Francis Huster

Francis Huster

Born: December 8, 1947
in Neuilly-sur-Seine, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France
Francis Huster (born 8 December 1947) is a French stage, film and television actor, film director and scriptwriter. Francis Huster was born in Neuilly-sur-Seine. He studied acting at the Conservatoire of the 17th arrondissement of Paris, at the Cours Florent and at the Conservatoire national (1968), where he had René Simon and later Antoine Vitez as teachers. He joined the Comédie-Française in 1971, became sociétaire in 1977, and left this institution in 1982. He later founded the theater group Compagnie Francis Huster, of which the following actors have been members: Clotilde Courau, Valérie Crunchant, Christiana Réali, Estelle Skornik, Valentine Varela, Olivier Martinez, Mathieu Carriere.

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Title: Un dimanche à la campagne
Character: Self
Released: October 23, 2022
Type: TV
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Les Pigeons
Title: Les Pigeons
Released: July 2, 2022
Type: Movie
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Meurtres sur les îles du Frioul
Title: Meurtres sur les îles du Frioul
Character: Pierre Mariani / Jacques Picaud
Released: March 12, 2022
Type: Movie
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Title: De Gaulle, l'éclat et le secret
Character: André Malraux
Released: November 2, 2020
Type: TV
Explores the life of General De Gaulle, from the Appeal of June 18, 1940, to his departure from power in 1969. A dive into the military and political career of De Gaulle and an inside portrait of his private life.
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Title: Here it all begins
Character: Auguste Armand
Released: November 2, 2020
Type: TV
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Title: Tous en cuisine avec Cyril Lignac
Character: Self
Released: March 21, 2020
Type: TV
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Pourvu qu'il soit heureux
Title: Pourvu qu'il soit heureux
Character: Maxime
Released: December 17, 2019
Type: Movie
Everything was fine in Camille’s life until his parents accidentally discovered his homosexuality. How will Claudine and Maxime react? Turnarounds, an inimitable sense of dialogue make this comedy the feeling of back to school. How easy it is to be tolerant when you are not involved yourself! Because when Claudine and Maxime, an open-minded couple, who even demonstrated for marriage for all, come across, by leafing through a celebrity newspaper, on a photo of their son in the company of a man, the sky plummets them. the head. Claudine, more benevolent, tries to reason with her husband, but he finds it difficult to digest the news. Each in turn, the mother and father will question themselves, question themselves, and try to face this revelation, which cannot alter the love they have for their child.
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Le théâtre, ma vie
Title: Le théâtre, ma vie
Released: October 24, 2017
Type: Movie
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Everyone's Life
Title: Everyone's Life
Character: L'avocat général
Released: March 15, 2017
Type: Movie
Before being judges, attorneys, or jury members, they are first of all men and women at a crossroads in their lives, with their dreams and their secrets, their hopes and their limitations, all beneath the same sun, each with their own dark side. In a lovely provincial town, during a jazz festival, life will juggle with their destinies.
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Bourvil, un homme vrai
Title: Bourvil, un homme vrai
Character: himself
Released: December 11, 2016
Type: Movie
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On refait le boulevard
Title: On refait le boulevard
Released: October 21, 2016
Type: Movie
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À droite, à gauche (Théâtre)
Title: À droite, à gauche (Théâtre)
Released: October 10, 2016
Type: Movie
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Confidences pour confidences
Title: Confidences pour confidences
Released: September 24, 2016
Type: Movie
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La folle histoire de Sophie Marceau
Title: La folle histoire de Sophie Marceau
Character: Self
Released: January 4, 2016
Type: Movie
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The Curse of Edgar
Title: The Curse of Edgar
Character: Narrateur
Released: October 27, 2013
Type: Movie
Based on the bestselling novel by Marc Dugain, this original docudrama weaves unique archival footage within a fictional story and sheds a new light on J. Edgar Hoover. This film reveals the FBI director's battle to retain power from the Kennedy clan. From 1960 and 1963, two ideals of America come face to face and two sets of morals clash. Clyde Tolson, Hoover's right-hand man and secret lover, is the last survivor of this psychological drama. He recounts this intense political period when America's destiny has never been as dependent on one of the most powerful and mysterious figures of the time.
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Title: Murders in...
Character: Pierre Mariani
Released: April 23, 2013
Type: TV
Murders in... is a collection of French-Belgian police TV movies taking place each time in a different French city and region.
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Title: Napoléon
Character: Talleyrand
Released: November 29, 2012
Type: TV
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Title: Our dear neighbors
Character: Francis Huster
Released: June 4, 2012
Type: TV
Large family or recomposed, teenagers tortured by their hormones, mothers overwhelmed family, students and party rascals, pretty sexy neighbor, retired always on the lookout for a gossip ... Life and relations - sometimes friendly, sometimes tense , but always funny of a band of neighbors who cross every day, like millions of French ... In front of the landing, in the elevator, while leaving the garbage cans or leaving to work ...
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My Name Is Bernadette
Title: My Name Is Bernadette
Character: Vital Dutour
Released: November 30, 2011
Type: Movie
Between February and July 1858, in the Massabielle cave, the Virgin appeared eighteen times to Bernadette Soubirous, a miserable little girl from Lourdes. A true revolution in the heart of the Second Empire that shakes the established order by his universal message of love and prayer.
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Jean Gabin intime
Title: Jean Gabin intime
Character: Voix off
Released: February 9, 2010
Type: Movie
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A Man and His Dog
Title: A Man and His Dog
Character: Robert
Released: January 14, 2009
Type: Movie
An elderly gentleman and his dog find themselves out of a home with little means.
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Le Vrai Coupable
Title: Le Vrai Coupable
Character: Commissaire Kaplan
Released: November 22, 2007
Type: Movie
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Title: Le Maître du Zodiaque
Character: Antoine Keller
Released: July 10, 2006
Type: TV
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Comme t'y es belle !
Title: Comme t'y es belle !
Character: David
Released: May 10, 2006
Type: Movie
Isa, Alice, Léa and Nina, linked by their Sephardic families as much as by their friendship, share their lives between love affairs, a beauty institute under fiscal control, children to raise, an undocumented Moroccan nanny to marry, repeated diets, family and religious holidays to honor, but before being beautiful, their biggest challenge is to be themselves.
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Jean Marais, le mal rouge et or
Title: Jean Marais, le mal rouge et or
Character: self
Released: January 1, 2006
Type: Movie
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Title: Le Juge
Character: Le juge
Released: May 23, 2005
Type: TV
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Why (Not) Brazil?
Title: Why (Not) Brazil?
Character: Self
Released: September 15, 2004
Type: Movie
A film director, whose career is going downhill, reluctantly decides to adapt an inadaptable best selling novel. Will she succeed or will the book adapt her in the process?
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Title: Zodiaque
Character: Antoine Keller
Released: June 28, 2004
Type: TV
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The Role of Her Life
Title: The Role of Her Life
Character: Comédien à la soirée
Released: June 16, 2004
Type: Movie
A humble copy editor becomes a personal assistant to her favorite actress and eventually loses herself both in the actress' demands and her own ego.
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Jean Moulin, une affaire française
Title: Jean Moulin, une affaire française
Character: Jean Moulin
Released: January 6, 2003
Type: Movie
Drama set in the Second World War, focused on Jean Moulin, hero, martyr and symbol of the French resistance and the patriotism during the dark years of Nazi occupation.
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Mausolée pour une garce
Title: Mausolée pour une garce
Character: Lucien Valmy
Released: November 17, 2001
Type: Movie
Adapted from a best-selling novel by Frédéric Dard. Agnès Taride has a closet full of skeletons. A beautiful woman, accustomed to using her body to get what she wants, she persuades her lover to murder her ex-husband for the life insurance money that will otherwise go to her daughter when she reaches her upcoming 18th birthday. The murder attempt goes awry, and not only does the ex survive, but a witness calls on his underworld connections to avenge the attack on his friend. From here, the plot and counter-plot become ever more complicated, with blackmail, kidnap, murder, seduction and suicide on the agenda, and a surprise twist in the ending.
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Title: Le Grand Patron
Character: Le docteur Maxime Fresnay
Released: December 11, 2000
Type: TV
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Julien l'apprenti
Title: Julien l'apprenti
Character: Maurice Rosmer
Released: October 14, 2000
Type: Movie
The apprenticeship of Julien with the Rosmers, furriers, beginning in 1933 just before their world is transformed by anti-Semitism.
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Taking Wing
Title: Taking Wing
Character: Drama teacher
Released: July 5, 2000
Type: Movie
This is the story of Stan, a young man who might be considered an ordinary, run of the mill guy. But his love and passion for the theatre propels him to realize the most extraordinary desires. He is very attached to his grandfather, who owns a butcher's shop and who offers that Stan take over the family business. But Stan refuses. He decides to drop out of school and move out of his family's apartment, despite the opposition of his parents. His uncle is the only one to support him in the impossible dream of becoming an actor.
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Title: Vivement dimanche
Character: Self
Released: September 20, 1998
Type: TV
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The Dinner Game
Title: The Dinner Game
Character: Juste Leblanc
Released: April 15, 1998
Type: Movie
For Pierre Brochant and his friends, Wednesday is “Idiots' Day”. The idea is simple: each person has to bring along an idiot. The one who brings the most spectacular idiot wins the prize. Tonight, Brochant is ecstatic. He has found a gem. The ultimate idiot, “A world champion idiot!”. What Brochant doesn’t know is that Pignon is a real jinx, a past master in the art of bringing on catastrophes...
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Title: Terre indigo
Character: Joseph Vallognes
Released: July 8, 1996
Type: TV
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Title: Commandant Nerval
Character: David Nerval
Released: May 23, 1996
Type: TV
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Title: Les Filles du Lido
Character: Bernard Dupré
Released: November 10, 1995
Type: TV
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God, My Mother's Lover and the Butcher's Son
Title: God, My Mother's Lover and the Butcher's Son
Character: Jean-Marc
Released: July 1, 1995
Type: Movie
The mother of three children seems to become romantically involved with the man playing Don Juan in the same local countryside theatre where she is acting. The children decide to try to poison the man who is threatening their family life. The real life and the stage roles get intertwined...
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All That... for This?!
Title: All That... for This?!
Character: Francis Barrucq
Released: June 9, 1993
Type: Movie
The plot is about a trial against three men who tried to earn loads of money by illegal methods to get to Canada and about the lawyers and the judge who get on with the trial and who are being unfaithful to their couples.
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There Were Days... and Moons
Title: There Were Days... and Moons
Character: Le prêtre
Released: April 11, 1990
Type: Movie
How can moon and time affect human mood and fate? In the manner of a Greek tragedy , this movie shows how the chaos of life ineluctably propels its characters towards violence and alienation.
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On a volé Charlie Spencer !
Title: On a volé Charlie Spencer !
Character: L'employé
Released: December 24, 1986
Type: Movie
Students of film history will appreciate the many tributes to famous films of yore which appear in this first-time feature directed and written by former drama teacher Francis Huster. In the story, a mild-mannered bank clerk has heroic dreams of being a real he-man. Given his diffident, shy nature, it comes as a bit of a surprise that not only does he actually have a girlfriend, but he has managed to get her pregnant. However, she doesn't fit his image of himself, and he can't bring himself to marry her. When the bank he works in is robbed by a daring group which includes a magnetically attractive woman, the clerk throws his lot in with them and becomes an outlaw.
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Parking
Title: Parking
Character: Orpheus
Released: May 29, 1985
Type: Movie
Orpheus is a rock star who composes love songs for Eurydice, who designs his album covers. As he wrestles with his additional love for Calaïs, his sound engineer, Orpheus finds that Eurydice had died of a drug overdose, so he descends into the Underworld to try and make a deal with Hades.
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Drôle de samedi
Title: Drôle de samedi
Character: Pierre
Released: April 1, 1985
Type: Movie
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Mad Love
Title: Mad Love
Character: Léon
Released: February 27, 1985
Type: Movie
After a successful bank robbery, Micky hopes to take back his girlfriend Marie who has been taken from him. On the way to Paris he meets Leon, a neurotic dreamer whom he considers an idiot. Leon can hardly understand what Micky is up to but he follows him everywhere and soon falls in love with Marie.
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The Public Woman
Title: The Public Woman
Character: Lucas Kessling
Released: June 16, 1984
Type: Movie
An inexperienced young actress is invited to play a role in a film based on Dostoyevsky's 'The Possessed'. The film director, a Czech immigrant in Paris, takes over her life, and in a short time she is unable to draw the line between acting and reality. She winds up playing a real-life role posing as the dead wife of another Czech immigrant, who is manipulated by the filmmaker into commiting a political assassination.
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Première Classe
Title: Première Classe
Released: January 1, 1984
Type: Movie
A César award winning short drama film.
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The Hawk
Title: The Hawk
Character: Frank Zodiac
Released: September 14, 1983
Type: Movie
Detective Frank Zodiac is a cop traumatized by the death of his wife in a car accident that also left his daughter in a coma. This tragedy prevented him from being present to apprehend the dangerous gangster Gus Sabor, who was then able to escape from law enforcement. Three years later, Frank and Gus' paths cross again. Frank then sets out to pursue the criminal through Paris.
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Equator
Title: Equator
Character: Timar
Released: August 17, 1983
Type: Movie
Although based on a novel by Georges Simenon, director (and songwriter) Serge Gainsbourg has superimposed several dark emotions and a subtle brutality over the weak plot about a man's trip to Africa and his unfortunate passion for a murderess whose amorality sends the disillusioned fellow back to Europe. Sometimes described as frustrating and self-centered, reactions to this film swing across a broad spectrum of complaints -- not the least might be whether or not Gainsbourg is using a clichéd and stereotypical view of "dark Africa" to convey what he sees in his characters.
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I Married a Shadow
Title: I Married a Shadow
Character: Pierre
Released: February 16, 1983
Type: Movie
After a train accident, a woman survives and is mistaken for an other woman she just met on a train before the accident.
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Edith and Marcel
Title: Edith and Marcel
Character: Francis Roman
Released: January 1, 1983
Type: Movie
This tragic musical drama chronicles the star-crossed love between beloved French singer Edith Piaf and World Middleweight boxing champion Marcel Cerdan who died in a plane crash. The tumultuous affair is paralleled by the love affair of a French POW and his young pen pal who get engaged after writing to each other for four years and having never met. Their romances are framed by the sad, torchy songs of Piaf.
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Qu'est-ce qui fait courir David ?
Title: Qu'est-ce qui fait courir David ?
Character: David
Released: June 5, 1982
Type: Movie
David, a Jewish filmmaker in his thirties, is working on a screenplay with autobiographical overtones. His girlfriend, Anna, with whom he lives, finds his story very narcissistic.
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Title: Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 1982
Type: TV
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Bolero: Dance of Life
Title: Bolero: Dance of Life
Character: Francis
Released: May 27, 1981
Type: Movie
The film follows four families, with different nationalities (French, German, Russian and American) but with the same passion for music, from the 1930s to the 1960s. The various story lines cross each other time and again in different places and times, with their own theme scores that evolve as time passes. The main event in the film is the Second World War, which throws the stories of the four musical families together and mixes their fates. Although all characters are fictional, many of them are loosely based on historical musical icons (Édith Piaf, Josephine Baker, Herbert von Karajan, Glenn Miller, Rudolf Nureyev, etc.) The Boléro dance sequence at the end brings all the threads together.
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Title: Les Dames de la côte
Character: Marcel
Released: December 22, 1979
Type: TV
French miniseries.
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The Sewers of Paradise
Title: The Sewers of Paradise
Character: Albert Spaggiari
Released: March 14, 1979
Type: Movie
In July of 1976, the Societé Générale of France was robbed of well over $10 million dollars by a group burrowing through the sewers of Paris. This movie is based on a book by the thieves' mastermind, Albert Spaggiari. The famous theft won the nickname, "the great drain robbery," and this romanticized cinematic retelling of the true story stars Francis Huster as Spaggiari.
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The Adolescent
Title: The Adolescent
Character: Alexandre
Released: January 24, 1979
Type: Movie
In the summer of 1939, 13-year-old Marie goes with her parents to visit her grandparents in a small town near Avignon. Marie discovers her femininity and falls for a young Jewish doctor, but he prefers Eva, Marie's mother.
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Volpone
Title: Volpone
Character: Mosca
Released: December 8, 1978
Type: Movie
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One, Two, Two: 122, rue de Provence
Title: One, Two, Two: 122, rue de Provence
Character: Paul Lardenois
Released: April 25, 1978
Type: Movie
Romance takes a back seat to drama in this movie depicting life at the once-fashionable Parisian bordello known by its address 122 Rue de Provence. Patronized by the wealthy and powerful, this elegant house of prostitution featured a top-ranked restaurant and specialized rooms for men with unusual tastes: a railroad carriage room, a stable room, etc. In the story, two young people "on the make" bump into each other as they are arriving in the same rail station. Though attracted to one another, they are deliberately vague about their destinations. He is headed for a diplomatic career, she is an ambitious young prostitute who wants to work at the best house in France. Later, they meet at 122 Rue de Provence.
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On ne badine pas avec l'amour
Title: On ne badine pas avec l'amour
Character: Perdican
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
While Camille refuses Perdican's advances, she takes offense when he courts Rosette. Then begins a confrontation of pride, where each seeks to establish his ascendancy over the other in the name of love.
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Another Man, Another Chance
Title: Another Man, Another Chance
Character: Francis Leroy
Released: September 28, 1977
Type: Movie
Young Jeanne falls in love with photographer Francis, who soon takes her with him when he emigrates to America. In a small town in the still wild west, they build up a small photo shop. Meanwhile, animal doctor David lives on his lonesome farm together with his unlucky wife. It takes years and two tragic accidents until Jeanne and David meet. She has already decided to return to France as soon as possible, but love, and fate, have other plans.
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Lorenzaccio
Title: Lorenzaccio
Character: Lorenzaccio
Released: September 16, 1977
Type: Movie
This stage play from 1977 is adapted from the well-known play "Lorenzaccio" written by French poet and playwright Alfred de Musset. Set in 16th-century Florence, the play revolves around the complex and tormented protagonist Lorenzo, known as Lorenzaccio, who faces inner conflicts as he struggles with his desire for personal freedom and the responsibility he feels towards his city. Between political corruption, morality, and the struggle for justice; the stage blends with historical drama and psychological exploration.
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A Second Chance
Title: A Second Chance
Character: Patrick
Released: September 30, 1976
Type: Movie
Imprisoned as an accessory to murder, Catherine gives birth to a son she conceived in prison. Eighteen years later, her sentence served, she is reunited with the boy, Simon, who has remained in an orphanage the entire time. She is accompanied by toothsome prison buddy Sarah, and gradually these people whose lives have been frozen in time "thaw" and get on with the business of living.
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Je suis Pierre Rivière
Title: Je suis Pierre Rivière
Character: L'avocat de la défense
Released: April 7, 1976
Type: Movie
The story about Pierre Riviere, who tired of the constants demands of her mother to her father decides to kill her, but also his brother and his siste
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Lumière
Title: Lumière
Character: Thomas
Released: March 24, 1976
Type: Movie
Sarah, an actress nearing her forties, has invited 3 friends to join her for a holiday in Provence. This is the prologue for what happened a year ago in Paris with a man Sarah had long considered a platonic friend. She had just finished a film, had also finished her relationship with the director and was about to receive an award…
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Title: 30 millions d'amis
Character: Self
Released: January 6, 1976
Type: TV
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Title: Numéro un
Character: Self
Released: April 5, 1975
Type: TV
A French variety show.
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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: Spécial cinéma
Character: Self
Released: September 25, 1974
Type: TV
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L'avare
Title: L'avare
Character: Cléante
Released: January 1, 1974
Type: Movie
Harpagon, a miserly bourgeois, wishes to marry the young Mariane and marry his daughter Elise to Lord Anselme. He does not know that Cléante, his son, is in love with the young Mariane and that his daughter Elise loves a penniless young man, Valère, whom he has just hired as a steward.
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The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot
Title: The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot
Character: Colinot
Released: October 24, 1973
Type: Movie
Colinot's world is turned upside down when his fiancee is kidnapped.
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La Station Champbaudet
Title: La Station Champbaudet
Character: Paul Tacarel
Released: December 27, 1972
Type: Movie
The widow Champbaudet believes herself loved by an architect. But the young man actually has views on the neighbor upstairs. Cunning, he multiplies his visits to the widow with the sole aim of getting closer to the beautiful Aglaé. It was without counting on the husband of this one, whose jealousy could well play nasty tricks on the heartthrob of these ladies!
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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 - Main Guest
Released: January 12, 1972
Type: TV
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Faustine and the Beautiful Summer
Title: Faustine and the Beautiful Summer
Character: Joachim
Released: January 12, 1972
Type: Movie
Faustine suffers the wounds of first love. During a summer when she is staying with her grandmother, she comes to know the nearby neighbors. Two brothers live in the large house. One is divorced and one has recently remarried, both of them live there with their teenaged and adult children. Though the boys of the household are drawn to Faustine, she grows ever more smitten with the divorced older man...
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Title: Le Grand Échiquier
Character: Self - Guest
Released: January 12, 1972
Type: TV
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The Demise of Father Mouret
Title: The Demise of Father Mouret
Character: Serge Mouret
Released: October 14, 1970
Type: Movie
Serge Mouret is a frail and devout young priest in a tough country parish. When he falls down and loses his memory, he is nursed back to health by Albine, the beautiful carefree niece of the outspoken atheist Jeanbernat. After Serge and Albine fall in love, Serge recovers his memory and realizes the grave sin he has committed.