowned Paris fashion designer. Marlène hesitates between two suitors. Blanche, who loves Jean, Roussel's son, wants him to talk to his father about their relationship. Catherine learns that her lover has a wife and two kids. Jeannette throws herself into the arms of an Oriental prince. In despair the fifth one attempts to commit suicide...
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If All the Guys in the World...
Title: If All the Guys in the World...
Character: Saint-Savin
Released: February 24, 1956
Type: Movie
A distress call from a trawler leads various people to come to the crew's aid.
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If Paris Were Told to Us
Title: If Paris Were Told to Us
Character: Voltaire jeune
Released: January 27, 1956
Type: Movie
Historical film directed and written by Sacha Guitry follows the the history of Paris from its founding through the significant events in the city's history.
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The Grand Manoeuvre
Title: The Grand Manoeuvre
Character: Un officier
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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Les hommes en blanc
Title: Les hommes en blanc
Character: Clément
Released: May 9, 1955
Type: Movie
Jean Nerac completes his medical studies, sure of a successful career, but less sure of his attempts with fellow student Marianne, who refuses to accept him. Nerac leaves for the Auvergne. An old doctor will soon die, but replacing him will be difficult, as one of Jean's colleagues has failed. However, with patience, skill, modesty and friendship, Jean Nerac overcame the mistrust of his patients. He settled in these austere mountains, and Marianne, convinced of the young man's worth, helped him with her presence.
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Napoleon
Title: Napoleon
Character: Bourrienne (uncredited)
Released: March 25, 1955
Type: Movie
The film follows the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint Helena. The film is notable for its use of location shooting for numerous scenes, especially at the French estates of Malmaison and Fontainebleau, the Palace of Versailles, and sites of Napoleonic battles including Austerlitz and Waterloo.
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Title: Airs de France
Character: Marquis de Chambreuil
Released: January 15, 1955
Type: TV
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The Big Flag
Title: The Big Flag
Character: Lucien Barré
Released: June 21, 1954
Type: Movie
For Naval officers duty comes first. Navy Lieutenant Favrel is one of these men. He has promised his wife Simone to stay with her all the time but a last mission aboard a training cruiser makes him realize that his life is tied to the sea. For his part, Navy cadet Pierre Hardouin understands that sailing is his vocation. The prospect of staying home alone while Pierre is on mission, frightens Madeleine, the girl of his heart. But the young woman ends up accepting the ordeal and marrying Pierre.
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Royal Affairs in Versailles
Title: Royal Affairs in Versailles
Character: Beaumarchais
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.
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Beauties of the Night
Title: Beauties of the Night
Character: L'aviateur, fiancé de la caissière (uncredited)
Released: November 14, 1952
Type: Movie
A daydreaming French composer sees himself as a fine figure dashing through history.
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The Devil Who Limped
Title: The Devil Who Limped
Character: (non crédité)
Released: July 11, 1948
Type: Movie
The film is a 125-minute, black-and-white biography of French priest and diplomat Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754–1838), who served for 50 years under five different French regimes: the Absolute Monarchy, the Revolution, the Consulate, the Empire, and the Constitutional Monarchy. Its title comes from one of the main historical nicknames for Talleyrand, that he shares with demon king Asmodeus and English poet Lord Byron.
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Title: Marianne, une étoile pour Napoléon
Character: Talleyrand
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV