Darry Cowl

Darry Cowl

Born: August 27, 1925
Died: February 14, 2006
in Vittel, Vosges, France
Darry Cowl (born André Darricau; 27 August 1925 – 14 February 2006) was a French actor and musician. He won a César Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role in 2004 for his role as a concierge in Pas sur la bouche (Not on the lips), which was his last appearance.

He was born in Vittel and came to prominence when he was cast by Sacha Guitry in Assassins et voleurs (1956) (Assassins and Robbers). Following this he turned to acting in cinema roles and soon gained celebrity status with his role as Antoine Péralou in Le Triporteur (1957) (The Tricycle).

A game addict, he often acted only for money in films that did not stretch his acting ability. He explained this by noting he did not read the script (or, on occasion, know the title) of the work in which he was to act.

He played Major Archibald in the 1974 film Don't Touch the White Woman!.

He had hoped to return to theatre acting in Hold Up in September 2005 but ill-health prevented this. At age 80, he died in Neuilly-sur-Seine from complications of lung cancer.

Source: Article "Darry Cowl" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Qu'est-ce qui fait courir Darry Cowl ?
Title: Qu'est-ce qui fait courir Darry Cowl ?
Character: Self
Released: June 13, 2020
Type: Movie
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Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4)
Title: Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: October 13, 2009
Type: Movie
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Comiques de toujours, coffret Vol. 1 & 2
Title: Comiques de toujours, coffret Vol. 1 & 2
Released: November 6, 2007
Type: Movie
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Private Life
Title: Private Life
Character: Mr. Mellifond
Released: July 11, 2007
Type: Movie
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The Man Who Wanted a Child
Title: The Man Who Wanted a Child
Character: Jules
Released: March 21, 2007
Type: Movie
Alfred lives with his mother in a small village keeping chickens and selling eggs at the local market. He doesn't speak, except to his mother and to children. He has a girlfriend of sorts, although she shies away from any physical contact with her. But more than anything, Alfred wants a child. As natural fatherhood is out of the question he takes the next best option, and makes an application to adopt. With a very un-French lack of bureaucracy Alfred's adoptive son arrives, but turns out not to be the bouncing baby he was hoping for. [taken from London Film Festival 2006 catalogue]
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The Giraffe's Neck
Title: The Giraffe's Neck
Character: Léo
Released: September 29, 2004
Type: Movie
Le Cou de la girafe (The Giraffe's Neck) is a 2004 French/Belgian film directed by Safy Nebbou.
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Totally Nuts
Title: Totally Nuts
Released: January 28, 2004
Type: Movie
Diane, a young woman in search of a child, is looking for money to go to the sperm bank. She crosses paths with Arthur, a bank robber.
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Not on the Lips
Title: Not on the Lips
Character: Madame Foin
Released: December 3, 2003
Type: Movie
A musical drawing room farce set in Paris in October, 1925. Gilberte, in middle-age, flirts with men but loves her husband Georges, wishing he were more demonstrative. He's negotiating a deal with an American, Eric Thomson, who turns out to be Gilberte's first husband from an annulled and secret stateside marriage. Along with her sister Arlette, Gilberte begs Eric not to tell Georges about the marriage. Meanwhile, a young artist, Charly, pursues Gilberte while Arlette tries to match him with the young Huguette, who loves him. Will Eric play along or try to re-win Gilberte's affection? Can Gilberte play one off against another? And who will manage to kiss whom on the lips?
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Lost Seamen
Title: Lost Seamen
Character: Falco
Released: November 12, 2003
Type: Movie
Based on a novel by Jean-Claude Izzo, this melancholic movie focuses on three sailors being the last remaining crew members on their ship which is aground in the harbor of Marseille. After the owner has sold the "Aldébaran", only the Lebanese captain Aziz, the Greek Diamantis and the Turk Nelim are stuck on the boat for a lack of prospects. Aziz doesn't want to return to his wife, Diamantis tries to find a girl he left at the age of 20 and Nelim, young and foolish, just wants to have fun...
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If I Were a Rich Man
Title: If I Were a Rich Man
Character: Monsieur Sylvain
Released: November 27, 2002
Type: Movie
Between Alice, a hospital nurse and Aldo, a shampoo sales representative, things have turned sour of late. Alice blames her husband for lacking ambition and contemplates divorce.One day Aldo wins the ten million euro lotto prize. But, unwilling to share the bonanza, he keeps mum about it, all the more as he finds out Alice has an affair with Gérard, Aldo's former friend and ... new boss. However, Aldo, leading a double life, starts spending his money ...
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Le nouveau Jean-Claude
Title: Le nouveau Jean-Claude
Character: Jeff
Released: June 26, 2002
Type: Movie
A young man, to whom life has never smiled, decides to change his destiny and begins by conquering the pretty woman with whom he fell in love.
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Les p'tits gars Ladouceur
Title: Les p'tits gars Ladouceur
Character: Humphries
Released: February 10, 2001
Type: Movie
When their behavior and brushes with the law drive their mother to abandon them, Jonathan and Vivi hire a private detective to find her.
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Scénarios sur la drogue
Title: Scénarios sur la drogue
Character: Segment "La Purée"
Released: February 21, 2000
Type: Movie
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Augustin, King of Kung-Fu
Title: Augustin, King of Kung-Fu
Character: René
Released: August 25, 1999
Type: Movie
The solitary and largely self-contained Augustin (Jean-Chretien Sibertin Blanc), on obscure young actor of bit-parts and advertisements, has but one ambition - to play the lead role in a Kung Fu epic. But hours of Kung Fu practice alone in his room are not enough. Augustin knows he must pack up and start a new life in China... or at least that part of China within bicycling distance: Chinatown in south-east Paris. There he meets Ling (Maggie Cheung), a young Chinese woman who practices ocupuncture, and little by little, Ling's needles awaken emotions in Augustin that his virginal body had never dreamed of. Where will this lead him? To Kung Fu stardom, maybe not, but to another destiny, a quirky but logical continuation of the same dream.
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La Surprise
Title: La Surprise
Character: Georges Morin
Released: January 1, 1999
Type: Movie
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Title: Vivement dimanche
Character: Self
Released: September 20, 1998
Type: TV
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Marceeel!!!
Title: Marceeel!!!
Released: March 16, 1998
Type: Movie
After the death of his controlling wife, a retiree decides to take the trip of his dreams to Tahiti, in French Polynesia. All he needs is the money. Poker and the strange complicity of a talking cat will be his best assets to raise funds.
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Droit dans le mur
Title: Droit dans le mur
Character: le patient
Released: November 19, 1997
Type: Movie
Pierre Richard directed, co-scripted and stars in this French comedy. Former top film comedian Romain (Richard) is on a downward spiral -- rehearsing a play directed by his sister while also dealing with his wife, mistress, taxes, low self-esteem, demands for attention from his two children, and a private detective attempting to snap incriminating photos. Producer Jean-Louis Levi appears in a cameo as a poverty-stricken bum.
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Ma femme me quitte
Title: Ma femme me quitte
Character: Stéphane Lasser
Released: January 24, 1996
Type: Movie
Joanna Martin, a mid-life journalist, is investigating a marriage agency organizing white marriages. She uses her sister's identity to infiltrate.
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Les Miserables
Title: Les Miserables
Character: Le bouquiniste / Bookseller
Released: March 22, 1995
Type: Movie
In France during World War II, a poor and illiterate man, Henri Fortin, is introduced to Victor Hugo's classic novel Les Misérables and begins to see parallels between the book and his own life.
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Ville à vendre
Title: Ville à vendre
Character: Emilio Bingo, l'empailleur
Released: February 26, 1992
Type: Movie
A man comes to a small town in France and witness the apparent murder of a woman pharmacist. He teams up with the victim's vulgar assistant to try to solve the mystery.
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Deux hommes dans une valise
Title: Deux hommes dans une valise
Character: Colin
Released: August 12, 1989
Type: Movie
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Title: Palace
Character: Standardiste du « groom service »
Released: October 29, 1988
Type: TV
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Une nuit à l'Assemblée Nationale
Title: Une nuit à l'Assemblée Nationale
Character: Kayser
Released: June 8, 1988
Type: Movie
The leader of a nudist colony enlists the help of left-wing militant when he mistakenly believes he should receive the Legion of Honor.
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The Seasons of Pleasure
Title: The Seasons of Pleasure
Character: Daniel D.
Released: February 10, 1988
Type: Movie
Charles and Emmanuelle organize as every year, the congress of perfumers who distribute their products in their castle. Garibaldi, their mutilated and somewhat disturbed son-in-law, will be the butler.
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Follow My Gaze
Title: Follow My Gaze
Character: Le cafetier
Released: April 23, 1986
Type: Movie
A long parade of actors and actresses pop up in an unconnected series of skits, vignettes, and sight gags in this comedy anthology by Jean Curtelin. Among the sketches performed is one with Jean Carmet playing a man from the sticks woefully burdened with the challenge of getting through a dog food commercial on less than one tank of intelligible French. Another skit shows a silent duel between an airport custodian and an automatic door, while another with the renowned Michel Galabru sets up a strange teacher-student exchange.
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Les Dégourdis de la onzième
Title: Les Dégourdis de la onzième
Character: Général Burnous
Released: January 17, 1986
Type: Movie
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Liberté, égalité, choucroute
Title: Liberté, égalité, choucroute
Character: Rouget de l'Isle
Released: April 30, 1985
Type: Movie
A parody of the French Revolution, on Arabian Nights background. Bagdad Calif is in Paris in 1789, where he decides to visit the Executionner equipment exhibition.
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The Telephone Always Rings Twice
Title: The Telephone Always Rings Twice
Character: L'agent de police
Released: January 23, 1985
Type: Movie
Marc Elbichon, a novice private sleuth, is investigating a wave of assassinations bearing a particular characteristic: the perpetrator, dubbed the "telephone killer" always strangles his female victims with a telephone cord.
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My Pastor Among the Thais
Title: My Pastor Among the Thais
Character: Tête-de-Fer, le pirate
Released: July 13, 1983
Type: Movie
Maximin, priest in a little village in the South-West of France, inherits from his brother a brothel in Thailand, although he's always been told it was a very strict catholic school. The journey to Asia is full of surprises (a plane hi-jack, pirates...) and once in Thailand, Maximin is taken into 'political' turmoils.
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It's Called Catastrophe
Title: It's Called Catastrophe
Character: Le Juge d'Instruction
Released: June 29, 1983
Type: Movie
Following a commonplace car accident, Antoine Malibran became involved in the armed robbery of the bank of the Seine.
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Microbidon
Title: Microbidon
Character: Mathias
Released: June 2, 1983
Type: Movie
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It Could Be Worse
Title: It Could Be Worse
Character: Jack Renard, the Mayor
Released: February 9, 1983
Type: Movie
A macho junk shopkeeper, a lunar lawyer and a storekeeper meet by pure chance and develop the century's hold-up.
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Quarter to Two Before Jesus Christ
Title: Quarter to Two Before Jesus Christ
Character: Faucuius
Released: October 6, 1982
Type: Movie
In antique Rome, a simple pepboy for chars becomes involved in a coup against Cesar. Rahatlocum is a North African Roman colony where Julius Caesar came to spend an expensive holiday. The revolt rumbles among the small people who find a leader in the person of Ben-Hur Marcel.
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Qu'est-ce qui fait craquer les filles...
Title: Qu'est-ce qui fait craquer les filles...
Character: Le journaliste
Released: June 23, 1982
Type: Movie
The owner of a casino and the owner of a luxury hotel in Deauville are eternal rivals.
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On s'en fout… nous on s'aime
Title: On s'en fout… nous on s'aime
Character: Julien's father
Released: June 16, 1982
Type: Movie
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For 200 Grand, You Get Nothing Now
Title: For 200 Grand, You Get Nothing Now
Character: Le gardien de l'immeuble de Caroline
Released: May 12, 1982
Type: Movie
After getting screwed over by life (again), two losers decide that enough is enough. Using stolen ski masks and stolen toy guns, they take hostages in their local bank, holding them for ransom. Things go well until the hostages learn what's going on, and demand a piece of the action for themselves.
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Title: Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 1982
Type: TV
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Le bahut va craquer
Title: Le bahut va craquer
Character: le prof de maths
Released: May 6, 1981
Type: Movie
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Les surdoués de la première compagnie
Title: Les surdoués de la première compagnie
Character: Le colonel Boussardon
Released: February 4, 1981
Type: Movie
As soon as they arrive at the barracks, the new contingent reveals some characters who will give their officers a hard time. There is the handsome, resourceful man, the technocrat in love, the bootlicker, the "Jamaican" who only moves to music, the shortsighted man... and all the others. Sometimes to see the nurse undress, sometimes to arrange an appointment with a fiancée, sometimes to cuckold the obtuse non-commissioned officer whose wife is volcanic, sometimes to have a free lunch in a great restaurant, the handsome man invariably deploys a wealth of cunning. And each time it is the colonel's servile driver who gets caught instead of him.
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Voulez-vous un bébé Nobel?
Title: Voulez-vous un bébé Nobel?
Character: Professeur Joseph Menzano
Released: November 19, 1980
Type: Movie
Famous men are being kidnapped for their genes, to impregnate women and give birth to gifted babies.
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Les Borsalini
Title: Les Borsalini
Character: Pépé
Released: February 20, 1980
Type: Movie
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Général... nous voilà !
Title: Général... nous voilà !
Character: Père Blanc
Released: October 18, 1978
Type: Movie
A comedy directed by Jacques Besnard.
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A Sea Urchin in the Pocket
Title: A Sea Urchin in the Pocket
Released: December 14, 1977
Type: Movie
A young journalist, abandoned by her wealthy lover, sets out with a musician inventor to stage a musical.
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Stop Fooling Around... Soldier!
Title: Stop Fooling Around... Soldier!
Character: Colonel Lessard
Released: December 7, 1977
Type: Movie
At a French military outpost, a group of lackadaisical servicemen find plenty of time to make trouble, enjoy nature and pursue beautiful women.
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Le  Jour de gloire
Title: Le Jour de gloire
Character: Le curé
Released: December 8, 1976
Type: Movie
In 1944, a retired German detachment found itself stranded in a French town. The inhabitants try to live in good harmony with the occupants. But one day kids, playing with a grenade, accidentally cause the death of an SS lieutenant.
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Trop c'est trop
Title: Trop c'est trop
Character: Lucifer
Released: June 5, 1975
Type: Movie
Philippe, Didier, Georges and Edina were born on the same day. The three boys have always been in love with Edina, but she's always put them off. They set off in search of her and find her posing for a photographer. Seeing them, she flees and dies in the process. By mutual agreement, the three boys commit suicide to join her.
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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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C'est jeune et ça sait tout !
Title: C'est jeune et ça sait tout !
Character: Le livreur
Released: October 25, 1974
Type: Movie
When Charles Le Braque learns that his boss' 17 years old daughter is pregnant, he fears that his 16 years old nice Joel from France, who's spending her vacation with them in Canada, might fall into the same trap. So he and his wife decide to give her the lecture of plants and bees... but it turns out that she's already well informed, gives them a lecture about simultaneous orgasms. She inspires the sexually repressed couple to start experimenting with "modern" forms of sex.
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There's a Bone in the Mill
Title: There's a Bone in the Mill
Character: Gaston
Released: June 20, 1974
Type: Movie
Two unemployed actors accept what they believe to be an acting job from a wealthy man without realizing that he needs two real private detectives.
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La Gueule de l’emploi
Title: La Gueule de l’emploi
Character: le patron de l'Arquebuse
Released: March 27, 1974
Type: Movie
Jacques and Jean-Claude, unemployed actors, start experimenting with various creative petty scams to get by. More and more daring, with the help of Anne, a charming young girl, they blackmail the rich and influential in a different way.
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Don't Touch the White Woman!
Title: Don't Touch the White Woman!
Character: Maj. Archibald
Released: January 23, 1974
Type: Movie
A highly stylized surreal farce about the events leading up to Custer's Last Stand anachronistically reenacted in an urban renewal area in modern Paris.
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L'Heptaméron (Joyeux compères)
Title: L'Heptaméron (Joyeux compères)
Character: L'apothicaire
Released: August 17, 1973
Type: Movie
Two monks come to a small village to lead a simple life but their first act of charity is to try and seduce one of the village women.
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She No Longer Talks, She Shoots
Title: She No Longer Talks, She Shoots
Character: le commissaire Adrien Bondu
Released: August 23, 1972
Type: Movie
Rosemonde, hailed as "the Princess" reign over a slum in the Paris suburbs. Herbert, a reporter who came to investigate on the pollution, ends up in a grinding machine of her invention. Rosemonde resells the bones to the church authorities who use them as holy relics. Inspector Adrian Bondu is handling the case... But a young hippie who looks like Jesus will have Rosemonde suddenly feel very earthly feelings...
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Title: Midi trente
Character: Self
Released: March 6, 1972
Type: TV
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Title: Le Grand Échiquier
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 1972
Type: TV
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Cash-Cash
Title: Cash-Cash
Character: William Wilson
Released: December 17, 1971
Type: Movie
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Title: Samedi soir
Character: Self
Released: January 9, 1971
Type: TV
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Ces messieurs de la gâchette
Title: Ces messieurs de la gâchette
Character: Albert Pelletier
Released: April 8, 1970
Type: Movie
Gabriel Pelletier's life is no bed of roses. Not because of his job: he is a successful sales manager. But on account of the various wrongdoings committed by his kin. First, there is his daughter Nicole, who has just developed an infatuation with a young man who is not only a revolutionary student but the the son of a Sicilian mobster as well. Then he has to cope with Bernard, his brother-in-law, a ladies'man who has been vamped by one of the sexy daughters of the Sicilian. Let's not forget Albert, his own brother, an avant-garde filmmaker also in trouble with Lombardi, the omnipresent gangster. To crown it all, Maryse, his domestic worker, is a Maoist militant!... In the end, poor Gabriel can't take it anymore. He hits the road and calls it quits.
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Poussez pas grand-père dans les cactus
Title: Poussez pas grand-père dans les cactus
Character: Le Docteur Braque
Released: November 5, 1969
Type: Movie
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Le Bourgeois gentil mec
Title: Le Bourgeois gentil mec
Character: Perrugo
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
Monsieur Gentil runs a perfume factory. He is a shy man, bullied by Madame Marthe, the manager, and spurned by Cléo, the young travel agent he is in love with. He 'd rather be a tough guy than a wet blanket and his meeting with Durante, a gangster, will be decisive. Considering him a providential piggy bank, Durante, following the advice of his boss Spinosa, entrusts the" education" of Gentil to two experts, Perrugo and Bersone.
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Salut Berthe !
Title: Salut Berthe !
Character: Didier
Released: August 20, 1968
Type: Movie
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Docteur Glass
Title: Docteur Glass
Character: Harry
Released: August 31, 1967
Type: Movie
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The Men in the Family
Title: The Men in the Family
Character: Albert Pelletier
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
Gabriel Pelletier, sales manager for a major industrial firm, would be the happiest of men if he didn't have a family of rare originality. The day Gabriel Pelletier is asked by the firm's management to welcome and accommodate an important American industrialist who has come to Paris to handle a major contract, he realizes the difficulties that lie ahead. How will Mr. Strumberger, who has the reputation of a fierce puritan, react to the behavior of the various members of the family?
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Your Money or Your Life
Title: Your Money or Your Life
Character: Marquy
Released: April 26, 1966
Type: Movie
Pétepan learns that his money has been lost by Robinhoude brothers.He asks his assistants to withdraw his amount from the bank.
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Les malabars sont au parfum
Title: Les malabars sont au parfum
Character: Cassius 0001
Released: February 2, 1966
Type: Movie
All sorts of spies are buzzing around Michel, whose cow, Dorothée, produces 200 liters of milk a day thanks to a treatment of his own invention. Dorothée is kidnapped and found. But now everyone disowns her. No matter! Dorothée's productivity will enrich Michel and his wife Nicole, who have opened a rotisserie; milk cocktails are in fashion.
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Les combinards
Title: Les combinards
Character: Léo
Released: February 2, 1966
Type: Movie
Léo and Claude, two penniless friends turned con artists, answer matrimonial classified ads to trap women. But one of the friends soon finds his own game turned against him.
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Up to His Ears
Title: Up to His Ears
Character: Biscoton
Released: December 4, 1965
Type: Movie
A millionaire realizes he really wants to live after he has hired an assassin to kill him.
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How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning
Title: How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning
Character: L'avocat de la défense de Léonard Maburon (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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Under Your Hat
Title: Under Your Hat
Character: L'agent André
Released: September 3, 1965
Type: Movie
An illegal gambling den where players can lose millions... and the owners make their fortune.
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The Double Bed
Title: The Double Bed
Character: Le frère de la fiancée (segment 3 "La répétition")
Released: August 6, 1965
Type: Movie
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Déclic et des claques
Title: Déclic et des claques
Character: Un invité
Released: March 5, 1965
Type: Movie
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Les Baratineurs
Title: Les Baratineurs
Character: César Brandini
Released: February 1, 1965
Type: Movie
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Les Gorilles
Title: Les Gorilles
Character: Edouard
Released: December 23, 1964
Type: Movie
A confused pair of airport luggage carriers get involved in the disappearance of some suitcases.
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Jaloux comme un tigre
Title: Jaloux comme un tigre
Character: Henri
Released: June 16, 1964
Type: Movie
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Dandelions by the Roots
Title: Dandelions by the Roots
Character: Gratiopoulos
Released: May 6, 1964
Type: Movie
Jockey Jack has a bill open with a gangster just released from jail. He somehow manages to parry the gangster's knife attack backstage at a theatre and the latter ends up dead being put into a double bass case. A day later the gangster mysteriously has disappeared, but it turns out that he was carrying a bet ticket for a horse race now worth over a million. A turbulent run for the money begins.
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Badmen of the West
Title: Badmen of the West
Character: Tom Jackson
Released: January 1, 1964
Type: Movie
I Brutos arrive in the town of Fresno during a gunfight and mistakenly think it is a celebration of their arrival and start shooting their guns and kill all the villains and the town undertaker. They take over the undertaking duties but bury the bodies in an Indian burial ground upsetting the local Indian tribe.
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Les gros bras
Title: Les gros bras
Character: Ludovic Gabasse, le patron de l'agence de roman-photo
Released: December 31, 1963
Type: Movie
Madame Andromèze's diamond bracelet has been stolen from the plane taking Nicole from Rome to Paris. Slipped by the thief into her bag, the bracelet undergoes many vicissitudes... Found and appraised, it is declared a fake! Nicole's brother and fiancé chase after the real bracelet, disrupting the life of a grand palace. Finally, Madame Andromèze finds her bracelet, which has been declared genuine. The original thief resurfaces and steals the jewel again.
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Good King Dagobert
Title: Good King Dagobert
Character: Le maître- bourreau Richardic
Released: November 20, 1963
Type: Movie
Mr. Pelletan's rascal son Bébert son got another F for playing in class. His punishment is an essay on the Merovingian king Dagobert. All they know is he had eight wives and reunited Francia. The ignorant knave's irreverent imagination turns that into a harem and a ludicrous war without armies, loaded with anachronisms, in a race against rival king Charibert for the crown of Reims. The king's right hand, archbishop Eloi, the later patrons saint of carpentry, is portrayed as an inventor.
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Strip-Tease
Title: Strip-Tease
Character: Paul, le directeur du Crazy-Horse
Released: May 29, 1963
Type: Movie
Strip-tease has a pleasing Paris setting and a convincing strip club atmosphere, where a roster of exotic dancers do their thing. Making the club atmosphere work is the animated Dany Saval, as a charming gossip and outspoken cheerleader for the art of the strip-tease. Berthe encourages Ariane to loosen up and enjoy what she's doing.
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People in Luck
Title: People in Luck
Character: Simon Taquet (« Une nuit avec la vedette »)
Released: April 26, 1963
Type: Movie
A light French comedy of 5 segments.
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L'Abominable Homme des douanes
Title: L'Abominable Homme des douanes
Character: Campo Santos
Released: March 1, 1963
Type: Movie
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Who Stole the Body?
Title: Who Stole the Body?
Character: Félix
Released: February 1, 1963
Type: Movie
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Hitch-Hike
Title: Hitch-Hike
Character: le journaliste sportif au parapluie
Released: March 16, 1962
Type: Movie
Agathe, 18, dreams of change. Gone are her vacations on the rainy beaches of Belgium! She decides to hitchhike down to the South of France, where she'll have many happy and less happy encounters. On the way to Paris, men of various ages offer to shorten her wait by the roadside. Some try to take advantage of her, while another, in a fit of madness, tries to stab her. Despite these assaults, Agathe continues her journey, heading for Valence and then Aix-en-Provence.
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Tales of Paris
Title: Tales of Paris
Character: Hubert Parker (segment "Ella")
Released: January 17, 1962
Type: Movie
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The Lions Are Loose
Title: The Lions Are Loose
Character: Richard, le polytechnicien, amateur de voitures
Released: September 20, 1961
Type: Movie
Albertine, a young woman from Bordeaux, leaves her town and her husband to discover the joys of the French capital. Thanks to her friend Cécile, she penetrates Parisian high society and becomes the subject of rivalry between Dr André Challenberg and a fashionable young novelist, Didier Marèze.
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Les livreurs
Title: Les livreurs
Character: Édouard
Released: July 24, 1961
Type: Movie
These two friendly delivery boys from a Parisian department store not only take their job to heart as much as possible, but also consider themselves responsible for the happiness of the customers they have to deliver to. This leads them successively to help, at the cost of incredible acrobatics, a young couple celebrating the first anniversary of their marriage, to mingle with the clientele of a rather disquieting doctor, to almost perish in an ambush that was of course not intended for them, and to avoid a domestic quarrel.
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Panurge's Sheep
Title: Panurge's Sheep
Character: Charles Renard
Released: July 5, 1961
Type: Movie
Charles and Jeanne Renard live with their young kids in a dormitory town. Everyday train and metro,work and return by train and metro to the dormitory town (the famous french sentence "Métro,boulot,dodo"). But how fragile is marital bliss ?
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A Martian in Paris
Title: A Martian in Paris
Character: Pierre Dubois
Released: March 1, 1961
Type: Movie
The title role in the French comedy-fantasy A Martian in Paris is filled by Darry Cowl. The higher-ups in Mars want to learn all about that strange commodity, peculiar to the planet Earth, known as "Love". Darry soon figures out what makes the world go 'round when he meets the gorgeous Nicole Mirel. A Martian in Paris was obviously inspired by the 1960 American comedy A Visit to a Small Planet, which starred Jerry Lewis. Darry Cowl's imitation of Lewis is passable, but it certainly didn't fool the "Le Roi Crazy Jerry" idolators at Cahiers du Cinema and Positif magazine.
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Paris Loves
Title: Paris Loves
Character: Gimenez
Released: February 10, 1961
Type: Movie
Les amours de Paris focuses on three disparate couples and their problems in the arena of romantic love. One couple is comprised of a faithful husband and a sick wife whose stay in the hospital is not so bad because she has taken a sudden interest in her doctor. In the second pairing, a womanizer comes to see that the model who is in love with him is worth more than yet another conquest. And to complete the trio, two zany people finally realize they are a couple.
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Les fortiches
Title: Les fortiches
Character: Riri and JoJo
Released: January 4, 1961
Type: Movie
During a bus tour of Marseille, a hold-up takes place in front of the passengers. Odette, a journalist and herself a passenger, decides to report on the pegre scene by meeting the man responsible for the hold-up. After a great deal of peripety, she manages to make her report.
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Love and the Frenchwoman
Title: Love and the Frenchwoman
Character: Le professeur Dufieux (L'Enfance)
Released: September 16, 1960
Type: Movie
The seven stages in the life of the modern Frenchwomen are disclosed by seven directors in a witty way: 1 - Childhood, 2 - Adolescence, 3 - Virginity, 4 - Marriage, 5 - Adultery, 6 - Divorce, 7 - The Single Woman.
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Easy Come Easy Go
Title: Easy Come Easy Go
Character: Edouard
Released: May 26, 1960
Type: Movie
Édouard and Félix, two inseparable friends, live off the times and do odd jobs, sharing a tiny apartment in Montmartre with Laurence, Félix's sister, a model in a fashion house who alone supports the trio.
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Mum's the Word
Title: Mum's the Word
Character: Martin
Released: April 26, 1960
Type: Movie
Martin is a nurse in a private clinic in Paris. The victim of a serious concussion, an unidentified casualty, arrives in the emergency room one night. He is operated on immediately. When he wakes up, half-unconscious, he tells Martin a confused story about stealing jewels from a maharajah visiting Marseille... before falling into total amnesia. Real and fake policemen interrogate Martin, gangsters kidnap him to get him to reveal precious information, but... the nurse keeps his mouth shut!
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Robinson et le triporteur
Title: Robinson et le triporteur
Character: Antoine Peyralout
Released: March 2, 1960
Type: Movie
A modern re-telling of the Robinson Crusoe story. But, this time, our hero is a macguivering expert. So he creates himself a modern paradise based on his beloved delivery tricycle that we saw in the previous movie"The tricyclist".
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The Dreadful
Title: The Dreadful
Character: Fernand Mouchette
Released: September 10, 1959
Type: Movie
César Dandieu is an honest cashier in an oil company, and Fernand Mouchette an absent-minded inventor. The latter comes to propose a new type of carburetor to the company when César has to hand in the day's takings to his superior.
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You Have Nothing to Declare?
Title: You Have Nothing to Declare?
Character: Désiré Labaule
Released: August 29, 1959
Type: Movie
Married against her will to the Comte de Trivelin, Paulette Dupont shares her anxieties with her childhood friend Labaule. Warned too late to prevent the ceremony from taking place, Labaule follows the couple on their honeymoon and prevents the consummation of the marriage by repeatedly intruding on the couple's privacy. Put on notice by Paulette's parents to consummate the marriage, Trivelin - who believes himself to be at fault - consults a psychiatrist. The latter advises him to visit a lady of lesser virtue: Gloria. But Gloria's clientele includes Dupont himself - Paulette's father - and Labaule!
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The Indestructible
Title: The Indestructible
Released: April 29, 1959
Type: Movie
Augustin Robustal and his wife Lilane run the riverside café "Au joyeux gardon" and if the "gardon" (roach) is happy, the owners of the establishment are not as business is bad. Indeed the place is almost deserted except by four faithful patrons, Francis, a garage owner, Pivois, a man with a modest private income, Loulou, a radio technician and Boudoux, an undertaker. Now, the Robustals employ a fanciful but gifted waiter, Hippolyte. This one happens to be infatuated with Liliane, so much so that one day he takes out a life insurance in her favor. The four regulars' reaction is instant: they offer Robustal to execute Hippolyte, in exchange for a commission. But the trouble (at least for them!) is that Hippolyte is indestructible.
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The Magnificent Tramp
Title: The Magnificent Tramp
Character: Arsène, un clochard
Released: April 8, 1959
Type: Movie
Bum Archimède wants to spend the winter in prison, but to get there proves not to be that easy.
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The Little Professor
Title: The Little Professor
Character: Jérôme
Released: February 13, 1959
Type: Movie
Naturally optimistic and mischievous, Jérôme Aubin crossed the time of his adolescence, around 1945, with ease and good humor. The years passed. He married the pretty Françoise, a little neighbor he had known since the age of eight, and soon found himself a secondary school teacher, a little anxious at the thought of facing for the first time students he had been told were particularly turbulent. How will he master this new difficulty? Better than you'd think, thanks to a delicious optimism: boldly going against the grain of conventional methods, he surprises his young audience, thwarting the plans of the dissipated gossips and turning their most tendentious attitudes to his advantage. All this provokes astonishment and concern among the college's leaders. But Jérôme Aubin is no pushover, and even the dreaded general supervisor finds himself obliged to give in to his most audacious initiatives...
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A Dog, A Mouse and a Sputnik
Title: A Dog, A Mouse and a Sputnik
Character: Hubert, le Délégué du Gouvernement
Released: September 9, 1958
Type: Movie
A French animal lover protects a dog and a mouse wanted by Soviet scientists for their space program.
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School for Coquettes
Title: School for Coquettes
Character: Gégène
Released: May 21, 1958
Type: Movie
A young Parisian woman attends a school for coquettes in order to rise in society.
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Be Beautiful But Shut Up
Title: Be Beautiful But Shut Up
Character: l'inspecteur Jérôme, adjoint de Morel
Released: May 7, 1958
Type: Movie
A beautiful 18-year-old orphan escapes from a reformatory and hooks up with a gang of jewel smugglers, and decides on a life of crime. However, she falls for and marries a policeman, putting a crimp in her criminal career.
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Hardboiled Egg Time
Title: Hardboiled Egg Time
Character: Louis Stainval, laveur de voitures, gagnant à la Loterie
Released: March 19, 1958
Type: Movie
A shy, penniless employee of the garage owner Grillot, the gentle Louis wins $10 million in the lottery. Flitting along the banks of the Seine, he takes in Raoul Grandvivier, an unknown, untalented painter who has just botched a spectacular suicide intended to draw attention to himself. Raoul takes him back to his studio, where he meets his charming daughter Lucie. In order to see Lucie again, with whom he is in love, Louis offers to sell the paintings. In reality, he's the one paying for them, to make it look like a wealthy art lover.
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Honey, Scare Me
Title: Honey, Scare Me
Character: Jérôme Lenoir
Released: March 6, 1958
Type: Movie
A crime story writer comes to the French Alps for vacation. However, an envelope given by a strange man, would put him in a conflict between two teams of spies. A young blonde hotel burglar will help him get out of this mess.
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Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor
Title: Totò, Vittorio and the Doctor
Character: Egisto
Released: December 23, 1957
Type: Movie
The fake private detective Mike Spillone is hired by two old ladies to find out if Brigitte, the wife of their nephew Otello Bellomo, has a lover. Brigitte is a physician but the two aunts are unaware of the fact. While investigating, Mike and his assistant Johnny discover Brigitte with a prospective patient, the marquis De Vitti who was shot by the husband of the woman he tried to seduce. Afterwards Spillone finds her with her husband who he believes to be her lover.
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The Innocent with Forty Children
Title: The Innocent with Forty Children
Character: Le marchand d'échelles
Released: December 20, 1957
Type: Movie
Jean-François Robignac, a teacher, arrives at a provincial college to teach literature to ninth-graders. He quickly wins over the children with his youthful way with words. But his parents want to have him expelled when they learn that Jean-François uses slang words to rejuvenate writers' texts.
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The Tricyclist
Title: The Tricyclist
Character: Antoine Peyralout
Released: December 4, 1957
Type: Movie
Antoine Peyralout is baker Mouillefarine's tricycle delivery man. Comical and stuttering, Antoine shows more interest in the local soccer team than in professional integrity. A wedding cake pays the price for it and the young man is dismissed. Not dispirited in the least, Antoine decides to go to Nice, where his favorite team will play the final of the Cup. On his merry (and eventful) way, he has the opportunity to save a pretty camper, Popeline, with whom he falls in love. Once in Nice, he discovers that Dabek, the brilliant goal-keeper is not up to his task following bad news...
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White Smoke
Title: White Smoke
Character: Emile Gachit
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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Les Lavandières du Portugal
Title: Les Lavandières du Portugal
Character: Paul
Released: October 23, 1957
Type: Movie
Two French advertising agencies vying for a contract with a manufacturer of washers. The manager decides to hire the agency submitting the best advertising campaign. Jean Francois, head of the A.P.N., has the great idea of ​​looking for an authentic Portuguese washerwoman to present the ads. But competition, the O.P.I., led by the attractive Catherine, on a trip to Portugal, check the washer ideal. It is a shy girl who is happy with life in Portugal and refuses to accept the proposals of Catherine. And here intervenes Jean François, who pretends to fall for her to take her to Paris ..
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This Pretty World
Title: This Pretty World
Released: September 27, 1957
Type: Movie
Pépito runs a gang of thugs with authority. He has a natural son, Gaston, a professor of literature in Aix-en-Provence, whom he has hardly ever seen. Gaston announces himself for Christmas, and Pépito decides to make him look good by moving into his headquarters: a château where the crooks will be able to exercise their talents as composers.
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On Foot, on Horse, and on Wheels
Title: On Foot, on Horse, and on Wheels
Character: Hubert
Released: September 11, 1957
Type: Movie
When he learns that his daughter is to be engaged to the son of a rich businessman, Leon Martin realizes that extreme measures are needed to create a good impression.
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Fric-frac en dentelles
Title: Fric-frac en dentelles
Character: Le détective amateur
Released: July 24, 1957
Type: Movie
Peter Simon, a famous American writer, deserts his girlfriend Eva to live incognito at a small Normandy inn. Eva shams her own murder for revenge. Meanwhile, a young reporter, Françoise, has tracked Peter down. The news of the crime quickly spreads and, believing Peter to be the murderer, the village is in an uproar. Despite misadventures galore, everything turns out right and Peter takes Françoise on their honeymoon.
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A Friend of the Family
Title: A Friend of the Family
Character: Pierre Bernicaud
Released: July 2, 1957
Type: Movie
Pierre, an unhappy lover, is saved from suicide by his friend Paul. Extremely grateful, Pierre unloads his suitcases on his friend's family, who will soon regret not having let him commit suicide.
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Five Million in Cash
Title: Five Million in Cash
Character: Philémon de Montfilet
Released: April 11, 1957
Type: Movie
Philémon De Montfilet came first in his year in the prestigious engineering school "Poly Art Technique" because of an epidemic which brought all the other examination candidates down.
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Three Make a Pair
Title: Three Make a Pair
Character: Henri Valpreux, le réalisateur
Released: April 10, 1957
Type: Movie
Jojo’s ambition is to become a gangster, but to be admitted into a gang he has to prove himself by committing a daring act. To that end, he kills someone in broad daylight, not knowing that his victim is an actor who is playing a scene in a film directed by a cranky film-maker (Darry Cowl). The murder is caught on film, leading Commissaire Bernard (Michel Simon) to think that the killer will be easy to find. Sure enough, Bernard soon makes his arrest, a clown from a circus, but then he faces an almost insurmountable problem. The clown has an identical twin, who is also a clown with the same circus. Both men claim to be innocent…
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Love in Jamaica
Title: Love in Jamaica
Character: Pater Noster
Released: April 4, 1957
Type: Movie
Manuel, a landowner in Jamaica, arrives in Paris on vacation. There he meets Olivia, a Spanish popular singer and falls in love. Olivia leaves Paris to play in a casino of the Riviera and Manuel follows her there. Maxime lives in Cannes, uncle of Olivia, a trickster who poses as a magician and has great influence on Annie, an eccentric billionaire. At the same time, Simeon, Annie's secretary tries to bribe the magician to influence Annie to accept to marry him, but as Maxime also wants to marry her, Simeon uses the services of a private detective. Manuel receives a telegram asking him to return to Jamaica. So, Annie proposes them a cruise aboard his yacht and invites Olivia.
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Love Descends from the Sky
Title: Love Descends from the Sky
Character: Dédé
Released: April 3, 1957
Type: Movie
Pau is home to the famous "Red Berets". Four of them have forged close friendships: Dominique, a Corsican with the rank of master sergeant; Julien, a peasant; Dédé, a wild Parisian; Jean, a shy provincial. On free evenings, the four friends meet in a bar where Dominique is interested in the waitress and Dédé is in love with Paulette, the owner's daughter. One day, a car breakdown brings Jean into contact with a young girl from Paris: Brigitte. But Brigitte leaves again and Jean can't stop thinking about her. Because of their good behavior, the battalion to which the four men belong is chosen to represent their arm at the July 14th parade in Paris. In the capital, each of them tries to find their loved ones.
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Les lumières du soir
Title: Les lumières du soir
Released: November 7, 1956
Type: Movie
A young opera dancer tries to help her mother financially by performing in a dubious cabaret.
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Murderers and Thieves
Title: Murderers and Thieves
Character: Jules Henri Lardenois, le témoin égaré
Released: October 24, 1956
Type: Movie
A man becomes the lover of his former persecutor's wife.
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Paris, Palace Hôtel
Title: Paris, Palace Hôtel
Character: Hoyoyo
Released: October 18, 1956
Type: Movie
On Christmas Eve, Françoise, a manicurist at the Paris-Palace-Hotel, is invited to celebrate by Henri Delormel, an attractive fifty-something man. She later meets Gérard driving a Cadillac, and passes herself off as the wealthy Delormel's daughter. For his part, the young garage employee claims to own the vehicle.
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Slightly Ahead
Title: Slightly Ahead
Character: Le réceptionniste de l'hôtel Lutécia
Released: October 10, 1956
Type: Movie
A brilliant swindler, Olivier Parker, hires a small-time pipe salesman, Amédée, to swindle a naive provincial, Ferdinand Galiveau, a chicken merchant. Renamed Teddy Morton and now a jockey, Amédée must ride a mare on which Ferdinand, advised by Parker, must bet. Absolutely convinced of his mystification, Parker bets on an oddball who, of course, loses, while at the last minute Galiveau, having bet on an outsider, wins a fortune. All Parker has to do is find another sucker.
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Plucking the Daisy
Title: Plucking the Daisy
Character: Hubert Dumont
Released: July 25, 1956
Type: Movie
Due to an urgent need of money, Agnes participates in an amateur striptease contest. Her new boyfriend, Daniel, who is a reporter by profession, covers the contest for his magazine.
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La joyeuse prison
Title: La joyeuse prison
Released: June 29, 1956
Type: Movie
Benoit, the head guard of Clouville Prison, prefers to be liked than feared. This basic principle transforms the jail-house into a joyful prison, where all the inmates live amicably together. Among them, various colorful characters : a farmer, a poacher, a distiller, a forger, two pickpockets, a safe-cracker, a gangster and... a good-looking guy who pleases Rosette, Benoit's daughter, well. But too much leniency takes its toll : after Vauclin, the gangster, manages to escape and a complaint is filed against "the deplorable disorder reigning in the joyful prison", Benoit is given early retirement. He will know how to take advantage of his new status live a joyful life with his wife, his daughter and André, his son in law, in fact the nice-looking young prisoner who, in the meantime, has been cleared of all charges.
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These Sacred Holidays
Title: These Sacred Holidays
Character: Un voisin
Released: May 30, 1956
Type: Movie
Georges Pinson, who wants to spend his holidays on the riviera with his wife and his two kids,buys a car.His neighbors and the drivers who overtake him gibe at him.
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These Sacred Holidays
Title: These Sacred Holidays
Released: May 30, 1956
Type: Movie
Georges Pinson, who wants to spend his holidays on the riviera with his wife and his two kids,buys a car.His neighbors and the drivers who overtake him gibe at him.
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That Naughty Girl
Title: That Naughty Girl
Character: Man with Suitcase
Released: April 10, 1956
Type: Movie
Nightclub entertainer Jean Clery discovers too late that the 'baby' he agreed to take care of is a wild, shapely sex kitten.
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Les Duraton
Title: Les Duraton
Character: M. Mathieu, le surveillant général du collège
Released: March 2, 1956
Type: Movie
Jules Duraton is the headmaster of Chatelbourg's high school. He is happily married, has a teenage daughter named Solange, and everything would be for the best of all possible worlds if he and his family were not the namesakes of the protagonists of a famous comic series broadcast every day on Radio Monde "La Famille Duraton". Day after day, the real-life Duratons are made fun of because of their surname and Jules just can't take it any more. That is why he decides to sue the radio station responsible for his misfortune.
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Hello Smile!
Title: Hello Smile!
Character: le médecin
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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Title: Cinépanorama
Character: Self
Released: February 4, 1956
Type: TV
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Maid in Paris
Title: Maid in Paris
Character: Daniel, le casseur d'assiettes
Released: January 20, 1956
Type: Movie
Penelope Benson, known as Penny, is both romantic and determined. Put in a select boarding school by her mother, she takes advantage of a trip to Paris to get away from it all and live her own life. That's how she meets Antoine du Merlet, whom she takes for a young hoodlum when in fact he's a police superintendent. She spends the night at his place, which leads to a number of setbacks for poor Antoine, who is stigmatized by the headmistress, abandoned by his mistress and has to face a strip-tease session starring the unconscious Penny... But Penny's a spicy one and Antoine's a nice guy, so... !
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Four Days in Paris
Title: Four Days in Paris
Character: Félicien Dieudonné
Released: October 27, 1955
Type: Movie
Mario, a star ladies' hairdresser, has Nicolas as a friend and Gisèle as his mistress, who is coveted by Nicolas. To boost the salon's finances, Nicolas takes advantage of a billionaire, Madame Alvarez, by selling her a pseudo-rejuvenation serum invented by Mario. Mario suddenly falls in love with a provincial girl, Gabrielle, and pursues her to the South of France, where everyone meets up to finish the film in song.