Philippe Brizard

Philippe Brizard

Born: August 28, 1933
Died: February 20, 2021
in Dieppe, Seine-Maritime, France

Movies for Philippe Brizard...

Volpone ou Le Renard
Title: Volpone ou Le Renard
Released: September 7, 2001
Type: Movie
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L'Affaire Seznec
Title: L'Affaire Seznec
Character: Assureur Morlaix
Released: January 7, 1993
Type: Movie
Guillaume Seznec and Pierre Quéméneur join forces to sell cars to the Soviets. It was then that the latter suddenly disappeared, while driving with the former about 30 kilometers from Paris. The body will never be found. Seznec quickly became the main suspect and was sent to prison for life, even though nothing clearly indicated that he was the culprit.
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Title: Le Miel et les Abeilles
Character: Émile
Released: December 21, 1992
Type: TV
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Le jeu du renard
Title: Le jeu du renard
Character: Réalisateur radio RTL
Released: June 6, 1990
Type: Movie
Tania, a young actress, puts everything at stake for her starring role in Dotez's play. But Dotez, blocked and hostile to Tania, only frees himself as the rehearsals progress, while his actress is exhausted in her daily life, divided between Yan, her lover, and Lila, his little daughter.
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Le Bon Plaisir
Title: Le Bon Plaisir
Character: Le maître d'hôtel du président
Released: January 18, 1984
Type: Movie
Claire's handbag is stolen. It contained a letter written ten years previously by the man who is now the French President. In the letter he urges his pregnant mistress to have an abortion. Claire immediately alerts the President's men. From that moment, the machinery of state swings into action.
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The Bastard
Title: The Bastard
Released: June 15, 1983
Type: Movie
The erratic life of Patrice who, after having murdered the pimp of his mother to avenge the death of her, goes from town to town.
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The Big Brother
Title: The Big Brother
Character: Le conseiller
Released: September 8, 1982
Type: Movie
The plot in this story weaves around like a New Year's reveler at four in the morning, heading first in one direction and then in another, with the intention of going home if things would just stop moving. Bernard (Gerard Depardieu) is a doctor whose Hippocratic oath was a hypocritic failure -- the not-so-good doctor kills his wife because she is having an affair, and he kills her lover too. Then he joins the French Foreign Legion. On his way to the former French colonies in Africa, the plane he is in crashes, and Rossi, a "friend" on the plane with some overweight in carry-on money, shoots Bernard and takes off, leaving him for dead. He is nursed back to life and health by friendly villagers and just his luck, he not only manages to make his fortune in Africa, he also nabs a French passport from a dying man who will clearly not need it anymore unless the Pearly Gates have a French guard.
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Coup de soleil
Title: Coup de soleil
Character: Carmarec
Released: May 2, 1982
Type: Movie
Valentine Matignon is a renowned perfumer, "nose". She has had a relationship for 15 years with Gérard, and is about to break up because she is bored. Patrick appears, a lively florist, who gives him the bouquet that Gérard ordered to be forgiven for being late. Patrick makes him a dishonest proposition which she ends up accepting. She takes a funny "sunburn".
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Title: Merci Bernard
Released: April 4, 1982
Type: TV
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Tête à claques
Title: Tête à claques
Character: Prison guard
Released: February 17, 1982
Type: Movie
Alex Berthier would love to be a famous songwriter. Meanwhile, he has to cope with unemployment, a witty 12 years old son and a rich and cute heiress who tries to help Alex as much as he tries to escape her: she brings nothing but trouble ! Fortunately, luck will strike again.
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Espion, lève-toi
Title: Espion, lève-toi
Character: Grenier employee
Released: January 27, 1982
Type: Movie
Sebastien Grenier, a former French spy, is working as a financial analyst in Zurich. However, his peaceful existence starts to disintegrate when he is recruited by a top French intelligence operative to discover how one of their own secret agents was found out and executed in broad daylight.
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The Cabbage Soup
Title: The Cabbage Soup
Character: Le facteur
Released: December 2, 1981
Type: Movie
Two buddy farmers are visited by aliens who like their domestic cabbage soup.
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Les surdoués de la première compagnie
Title: Les surdoués de la première compagnie
Character: L'adjudant-chef Colin
Released: February 4, 1981
Type: Movie
As soon as they arrive at the barracks, the new contingent reveals some characters who will give their officers a hard time. There is the handsome, resourceful man, the technocrat in love, the bootlicker, the "Jamaican" who only moves to music, the shortsighted man... and all the others. Sometimes to see the nurse undress, sometimes to arrange an appointment with a fiancée, sometimes to cuckold the obtuse non-commissioned officer whose wife is volcanic, sometimes to have a free lunch in a great restaurant, the handsome man invariably deploys a wealth of cunning. And each time it is the colonel's servile driver who gets caught instead of him.
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Asphalt
Title: Asphalt
Character: Jules Giroux
Released: January 7, 1981
Type: Movie
Heavy traffic in the summer. Bad luck for Juliet, Albert, Jaeger and Arthur who does not reach their destination. Involved in a terrible accident that will change their lives forever.
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The Lady Banker
Title: The Lady Banker
Character: Chériaux
Released: August 27, 1980
Type: Movie
The scene is the restless Paris of the interwar years where an attractive and ambitious woman successfully makes her way in a world previously reserved for men: that of high finance. Originating from a humble background, she quickly becomes popular with small savers by offering them outstanding interest rates. Extremely popular, she makes no secret of her taste for the good things in life and her homosexual affairs. They will cost her dearly...
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Title: Petit déjeuner compris
Character: M. Vendroux, le généalogiste
Released: February 22, 1980
Type: TV
A couple who live in the French provinces are surprised to inherit a hotel in Paris. These new owners are determined to sell it, but that's without the charms, vagaries, and clientele of this typical inn implanted in a nice neighborhood.
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Jupiter's Thigh
Title: Jupiter's Thigh
Character: Le touriste français
Released: February 6, 1980
Type: Movie
Antoine, a professor of Greek, and Lise, a police inspector, honeymoon in Greece. There they meet a young couple, Charles, an archaeologist, and Agnes, a dishy flirt. Charles unearths the lovely buttocks of a classical statue and is determined to donate it to the Louvre. Agnes wants to sell it and gets a handsome local sailor to take it for an appraisal. When the sailor is murdered, the police suspect Charles and arrest Antoine as his accomplice. Lise swings into action, but before she can clear the men, Agnes springs them from jail, and now Lise must help them elude the police, find the real murderer, and recover the statue fragment. More art goes missing. What is the statue's secret?
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The Savage State
Title: The Savage State
Character: Pasteur Suisse
Released: April 18, 1978
Type: Movie
L'Etat Sauvage is based on the novel by Georges Conchon which won the highly esteemed Prix de Goncourt. The story chronicles the mindless racism of both the departing French colonial overlords and the emergent black Africans in a newly emerging African state. Laurence (Marie-Christine Barrault) suffers the outrage of her white acquaintances, including her former lover Gravenoir (Claude Brasseur) and her ex-husband Avit (Jacques Dutronc), for her affair with Patrice Doumbe (Doura Mane), an official in the new government. He in turn is ridiculed by his fellow cabinet ministers for stepping out with a white woman. The vilification escalates to such a point that Patrice is brutally murdered, and Laurence barely escapes the country alive, with the help of her ex-husband Avit.
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Et vive la liberté!
Title: Et vive la liberté!
Character: Léon
Released: February 1, 1978
Type: Movie
Their feats of arms in Africa are worth to Phil, Jeannot and Gerard to be sent on a special mission in Algeria. Held captive by the Fellaghas, they manage to escape and are congratulated.
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The Devil in the Box
Title: The Devil in the Box
Released: April 19, 1977
Type: Movie
Alain Brissot, an executive in a major company, was made redundant following a redundancy plan, but decided to put up a fight by continuing to occupy his office against all odds... He soon went on hunger strike, and, after many ups and downs, ended up taking back the job of his former manager, who had himself been ousted following the failure of a lucrative contract with an African country.
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Judge Fayard Called the Sheriff
Title: Judge Fayard Called the Sheriff
Character: le directeur de la prison
Released: January 12, 1977
Type: Movie
Jean-Marie Fayard is a young examining magistrate in a large provincial french city. He belongs to that generation of judges who are endeavoring to re-adapt the notion of justice to our changing times. His methods are not agreeable to every one. Criticism and pressure are brought to bear upon him but he is aware of his value, professionally, and refuses to make any concessions. He follows an unwavering course. He uses dynamic methods and takes uncustomary initiatives. He behaves like a crusader, a battler, whence the nickname given him by the reporters : the sheriff.
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Mr. Klein
Title: Mr. Klein
Character: (uncredited)
Released: September 23, 1976
Type: Movie
Paris, France, 1942, during the Nazi occupation. Robert Klein, a successful art dealer who benefits from the misfortunes of those who are ruthlessly persecuted, discovers by chance that there is another Robert Klein, apparently a Jewish man; someone with whom he could be mistakenly identified, something dangerous in such harsh times.
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Title: Police Commissioner Moulin
Character: Claude Morales
Released: August 4, 1976
Type: TV
The series follows the adventures of lighthearted Jean-Paul Moulin, a police Commissaire, and his team as they solve crimes.
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Incorrigible
Title: Incorrigible
Character: Expert in tables
Released: October 15, 1975
Type: Movie
Victor Vautier is incorrigible: he's in constant motion, working several cons at once, using different names and changing disguises. He's charming and outrageous, incapable of uttering a sentence that isn't embellished or an outright lie. His life goal is to make enough money to build a sea wall to protect Mont-Saint-Michel. Charlotte, a parole officer, shows up: she's young and seems taken in by Victor. He discovers she lives above the Senlus Museum, where her parents are the curators. With two pals he decides to steal a priceless El Greco triptych and then ransom it back to the cultural ministry. What will Charlotte do when she realizes he's used her to make a fortune?
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It's Tough for Everybody
Title: It's Tough for Everybody
Released: June 18, 1975
Type: Movie
After losing his job, an idealistic adman starts his own agency, putting himself in the crosshairs of his jaded ex-boss.
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The Phantom of Liberty
Title: The Phantom of Liberty
Released: September 10, 1974
Type: Movie
This Surrealist film, with a title referencing the Communist Manifesto, strings together short incidents based on the life of director Luis Buñuel. Presented as chance encounters, these loosely related, intersecting situations, all without a consistent protagonist, reach from the 19th century to the 1970s. Touching briefly on subjects such as execution, pedophilia, incest, and sex, the film features an array of characters, including a sick father and incompetent police officers.
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The Infernal Trio
Title: The Infernal Trio
Character: Chambon
Released: May 22, 1974
Type: Movie
Marseilles, 1919. Georges Sarret is a distinguished and respected lawyer, recently honoured for his services in the First World War. He takes as his lover Philomène Schmidt, a young German woman, who has just lost her job and home. To enable Philomène to remain in France, Georges finds her a husband – who dies conveniently of natural causes a month after the wedding. Georges repeats the trick with Philomène's sister, Catherine – marrying her off to an old man who dies suddenly so that the scheming trio can profit from his life insurance. When an accomplice in the scheme, Marcel Chambon, threatens to blackmail them, Georges and his two lovers have no option but to kill him and his mistress...
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The Pariah
Title: The Pariah
Character: Fanfan, un habitué du Cercle de jeux
Released: December 12, 1972
Type: Movie
For more than 15 years, two Marseille friends and criminals battle the law, rival gangs, prison authorities and even mined beaches in order to survive.
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One Way Ticket
Title: One Way Ticket
Character: Le gardien de prison
Released: May 26, 1971
Type: Movie
After a bank robbery gone wrong, a crook goes on the run across Belgium to escape the police, clear himself of a crime that he did not commit, and protect his girlfriend from a shady lawyer.
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Last Known Address
Title: Last Known Address
Character: Taxi driver (uncredited)
Released: February 25, 1970
Type: Movie
Marceau Léonetti, a competent and energetic officer stops by chance the son of an influential lawyer driving under the influence of alcohol. A few months later, the lawyer falsely accuses Léonetti as being violent and incompetent. As a result Marceau is transferred to a small police station, where he meets young and beautiful Jeanne. Soon they are faced with a tough investigation.
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The Stud
Title: The Stud
Released: February 13, 1970
Type: Movie
Veterinary surgeon William Chaminade is having a peaceful holiday in the South of France when he is witness to an event that will change not only his life but the destiny of France! A young woman tries to kill herself by jumping from the upstairs window of the hotel where he is staying. Thanks to the services of a passing athlete, the woman is unharmed, and she reveals that her distress is down to her husband’s apparent lack of interest in her. Immediately, Chaminade has a brainwave. He will open a special centre for people like this unfortunate young woman, who will be able to satisfy their romantic needs, at the tax payers’ expense. All is well until this innovative ’pleasure centre’ draws the attention of an over-zealous tax inspector, Dupuis...
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The Big Wash
Title: The Big Wash
Released: November 12, 1968
Type: Movie
Sickened to see his students always sleeping in class, a teacher with a colleague and an anarchist start a war against the television. They climbed on Paris roofs to coat the T.V. antennas with a special product cutting the signal reception.
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Salut Berthe !
Title: Salut Berthe !
Released: August 20, 1968
Type: Movie
Adrien Chautard, a major industrialist from Abidjan, has been chosen to replace an expert on the official Ivory Coast delegation sent to Paris to discuss the country's association with the Common Market. Chautard is delighted at the prospect of this trip, where he will be reunited with the woman of his dreams: Elisabeth. Alas, at Abidjan airport, a nasty surprise awaits him: Berthe, his lawful wife, has decided to leave with him to consult a leading cardiologist in the capital.
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Horizon
Title: Horizon
Character: Pernon
Released: April 12, 1967
Type: Movie
Antonin is a young French soldier who returns home from World War I to recover from his wounds. When he falls in love with a young widow, Antonin questions his role in battle and contemplates desertion as he recalls the horrors of war. He is pressured by his patriotic father to honor his military commitment even if it means he will die.
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Les Compagnons de la marguerite
Title: Les Compagnons de la marguerite
Character: Me Castard / Me Questard
Released: January 20, 1967
Type: Movie
Jean-Louis Matouzec works for French National Library as an expert looking after the restoration of old manuscripts.He falsifies marriage certificates as his wife refuses divorce.
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How Not to Rob a Department Store
Title: How Not to Rob a Department Store
Released: February 25, 1965
Type: Movie
Bandits see the fruits of their theft fall into the hands of black jackets.
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The Virgins
Title: The Virgins
Character: Conference attender
Released: May 22, 1963
Type: Movie
The story of five girls that lose their virginity.