Yvan Chiffre

Yvan Chiffre

Born: March 3, 1936
Died: September 27, 2016
in Rousson, Gard, France
Yvan Chiffre (3 March 1936 – 27 September 2016) was a French director, producer, and stunt coordinator. He is the father of Philippe Chiffre, Romain Chiffre and the grand father of César Chiffre.

He was the stunt coordinator of Thunderball and Triple Cross by Terence Young, Is Paris Burning? by René Clément, Z by Costa Gavras, Hotel Paradiso by Peter Glenville.

He was also the official stunt double of Jean Marais and Alain Delon, was stunt man on the Longest Day, and stunt double of Cary Grant in Charade, Sterling Hayden in Poppies Are Also Flowers, Eddie Constantine in Lucky Jo and many others...

He also contributed to major French films like Zorro by Duccio Tessari, La Grande Vadrouille by Gérard Oury, Le Cercle Rouge by Jean-Pierre Melville, and more than 200 others.

In 1992, he published an autobiography A l'ombre des stars, about his stuntman life.

In 2014, he received in Paris the UNESCO prize.

In 2017, the Academy Award, Oscars In Memoriam honors Yvan Chiffre for his life achievement.

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

Movies for Yvan Chiffre...

Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers
Title: Cheech & Chong's The Corsican Brothers
Character: Tax Collector #1
Released: July 27, 1984
Type: Movie
Two brothers who can feel each others' pain and pleasure mess up the French revolution.
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Le fou du roi
Title: Le fou du roi
Character: Taillevent
Released: May 16, 1984
Type: Movie
Dieudonné, poet and dreamer, is the opposite of his father, the famous D'Artagnan, as he hates walks and duels.
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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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Borsalino and Co.
Title: Borsalino and Co.
Released: October 23, 1974
Type: Movie
Marseille. Heaps of flowers and funeral wreaths... "A man who no longer defends his colors is no longer a man."
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Défense de savoir
Title: Défense de savoir
Released: August 29, 1973
Type: Movie
When a woman is accused of murder, the investigation slowly reveals numerous political connections. Laubret, the court-appointed defense lawyer, does everything in his power to expose the truth.
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The Black Flag Waves Over the Scow
Title: The Black Flag Waves Over the Scow
Released: October 13, 1971
Type: Movie
Victor, grocer and tyrannical boss, never stops telling his family about his seafaring past, although they never believe him. When his nephew wins a model-boat contest and is commissioned to build a full-scale boat, Victor tries to make his mark.
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Easy Down There!
Title: Easy Down There!
Released: August 30, 1971
Type: Movie
A priest gets a little hot under the collar when the wife he thought was dead unexpectedly returns.
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Le Cercle Rouge
Title: Le Cercle Rouge
Character: Policeman
Released: October 19, 1970
Type: Movie
When French criminal Corey gets released from prison, he resolves to never return. He is quickly pulled back into the underworld, however, after a chance encounter with escaped murderer Vogel. Along with former policeman and current alcoholic Jansen, they plot an intricate jewel heist. All the while, quirky Police Commissioner Mattei, who was the one to lose custody of Vogel, is determined to find him.
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Borsalino
Title: Borsalino
Released: May 19, 1970
Type: Movie
In 1930 Marseilles two small-time crooks join forces when they meet brawling over a woman. Starting with fixed horse races and fights, they start to find themselves doing jobs for the local gangster bosses. When they decide to go into the business for themselves, their easy-going approach to crime starts to change.
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Time of the Wolves
Title: Time of the Wolves
Character: L'homme de main du receleur (uncredited)
Released: January 21, 1970
Type: Movie
Patterning himself after the American gangster John Dillinger, the criminal (Robert Hossein) is tracked by the inspector (Charles Aznavour), a former childhood friend. Plenty of gunplay and psychology is used to trap the killer. His only tender moments are spent with his girlfriend Stella (Virna Lisi). Dillinger is cornered by the police and kills several innocent victims in a crowd during the shootout. The mob decides to take things into their own hands as they approach the doomed man with a noose when he runs out of bullets.
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The Sicilian Clan
Title: The Sicilian Clan
Character: Un Inspecteur (non crédité)
Released: December 5, 1969
Type: Movie
An ambitious mobster plans an elaborate diamond heist while seducing the daughter-in-law of a ruthless mob patriarch as a determined police commissioner closes in on all of them.
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Two Weeks in September
Title: Two Weeks in September
Released: June 7, 1967
Type: Movie
Story of a woman torn between her love for two different men.
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Sale temps pour les mouches
Title: Sale temps pour les mouches
Released: December 23, 1966
Type: Movie
Renowned atomic scientists are kidnapped on French soil. Inspector San-Antonio and his loyal deputy Bérurier infiltrate a gang suspected of involvement in the case, in order to trace the trail.
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Le solitaire passe à l'attaque
Title: Le solitaire passe à l'attaque
Released: June 30, 1966
Type: Movie
A powerful bomb is stolen and is set to explode in a populated area in less than 48 hours, unless French S.S. Agente, Roger Hanin can find and defuse it in time. Larry Anderson.
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Fantomas Unleashed
Title: Fantomas Unleashed
Character: Homme de main de Fantômas
Released: December 8, 1965
Type: Movie
In the second episode of the trilogy Fantômas kidnaps distinguished scientist professor Marchand with the aim to develop a super weapon that will enable him to menace the world. Fantômas is also planning to abduct a second scientist, professor Lefebvre.
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OSS 117: Mission for a Killer
Title: OSS 117: Mission for a Killer
Character: Un homme de main
Released: July 2, 1965
Type: Movie
A secret agent is dispatched to find a rare and valuable drug.
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Le Majordome
Title: Le Majordome
Released: March 24, 1965
Type: Movie
Léopold, valet de chambre to the avocat général Maître de Royssac, starts studying the penal code and, during his leave, becomes a judge in a "middle" court. His decisions are recognized as final. Léopold falls in love with Agnès, engaged to the two-faced Doctor Ventoux, who becomes "Le chat" when he plays the gangster. Léopold will help "Le chat" pull off the heist of the century, if he remains free to court Agnès. "Le Chat" doesn't play along. A fight breaks out between Léopold's gang and "Le Chat's" gang. The law must prevail.
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Fantomas
Title: Fantomas
Character: Homme de main de Fantômas
Released: November 4, 1964
Type: Movie
Fantômas is a man of many disguises. He uses maquillage as a weapon. He can impersonate anyone using an array of masks and can create endless confusion by constantly changing his appearance.
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License to Kill
Title: License to Kill
Released: June 16, 1964
Type: Movie
Didier Formenter, the French scientist, has just put the final touch on an invention that will be able to destroy to destroy any sort of flying apparatus. An international crime gang is very interested in stealing this equipement to sell it to the higher bidder of lawless nations. Menaced, the scientist, who was friends with Nick Carter's father, calls Nick for help. At Nice airport, Nick Carter escapes death, but that night he is unable to stop Formenter's murder. He suspects Bruno, Formenter's adoptive son, and Tonio, the owner of a bar near Formentier's home. Bruno is actually after Formenter's heritage, and for that he tries to kill Catherine, Formentier's granddaughter. Therefore, Nick Carter finds himself against more than a gang, but he will uncover the plots, in time to break every gangster apart.
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The Black Tulip
Title: The Black Tulip
Released: February 28, 1964
Type: Movie
Aristocrat Guillaume de Saint Preux leads a double life as a masked bandit known as the Black Tulip. The Black Tulip only robs rich aristocrats, so the local peasants regard him as a hero. Baron La Mouche is convinced Guillaume is the Tulip. During a robbery, he scars the Tulip's face, and hopes to use this to expose Guillaume, but Guillaume is one step ahead.
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The Gallant Musketeer
Title: The Gallant Musketeer
Character: Yvon
Released: February 21, 1964
Type: Movie
Set against the troubled period of the Wars of Religion in France, at a time when the three Henries (Henri III, Henri de Guise and Henri de Béarn) vied for the the throne, these new adventures of Pardaillan have the gallant musketeer defend the rightful king Henri III.Jean gives his full to thwart the Duke of Guise's attempts to have the king assassinated. A heartthrob more than ever, Pardaillan will awake serious interest in many a girl, at times becoming their prey like with Bianca Farnese, De Guise's agent.
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Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Jean-Marc
Title: Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Jean-Marc
Character: Christian
Released: January 31, 1964
Type: Movie
The story of the couple from the very first meeting to break up told from a view of a man, Jean-Marc. The film shares the same plot with "Françoise ou La vie conjugale", that tells the same story from another perspective.
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Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Françoise
Title: Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Françoise
Character: Christian
Released: January 31, 1964
Type: Movie
The story of the couple from the very first meeting to break up told from a view of a woman, Francoise. The film shares the same plot with "Jean-Marc ou La vie conjugale", that tells the same story from another perspective.
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Your Turn, Darling
Title: Your Turn, Darling
Released: September 25, 1963
Type: Movie
In this French espionage thriller, Eddie again plays the role that made him a star, Lemmy Caution. Lots of two fisted action.
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OSS 117 Is Unleashed
Title: OSS 117 Is Unleashed
Character: Agent Thibaud
Released: June 18, 1963
Type: Movie
An American agent disappears after a scuba diving reconnaissance mission in Corsica. The Secret Service sends agent code name OSS 117 to investigate.
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The Iron Mask
Title: The Iron Mask
Released: October 26, 1962
Type: Movie
The story of the Three Musketeers, D'Artagnan, and the imprisonment in an iron mask of the identical twin of the King of France, Louis XIV.
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Clash of Steel
Title: Clash of Steel
Released: October 18, 1962
Type: Movie
In 16th-century France, the Chevalier de Pardaillan rescues the beautiful gypsy "Violetta", in reality Isabelle, daughter of the Comte d'Entraigues and prey of his sworn enemy, the Duke Henri de Guise. Pardaillan and Isabelle fall in love, and the valiant chevalier will not rest until the advent of King Henri IV.
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The Mysteries of Paris
Title: The Mysteries of Paris
Character: A sea buckthorn (uncredited)
Released: October 4, 1962
Type: Movie
The Marquis Rodolphe de Sombrueil accidentally runs over a working man with his carriage and helps his widow -- unjustly accused of robbery -- to find her missing daughter.
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Blood on His Sword
Title: Blood on His Sword
Character: Un baladin (uncredited)
Released: September 6, 1961
Type: Movie
Charles le Temeraire asks in marriage Jeanne de Beauvais, daughter of King Louis XI, wishing to get her valuable lands in dowry. The King is wise to this, and since his daughter does not feel inclined to accept, he refuses. Charles sets up a plan to abduct the prince, in a way that the suspicions will fall upon Robert de Neuville, a noble enamoured of the princess. Robert manages to free her from the castle where she was being kept. Charles keeps setting traps, and managing people to perjure against Jeanne, and the King himself. Finally, Jeanne escapes alive from a pack of wolves, who set watching the lady alone in the snow covered woods, instead of attacking her. Charles does yet accuse her of being a witch - wishing to have her dead rather than being the wife of Robert... Robert will be her champion in a Judgement of God. Will the 'miracle of the wolfs' repeat itself, or fearless Charles defeat Robert in the sword duel?