Victor Lanoux

Victor Lanoux

Born: June 18, 1936
Died: May 4, 2017
in Paris, France
Victor Lanoux (born 18 June 1936 in Paris) is a French actor.He started out in cabaret, where he collaborated with Pierre Richard. He made one of his earliest film appearances in The Shameless Old Lady. He received two César nominations in 1976, for his roles in Cousin, cousine and Adieu poulet. His best known role outside of Europe is perhaps that of The Thief in the 1985 comedy classic National Lampoon's European Vacation.

Description above from the Wikipedia article  Victor Lanoux, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Movies for Victor Lanoux...

À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
Title: À la recherche de... Pierre Richard
Character: Self - Comédien, ami de Pierre Richard
Released: September 1, 2017
Type: Movie
bee
Dommages collatéraux
Title: Dommages collatéraux
Character: Régis Morel
Released: February 23, 2014
Type: Movie
bee
La Femme cachée
Title: La Femme cachée
Character: Marc Delvaux
Released: April 28, 2012
Type: Movie
Marc Delvaux, a famous retired police commissioner, lives alone in a large building in the Lyon countryside on the banks of the Saône. When a lawyer friend asks him to house Emma for a while, a young woman who has to testify, he accepts without suspecting that he has just signed his return to the field.
bee
Title: C à vous
Character: Self
Released: September 7, 2009
Type: TV
Every day live on FRANCE 5, Anne-Élisabeth Lemoine and her team receive those who make the news. In the second part, the program welcomes, around a meal prepared by a qualified chef, artists in promotion.
bee
Title: Les Enquêtes du commissaire Laviolette
Character: Modeste Laviolette, commissaire en retraite
Released: March 4, 2006
Type: TV
bee
Pierre Richard, l'art du déséquilibre
Title: Pierre Richard, l'art du déséquilibre
Character: Self
Released: December 7, 2005
Type: Movie
This documentary brings a lighting on the originality and the specificity of the actor-author Pierre Richard, improbable synthesis of the talking ant silent films, heir to Buster Keaton for the gestural one and the expression of the body, and to Groucho Marx for the puns and the burlesque verbal one. Conceived like a voyage inside the universe of Pierre Richard, "the Art of unsteadiness" makes it possible to better understand its step, its method of actor, director and gag man. With through many testimonies, extracts of films and archives documents, drawn up here the portrait of one of the large last burlesques.
bee
Belle grand mère, La Trattoria
Title: Belle grand mère, La Trattoria
Character: Grégoire, dit « Pacha »
Released: January 14, 2003
Type: Movie
bee
A Hell of a Day
Title: A Hell of a Day
Character: Maurice Degombert
Released: October 24, 2001
Type: Movie
Some days turn out to be simply unforgettable. For Marie, it all starts with a pregnancy test… that proves positive, a car accident and being fired from her job... For Hortense, mobile phone in hand, the frantic quest for sexual satisfaction begins in a traffic jam... For both Luis and Maurice, the unexpected appearance of a loved one pitches them into a world of dreams and nightmares. While some of the characters know each other, others come into contact by chance. One woman profits from all this, the other is shattered. One will have gone looking for trouble, the other will have asked for nothing. There'll be no fatalities.
bee
La Position de l'escargot
Title: La Position de l'escargot
Released: March 31, 1999
Type: Movie
Tunisian-born Myriam, a Sephardic beauty, lives in Montreal. Théo, her grad-student boyfriend, breaks up with her, and she's desolate. She house-sits for a friend for several weeks: during that time, her father arrives looking for her after 20 years, Théo realizes he misses her, and she meets the quirky Lou, a poetry-spouting squatter who introduces himself by clipping a lock of her hair during a movie; he later breaks into her flat to chat with her. She's angry with her father, confused by Théo, and delighted with Lou, whose free spirit and undemanding attention inspire her. Working out her feelings about her father gives her to key to decide what to do next.
bee
Les Grandes Bouches
Title: Les Grandes Bouches
Character: Armand
Released: February 24, 1999
Type: Movie
This is a suspense drama about Esther, Lamar, and Zed, three friends who live together. Tired of having financial problems, they decide to hit it big somehow. They visit Armand, a former 'Godfather' who has now retired. They soon realize that, in contrast to their world of easy living with few responsibilities, Armand's world belongs to the underground with its own code of behavior. Their involvement in that world brings them face to face with events they had never imagined before.
bee
Belle Grand-Mère
Title: Belle Grand-Mère
Character: Pacha
Released: October 6, 1998
Type: Movie
bee
Title: Vivement dimanche
Character: Self
Released: September 20, 1998
Type: TV
bee
L'Alambic
Title: L'Alambic
Character: Amédée
Released: May 9, 1998
Type: Movie
bee
Title: Louis la Brocante
Character: Louis Rouman
Released: January 24, 1998
Type: TV
bee
Title: Louis la Brocante
Character: Louis Roman, brocanteur
Released: January 24, 1998
Type: TV
bee
Les Démons de Jésus
Title: Les Démons de Jésus
Character: Jo
Released: January 1, 1997
Type: Movie
Set in the late 1960s, a family of Gypsies live in a dilapidated pavilion in the western suburbs of Paris.
bee
Je m'appelle Régine
Title: Je m'appelle Régine
Character: Joseph
Released: May 17, 1996
Type: Movie
This TV movie is adapted from the memoirs of the singer Régine, in which she recounts her youth and her beginnings in the music hall.
bee
Lifeline
Title: Lifeline
Character: Lucien Basso
Released: May 15, 1996
Type: Movie
After her daughter is kidnapped by white slave traders, a mother enlists the aid of a world war 2 vet and a boat captain. Together they hunt down the kidnappers.
bee
Title: Maria des Eaux-Vives
Character: Alexandre
Released: December 25, 1993
Type: TV
bee
Le bal des Casse-pieds
Title: Le bal des Casse-pieds
Character: Frank Salvage
Released: February 12, 1992
Type: Movie
A tolerant veterinarian turns the other cheek when annoyed but changes his nature when he falls in love.
bee
Title: RG Renseignements généraux
Character: Roger Goupil, dit "R.G."
Released: December 10, 1989
Type: TV
bee
Venetian Red
Title: Venetian Red
Character: Le grand inquisiteur
Released: September 20, 1989
Type: Movie
Venice. March 1735. The carnival is in full swing Everybody's happy mood and the lively streets are filled with musicians, mimes, clowns and acrobats of pickpockets who practice their craft each, displaying a colorful rainbow and sounds. At every corner, there is something going on that should not be missed - especially if it's something forbidden. However, some people are concerned about something else. One is Carlo Goldoni young lawyer of 27 years, he dreams only theater and he thinks only the part that wants to ride. Alas, the money was also hard to find at that time than now. His two friends, Antonio Vivaldi and Gian Battista Tiepolo are better known than him but they are also looking for this rare bird: a patron, who was not on ONLY the desire but also the means to sponsor a work of art.
bee
L'Invité surprise
Title: L'Invité surprise
Character: Charles Mazzena
Released: August 23, 1989
Type: Movie
During the broadcast of a live game show, a surprise guest is shot by an armed assassin.The victim, Martin Gaillard, recounts the bizarre series of events that led to this extraordinary denouement.
bee
Title: Nulle part ailleurs
Character: Self
Released: August 31, 1987
Type: TV
bee
Sale destin
Title: Sale destin
Character: François Marboni
Released: January 14, 1987
Type: Movie
Francois Marboni is a butcher who is being blackmailed for having an affair with the prostitute Rachel in this black comedy. He decides to hire a hit man when the blackmailer demands that he start cutting his profit margin to the bone. Francois soon becomes a target of the hitman he hired.
bee
Scene of the Crime
Title: Scene of the Crime
Character: Maurice
Released: May 16, 1986
Type: Movie
In the woods, a 13-year-old boy is grabbed by an escaped convict and told to bring money later that day. The boy does as he's told, only to be attacked by the convict's partner. A murder ensues, and through happenstance, the murderer and the boy's mother form an alliance. All this takes place in four days during which the boy has his first communion, his separated parents face each other amidst grandmother's hopes they'll reunite, the grandfather just wants to go fishing, the school's chaplain complains about the boy's behavior, and the convicts' shared girlfriend comes, gun in hand, to help them escape to Tangier. The mother's surprising decisions complete the story.
bee
La Smala
Title: La Smala
Character: Robert
Released: August 29, 1984
Type: Movie
When the mother of a "tribe" of five children leaves for good, their inept father is not sure how to keep the family clothed and fed, and without the help of his neighbor Simone, he would be nowhere. She is attracted to him but eventually gives up on the relationship. Meanwhile, the father grabs his brood and they take off for Paris in search of the wife. But Simone accidentally ends up on the same train...
bee
The Cheat
Title: The Cheat
Character: Commissaire Michel Verta
Released: August 8, 1984
Type: Movie
In the docks of Bordeaux a well-known homosexual was murdered. Police Inspector Michel Verta starts investigating, when he falls in love with Bernard, a handsome young musician. This not only threatens his family life but also his integrity, for he is married with a child and Bernard is one of the murder suspects.
bee
Thieves After Dark
Title: Thieves After Dark
Character: Insp. Farbet
Released: February 27, 1984
Type: Movie
A crime story set in Paris about a Bonnie-and-Clyde couple -- how they got together and how they are pursued for a murder they never committed.
bee
Louisiana
Title: Louisiana
Character: Charles de Vigors
Released: January 25, 1984
Type: Movie
Virginia Tregan returns to her home in the U.S. Deep South from a sojourn in Paris only to discover that her family plantation and its holdings have been lost. She determines to recoup her family's fortune.
bee
Dog Day
Title: Dog Day
Character: Horace
Released: January 10, 1984
Type: Movie
A criminal shows up at a farmhouse with the law on his heels and several million dollars in his possession.
bee
Un dimanche de flics
Title: Un dimanche de flics
Character: Franck
Released: October 31, 1983
Type: Movie
Two policemen, Franck and Rupert, intervene in a Parisian heliport where drugs are exchanged for a large sum of money. They decide to keep the loot and find themselves fighting with the mafia.
bee
Stella
Title: Stella
Character: Le Suisse
Released: July 13, 1983
Type: Movie
During the Second World War, Yvon joins the Gestapo to save his Jewish girlfriend, Stella, from deportation. When France is liberated, he has to answer for his past. Hunted, he decides to escape to Spain, but Stella refuses to go with him.
bee
Is There a Frenchman in the House?
Title: Is There a Frenchman in the House?
Character: Horace Tumelat
Released: April 28, 1982
Type: Movie
An official's earlier rise to power had some sordid aspects that are about to be uncovered by the death of his uncle. While he is trying to contain any potential scandal, the man becomes enamored of the daughter of his uncle's maid. This new romance inspires him to forget worries about a public image and focus on a new life -- not any easy objective when unsavory friends and foes have their own agendas in mind.
bee
Boulevard des assassins
Title: Boulevard des assassins
Character: Charles Vallorba
Released: March 29, 1982
Type: Movie
After a messy divorce, a struggling writer takes a holiday on the French Riviera, where he decides to investigate a series of mysterious incidents.
bee
Title: Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 1982
Type: TV
bee
La Revanche
Title: La Revanche
Character: Alfred Jouvert
Released: December 16, 1981
Type: Movie
Jeanne Jouvert, a crime writer, has won the Quai des Orfèvres prize. Her publisher devises a clever publicity ploy that results in her husband, Alfred, head of the anti-gang squad, being honored in her place. The policeman finds himself quite comfortable as a best-selling author and takes advantage of the situation. Tired of having been submissive for too long, Jeanne plans her revenge. She asks for help from her friend Anne Beaufort, herself disappointed by her husband, who pretends to help Third World countries by selling them weapons. The two of them will prove what they are capable of by organizing a hold-up of the central post office in Paris.
bee
Une sale affaire
Title: Une sale affaire
Released: February 25, 1981
Type: Movie
Novak is a police inspector to whom any means is fair in getting evidence on criminals - especially drug dealers. He is after a drug ring that includes a city official and desperately needs evidence to bring the corrupt politician to trial, and to close down the ring. To that end, he involves Helene, the politician's secretary, causing her intensive emotional stress as he destroys her home life and unintentionally costs the life of her sister. By the time events have completed their course, the inspector has a chance to help Helene back to normalcy, and to reflect on the ultimate worth of his methods.
bee
Retour en force
Title: Retour en force
Character: Adrien Blausac
Released: January 1, 1980
Type: Movie
Released after 8 years in prison, Adrien finds his family home. He discovers that his wife Teresa has moved in with Roger, and his children make the 400 blows and his former accomplices are not decided to give him his share of the booty.
bee
Make Room for Tomorrow
Title: Make Room for Tomorrow
Character: Ben Oppenheim
Released: June 6, 1979
Type: Movie
Four generations of Oppenheim men gather in Paris for Isaac's 90th birthday. He's "Romeo," still a lady's man, waiting to hear from a woman to whom he has proposed, threatening suicide if she says no. They gather at Isaac's grandson's, Ben, who lives with Peggy and their son Mathias who's 10. Joining them, from Israel, is Isaac's son Elie. Against a backdrop of Elie's attempts to call his ex-wife, Ben and Peggy's marital difficulties, Mathias's budding sexuality, everyone's love of chess and practical jokes, Ben's house (shifting dangerously on its foundation), and the twentieth-century struggles of the Jews, the film explores their relationships and Isaac's aging.
bee
The Dogs
Title: The Dogs
Character: Dr Henry Ferret
Released: March 7, 1979
Type: Movie
After several inhabitants of a new city were bitten by dogs, a young doctor tries to stop to the climb of violence.
bee
Such a Lovely Town...
Title: Such a Lovely Town...
Character: Stéphane Bertin
Released: February 28, 1979
Type: Movie
Stephane (Victor Lanoux) is the mayor of a small village. He is also the manager of the tannery which provides the inhabitants with work. In a fit of anger, he kills his wife (Edith Scob). A judge (Jean Carmet) tries to prove his culpability, but it's not an easy task, because there is a political and social pressure.
bee
Out of It
Title: Out of It
Character: Martial Gaulard, le condamné à mort
Released: October 10, 1978
Type: Movie
The lawyer is visiting a prison to meet with a violent criminal who has been condemned to death. During the visit, things turn bad, there is a riot where prisoners escape and the criminal escapes taking a lawyer hostage.
bee
One Wild Moment
Title: One Wild Moment
Character: Jacques
Released: December 21, 1977
Type: Movie
Pierre, 44, contentedly divorced, takes his teen daughter to the Côte d'Azur along with his friend Jacques and Jacques' own teen daughter, Françoise. On the topless beaches of Saint-Tropez, Jacques and Pierre discuss marriage and being parents. Then, in a wild moment at a nighttime party, Françoise starts playing with Pierre, and one thing leads to another: they become lovers. After a couple of trysts, Pierre wants out, but Françoise declares her love for him and wants to tell her father about it. She does, but leaves out Pierre's name, so Jacques enlists Pierre's help in identifying who seduced his daughter. What will Pierre do?
bee
We Will All Meet in Paradise
Title: We Will All Meet in Paradise
Character: Boulifet, dit « Bouly »
Released: November 9, 1977
Type: Movie
Having fortuitously discovered a photograph in which Marthe embraces someone unknown, Étienne Dorsay becomes jealous and imagines various stratagems to identify the lover. In the meantime, he and his friends acquire a weekend house for a very low price.
bee
Servant and Mistress
Title: Servant and Mistress
Character: Jerome
Released: March 2, 1977
Type: Movie
When a rich man' dies and his maid Maria unexpectedly becomes his heir, she is now the mistress of the man's household. In order to get revenge on the man's nephew Jerome, for slights on her person which he committed while she was but a maid, she has kept him on as her personal valet. The two of them engage in a form of rivalry bordering on warfare, because the nephew thinks he should have gotten the money. However, every mean trick she plays on him makes her feel even worse, because he accepts them all without a qualm.
bee
Le Passé simple
Title: Le Passé simple
Character: François
Released: January 1, 1977
Type: Movie
When François' wife Cecile was leaving him because of his affairs with other women, she had an auto accident. In this drama, he makes uses of her amnesia to try to win her back and misleads her at every turn in her quest to recover her memories.
bee
A Woman at Her Window
Title: A Woman at Her Window
Character: Michel Boutros
Released: November 10, 1976
Type: Movie
Greece, 1936. An aristocratic woman engages in a series of loveless affairs before finding herself falling for a political activist.
bee
Pardon Mon Affaire
Title: Pardon Mon Affaire
Character: Bouly
Released: September 22, 1976
Type: Movie
On an otherwise normal day, Étienne, a happily married man and a good father, sees something that stops him dead in his tracks: a gorgeous woman in a billowing red dress. Long after she has left his vision, her memory continues to haunt his mind. He falls instantly in love with her and tries everything to get to know her better. Helping Étienne snare his elusive lady in red are his three bumbling buddies, which all have secret affairs and/or cheat on their wives.
bee
Title: 30 millions d'amis
Character: Self
Released: January 6, 1976
Type: TV
bee
The French Detective
Title: The French Detective
Character: Pierre Lardatte
Released: December 10, 1975
Type: Movie
When political thugs murder an opponent's volunteer and also kill a cop, chief inspector Verjeat believes the politician who hired them is as guilty as the murderous goon. Verjeat's pursuit of the councilman, Lardatte, gets him a warning from his superiors. When he embarrasses Lardatte while disarming a hostage (the dead volunteer's father), Verjeat is told he's being transferred within a week. He speeds up his hunt for the goon and, with Lefévre, one of his young detectives, he engineers a complicated scheme to buy more time before the transfer. How should Verjeat play out his values of honor and duty?
bee
Cousin, Cousine
Title: Cousin, Cousine
Character: Ludovic
Released: November 19, 1975
Type: Movie
Two distant cousins meet at a wedding banquet for an elderly couple. Over time, a close friendship develops between them, but their spouses begin to think that they are more than just friends.
bee
Mad Enough to Kill
Title: Mad Enough to Kill
Character: Georges
Released: August 20, 1975
Type: Movie
A girl from an asylum is engaged as nurse to a small, spoiled orphan boy, whose uncle has evil designs on him, and who hopes to kill him and cast the blame on the girl.
bee
The Common Man
Title: The Common Man
Character: le costaud
Released: February 26, 1975
Type: Movie
Georges Lajoie is a Parisian café owner. As every summer, Georges, his wife Ginette and grown-up son Léon go on holiday to Loulou's campsite, where they meet up with the Schumacher family (whose father is a bailiff) and the Colin family (who sells bras in the markets). This year, their peace is slightly disturbed by the proximity of a construction site where foreign workers are employed. Xenophobic comments are made. One evening at the ball, a fight breaks out between Lajoie, Albert Schumacher and two algerian immigrant workers...
bee
Title: Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 1975
Type: TV
A talk show presented by Michel Drucker
bee
Death of a Guide
Title: Death of a Guide
Character: Maurice Merinchal
Released: January 4, 1975
Type: Movie
bee
La Ligne de démarcation
Title: La Ligne de démarcation
Character: Ernest
Released: December 3, 1973
Type: Movie
bee
Two Men in Town
Title: Two Men in Town
Character: Marcel
Released: October 24, 1973
Type: Movie
A former bank robber is released after 10 years in prison. He gets help from a social-worker, but gets harassed by an old cop from his past.
bee
I Don't Know Much, But I'll Say Everything
Title: I Don't Know Much, But I'll Say Everything
Character: Team Worker with Pierre
Released: September 11, 1973
Type: Movie
Pierre Gastié-Leroy is the son of a wealthy director of a factory of weapon manufacturing. Despite his parents, two generous uncles and a bishop godfather who try to inculcate him the rigid values of his social level, Pierre is a dreamer, antimilitaristic, social educator who dreams of saving three thugs, his "little guys" at the limit of delinquency. After several resounding failures that sent him to prison, Pierre is ordered by his father to join his factory to direct the social service. Tired of the venality of his father and the foolishness of the "little guys", Pierre hires them at the factory...
bee
The Dominici Affair
Title: The Dominici Affair
Character: Gustave Dominici
Released: March 7, 1973
Type: Movie
In August 1952, a family of British tourists is found by the roadside in Haute Provence, brutally murdered. In the ensuing, very public, investigation a local landowner, 75 year old Gaston Dominici, is arrested for the murders, having been denounced by his sons. Under police interrogation, Dominici confesses to have killed the family and it looks certain that he will be charged, tried and sentenced to death. But then the case begins to collapse. The old man retracts his confession and the lack of evidence against him becomes apparent…
bee
The Suburbs Are Everywhere
Title: The Suburbs Are Everywhere
Character: Georges
Released: February 22, 1973
Type: Movie
He is a sales rep. She is a secretary. They live in the suburbs but she works in Paris. They don't see much of each other and spend much of their time in commuter trains. They try desperately to change job locations to be more often together, but... The plot is not the important thing in the film ; what makes it emblematic of the early and mid-seventies is the insouciant atmosphere. The '74 oil crisis had not yet morphed into a recession, and life was good - even though it was as hard as ever to find a home near one's workplace (or the reverse) ! Marthe Keller and Jacques Higelin are both excellent. The movie is not an all-time great, but it captures the "zeitgeist" of French life in the Seventies.
bee
Title: Samedi soir
Character: Self
Released: January 9, 1971
Type: TV
bee
You Only Love Once
Title: You Only Love Once
Character: René
Released: June 19, 1968
Type: Movie
A little girl tries to reconcile her separated parents.
bee
Normal Life
Title: Normal Life
Released: June 30, 1966
Type: Movie
The dramatic affair between Dr. Jean-Pierre Cazot and a young French woman, Laurence, a survivor of a death camp, who is expecting an unwanted child.
bee
J'ai les peintres
Title: J'ai les peintres
Character: L'autre peintre
Released: January 1, 1966
Type: Movie
bee
The Shameless Old Lady
Title: The Shameless Old Lady
Character: pierre
Released: March 24, 1965
Type: Movie
Madame Bertini, a newly widowed 70-year-old miser, has lived a sheltered life in squalour. She determines to venture into the modern world and have as much fun as possible, and in doing so finds that she loves it. She blows her life savings, much to the disapproval of the young people around her.