Jacques Maury

Jacques Maury

Born: June 25, 1937
Died: March 20, 1985
in Berchem, Flanders, Belgium

Movies for Jacques Maury...

Félix et moi, sur les traces du chanteur de Viens Poupoule !
Title: Félix et moi, sur les traces du chanteur de Viens Poupoule !
Released: January 24, 2024
Type: Movie
Félix Mayol was a very famous singer, one of the biggest stars of the early 20th century. Nowadays, his name sink into oblivion. In Toulon, a stadium and a mall are named after him, but nobody knows how much this city owes to this man.
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National Lampoon's European Vacation
Title: National Lampoon's European Vacation
Character: Hotel's Assistant Manager
Released: July 25, 1985
Type: Movie
The Griswalds win a vacation to Europe on a game show, and so pack their bags for the continent. They do their best to catch the flavor of Europe, but they just don't know how to be be good tourists. Besides, they have trouble taking holidays in countries where they CAN speak the language.
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Slices of Life
Title: Slices of Life
Character: L'ami des livres
Released: February 6, 1985
Type: Movie
A series of humorous sketches on life: "A Night to Remember", "Summit Showdown", and "A Book? That's personal!"
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Title: Châteauvallon
Released: January 4, 1985
Type: TV
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American Dreamer
Title: American Dreamer
Character: Crillon Manager
Released: October 26, 1984
Type: Movie
American housewife Cathy Palmer loses her memory on a trip to Paris after being hit by a car. She wakes up in the hospital believing she's the fictional international spy, Rebecca Ryan.
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L'étincelle
Title: L'étincelle
Character: Dr. Willenstein
Released: February 29, 1984
Type: Movie
A beautiful DJ starts a romantic relationship with an older antiquarian. The only problem: she's pregnant and already hitched.
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Thieves After Dark
Title: Thieves After Dark
Character: Desterne
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.
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Title: Lace
Character: Sartor
Released: February 26, 1984
Type: TV
A young actress gathers three former school friends to find out which one is her natural mother, who gave her up for adoption as a newborn.
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Petit Con
Title: Petit Con
Character: l'ami de Bob
Released: January 18, 1984
Type: Movie
An adolescent who fancies himself a sexy and conscientious young man abuses all his friends and family in a quest for his own independence.
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The ComDads
Title: The ComDads
Character: Julien
Released: November 23, 1983
Type: Movie
Unable to find her runaway son, a woman deceives two of her ex-lovers from her youth, a mild-mannered teacher and a tough journalist, that each is the real father in order to obtain their help.
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The Outsider
Title: The Outsider
Character: Maître Cappa
Released: October 26, 1983
Type: Movie
Philippe Jordan is a policeman prone to advancing the cause of justice by any means necessary. On his agenda is a powerful drug cartel working out of Paris and Marseilles, with a drug lord who is essentially inaccessible -- but not immortal.
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Enigma
Title: Enigma
Released: October 15, 1982
Type: Movie
Five highly-trained KGB agents are sent to the west to assassinate several Soviet dissidents. In order to stop the diabolical plot, an American agent must infiltrate Soviet intelligence and obtain information from a Russian computer.
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Title: Remington Steele
Character: Henri Lebret
Released: October 1, 1982
Type: TV
Laura Holt, a licensed private detective, opens a detective agency but finds that potential clients refuse to hire a woman, however qualified. To solve the problem, Laura invents a fictitious male superior whom she names Remington Steele. Through a series of events that unfold in the first episode, "License to Steele," a former thief and con man, whose real name is never revealed, assumes the identity of Remington Steele. Behind the scenes, Laura remains firmly in charge.
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A Thousand Billion Dollars
Title: A Thousand Billion Dollars
Character: Jack Sleiter
Released: February 9, 1982
Type: Movie
A young journalist stumbles across something much more sinister than a simple suicide in the death of a politician - the death seems to be an assassination contrived by an American multinational company intent on taking over several French industries. The journalist's objective is to garner enough evidence to expose the American corporation for what it really is, before French companies start disappearing - and before any more corpses accumulate, including his own.
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Une robe noire pour un tueur
Title: Une robe noire pour un tueur
Character: Prosecutor
Released: January 14, 1981
Type: Movie
The "black robe" in the title of this suspense film belongs to a female lawyer, Florence Nat who has just lost a case in which she defended Simon Risler, a man wrongly accused of murder. Risler escapes before he can be put in prison, and seeks help from attorney Nat in finding the real killer, partly by going after the police inspector who framed him in the first place. A retired surgeon, in the process of setting up a drug rehab clinic gets involved in solving Risler's case, and soon the solution seems to be pointing to high-ranking figures with every desire and ample means to keep the truth well-hidden.
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The Hostage Tower
Title: The Hostage Tower
Character: Poupon
Released: September 19, 1980
Type: Movie
A flamboyant master criminal and several specialists stage an audacious scheme to capture the Eiffel Tower and hold as hostage one of its visitors, the U.S. President's mother, while the head of a UN security force tries to stop them.
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Heads or Tails
Title: Heads or Tails
Character: L'avocat
Released: August 30, 1980
Type: Movie
Since his wife died, Inspector Louis Baroni (Philippe Noiret) has become a virtual recluse, preferring the solitude of his quiet house to the company of others. His period of mournful contemplation is broken when he is called out to look into the suspicious death of Madame Morlaix who, according to her husband Edouard (Michel Serrault), fell from an upstairs window. Curious to find out more, Baroni begins his inquiry.
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Thicker Than Water
Title: Thicker Than Water
Character: Yves
Released: January 24, 1980
Type: Movie
The Black Pudding Festival in Normandy, France, brings competitors from all over Europe. The British contingent is there for all the fun of the fair-and determined to win!
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A Little Romance
Title: A Little Romance
Character: Inspector Leclerc
Released: April 27, 1979
Type: Movie
A young American girl and a young French boy meet in Paris and fall in love, with the assistance of an old man and his stories.
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Lady Oscar
Title: Lady Oscar
Character: Le baron de Breteuil
Released: March 3, 1979
Type: Movie
Oscar François de Jarjayes was born female, but her father insisted she be raised as a boy as he had no sons. She becomes the captain of the guards at Versailles under King Louis XVI and Marie Antonette. Her privileged, noble life comes under fire as she discovers the hard life of the poor people of France. She is caught up in the French Revolution, and must choose between her loyalty and love.
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Butterfly on the Shoulder
Title: Butterfly on the Shoulder
Character: Goma
Released: May 3, 1978
Type: Movie
On a stopover in Barcelona, Fériaud Roland discovers a corpse in the hotel room next door. He wakes up in a strange clinic without remembering who brought him there. The doctor insists he hallucinated, but it's not long before he obtains evidence that it wasn't a dream.
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Title: The New Avengers
Released: October 22, 1976
Type: TV
The New Avengers is a British secret agent fantasy adventure television series broadcast during 1976 and 1977. It is a sequel to the 1960s series The Avengers and was developed by Albert Fennell and Brian Clemens. A joint United Kingdom-France-Canada production, the show picks up the adventures of John Steed and his team of Avengers fighting evil plots and world domination. Whereas in the original series Steed had almost always been partnered with a woman, in the new series he had two partners: Mike Gambit, a top agent, crack marksman and trained martial artist, and Purdey, a former trainee with The Royal Ballet who was an amalgam of many of the best talents from Steed's previous female partners.
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Mr. Klein
Title: Mr. Klein
Character: Professor Montandon
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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Aces High
Title: Aces High
Character: Ponnelle
Released: May 19, 1976
Type: Movie
The first World War is in its third year and aerial combat above the Western Front is consuming the nation's favored children at an appalling rate. By early 1917, the average life-span of a British pilot is less than a fortnight. Such losses place a fearsome strain on Gresham, commanding officer of the squadron. Aces High recreates the early days of the Royal Flying Corps with some magnificently staged aerial battles, and sensitive direction presents a moving portrayal of the futilities of war.
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Milady
Title: Milady
Character: Le notaire
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
Commandant Gardefort, horseman at the Cadre Noir Riding Academy in Saumur, having given up hope of promotion decides to retire. To fill his time until then, he buys a mare, Milady, and in two years trains her to the highest dressage haute ecole standards. But he finds himself in dire financial straits over his divorce, and is obliged to sell the mare. She is bought by a rich Belgian banker, who transforms Milady into a circus horse. Visiting him, Gardefort resolves the situation in the only way he sees fit.
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Love and Death
Title: Love and Death
Character: Second
Released: June 10, 1975
Type: Movie
In czarist Russia, a neurotic soldier and his distant cousin formulate a plot to assassinate Napoleon.
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The Slap
Title: The Slap
Character: Rabal
Released: October 23, 1974
Type: Movie
A Parisian teacher loses his cool when his teenage daughter tells him she plans to drop out of school and move in with her boyfriend.
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Creezy
Title: Creezy
Character: Member of the PRU
Released: April 10, 1974
Type: Movie
Julien Dandieu, leader of the socialist political party PRU is asked to be part of the new conservative government as minister of foreign affairs. However his reputation is somewhat tarnished by his adulterous relationship with Creezy, a fashion model seen on every magazine cover. Ready to sacrifice his family for his career, he is eventually faced with the ultimate choice: his career ambitions or a lifetime with his beautiful girlfriend, who has recently mysteriously disappeared.
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Voyage to Grand Tartarie
Title: Voyage to Grand Tartarie
Released: March 6, 1974
Type: Movie
After the murder of his wife Alexis is devastated. He withdraws all his savings and embarks on a journey from which he does not think he will return. His meeting with Daphne makes the escape through Tartary even crazier.
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The Last Train
Title: The Last Train
Released: October 31, 1973
Type: Movie
Two people, a Frenchman Julien Maroyeur and a Jewish German woman (Anna Kupfer) met on a train while escaping the German army entering France.
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Start the Revolution Without Me
Title: Start the Revolution Without Me
Character: Lt. Sorel
Released: February 4, 1970
Type: Movie
Two sets of identical twins are accidentally switched at birth. One pair, Phillipe and Pierre DeSisi, are aristocratic and haughty, while the other, Charles and Claude Coupé, are poor and dim-witted. On the eve of the French Revolution, both sets find themselves entangled in palace intrigue.
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Le Dindon
Title: Le Dindon
Character: Jean
Released: October 18, 1968
Type: Movie
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Méphisto
Title: Méphisto
Character: Willy Keanton
Released: April 17, 1931
Type: Movie
On his wedding night with Hilda Bergmann, the daughter of a swedish chemist, the young and rich american Willy Keanton is stabbed by an unidentified masked man. He kidnaps the young woman, who is found later on by the count Robert d'Arbel. The detective Jacques Miral, nicknamed « the pointed tower's ferret » is put in charge of the case. Soon, he discovers that an international bandit, Méphisto, seeks to seize the formula of a process against asphyxiating gas, invented by professor Bergmann. The struggle is tough between Miral and the uncatchable Méphisto. Monique Aubray, Keanton's secretary and engaged to the detective, the Nostradamus stallholders and the « mastiff of Bordeaux », and the famous novelist Fortuné Bidon are also involved in the case...