François Darbon

François Darbon

Born: August 14, 1915
Died: July 9, 1998
in Paris, France

Movies for François Darbon...

Sept hommes en enfer
Title: Sept hommes en enfer
Character: Simon
Released: January 1, 1981
Type: Movie
As the outbreak of the Third World War commences, government members of France start hiding in a bunker.
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That's Show Business
Title: That's Show Business
Character: Baptiste
Released: October 24, 1975
Type: Movie
Clement Mastard is the head of a leading journal dedicated to extravagant vaudeville. An unexpected contract requires him to reconnect with his former headliner Celia Bergson part to try to avant-garde theater. It is through this that he met Johann Sebastian Bloch, misunderstood musician who cause the loss but the side which Mastard, the man without scruples, to humanize and eventually produce a real masterpiece, the Missa Solemnis
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Les Rosenberg ne doivent pas mourir
Title: Les Rosenberg ne doivent pas mourir
Released: May 24, 1975
Type: Movie
A French film about a famous American trial - that of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who became the first people in American history to receive the death penalty for espionage.
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Rock or the Curse
Title: Rock or the Curse
Character: Grosbois
Released: February 6, 1973
Type: Movie
A stranger arrives in a small town and soon the locals suspect that he might be a sorcerer.
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Title: The Accursed Kings
Character: Ogle le Barbier
Released: December 21, 1972
Type: TV
It is the start of the 14th century and Philip IV the Fair reigns supreme over France. His three sons would rule after him. Isabelle, his only daughter, is married to King Edward II of England. Under Philip's reign, France is great but its people are unhappy. Only one power dares to stand up to him: the order of the Knights Templar. When the last Grand Master of the Temple, Jacques de Molay, is burned at the stake, he curses Philip and so begins a dark period, full of blood and violence, death and tears ...
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Stolen Kisses
Title: Stolen Kisses
Character: Chief Warrant Officer Picard
Released: September 4, 1968
Type: Movie
The third in a series of films featuring François Truffaut's alter-ego, Antoine Doinel, the story resumes with Antoine being discharged from military service. His sweetheart Christine's father lands Antoine a job as a security guard, which he promptly loses. Stumbling into a position assisting a private detective, Antoine falls for his employers' seductive wife, Fabienne, and finds that he must choose between the older woman and Christine.
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Iphigénie
Title: Iphigénie
Released: July 23, 1968
Type: Movie
On the shores of Aulis, the Greeks prepare to attack Troy. But their ships are unable to set sail because the gods are holding back the winds necessary for departure. Agamemnon consults the oracle. The solution is tragic. To appease the goddess Artemis, whom he had offended, he must sacrifice his own daughter.
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Title: Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre
Character: Bösig
Released: September 15, 1967
Type: TV
Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre [French title: Le comte Yoster a bien l'honneur] is a TV series which followed the adventures of the title’s amateur gentleman detective. It was a success in particular in Germany and in France. Originally the show was a German production in black-and-white but it evolved into a European co-production in colour.
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Title: Die Schatzinsel
Character: Marc Hawkins
Released: December 25, 1966
Type: TV
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Father's Trip
Title: Father's Trip
Released: September 16, 1966
Type: Movie
Determined to assert his paternal rights, Quentin leaves his small village on the Swiss border to go to Lyon to look for his daughter, now a hairdresser, who, busy with her work, hasn't been back to the village for two years. In a few days, it will be Denise's birthday, the youngest of his daughters, and, urged on by his wife, he sets off, determined to bring the prodigal son back to the family celebration. But Denise is now living off her charms.
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Requiem pour un caïd
Title: Requiem pour un caïd
Character: Inspector Couture
Released: July 25, 1964
Type: Movie
Police officer Antoine Delille is in charge of putting an end to the activities of a "kingpin", Jo Pinelli, trafficker, racketeer and pimp. He has three women working for him, including Eva and Jeannette, and is currently "conditioning" a charming, naive Orly employee, with whom he poses as an honorable businessman. Inspector Delille's plan is to arrest Jo for some crime and, while he's being held at the P.J., to delve into his other criminal activities and confound him.
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Gypsy Law
Title: Gypsy Law
Released: May 24, 1963
Type: Movie
The idyllic life of a beautiful gypsy girl is shattered when she runs away from a pre-arranged marriage to a member of her tribe. Away from the safety of her people, she encounters bigotry against her kind. A little girl feels sorry for the missing gypsy beauty and searches for a magic root that can cure the wandering gypsy from her wanderlust and bring her home again. Music, dance, ancient gypsy rituals, and colorful European scenery highlight this feature which takes a decidedly jaundiced view of the racial indignities suffered by the heroine.
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Don't Tempt the Devil
Title: Don't Tempt the Devil
Character: Morin
Released: April 17, 1963
Type: Movie
A lovely young nurse finds herself framed for the murder of a hospital patient who died after she administered an injection.
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Antoine and Colette
Title: Antoine and Colette
Character: Colette's Stepfather
Released: June 22, 1962
Type: Movie
Now aged 17, Antoine Doinel works in a factory which makes records. At a music concert, he meets a girl his own age, Colette, and falls in love with her. Later, Antoine goes to extraordinary lengths to please his new girlfriend and her parents, but Colette still only regards him as a casual friend. First segment of “Love at Twenty” (1962).
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Love at Twenty
Title: Love at Twenty
Character: Le beau-père de Colette (segment "Antoine et Colette")
Released: June 22, 1962
Type: Movie
Love at Twenty unites five directors from five different countries to present their different perspectives on what love really is at the age of 20. The episodes are united with the score of Georges Delerue and still photos of Henri Cartier-Bresson.
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The Elusive Corporal
Title: The Elusive Corporal
Character: Un paysan
Released: May 23, 1962
Type: Movie
The story serves as a companion piece to Renoir's 1937 film, Grand Illusion, once more bringing together men from across the broad social spectrum of French society to depict one man's Sisyphean efforts to escape captivity in a German POW camp.
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The Fabiani Affair
Title: The Fabiani Affair
Released: January 24, 1962
Type: Movie
The tale of the famous vendetta, vengeance over the years between two families. For nearly nothing at the start, as always with Sicilians or Corsican people, from the underworld or not...
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The Boss
Title: The Boss
Character: Amédée
Released: May 31, 1960
Type: Movie
Pursued by a rival gang after a violent robbery, Toni escapes with nearly thirty million francs. On the train to Paris, to avoid arousing suspicion, he has no choice but to threaten an honorable philosophy professor, Justin Mignonnet, with his gun, so that he will carry the loot for him. To make sure he returns the money, he takes his papers and makes him promise to be present at the exchange appointment at the Pigalle Hotel the next day. Completely lost, Mignonnet decides to obey orders, but just as he is about to return the money, a young woman, a member of the enemy gang, comes to collect it.
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The Road to Shame
Title: The Road to Shame
Character: Camille
Released: April 30, 1959
Type: Movie
Pierre Rossi and Béatrice live in the same block of flats in Marseille and love each other. One night, Béatrice leaves her apartment. Pierre knows that his fiancée goes to a rendezvous, but she would not tell him more than just that. Worried, Pierre follows her but he is attacked and stolen his identity papers by two men, Tom and Nasol, on the payroll of Quaglio, one of the city's bosses. Later on, Quaglio kills Nasol and deposits the body in a garage, leaving Pierre's papers nearby. As for Pierre, he manages to follow Tom to a villa where several young women have been invited. Pierre, horrified, realizes that this place is the headquarters for the white slave trade. - Written by Guy Bellinger
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Operation Abduction
Title: Operation Abduction
Character: Volda
Released: October 8, 1958
Type: Movie
The Secret Service abducts a "rocket scientist" to better protect him against gangsters acting for Chinese agents.
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The Mask of the Gorilla
Title: The Mask of the Gorilla
Released: August 14, 1958
Type: Movie
Géo Paquet, aka The Gorilla, breaks from jail. Now an escaped convict, the elite agent must infiltrate a dangerous gang working for a foreign embassy as their leader, a spy enjoying diplomatic immunity, can't be arrested by regular police.
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A Legitimate Defense
Title: A Legitimate Defense
Character: l'avocat général
Released: June 11, 1958
Type: Movie
Two friends from the last war, Pierrot, a bar owner, and Gustave, a police inspector, are in contact with a notorious gang of racketeers in Montmartre. Tired of putting up with Albert the King's demands, Pierrot kills the gangster during a bar brawl. His first instinct is to flee, but on Gustave's advice, he turns himself in to the law. All things considered, he'll be safer in prison than exposed to the reprisals of the "underworld". Pierrot goes to trial. He was acquitted as having acted in self-defense. But his release leaves him open to the vengeance of Bob, one of Albert's accomplices. Pierrot narrowly escapes an ambush, but is finally able to rid himself of the threat hanging over him, thanks to the friendship of Inspector Gustave, and finally reunites with the companion of his life, Dora, who has never stopped trembling for him.
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Be Beautiful But Shut Up
Title: Be Beautiful But Shut Up
Character: Gino, le bras droit de Charlemagne
Released: May 7, 1958
Type: Movie
A beautiful 18-year-old orphan escapes from a reformatory and hooks up with a gang of jewel smugglers, and decides on a life of crime. However, she falls for and marries a policeman, putting a crimp in her criminal career.
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Les Misérables
Title: Les Misérables
Character: le médecin
Released: March 12, 1958
Type: Movie
In 19th century France, Jean Valjean, a man 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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I'll Get Back to Kandara
Title: I'll Get Back to Kandara
Released: December 20, 1956
Type: Movie
One evening, professor André Barret sees the author of a murder in the darkness; cafe owner Cordelec is the victim. From then on, his suspicions fall on one of his students who had just arrived in his class, Bernard Cormiere.
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The Hussars
Title: The Hussars
Character: l'ordonnance du capitaine
Released: December 14, 1955
Type: Movie
Brigadier Le Gouce and Private Flicot lose their horses during a campaign in Italy. To avoid looking ridiculous, the two hussars cross the country in search of their mounts. But when they are mistaken for deserters, their regiment gives chase.
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More Whiskey for Callaghan
Title: More Whiskey for Callaghan
Released: December 7, 1955
Type: Movie
Valuable documents have been stolen from a British laboratory. Slim Callaghan is sent to investigate the theft. But his tracks soon lead him to the welcoming skies of the Côte d'Azur. There, he decides to infiltrate a network of aristocratic spies.
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Hi-Jack Highway
Title: Hi-Jack Highway
Character: Antoine Scoppo, le gangster assassiné (uncredited)
Released: October 18, 1955
Type: Movie
A trucker encounters a dead body on the road home. He reports the incident to the police, who suspect that Jean was responsible for the death, and his new truck is impounded. To make matters worse, the man's widow accuses him of having robbed her husband, and a gang of sinister crooks are also harassing him.
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The Fugitives
Title: The Fugitives
Character: L'oberlieutenant
Released: June 17, 1955
Type: Movie
During the Second World War, in 1943, two French prisoners, François and Michel, escape from Stalag B377 in northern Germany near the Baltic Sea. They meet another escaped compatriot, Pierre, who has donned the uniform of a German officer and joins them. Their goal: to reach neutral Sweden. To get there, they'll have to walk part of the way, then take a train to the coast and, from there, find a way to cross the sea to the shores of Sweden.
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Virgile
Title: Virgile
Character: (uncredited)
Released: November 18, 1953
Type: Movie
Sweet Virgil believes himself to be a victim of the same bad luck that has pursued parents, grandparents and ancestors before him. Terribly complexed by this misfortune, he nevertheless awkwardly tries his hand at journalism, supported by a charming editor. By chance, he comes face to face with the thundering gangster Esposito. In this cat-and-mouse struggle, the mouse wins. Esposito is arrested and Virgil is rid of his inhibitions forever.
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Trial at the Vatican
Title: Trial at the Vatican
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.