André Penvern

André Penvern

Born: November 26, 1947
in Sèvres, Seine-et-Oise [now Hauts-de-Seine], France
André Penvern is a French actor born in Sèvres. At age 17, he began working with National Drama Centers. He went from small parts to stage manager, sound and lightning designer, etc. His meeting with Margot Capelier, casting director, was crucial for him. She introduced him to Fred Zinnemann Otto Preminger John Frankenheimer, Gérard Oury. He alternates between theater and television, encountering Jean Marboeuf Alain Bonnot, Philippe de Broca, Olivier Dahan.

Movies for André Penvern...

Open Season
Title: Open Season
Character: André
Released: December 20, 2023
Type: Movie
Flanked by their two children, Simon and Adélaïde decide, like many Parisians today, to leave their two-room apartment for a quieter and more comfortable life in the country. They are seduced by a house in the middle of nature: space, a vegetable garden, a wood adjoining their garden and above all villagers who welcome them with open arms. A dream come true! But the young couple was soon to be disillusioned: the wood was actually a hunting ground for big game! Although the hunters are friendly, they are not willing to give up their territory, making Simon and Adélaïde's dream of the countryside a living hell. But true to their reputation, our Parisians are not going to let them do it.
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Champagne !
Title: Champagne !
Character: André
Released: June 8, 2022
Type: Movie
Springtime in the French vineyards of Champagne. Patrick has gathered his oldest friends for his bachelor party. The trouble is, everyone hates his future wife. This could thus become one hellish weekend in gourmet paradise.
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C'est magnifique !
Title: C'est magnifique !
Character: Raymond
Released: June 1, 2022
Type: Movie
When Pierre learns that his parents are not his parents, he wants to find out who he is and where he comes from. Raised in nature, Pierre has never been confronted with society. He does not know the codes. He will team up with Anna who will help him in his quest and cross a whole gallery of characters as funny as tender. But during his investigation, Pierre will lose his colors – like a photo that fades.
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Title: Around the World in 80 Days
Character: Monsieur Lome
Released: December 5, 2021
Type: TV
Following an outrageous bet, Fogg and his valet, Passepartout, take on the legendary journey of circumnavigating the globe in just 80 days, swiftly joined by aspiring journalist Abigail Fix, who seizes the chance to report on this extraordinary story.
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The man who wanted to sleep
Title: The man who wanted to sleep
Character: Alfred
Released: April 5, 2021
Type: Movie
Alfred, a resident of a retirement home, can no longer get to sleep, disturbed by the incessant bedhopping of the other residents. Exasperated, he decides to leave in the middle of the night to sleep outside. But between the anti-homeless furniture and the surveillance robots, sleeping has become a luxury and Alfred doesn't know it yet.
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Title: Das Boot
Character: Georges
Released: November 23, 2018
Type: TV
An inexperienced U-boat crew has to survive a secret mission and a young German woman is torn between loyalty for her home country and the French resistance in the WWII drama.
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The Happy Prince
Title: The Happy Prince
Character: Monsieur Dupoirier
Released: April 12, 2018
Type: Movie
In 1895, Oscar Wilde (1854-1900) was the most famous writer in London, and Bosie Douglas, son of the notorious Marquess of Queensberry, was his lover. Accused and convicted of gross indecency, he was imprisoned for two years and subjected to hard labor. Once free, he abandons England to live in France, where he will spend his last years, haunted by memories of the past, poverty and immense sadness.
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Belle and Sebastian 3: The Last Chapter
Title: Belle and Sebastian 3: The Last Chapter
Character: Urbain, the mayor
Released: February 7, 2018
Type: Movie
12 year-old Sebastian has decided not to follow his father and Angelina to Canada, deciding to stay in the alps to watch over Belle who has now become the mother of three beautiful pups. When a stranger arrives claiming to be Belle’s rightful owner, Sebastian will do all it takes to protect his best friend and her little ones.
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Title: Maximilian and Marie De Bourgogne
Character: Guillaume Hugonet
Released: March 1, 2017
Type: TV
Known as The Last Knight for his bravery and battle skills, the great European emperor Maximilian and his story is as spectacular as it is familiar: It is the story of a prince who must learn to be king. But above all, it is the struggle of a son who steps out of his father's shadow with the help of a most unexpected ally: Marie de Bourgogne.
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Title: Mortus Corporatus
Character: M. Blandin
Released: March 19, 2015
Type: TV
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Grace of Monaco
Title: Grace of Monaco
Character: Charles de Gaulle
Released: April 22, 2014
Type: Movie
The story of former Hollywood star Grace Kelly's crisis of marriage and identity, during a political dispute between Monaco's Prince Rainier III and France's Charles De Gaulle, and a looming French invasion of Monaco in the early 1960s.
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The Man Who Knew a Lot
Title: The Man Who Knew a Lot
Character: Mister Beranger
Released: February 5, 2014
Type: Movie
Mr. Beranger works at Paradesign, a furniture department store where the employees live day and night in the decorations. Himself lives in a show cottage in pasteboard and excels in the promotion of his dachshund footrest. His life seems settled well, until the day when he is promoted to the mysterious thirteenth floor of the store.
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Baby Phone
Title: Baby Phone
Released: January 17, 2014
Type: Movie
Two buddies visit a friends couple-urban sophisticate, inhibited parents. While they meet with the baby in his room, the two buddies start on bad jokes about his physique. But they ignore that in the kitchen, everyone hears them through the baby monitor !
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Kramer contre Kramer
Title: Kramer contre Kramer
Character: Sam / The Butler / Shaunessy / The Pub Manager
Released: August 2, 2013
Type: Movie
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Paulette
Title: Paulette
Character: Walter
Released: October 4, 2012
Type: Movie
Paulette lives alone in a housing project in the Paris suburbs. With her meager pension, she can no longer make ends meet.
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La Victoire au bout du bâton
Title: La Victoire au bout du bâton
Character: Marcel
Released: July 10, 2012
Type: Movie
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Ducoboo 2: Crazy Vacation
Title: Ducoboo 2: Crazy Vacation
Character: Antoine Ferchereau
Released: April 24, 2012
Type: Movie
Ducobu goes on holiday in the south of France.
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Le Chef
Title: Le Chef
Character: Le père de Béatrice
Released: March 7, 2012
Type: Movie
A veteran chef faces off against his restaurant group's new CEO, who wants to the establishment to lose a star from its rating in order to bring in a younger chef who specializes in molecular gastronomy.
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Louis XVI, l'homme qui ne voulait pas être roi
Title: Louis XVI, l'homme qui ne voulait pas être roi
Character: Maurepas
Released: November 29, 2011
Type: Movie
The dramatic events around the French king Louis XVI and the French crises in the late 1700's with no will to pay taxes, which led Louis XVI into an impossible situation as a king.
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L'appel du 18 juin
Title: L'appel du 18 juin
Character: Maxime Weygand
Released: June 8, 2010
Type: Movie
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Inglourious Basterds
Title: Inglourious Basterds
Character: Old French Veterinarian
Released: August 2, 2009
Type: Movie
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.
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Behind the Walls
Title: Behind the Walls
Character: Mr Luve
Released: April 30, 2008
Type: Movie
A young runaway rejects society's condemnation and dares to fulfill his dreams. France, 1930s. 14-year-old orphan Yves Tréguier sees the world through the bars of "educational homes" where he is raised in conditions worthy of a penal colony, and dreams of a dramatic escape across the ocean to New York.
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Papillon noir
Title: Papillon noir
Character: Le Procureur
Released: April 28, 2008
Type: Movie
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Title: The Brides of Bourbon Island
Character: le père Romand
Released: September 27, 2007
Type: TV
Historical seventeenth-century romantic-epic-action-adventure where three women survived a harrowing ocean voyage from France to forcibly marry French ex-patriots on the island of Bourbon (now Réunion).
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La Vie en Rose
Title: La Vie en Rose
Character: Jacques Canetti
Released: February 14, 2007
Type: Movie
From the mean streets of the Belleville district of Paris to the dazzling limelight of New York's most famous concert halls, Edith Piaf's life was a constant battle to sing and survive, to live and love. Raised in her grandmother's brothel, Piaf was discovered in 1935 by nightclub owner Louis Leplee, who persuaded her to sing despite her extreme nervousness. Piaf became one of France's immortal icons, her voice one of the indelible signatures of the 20th century.
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Crimson Rivers II: Angels of the Apocalypse
Title: Crimson Rivers II: Angels of the Apocalypse
Character: Père Dominique
Released: February 18, 2004
Type: Movie
No one is safe when seemingly random killings emerge as a deadly pattern intended to usher in the end of the world. A murder victim with the same DNA as Christ. A serial killer mimicking the deaths of the 12 Apostles. Inspector Niemans and a young, rebellious detective team up with a beautiful expert in religion to crack the case before their elusive suspect completes the cycle of terror, paving the way to an even bigger bloody catastrophe.
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Bâtards
Title: Bâtards
Character: Gégé, le père
Released: November 13, 2002
Type: Movie
Returning from a vacation in Spain in September, Agathe, a dental technician, and her husband Alexandre, a salesman, break down on a deserted stretch of freeway. They are then forced to follow a mechanic who appears out of nowhere. Towed to an isolated camp in the middle of nowhere, the couple discovers a family composed of six adopted children, all approximately 25 years old and of different origins. Forced to wait for the car's engine to be repaired, the vacationers participate in spite of themselves and for a few hours in their community life.
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Tête de chou
Title: Tête de chou
Character: Le boulanger (voice)
Released: November 10, 2001
Type: Movie
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Vidocq
Title: Vidocq
Character: Veraldi
Released: September 18, 2001
Type: Movie
Paris, 1830. In the heart of the town, Vidocq, a famous detective, disappears as he fights the Alchemist, an assassin that he has been pursuing for a few months. His young biographer, Etienne Boisset, decides to avenge Vidocq's death and takes the investigation on...
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Amazon
Title: Amazon
Character: Colonel de Villeneuve
Released: July 19, 2000
Type: Movie
On an observatory set high on a mountain, astronomers make a stunning discovery somewhere out in the galaxy. A flying object in the depths of the cosmos is showing signs of life, emitting an intelligent signal. The UFO has just landed on Earth somewhere in the midst of a rainforest. Margot, the enthusiastic young woman heading up the research team, decides to go to the spot and check out this phenomenon. Meanwhile Edouard, our hero, studies the flora and fauna of the tree tops in the rainforest. He perches on an enormous net that stretches over the still pure, unadulterated forest that spreads out beneath him. He discovers a naked little twelve-year old girl seated on the net. He covers her with a broad banana leaf and asks where she comes from. She quickly replies, in perfect French 'from another world'.
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Title: Chère Marianne
Character: Le préfet
Released: November 1, 1999
Type: TV
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Brigade des mineurs
Title: Brigade des mineurs
Character: Ganasse
Released: June 30, 1999
Type: Movie
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Les Parasites
Title: Les Parasites
Character: Albert Wurtz
Released: January 20, 1999
Type: Movie
Oulage has it all planned: New Year's eve, at the stroke of midnight, he'll finally kiss Brigitte, the girl he's madly in love with. That'll be the moment, because Brigitte is having a costume party. Oulage has it all planned—except for the fact that Brigitte has also invited a gang of truly parasitical friends: an old girl friend who never leaves Brigitte's side, a manic-depressive police officer, a paranoid psychopath, a cannabis-addict suffering withdrawal pains, a stunning Cuban woman on the prowl for immigration papers, and many others who do everything to ruin Oulage's life.
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L'Alambic
Title: L'Alambic
Character: Le Maire
Released: May 9, 1998
Type: Movie
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Oranges amères
Title: Oranges amères
Character: Gosset
Released: April 16, 1997
Type: Movie
Recognizing no boundaries to her love, Angele manages to foment riots, rages and tragedy in colonial Algeria. Angele, an Algerian colonist with impeccably French origins, has fallen in love with Said, the assistant in her brother-in-law's bakery shop. Said is conscious of his Arab origins and traditions, and Angele has her work cut out for her if she wants to persuade him to marry her. Once she does, all hell breaks loose, as neither her European-origin peers nor Said's conservative Arab family approve of the union. When word of the proposed marriage gets out, strikes, violence and murder quickly follow, ruining not only Angele's life, but the lives of those around her. Her brother-in-law Paco, meanwhile, has been doggedly trying to get along and raise his family in an increasingly chaotic and difficult situation.
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Ready to Wear
Title: Ready to Wear
Character: Hotel Clerk
Released: December 23, 1994
Type: Movie
During Paris Fashion Week, models, designers and industry hot shots gather to work, mingle, argue and try to seduce one another.
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Title: Les Cordier, juge et flic
Character: Prosecutor Delorme
Released: February 24, 1994
Type: TV
The Cordier fight in family against the crime: the father is police captain, the son, investigating judge and the girl, a journalist.
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Pétain
Title: Pétain
Character: Alibert
Released: May 5, 1993
Type: Movie
During second world war,Philippe Pétain gets absolute powers.The war ends with the arrival of allied forces by Petainism has not been put on trial.
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La Vie de Bohème
Title: La Vie de Bohème
Character: Police Inspector
Released: February 27, 1992
Type: Movie
Three penniless artists become friends in modern-day Paris: Rodolfo, an Albanian painter with no visa, Marcel, a playwright and magazine editor with no publisher, and Schaunard, a post-modernist composer of execrable noise.
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Bienvenue à Bellefontaine
Title: Bienvenue à Bellefontaine
Character: Anatole
Released: January 1, 1992
Type: Movie
Sentenced to ten years in prison for a murder he did not commit, Gaëtan Lantier has just been cleared thanks to the confession the real criminal made before he died. Back in Bellefontaine, his village, the good man is the host of a party organized in his honor. As a gift, the mayor and the inhabitants give him a magnificent hunting rifle. At first disconcerted, Gaëtan pulls himself together and tells the audience that his years of imprisonment give him the right to kill the biggest bastard in the village. Most of the inhabitants have something to reproach themselves with and fear being taken for the silhouette, the one who witnessed the murder but never made himself known, even though his testimony would have cleared Gaëtan. Fear invades Bellefontaine and everyone tries to coax Gaëtan with attentions and gifts.
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May Wine
Title: May Wine
Character: Concierge
Released: May 1, 1990
Type: Movie
A middle-aged woman and her daughter unknowingly become romantically involved with the same man while vacationing in France.
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Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Title: Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Character: Waiter on the Train
Released: December 14, 1988
Type: Movie
Two con men try to settle their rivalry by betting on who can be the first to swindle a young American heiress out of $50,000.
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The Man Who Lived at the Ritz
Title: The Man Who Lived at the Ritz
Character: Henri Bretonne
Released: November 28, 1988
Type: Movie
In this drama, an American art student is trapped amidst the political turmoil of war-torn Europe while visiting Paris and staying at the fabulous Ritz hotel. Rather than cope constructively with it all, the fellow opts to ignore it and continue living the high-life for as long as possible.
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Title: The secret files of Inspector Lavardin
Character: Le préfet
Released: September 15, 1988
Type: TV
The Dossiers of Inspector Lavardin is a French television series in four 90-minute episodes, created by Dominique Roulet and Claude Chabrol and broadcast between September 15, 1988 and February 1, 1990 on TF1. It follows the two films Chicken in Vinegar and Inspector Lavardin directed by Claude Chabrol and already featuring Jean Poiret in the role of Lavardin. This short series depicts the investigations of Inspector Lavardin, a tongue-in-cheek policeman known for his bad manners.
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The Cruel Embrace
Title: The Cruel Embrace
Character: Micho
Released: November 25, 1987
Type: Movie
Ludovic is the son of Nicole, a single mother who married Micho, a man older than her. He agreed to adopt her son. Ludo is the scapegoat of Tatave, first son of Micho and the favoured victim of his teacher. Communication between Ludo and his mother is non-existent. While her own health is deteriorating, she eventually entrusts him to an asylum.
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The Holcroft Covenant
Title: The Holcroft Covenant
Character: Frederick Leger
Released: September 20, 1985
Type: Movie
A man who was a confidant of Adolf Hitler dies and leaves a fortune to make amends for his Nazi past—but his son has to search the world to find it.
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Title: Châteauvallon
Released: January 4, 1985
Type: TV
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Prends ton passe-montagne, on va à la plage
Title: Prends ton passe-montagne, on va à la plage
Character: Le contremaître
Released: January 12, 1983
Type: Movie
By chance, a band of merry friends is getting in command of a thalasso therapy center.
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Quand tu seras débloqué... fais-moi signe !
Title: Quand tu seras débloqué... fais-moi signe !
Character: Jean-Michel, le mari d'Odette
Released: December 16, 1981
Type: Movie
Whilst driving through rural France, Antoine Bonfils comes across a community of babas - men and women who have turned their back on the modern commercialist world and live, free of constraints, as close to nature as they can. After a tiff with his girlfriend, he decides to swap his comfortable but empty life in Paris for a new life with the babas. Adapting to the new life-style proves to be far from easy...
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L'entourloupe
Title: L'entourloupe
Character: Hansel
Released: April 9, 1980
Type: Movie
Two little criminals without major, dream of adventure and easy life. They agree to go to work in the Poitou as representatives of musical encyclopedias luxury. But their friend Valerie arrive from Paris and just changes their life.
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Title: Petit déjeuner compris
Character: Le médecin, qui vient pour Hector
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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Le Gagnant
Title: Le Gagnant
Character: Le buraliste
Released: November 28, 1979
Type: Movie
A plumber finally meets the woman of his dreams. But as her uptight family tries to keep him away, he wins the lottery and starts plotting his revenge.
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French Postcards
Title: French Postcards
Character: Jean-Louis
Released: October 19, 1979
Type: Movie
French Postcards rings both comic and true. The believable, fresh-faced characters are young naives from American colleges spending their French-English dictionaries, they compulsively seek out hundreds of monuments, romanticize the nomadic artist's life, and look for grown-up love. The French tutor them well, as befits their reputation. Jean Rochefort is the harassed headmaster with a hankering for affairs, and Marie-France Pisier is his very sexy wife. Watch for a newcomer named Debra Winger, and another-Mandy Patinkin.
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Too Shy to Try
Title: Too Shy to Try
Character: Un homme (non crédité)
Released: August 23, 1978
Type: Movie
Pierre is a hotel cashier in Vichy, so shy that he answers an ad from the Psychology Institute and can't say no to the salesman, Aldo; he spends 6,000 francs on tapes, books, and a punching bag. Soon after, he's smitten by Agnes, a hotel guest with a model's looks and photographers wherever she goes. When she leaves for Nice, he follows, meeting Aldo on the way. Aldo becomes his boldness coach. Pierre gets a job washing dishes where Agnes is staying, but after a week or so, she's off to Deauville, with Aldo and Pierre in pursuit. Using funds they get by selling Aldo's car, this time Pierre poses as a polo-playing jet setter. Will this win the heart of Agnes?
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The Seventh Company Outdoors
Title: The Seventh Company Outdoors
Character: Apparition (non crédité)
Released: December 7, 1977
Type: Movie
The third part of Seventh Company adventures.
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March or Die
Title: March or Die
Character: 'Top Hat'
Released: September 8, 1977
Type: Movie
Just after World War I, Major Foster is incorporating new recruits into his French Foreign Legion platoon when he is sent to his former remote outpost located in the French Morocco to protect an archaeological excavation from El Krim, a Rifian leader who intends to unite all local tribes to fight the colonial government…
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Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo
Title: Herbie Goes to Monte Carlo
Character: French Policeman (uncredited)
Released: June 24, 1977
Type: Movie
Herbie, the Volkswagen Beetle with a mind of its own, is racing in the Monte Carlo Rally. But thieves have hidden a cache of stolen diamonds in Herbie's gas tank, and are now trying to get them back.
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The Model Couple
Title: The Model Couple
Character: Speaker à la télévision
Released: March 30, 1977
Type: Movie
In 1977 France, the Ministry of the Future chooses two “normal,” white, middle-class citizens, Claudine and Jean-Michel, for a national experiment. They will be monitored and displayed on television for six months in a model apartment outfitted with state-of-the-art products and nonstop surveillance—the template for “a new city for the new man".
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Title: Police Commissioner Moulin
Character: Robert Mendira
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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The Tenant
Title: The Tenant
Character: Cafe waiter
Released: May 26, 1976
Type: Movie
A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in France where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.
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French Connection II
Title: French Connection II
Character: Bartender
Released: May 18, 1975
Type: Movie
"Popeye" Doyle travels to Marseilles to find Alain Charnier, the drug smuggler that eluded him in New York.
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The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
Title: The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
Character: Assistant to Andréani
Released: October 17, 1973
Type: Movie
In this riot of frantic disguises and mistaken identities, Victor Pivert, a blustering, bigoted French factory owner, finds himself taken hostage by Slimane, an Arab rebel leader. The two dress up as rabbis as they try to elude not only assasins from Slimane's country, but also the police, who think Pivert is a murderer. Pivert ends up posing as Rabbi Jacob, a beloved figure who's returned to France for his first visit after 30 years in the United States. Adding to the confusion are Pivert's dentist-wife, who thinks her husband is leaving her for another woman, their daughter, who's about to get married, and a Parisian neighborhood filled with people eager to celebrate the return of Rabbi Jacob.
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The Day of the Jackal
Title: The Day of the Jackal
Character: Policeman at Tulle Station
Released: May 16, 1973
Type: Movie
An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated gendarme on the assassin’s trail.
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A Police Officer Without Importance
Title: A Police Officer Without Importance
Released: April 12, 1973
Type: Movie
Camille, Dov and Joëlle live on the edge of society and are involved in petty theft helping them to buy their drug doses and to survive as best they can. One day, while attempting to rob a movie theater, they activate the alarm signal and it is Pierre, Camille's brother, who is doing a heist in the same building, who is arrested red-handed. The three young people decide to kidnap a police officer and exchange him for Pierre.
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Scoundrel in White
Title: Scoundrel in White
Released: September 29, 1972
Type: Movie
Jean-Paul Belmondo plays Paul, a former womanizer who marries the head of the medical department's "unattractive" daughter Christine because he thinks attractive women can't be trusted and make poor wives. A car accident leaves him bedridden and he begins to miss his playboy days, when Christine's bombshell sister Martine arrives and Paul decides he must have her. He begins drugging Christine at night so he can sneak out to kill of Martine's many suitors one by one.
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Someone Behind the Door
Title: Someone Behind the Door
Character: Intern
Released: July 28, 1971
Type: Movie
A neurosurgeon with a cheating wife takes an amnesiac into his home and conditions him to believe that the cheating wife is his own and to take the "appropriate" action.
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Title: The Investigations of Commissioner Maigret
Character: Inspecteur Castaing
Released: October 14, 1967
Type: TV