Jean Meyer

Jean Meyer

Born: June 12, 1914
Died: January 8, 2003
in Paris, France

Movies for Jean Meyer...

Volpone
Title: Volpone
Character: Corbaccio
Released: December 8, 1978
Type: Movie
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Le Médecin malgré lui
Title: Le Médecin malgré lui
Character: Géronte
Released: August 31, 1973
Type: Movie
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Detective Story
Title: Detective Story
Character: Le lieutenant Mulligan
Released: October 30, 1972
Type: Movie
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The Sucker
Title: The Sucker
Character: un complice de Saroyan
Released: March 24, 1965
Type: Movie
In this Frenco-Italian gangster parody, a shop keeper on his way to an Italian holiday suffers a crash which totals his car. The culprit can only compensate his ruined trip by driving an American friends car from Napels to Bordeaux, but as it happens to be filled with such contraband as stolen money, jewelry and drugs, the involuntary and unwitting companions in crime soon attract all but recreational attention from the "milieu".
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Marriage of Figaro
Title: Marriage of Figaro
Released: November 4, 1959
Type: Movie
It's the day of Figaro's marriage to Susanna, but first he must help the Countess divert the Count's attention away from Susanna and back to her, while arranging the betrothal of Cherubino and Barbarina.
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Would-Be Gentleman
Title: Would-Be Gentleman
Character: Covielle, Cléonte's valet
Released: November 19, 1958
Type: Movie
M. Jourdain is a cloth merchant who wants to become a gentleman, learning dance, music, fencing and philosophy. Mme Jourdain is worried about Dorante's expenses and prefers her daughter Lucile to marry Cléonte. The two young men's servants use subterfuge to get M. Jourdain to accept Cléonte as son-in-law. They fake the arrival of the Grand Turk's son in Paris, and, in an Oriental ballet, confer upon M. Jourdain the title of Mammamouchi, his daughter marrying the son of the Grand Turk, who is none other than Cléonte in disguise.
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Les Violents
Title: Les Violents
Character: Eugène Gallois
Released: January 10, 1958
Type: Movie
Pierre Tercelin who used to be a prosperous industrialist is now ruined and embittered, having become a mere lock keeper. A widower, he lives with his daughter Evelyne, a music-hall dancer. Claiming he is being persecuted by his cousin Edgar he gets in touch again with another cousin of his he hates, Bernard, a millionaire gun runner,who is also a victim of Edgar. It must be said that both Pierre and Bernard once caused Edgar to go bankrupt... Pierre offers Bernard to join efforts against Edgar. Soon after, Bernard dies of poison, which is only the first of a series of acts of violence. Tiercelin is shot at while going back home, Bernard's son is gunned down while his sister Luciane disappears. Chief-inspector Malouvier - who oddly enough looks very much like the suspect- investigates....
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Pity for the Vamps
Title: Pity for the Vamps
Released: October 19, 1956
Type: Movie
Paris, 1956. Three sisters, three actresses willing to do almost anything to make it big. Their lives, their loves, their dramas. A savory satire of the world of show business and cinema in particular.
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Trial at the Vatican
Title: Trial at the Vatican
Character: L'abbé Deltroëtte
Released: August 29, 1952
Type: Movie
In 19th-century France, a little girl follows her two sisters into a Carmelite monastery with the goal of becoming a saint.
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Le Plaisir
Title: Le Plaisir
Character: Monsieur Dupuis
Released: February 29, 1952
Type: Movie
Three stories about the pleasure. The first one is about a man hiding his age behind a mask to keep going to balls and fancying women - pleasure and youth. Then comes the long tale of Mme Tellier taking her girls (whores) to the country for attending her niece's communion - pleasure and purity. And lastly, Jean the painter falling in love with his model - pleasure and death.
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Clara de Montargis
Title: Clara de Montargis
Character: D'Artagnan / Albert
Released: June 20, 1951
Type: Movie
Renaud, a young student who is camping alone at the moment, has a dream one night, in which the woman of his dreams appears. When he wakes up the next morning, he cannot believe his eyes: the creature of the dream is there by the side of the road, in the flesh! The woman accepts to drive Renaud to Montargis but it is only after she has dropped him off there that he realizes that what he experienced for her was love at first sight. He then decides not to return to Paris but to try and find the wonderful stranger in Montargis. He discovers that the woman's name is Clara and that she is the member of a drama company.
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Between Eleven and Midnight
Title: Between Eleven and Midnight
Character: Victor
Released: March 23, 1949
Type: Movie
Between eleven o’clock and midnight one evening, a notorious trafficker Jérôme Vidauban is shot whilst walking in a tunnel in Paris. The case is assigned to Inspector Carrel, who is Vidauban’s perfect double. Using his resemblance to the arch criminal, Carrel manages to infiltrate in Vidauban’s circle of acquaintances and contacts. He becomes embroiled in a bizarre web of intrigue and discovers no shortage of possible murder suspects, all of whom appear to be surprised to see him still alive.
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Captain Blomet
Title: Captain Blomet
Character: Justin
Released: December 10, 1947
Type: Movie
Returning from the cemetery where he has just buried his wife, Captain Blomet is on the point of committing suicide, when his valet reveals to him that the deceased had 17 lovers. Blomet undertakes to wash his honor in different ways according to his rivals.
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The Uncatchable Mr. Frederic
Title: The Uncatchable Mr. Frederic
Character: (uncredited)
Released: July 15, 1946
Type: Movie
The novelist Suzanne Delmont creates a character, "The Uncatcable Frédéric", a sort of Arsène Lupin. A mysterious stranger launches a press campaign accusing him of having a harmful influence on young people...
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La Comédie avant Molière
Title: La Comédie avant Molière
Released: January 1, 1946
Type: Movie
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La Route du bagne
Title: La Route du bagne
Released: October 16, 1945
Type: Movie
Paris, 1865. In a music-hall Manon accidentally kills her partner who was trying take sexual advantage of her. She is condemned to twenty years of hard labor first and then to be deported to marry a released convict. On the ship where she sails with her female fellow-sufferers she gets to know a young doctor and helps to suppress a revolt. Once arrived at her destination, Manon hesitates between her official fiancé and the doctor whose household she does not want to break...
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I Am with You
Title: I Am with You
Character: Armand
Released: December 22, 1943
Type: Movie
A young woman has doubts about her husband's fidelity. She pretends a trip, but settles in a hotel where her husband must pass. He meets her and, disturbed by the one he believes to be his wife's double, becomes her lover. Little by little the truth breaks through. The husband takes leave of the mistress and returns to the wife whose return has been announced.
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Adieu Léonard
Title: Adieu Léonard
Character: Tancrede
Released: September 1, 1943
Type: Movie
A bungling thief is threatened by one target with blackmail, unless the thief will kill his own cousin, a wealthy eccentric who is considered the village idiot.
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Coup de feu dans la nuit
Title: Coup de feu dans la nuit
Character: Baron
Released: March 3, 1943
Type: Movie
A woman is accused of the murder of her husband, who was jealous and brutal. Her lawyer manages to get her acquitted and they get married in the end.
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Eight Men in a Castle
Title: Eight Men in a Castle
Character: Le neveu du notaire
Released: December 9, 1942
Type: Movie
The Paladines write crime novels together. In a cinema, they happen to see a report on the consequences of a shipwreck in which Lieutenant Dupuis tells about the death of an old man in the lifeboat carrying the survivors. Husband and wife agree that this could be the starting point of a new story and go and see Dupuis to get more details about the drama. When they come to his hotel Dupuis is dead with a bullet in his head. Police characterizes the death as suicide but Paladine has found a train ticket in the dead man's pocket. With his wife he takes the train to the specified destination, somewhere in the provinces...
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Ne bougez plus !
Title: Ne bougez plus !
Character: Paturel
Released: October 30, 1941
Type: Movie
Are these two tramps who come to pose for an advertising agency at Patrice Farfadou, the fashionable photographer, the Prince Andromache of Miremir and his faithful secretary Palmer? Who will find the key to the Enigma: The melancholic Hector, the youthful Geneviève, or the feverish Elyane?