Tsilla Chelton

Tsilla Chelton

Born: June 21, 1919
Died: July 15, 2012
in Jerusalem, Palestine (now Israel)
Tsilla Chelton (21 June 1919 – 15 July 2012) was a French actress of theatre and film, famous for playing the main role in 1990 film Tatie Danielle, in which she was nominated for a Cesar award and as an elderly Dominican in Soeur Sourire.

Tsilla Schilton was born in Jerusalem but spent her childhood in Belgium. The daughter of French parents of Jewish heritage, she lost her mother at the age of 6, and followed her father to Antwerp. She moved to Switzerland during World War II before settling in Paris. Married to decorator Jacques Noël, she had 4 children.

Attracted by theatre, she started acting in Marcel Marceau's troupe.

Her career was mainly in theatre, where she acted in the eleven works of Eugène Ionesco, earning a Molière Award for best comedian in Ionesco's The Chairs. She premiered the plays of Bertold Brecht in France, with Michel Serrault, Michel Piccoli and Laurent Terzieff.

On the big screen, she became famous at 71 for her work in the 1990 Étienne Chatiliez film Tatie Danielle, where she played the title role as a hateful and cantankerous old lady. She taught comedy from 1964 onwards and was the teacher of the actors of the Splendid troupe, including Gérard Jugnot, Michel Blanc, and Thierry Lhermitte.

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

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Persecution
Title: Persecution
Character: La vieille dame
Released: October 17, 2009
Type: Movie
The solitary Daniel and Sonia share an uneasy love/hate relationship. Daniel's life is disrupted by the appearance of a stranger that proceeds to insinuate himself in his life. The man's persistence takes its toll on Daniel and Sonia, leaving Daniel alone with nagging questions of "Why?"
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Sister Smile
Title: Sister Smile
Character: La doyenne des Dominicaines
Released: April 29, 2009
Type: Movie
A biography of the Belgian nun Jeannine Deckers, who became a popular singer in the early 1960s and struggled with the contradiction between the church and her true self.
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Pandora's Box
Title: Pandora's Box
Character: Nusret
Released: September 6, 2008
Type: Movie
When an aging matriarch starts showing signs of dementia, her dysfunctional family in Istanbul must navigate a minefield of unresolved issues to care for her.
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Le Petit Fût
Title: Le Petit Fût
Character: Mère Magloire
Released: March 11, 2008
Type: Movie
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Title: Melting Pot Café
Character: Elizabeth
Released: April 17, 2007
Type: TV
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Title: Chez Maupassant
Character: la mère Magloire
Released: March 6, 2007
Type: TV
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Zone libre
Title: Zone libre
Character: Madame Schwartz
Released: January 16, 2007
Type: Movie
In 1942, the southern part of France is not yet occupied by the Nazis, but administrated by the collaborating French government in Vichy. A Parisian Jewish family flees to this "Free Zone" in Charente, where an old farmer gives them shelter. But when the Germans invade the Free Zone, their lives are at stake again.
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The Pleasure Is All Mine
Title: The Pleasure Is All Mine
Character: Gaby
Released: August 18, 2004
Type: Movie
A beautiful, self-centered young woman's life turns upside down when she suddenly "loses her clitoris" (i.e. her ability to have an orgasm).
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Le Choix de Macha
Title: Le Choix de Macha
Character: Hortense
Released: January 21, 2004
Type: Movie
An emancipated young woman has a string of one-night stands, out of fear of commitment. Until the day she meets Eduardo... She confides her feelings to her grandmother in the greatest secrecy, but, by mistake, the latter reveals the love relationship that her granddaughter has with her new lover. The situation suddenly becomes complicated.
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The Pact of Silence
Title: The Pact of Silence
Character: Mère Joseph
Released: March 5, 2003
Type: Movie
Everyone has a secret. Twins Sarah and Gaëlle near 25; for ten years, Sarah has been a fundamentalist Carmelite in a Brazilian convent, and Gaëlle has been in prison for a heinous crime. Sarah comes to the attention of Fr. Joachim, a priest and physician; he can find no cause for her debilitating abdominal pain. When Sarah and he are transferred to Paris, Joachim looks for Gaëlle, now on probation and finding no respite from society's approbation. An enterprising reporter is digging into Gaëlle's life, the mother superior of Sarah's convent hovers over her, and Joachim investigates the phenomenon of twin's symmetry. Is there any release from the past?
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The Musketeer
Title: The Musketeer
Character: Madame Lacross
Released: September 7, 2001
Type: Movie
Young D'Artagnan seeks to join the legendary musketeer brigade and avenge his father's death - but he finds that the musketeers have been disbanded.
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Family Pack
Title: Family Pack
Character: Lea
Released: July 4, 2001
Type: Movie
A young woman tries to ease herself out of the closet without terrifying her parents in the process in this comedy-drama. The year is 1969, and Sacha (Marie Bunel) is a young Belgian woman living in Canada. Sacha's family sent her to Canada to attend medical school, but she hasn't had the heart to tell them that she's dropped out of college to devote herself to her new interest in photography. Sacha also hasn't told her parents that she's a lesbian -- and that she has a new girlfriend, Odile (Macha Grenon). Odile is tired of being kept a secret, and insists that Sacha tell her parents the truth before American astronauts land on the moon in a few months -- or else. Sacha flies home to Belgium for a visit, planning to come clean to her folks, but she discovers they've arranged a huge welcome home party for the entire neighborhood. With everyone so excited that the soon-to-be-doctor is paying them a visit, Sacha wonders when the time will be right to give her family the news.
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Title: Vivement dimanche
Character: Self
Released: September 20, 1998
Type: TV
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The Thirst for Gold
Title: The Thirst for Gold
Character: Mémé Zezette
Released: August 31, 1993
Type: Movie
Urbain Donnadieu's first love is money. It's also his second, third and fourth love. The only reason he married - a tax inspector named Fleurette - was to avoid a fine for tax evasion. For several years, he has been stealing money from his construction company and buying gold bars with his ill-gotten gains. His plan is to deposit all this wealth in a Swiss Bank, where neither his wife - whom he is about to divorce - nor the French State can get at it. Accompanied by his money-grabbing Granny Zézette, Urbain heads off for Switzerland, with his gold concealed in the walls of a model house on the back of a trailer. Unfortunately, his scheme is threatened by his wife and his embittered ex-chauffeur, who are determined to get his money at any cost...
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Auntie Danielle
Title: Auntie Danielle
Character: Tatie Danielle
Released: April 4, 1990
Type: Movie
Tatie Danielle is a black comedy about a widow who is intent on ruining the lives of her great-nephew and his wife. Tsilla Chelton plays the title character, who mourns the death of her husband by tormenting everyone she meets. Eventually, she moves in with her nephew and his vain wife. Soon, her family is at war with Tatie, and takes off for Greece, leaving her in the care of Sandrine (Isabelle Nanty), an au pair who is as equally bitter as Tatie herself. At first the two don't get along, yet the two eventually become friends. However, Sandrine is invited to accompany an American student for an overnight stay at the beach, which would leave Tatie alone for a night. Angered, Tatie fires Sandrine, and while she is alone, she goes into deep depression, eventually setting the family's apartment on fire. The fire becomes a national story, with Tatie cast as a poor old lady and the family labeled as cruel and heartless villains.
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Charter 2020
Title: Charter 2020
Character: Simone Le Guen
Released: April 19, 1980
Type: Movie
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Peppermint Soda
Title: Peppermint Soda
Character: The General Supervisor
Released: December 14, 1977
Type: Movie
In the fall of 1963, Anne is becoming a teenager. She lives in Paris with her mother and her older sister, Frédérique. They're just back from summer at the beach with their father. School starts. A turbulent year awaits them both.
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At Night All Cats Are Crazy
Title: At Night All Cats Are Crazy
Character: Madame Banalesco
Released: November 23, 1977
Type: Movie
Playwright Charles Watson entertains his niece Lily by telling her about the adventures of Philibert.Both these people have something to do with Philibert.
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Title: Police Commissioner Moulin
Character: La grande-tante de Moulin
Released: August 4, 1976
Type: TV
The series follows the adventures of lighthearted Jean-Paul Moulin, a police Commissaire, and his team as they solve crimes.
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La adúltera
Title: La adúltera
Released: December 15, 1975
Type: Movie
With more than thirty years, Malena Fonseca is a spinster and provincial woman who, after coincidentally meeting a Frenchman named Lucien, also a thirty-something bachelor like her, decides to marry him. However, after that, and having moved to Madrid in the company of her unbearable and possessive mother-in-law, Malena will gradually discover that her husband is a very rational man whose zero interest in sex despairs her, making the woman feel attracted to the pharmacist in the corner and the hunky bread delivery man.
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The Restroom Robbery
Title: The Restroom Robbery
Character: Madame pipi
Released: January 22, 1975
Type: Movie
Max and Riton, 2 thieves make plan to steal money in a train station office. They will operate through the wall in the public toilets.
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Shanks
Title: Shanks
Character: Mrs. Barton
Released: October 9, 1974
Type: Movie
Malcolm Shanks is a sad and lonely man, deaf, mute and living with his cruel sister and her husband, who delight in making him miserable. His only pleasure, it seems, is in making and controlling puppets. Thanks to his skill, he is offered a job as a lab assistant to Dr. Walker, who is working on ways to re-animate dead bodies by inserting electrodes at key nerve points and manipulating the bodies as if they were on strings. When the professor suddenly dies one night, Shanks gets the idea to apply their experimental results to a human body, and then to start exacting some revenge.
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Title: Mort au jury
Character: Madame Muss-Leduran
Released: September 24, 1974
Type: TV
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Title: Le 16 à Kerbriant
Character: Blanche Lacassagne
Released: February 21, 1972
Type: TV
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Shéhérazade
Title: Shéhérazade
Character: la magicienne
Released: December 30, 1971
Type: Movie
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Ten Days' Wonder
Title: Ten Days' Wonder
Character: Mère Théo
Released: December 1, 1971
Type: Movie
Charles Van Horn, son of rich and powerful Théo Van Horn, calls upon his former teacher Paul Régis to help him solve the mystery of his recurring bouts of amnesia.
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The Wedding Ring
Title: The Wedding Ring
Character: Mme Duvernet
Released: January 15, 1971
Type: Movie
A vet tries to create his own Garden of Eden
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Distracted
Title: Distracted
Character: Madame Cliston
Released: December 9, 1970
Type: Movie
A comedy about an absent-minded man who works at a advertising company and topples from one problem to another.
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Les Gauloises bleues
Title: Les Gauloises bleues
Character: La directrice
Released: June 7, 1969
Type: Movie
The harsh life of a troubled young man provides the basis of this grim French tragedy that begins when the fellow stops into a shop to buy a pack of the title cigarettes. There he meets a pretty shop girl with whom he falls in love and eventually marries. It was a foolish choice, for the two cannot get along and constantly fight. Things get worse when the husband resumes his criminal activities and gets caught. The two are about to divorce when the woman gets pregnant. The time comes for their baby to be born and while sitting in the waiting room, the husband reflects upon his past activities, which are revealed via flashback.
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The Companions of Baal
Title: The Companions of Baal
Character: Une adoratrice de Cosmochronos
Released: July 29, 1968
Type: Movie
Journalist Claude Leroy (Jacques Champreux) reports that a secret society, The Companions of Baal, is behind a hold-up in the small town of Blaingirey. They are led by the Grand Maître Hubert de Mauvouloir (Jean Martin). An adorant of Lucifer, he aims to enslave the world. Accompanied by their acolyte, Pierrot Robichat (Gérard Zimmermann), and a young girl, Françoise Cordier (Claire Nadeau), Claude Leroy is determined to finally reveal the mysteries of the group's criminal enterprise.
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Very Happy Alexander
Title: Very Happy Alexander
Character: Mrs. Bouillot
Released: February 9, 1968
Type: Movie
Alexandre, a young and honest farmer, is oppressed by an authoritarian wife, who makes him work like a dog. When she dies in a car crash, he decides to stay in bed, absolutely free and inactive. Just a dog is occupied to carry food and newspapers to him.
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Public School
Title: Public School
Released: October 7, 1965
Type: Movie
A schoolteacher (Robert Dhéry) and his wife (Colette Brosset) use the couple's new car for a class field trip in this routine situation comedy. Soon the children are lost in this story written and directed by Jean L'Hôte taken from his own novel.
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The Big Swag
Title: The Big Swag
Released: July 9, 1965
Type: Movie
Louis Bourdin est employé à la RATP le jour, romancier la nuit, avec une forte prédilection pour le genre policier. Un jour, il rédige un polar situé dans l'univers de la RATP, boudé par les éditeurs. Le livre parvient alors aux yeux d'une bande de criminels...
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The Buddies
Title: The Buddies
Character: l'hôtelière
Released: January 15, 1965
Type: Movie
Seven old pals live inseparable lives, dividing their time between hilarious pranks and memorable drinking bouts. Bénin is the mastermind, Broudier the enforcer and Lesueur the prankster. One evening, a grandiose plan was hatched: to wreak havoc in two peaceful sub-prefectures: Ambert and Issoire. Broudier begins: in the middle of the night, disguised as a minister, he wakes up a barracks in Ambert and sets in motion a thunderous maneuver. The next day, disguised as a Dominican, Bénin climbed to the pulpit of the cathedral and delivered a sermon insulting Christian doctrine. The same day, in Issoire, the local authorities were preparing to unveil a statue of Vercingetorix. But the statue came to life, pelting the crowd with tomatoes: it was Lesueur. With their minds at rest, the friends headed off to the Côte-d'Or for a vacation. But already, one of them begins to perform a new prank.
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Bebert and the Train
Title: Bebert and the Train
Character: La voyageuse
Released: December 3, 1963
Type: Movie
The Martin family is shopping in a department store. Tiennot is responsible for looking after his little brother, Bébert, but he prefers to chase girls. On the train home, Tiennot leaves Bébert alone. On arrival, Bébert has disappeared. The Martin family sets out to find him.
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Sweet and Sour
Title: Sweet and Sour
Released: September 4, 1963
Type: Movie
Gerard, a young man from a "good family" dreams of becoming an actor. To do this, he follows everywhere his sister Frédérique who is infatuated with cinéma vérité.
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The Seven Deadly Sins
Title: The Seven Deadly Sins
Character: (segment "La colère") (uncredited)
Released: March 7, 1962
Type: Movie
Seven directors each dramatize one of the seven deadly sins in a short film. In "Anger," a domestic argument over a fly in the Sunday soup escalates into nuclear war. In "Sloth," a movie star would rather pay someone to tie his shoe than bend over to do it himself, and he can't be bothered to accept a starlet's sexual favors. In "Gluttony," a peasant family on its way to the funeral of a relative who died from indigestion stops regularly to eat and drink en route, arriving in time to eat some more. In "Greed," a high-class prostitute refunds the price of a cadet's lottery ticket. In "Pride," an unfaithful wife finds reason to reform. And so on through lust and envy.
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Title: The Nostradamus Agency
Released: October 9, 1950
Type: TV
This short-lived French TV series from 1950 features police investigations tinged with astrology. In nine episodes of about ten minutes each, in a humorous style, a duo of private detectives investigates a series of murders involving a marriage agency.
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On est loin d'avoir fini
Title: On est loin d'avoir fini
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie