Armand Mestral

Armand Mestral

Born: November 25, 1917
Died: September 17, 2000
in Paris, France

Movies for Armand Mestral...

The Big Pardon 2
Title: The Big Pardon 2
Character: Freddy Ambrosi
Released: December 9, 1992
Type: Movie
The mobster Raymond Bettoun gets out of prison and joins his son Maurice in Miami, a drug trafficker who is about to launch a huge operation. But he falls into a trap and a war begins in which Raymond will fight a last battle to try to save his son and what remains of his family.
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Les Mamies
Title: Les Mamies
Character: Archibald
Released: November 11, 1992
Type: Movie
When 12 year old Alex runs away, his grandmother ask her 6 friends for help and follow the kid from Paris to Lisbon.
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Title: Le monde est à vous
Character: Self
Released: February 8, 1987
Type: TV
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Enquête sur une parole donnée : La lettre perdue
Title: Enquête sur une parole donnée : La lettre perdue
Character: Gérard
Released: March 27, 1985
Type: Movie
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Title: La Chance aux chansons
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: March 26, 1984
Type: TV
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Title: La Chance aux chansons
Character: Self
Released: March 26, 1984
Type: TV
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Les Misérables
Title: Les Misérables
Character: L'avocat général
Released: October 20, 1982
Type: Movie
Jean Valjean, a Frenchman imprisoned for stealing bread, must flee a relentless policeman named Javert. The pursuit consumes both men's lives, and soon Valjean finds himself in the midst of the student revolutions in France.
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The Big Pardon
Title: The Big Pardon
Character: Freddy Ambrosi
Released: January 27, 1982
Type: Movie
The Bettoun clan: Raymond (the patriarch), Maurice (the son), Jacky (the nephew), Roland (the nephew), Albert (Raymond's cousin), Pépé (Raymond's friend), Samy (the bodyguard) are a family clan of Jewish Blackfoot kingpins of French organized crime. Their activities include running casinos, organizing underground boxing matches, illegal gambling, pimping, racketeering and bloody settlements of scores against other Arab and French clans. But in the shadows, Pascal Villars has sworn the loss of the Bettoun. He will succeed in setting the Arab clan against the Jewish clan, for the great benefit of the police commissioner Duché, who has been trying in vain for ten years to bring down the Bettouns.
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Title: Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 1982
Type: TV
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Hold Up
Title: Hold Up
Character: Le commissaire Dambier
Released: March 14, 1980
Type: Movie
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Le Gentleman des Antipodes
Title: Le Gentleman des Antipodes
Character: Fronsac
Released: November 4, 1976
Type: Movie
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Jarosław Dąbrowski
Title: Jarosław Dąbrowski
Character: Louis Antoine Ranvier
Released: January 26, 1976
Type: Movie
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Fifteen Year Old Captain
Title: Fifteen Year Old Captain
Character: Harris
Released: July 7, 1974
Type: Movie
Dick Sand travels aboard the "Pilgrim" when, following dramatic events, the ship becomes without a captain. Fate has it so that, to keep all sailors in peace, he shall command the ship. All accept this arrangement, even Negoro - whose resentment will add treachery to circumstances already difficult to take the ship to safe harbour. To a point the task may prove impossible...
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Two Men in Town
Title: Two Men in Town
Character: Director of the Pontoise prison
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.
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The Hostage Gang
Title: The Hostage Gang
Character: Commissioner Crenoy
Released: February 1, 1973
Type: Movie
Barely out of the psychiatric hospital where he went to seek care, Gilbert Nodier commits several assaults to have some money.
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Title: Le Grand Échiquier
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 1972
Type: TV
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La Brune que voilà
Title: La Brune que voilà
Character: Le mari
Released: September 17, 1970
Type: Movie
Germain, a great seducer, collects the mistresses. There are four, all brown, and all married. When the husband of one of them disembarks to threaten him with death, he must break up. But with which? The gouailleur Robert Lamoureux interprets this man who does not like to leave women.
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Le Cyborg  (Le Voyage vertical)
Title: Le Cyborg (Le Voyage vertical)
Character: Léon
Released: September 15, 1970
Type: Movie
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My Uncle Benjamin
Title: My Uncle Benjamin
Character: Machecourt
Released: November 28, 1969
Type: Movie
Benjamin is in love with Manette, the innkeeper's beautiful daughter, but she has no intention of giving in to the young doctor until she sees the marriage contract, and marriage does not fit in with Benjamin's spirit of independence. For the same reason he resists the efforts of his sister Bettine to marry him off to Arabelle, the daughter of old Dr. Minxit. Benjamin does agree to go and meet the girl. But that evening his sister finds him at the inn together with Manette, who is arrested by her father. So she decides to go with Benjamin herself. But as result of an incident with the fat Marquis puts paid to the expedition. Benjamin is subjected by the Marquis to a humiliating practical joke. Benjamin is determined to got his revenge. He succeeds thanks to the gorgeous Vicomte Hector de Pont-Cassé, who also helps Manette with her problems against her father. But Benjamin is now arrested by the Marquis...
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Bonnot's Gang
Title: Bonnot's Gang
Character: Jouin
Released: November 1, 1968
Type: Movie
The story of a notorious French criminal gang of the 1910s.
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They Came to Rob Las Vegas
Title: They Came to Rob Las Vegas
Released: February 7, 1968
Type: Movie
After successfully assaulting an armored car between Las Vegas and Los Angeles, the ambitions of the diverse members of the intrepid criminal gang collide, causing undesirable consequences.
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The Viscount
Title: The Viscount
Released: April 4, 1967
Type: Movie
Inspector for a major insurance company, Clint de La Roche, known as "le vicomte", is enjoying a pleasant vacation on the Spanish coast with a few pretty girls and his assistant, Billette, when he is urgently called back to Paris to investigate a bank robbery. The bank manager has had the key to the security system stolen by a certain Tania. But Tania is killed in a car bomb attack. However, Clint soon discovers that behind this case lies a rivalry between the gangs of Rico Barone and Marco Demoygne, who are fighting for control of the drug market.
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The Big Hit of Surcouf
Title: The Big Hit of Surcouf
Character: Capitaine Hans Fell
Released: December 1, 1966
Type: Movie
The continuation of the adventures of Captain Robert Surcouf and his crew.
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Title: At Theatre Tonight
Character: Le mari
Released: July 21, 1966
Type: TV
At Theater tonight is a TV show broadcasted from 25th August 1966 to 21st September 1985. The show is broadcast plays recorded in two or three days, during public performances at the Théâtre Marigny on the Champs-Élysées, or sometimes Edouard VII theater.
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Lost Command
Title: Lost Command
Character: Administration Officer
Released: May 1, 1966
Type: Movie
After being freed from a Vietnamese war prison, French Lt. Col. Pierre Raspeguy is sent to help quell resistance forces in Algeria. With the help of the Capt. Esclavier, who has grown weary of war, and Capt. Boisfeuras, who lives for it, Raspeguy attempts to convert a rugged band of soldiers into a formidable fighting unit, with the promise of marrying a beautiful countess if he's made a general.
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That Riviera Touch
Title: That Riviera Touch
Character: Inspector Duval
Released: March 29, 1966
Type: Movie
Eric and Ernie decide to take a holiday to the South of France and unwittingly become mixed up with a band of jewel thieves.
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The Sea Pirate
Title: The Sea Pirate
Character: Capitaine Hans Fell
Released: January 9, 1966
Type: Movie
A young naval officer becomes a corsair to make enough money to marry a pretty girl, and fights injustice and snobbery to reach home safely.
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Highway Pick-Up
Title: Highway Pick-Up
Character: Corenne
Released: November 13, 1963
Type: Movie
An escaped convict makes a remote gas station his safe haven. But soon the cunning, devious wife of the owner seeks a chance to use him to get what she wants.
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Chaste Susan
Title: Chaste Susan
Character: Barón des Aubrais
Released: June 28, 1963
Type: Movie
The young wife of an officer who, in reality, has several lovers receives an award for virtue.
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Mandrin met le feu aux poudres
Title: Mandrin met le feu aux poudres
Character: Sigismond de Moret
Released: December 19, 1962
Type: Movie
It was the reign of Louis XV and, in 1750, France was at war all the time, and the people, suffocated by taxes, liked their beloved Louis less and less. When the governor of Dauphiné arrived in Saint-Étienne-de-Saint-Geoirs, he had to deal with opponents of the regime who had gathered around cooper Louis Mandrin. Mandrin becomes the vigilante who respects his king, but does not tolerate the oppression of the poor through taxation.
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Mandrin, bandit gentilhomme
Title: Mandrin, bandit gentilhomme
Character: Sigismond de Moret
Released: December 19, 1962
Type: Movie
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The Reluctant Saint
Title: The Reluctant Saint
Released: November 2, 1962
Type: Movie
Cupertino, Italy, 1623: A simple-minded and clumsy young man joins a Franciscan order as a hired hand, overcoming his intellectual and social challenges with a pure heart and a simple faith. God performs a miracle through him, quite literally raising him to sainthood.
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Duel of Fire
Title: Duel of Fire
Character: Rocco Gravina
Released: April 21, 1962
Type: Movie
Antonio Franco's sister is been murdered by a gang of bandits. He swear vengeance and manage to infiltrate the gang to find the murders.
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The Busybody
Title: The Busybody
Character: Clairac
Released: December 20, 1961
Type: Movie
André Loriot works for Dr Clairac in a laboratory producing euphoric pills. He searches in vain for an apartment where he can settle down and start a family with the woman who loves him, Juliette. To motivate himself and cope with the setbacks he encounters, he decides to swallow an excessive dose of euphoriants.
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White Slave Ship
Title: White Slave Ship
Character: Calico Jack
Released: December 1, 1961
Type: Movie
The Albatross travels from England to the New World in 1675, with a number of passengers, a couple of political prisoners along with a dozen other women convicts, these to be sold into slavery on arrival. The woman activist frees the dozen of low-cast women, and they take over the ship. After a storm, the captain takes back control of his ship. Since mutiny is punishable by death in the New World, the mutineers try to reroute the course, tossing Desny and Purdom in the brig. A practical male mutineer wants to throw the women overboard to save rations, but the women free Purdom and the captain to battle the mutineers. A British warship comes to the rescue, and the captain pardons Angeli and Purdom for having saved his life.
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Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love!
Title: Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love!
Character: Bassompierre
Released: April 4, 1961
Type: Movie
Henri IV falls in love with the young Charlotte de Montmorency, 40 years his junior. The king decided to marry her off to his nephew, Henri de Condé, so that he could later make her his mistress.
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Morgan, the Pirate
Title: Morgan, the Pirate
Character: Francois L'Olonnais
Released: November 17, 1960
Type: Movie
A Welsh pirate raids up and down the Caribbean, battling the Spanish, the English and other pirates.
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Amour, autocar et boîtes de nuit
Title: Amour, autocar et boîtes de nuit
Released: August 17, 1960
Type: Movie
A young girl, Christiane, leaves her family to join friends with whom she intends to "make a life". Two boys, Jo and Paul, look after the heroine, whose relations seem rather shady. Jo, a guide in a tourist agency specializing in nightlife in Paris, has a "shadow" of his own in the scatterbrained Annette, who is determined to marry him. While touring the capital's cabarets, Jo meets a model, Jacynthe, and her photographer, Daniel, as well as a star, Jackie, and her manager, Helios. The latter organizes a mock jewel robbery for publicity purposes, with Jackie as the victim. But contrary to expectations, the robbery takes place.
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The Enigma of the Folies-Bergère
Title: The Enigma of the Folies-Bergère
Character: Armand, the driver
Released: September 22, 1959
Type: Movie
The Raffin Commissioner investigates the murder of an industrialist and it soon becomes apparent that the activities of the relatives of the deceased all revolve around the Folies-Bergere.
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The Lovers of Tomorrow
Title: The Lovers of Tomorrow
Character: Louis, le mari de Simone
Released: August 26, 1959
Type: Movie
A man throws a revolver in the Seine and checks into a hotel run by an unhappy Turkish couple. The wife falls for the mysterious guest, and kills her husband to prevent him from the turning the man in to the police.
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Soft Skin on Black Silk
Title: Soft Skin on Black Silk
Character: Jean
Released: June 14, 1959
Type: Movie
Everything you need to know is telegraphed by the title of this Spanish-language drama. The story takes place in a hothouse Mediterranean setting and combines lust, intrigue and murder in the overheated sexploitation style that was popular during the late 1950s and early '60s.
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Fire in the Flesh
Title: Fire in the Flesh
Character: Ortiz
Released: January 17, 1958
Type: Movie
Physicist Theodore Heldt, his young daughter Fern and his assistant Larry Gordon, on board a ship for a scientific expedition, are shipwrecked in the Pacific Ocean after a terrible storm. They find themselves safe and sound on an exotic desert island paradise. Several years pass, the professor dies and Fern and Larry, long in love and alone in the world, are united. One day, the ship they'd been waiting for appears, but the sailors are three smugglers who, instead of representing salvation, pose a threat to the young couple.
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Non sono più guaglione
Title: Non sono più guaglione
Character: Frenchman
Released: December 23, 1957
Type: Movie
A mechanic falls in love with a girl who aspires to become a diva.
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Clandestine Paris
Title: Clandestine Paris
Character: Lucky
Released: October 11, 1957
Type: Movie
In the elegant nightclub of Corsican Luciano, known as Lucky, "Les Naturistes", big sums are gambled at the Longchamp races. Lucky not only "welcomes" the new dancers, he also collects the stakes entrusted to him and personally plays the horses recommended to him by Max, a former convict. But Bramati, Lucky's ex-partner, doesn't forgive Max for double-crossing him and has him shot.
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Mr. Steve
Title: Mr. Steve
Character: M. Stève
Released: June 26, 1957
Type: Movie
Georges Villard, a minor bank employee, is won over by Mr Steve who does him favours, treats him to the high life and introduces him to his wife Florence, with whom he falls in love. Georges is unaware that these generous gifts will cost him dearly.
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Gervaise
Title: Gervaise
Character: Lantier, l'amant de Gervaise
Released: September 5, 1956
Type: Movie
An adaptation of Émile Zola’s 1877 masterpiece L’assommoir, the film is an uncompromising depiction of a lowly laundress’s struggles to deal with an alcoholic husband while running her own business.
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No Big Deal for Johnny
Title: No Big Deal for Johnny
Released: May 4, 1955
Type: Movie
Robert Lanier, a man with a doubtful past, disembarks clandestinely in Le Havre decided to rebuild his life. Johnny, an orphaned young acrobat, takes him for his father and presents him to the seductive Gaby, his best friend.
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Napoleon
Title: Napoleon
Character: Marshal Nicolas Oudinot
Released: March 25, 1955
Type: Movie
The film follows the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint Helena. The film is notable for its use of location shooting for numerous scenes, especially at the French estates of Malmaison and Fontainebleau, the Palace of Versailles, and sites of Napoleonic battles including Austerlitz and Waterloo.
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Le Tournant dangereux
Title: Le Tournant dangereux
Character: Daniel Courtois
Released: December 28, 1954
Type: Movie
The adventures of Daniele as he tries to find love with Lucienne despite being framed for murder and cocaine smuggling.
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The Roundup is for Tonight
Title: The Roundup is for Tonight
Released: December 1, 1954
Type: Movie
Three sketches that all start in the police station, where Léa, La Pintade and the brigadier himself tell their little stories. The story of Danielle, who bamboozled the impresario Mortimer so well that he made her his wife; the story of the sad little Simon, deprived of a father and unable to stand the mockery of his friends; and the story of the daughter of an ex-convict who - by golly - steals a statue on the day of her First Communion.
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Tabor
Title: Tabor
Released: February 22, 1954
Type: Movie
An evocation of the wartime exploits of the Moroccan "Tabors" in Tunisia, Italy, the French campaign and Germany. During the landings in Corsica, a light-hearted love affair develops between Adjutant Lenoir and a nurse. Fights, escapes and heroic actions lead to victory.
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Welcome
Title: Welcome
Character: Armand Mestral
Released: July 9, 1953
Type: Movie
The leading coach the company of Jean Nohain make a program fails in a small village. The people immobilize the troops to force him to do the show there.
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Over the waves
Title: Over the waves
Character: Self
Released: May 11, 1951
Type: Movie
Panorama of the programs and hosts who made the heyday of radio in the 1950s.
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The Queer Assignment
Title: The Queer Assignment
Character: Un émigrant
Released: October 3, 1945
Type: Movie
A young man, Robert Dupont, with suicidal tendencies and a bit stupid to boot, is saved by a stranger who pretends to be a well-known banker. This stranger then entrusts him with a suitcase full of mysterious documents, which he asks him to take with him to Indochina. But in reality, the suitcase is stuffed with banknotes from a scam.