Roland Giraud

Roland Giraud

Born: February 14, 1942
in Rabat, Morocco
Roland Giraud (born 14 February 1942) is a French actor. He married actress Maaike Jansen in 1966.

Giraud began his theatrical training in the 1960s and joined Coluche's theatrical company in 1971. Around this time he worked also with the troupe, Le Splendid. His first cinematic role came in 1974 in Michel Audiard's Bons baisers...à lundi. He acquired greater recognition for Papy fait de la résistance, and again, for his appearance in Coline Serreau's Trois hommes et un couffin, making him one of the most popular actors of the 1980s.

He lost his daughter Géraldine, an actress herself, murdered when she was just thirty-six, in Villeneuve-sur-Yonne.

Source: Article "Roland Giraud" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Tricky Old Dogs
Title: Tricky Old Dogs
Character: Antoine
Released: August 22, 2018
Type: Movie
Two septuagenarians go to Tuscany to prevent their old friend from killing the man who cuckolded him fifty years ago.
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Let It Snow
Title: Let It Snow
Character: Papy André
Released: December 13, 2017
Type: Movie
Jean-Gabriel intends to spend Christmas in the mountains quietly with his family. Many unforeseen events occur, but Jean-Gabriel will do everything to overcome them...
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Le chapeau de Mitterrand
Title: Le chapeau de Mitterrand
Character: Pierre Aslan
Released: January 6, 2016
Type: Movie
One day in 1986, François Mitterrand forgets his black felt (his initials) in a Lyons restaurant. Daniel Mercier, a young executive who has just been reprimanded by his superior, who judges that the computerization of its business plan is stupid, steals it to clear his head. It was then that his life is turned upside down.
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Joyeuses Pâques
Title: Joyeuses Pâques
Character: Stéphane
Released: February 28, 2014
Type: Movie
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The Gilded Cage
Title: The Gilded Cage
Character: Francis Caillaux
Released: April 19, 2013
Type: Movie
In the beautiful area of ​​Paris, Maria and José Ribeiro lived for almost thirty years on the ground floor of a Haussmann building, in their dear little lodge.
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Beur sur la ville
Title: Beur sur la ville
Character: Le préfet Flaubert
Released: October 11, 2011
Type: Movie
25-year-old Khalid Belkacem has failed at everything: college education, summer camp instructor's permit, driver's license, and even his BCG. He never expected to become the first "positive discrimination" member of the police force. But as his mother says: "That's France for you! A country where everyone has a chance."
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Le Technicien
Title: Le Technicien
Character: Jean-Pierre, le technicien de surface
Released: September 10, 2010
Type: Movie
After a painful separation 25 years ago, Séverine chose to immerse herself in work. She has created her own publishing house, small, of course, but one which gives her full satisfaction. Until the day when Jean-Pierre, her ex-husband, former business banker, shows up in his office. He is completely ruined, unemployed, and threatened with expulsion. Séverine agrees to help him on two conditions: nobody needs to know who he really is, and he will be a ... surface technician.
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The Italian
Title: The Italian
Character: Charles Lemonnier
Released: July 7, 2010
Type: Movie
Dino Fabrizzi is the number one seller of the Maserati dealership in Nice. At 42, he arrives at a turning point in his life, the position of director is openly proposed and his companion for a year, Helen, has the firm intention to marry her. For Dino, life is great, except that this perfect life was built on a lie. Dino is actually called Mourad Ben Saoud. Neither his boss nor Helen and even less his parents are aware of this false identity. In ten days begins Ramadan and Mourad who passes every year will this time assume the promise made to his sick father. Taking part in Ramadan, For Dino - the Italian - it will not be easy.
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Bonté Divine
Title: Bonté Divine
Released: January 21, 2009
Type: Movie
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Changing Sides
Title: Changing Sides
Character: Adolphe Nicart
Released: January 7, 2009
Type: Movie
Ariane and Hugo decide to exchange the lives they lead to escape from their routine, which after ten years of marriage, gives them the feeling of being hamsters in a wheel. She suddenly finds herself at the head of a construction equipment rental company and he tries to take the role of a house calling jewelry salesman...But is life really better when you live it on the other side of the bed?
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La veuve Tatouée
Title: La veuve Tatouée
Character: Frank
Released: October 30, 2008
Type: Movie
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Pas de panique
Title: Pas de panique
Character: Jacques Chambercy
Released: January 1, 2006
Type: Movie
It is time for thirty-something Ludovic Chambercy to succeed his father Jacques at the head of the family business: the Chambercy Galleries. But faced with his new duties, Ludovic begins to sweat, has panic attacks and even dizzy spells. He is diagnosed with hypegiaphobia or extreme fear of responsibility. This man with everything for a happy life seems to be shying away from the expectations of his family. Reluctantly, without a word to his father and girlfriend, Ludovic starts group behavior therapy. While his lies spark off an incredible series of tragicomic events, Ludovic strikes up a friendship with the other phobics in his group: Léon, trader in bric-a-brac, who can no longer stand untidiness; Clémence, a student who cannot bear even one second of her own company and Margaux, who can no longer touch or be touched. And if Ludovic is to find a cure at the end of the road, there will be a few surprises in store for him along the way...
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Title: Kaamelott
Character: Robyn, justicier
Released: January 3, 2005
Type: TV
In this off beat account of King Arthur's quest for the Grail, virtually every journey, battle or adventure is stopped dead in its tracks by the knights of the round table's most worldly traits : cowardice, greed, idiocy or misplaced chivalry. As a consequence, instead of epic adventures we are treated with the characters' pragmatic and anachronistic take on each and every event in the Grail legend, true to the purest sitcom tradition.
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Avis de tempête
Title: Avis de tempête
Released: January 1, 2004
Type: Movie
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Y aura pas école demain
Title: Y aura pas école demain
Character: Antoine Moreau
Released: February 18, 2003
Type: Movie
Antoine Moreau, mayor of Saint-Julien, is proud that the village school opens its doors again after three years of closure. However, three students are not enough to meet the conditions for reopening.
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Three Men and a Cradle - 18 Years Later
Title: Three Men and a Cradle - 18 Years Later
Character: Jacques
Released: February 5, 2003
Type: Movie
Marie (and her three fathers) are taking A-levels. Marie passes. She spends the summer in the country with her mother, Sylvia, who has returned from America with her Californian husband who has two sons. Marie falls in and out of love for the first time in front of her alarmed fathers, who see Marie's innocence slipping away at frightening speed, and their relationships with the two women become even more complicated.
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Les Bronzés, le père Noël, papy et les autres
Title: Les Bronzés, le père Noël, papy et les autres
Character: Self
Released: January 3, 2003
Type: Movie
Les Bronzés, le Père Noël, Papy et les autres....Discover or rediscover the emblematic scenes of these cult films that have crossed generations without getting old. Go behind the scenes of these unusual films through completely unpublished anecdotes and funny stories told by the authors themselves.
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Impair et père
Title: Impair et père
Character: Pierre Jouffroy
Released: December 4, 2002
Type: Movie
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Great Idea
Title: Great Idea
Released: December 27, 2000
Type: Movie
In this comedy, five French students in their early twenties decide it's time they saw a bit more of the world, so Clementine, Caroline, Lionel, Bruno, and Brigitte buy cut-price rail passes and set out to visit 15 of the great cities of Europe. But it doesn't take long for their great plans to unravel, as the group's desire to see the important sights gets sidetracked by their fondness for partying and the opposite sex, and as they roll through Amsterdam, Berlin, Athens, and Bologna, they stumble into a wide variety of misadventures and meet all manner of unlikely people, from a former teacher who has come rather dramatically out of the closet to a washed-up dance-pop star.
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Alarmes, etc...
Title: Alarmes, etc...
Released: September 20, 2000
Type: Movie
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Santa's Secretary
Title: Santa's Secretary
Character: Sébastien Roche
Released: December 22, 1999
Type: Movie
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Title: Vivement dimanche
Character: Self
Released: September 20, 1998
Type: TV
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Title: La Basse-cour
Character: Bartoletti
Released: September 4, 1997
Type: TV
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Quatre garçons pleins d'avenir
Title: Quatre garçons pleins d'avenir
Character: Duprez
Released: August 6, 1997
Type: Movie
The premise of four young men out to celebrate the end of their school exams has great promise as comedy material, a promise that is far from realized in this banal, unevenly paced, run-of-the-mill attempt at a supposedly funny story.
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Private Lessons
Title: Private Lessons
Released: February 17, 1997
Type: Movie
Julie Lerrère, a young teacher in a difficult school, tries to help troubled teenagers, but makes a mistake. Excluded, a student falls under her spell.
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L'amour est un jeu d'enfant
Title: L'amour est un jeu d'enfant
Released: February 12, 1994
Type: Movie
Benjamin lives with his widowed father, a designer and a bohemian artist. Olivia, his best friend, lives with his divorced mother, a lawyer who lives only for his work. Children decide to organize a meeting between the two parents, but unfortunately, neither seems interested in the other. Still, the two friends did not give up and seek new ways for the emergence of love between their parents.
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La chambre 108
Title: La chambre 108
Character: Charles Renoir
Released: August 18, 1993
Type: Movie
The incessant verbal duel and the bothering caused by an old patient in a hospital with his roommate, a good fellow believing himself suffering from a serious illness.
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Title: Chien et chat
Character: Capitaine Merlin
Released: April 29, 1993
Type: TV
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Sup de fric
Title: Sup de fric
Character: Jimmy Leroy
Released: July 22, 1992
Type: Movie
Two business students hatch a perfect plan: buy their own school.
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Title: Love at First Sight
Character: Jacques
Released: February 12, 1992
Type: TV
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The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck
Title: The Professional Secrets of Dr. Apfelgluck
Character: Émile Leberck
Released: April 24, 1991
Type: Movie
This series of sketches introduces doctor Apfelglück and four of his patients... and their rather peculiar and disturbing problems.
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Simple mortel
Title: Simple mortel
Character: The expert
Released: December 31, 1990
Type: Movie
A young man, a researcher in ancient languages, begins to receive strange radio messages in a language only he knows. The messages ask him for very bizarre missions. Eventually, he understands that he's just a pawn in an intergalactic game, and that the fate of Earth depends on him.
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Title: Les Nuls, l'émission
Character: Self
Released: October 13, 1990
Type: TV
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Le Provincial
Title: Le Provincial
Character: Bernard Aragnouet
Released: June 27, 1990
Type: Movie
A provincial is hired for a commercial and discovers Paris. He soon discovers that the city is not so different than his small village.
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Mister Frost
Title: Mister Frost
Character: Raymond Reynhardt
Released: April 10, 1990
Type: Movie
Frost is arrested and committed for murder after he is apprehended burying his victims in the garden. However, even while under psychiatric care and tight hospital security, it becomes obvious that Mr. Frost is not all he seems to be.
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Title: Brigada Central
Character: Stan
Released: November 3, 1989
Type: TV
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L'Invité surprise
Title: L'Invité surprise
Character: Jacquemart
Released: August 23, 1989
Type: Movie
During the broadcast of a live game show, a surprise guest is shot by an armed assassin.The victim, Martin Gaillard, recounts the bizarre series of events that led to this extraordinary denouement.
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Périgord noir
Title: Périgord noir
Character: Antoine
Released: June 21, 1989
Type: Movie
The recolonization of Africa, this time by the very blacks who had to flee it as exiles during the time of the original French occupation, is the theme of this political comedy. Adiza, who has been living well in France, has decided that she will return and buy the plantation she and her compatriots were expelled from, and enlists some unlikely helpers to bring them back into the country and enact their plot. Meanwhile, these "local" blacks are unwittingly accepted by the other landowners as more cheap labor.
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Les cigognes n'en font qu'à leur tête
Title: Les cigognes n'en font qu'à leur tête
Character: Michel Anselme
Released: January 25, 1989
Type: Movie
Married to Jeremie, Marie wants desperately to have a child. She has a 20 year old daughter from a former marriage with the police commissioner. When the gynecologist confirms they are unable to conceive a child together, they opt for adoption. However, it is a very lengthy and difficult process. When her daughter meets Joanna, a pregnant teenager willing to give up her child for adoption, Marie is thrilled. And so Joanna moves in...
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Sans peur et sans reproche
Title: Sans peur et sans reproche
Character: Sottomayor
Released: December 14, 1988
Type: Movie
Without fear and beyond reproach: the life of the brave knight de Bayard reviewed and corrected with humorous sauce.
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Title: Palace
Character: Pierre-André
Released: October 29, 1988
Type: TV
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Title: Palace
Character: Le mari amoureux de sa femme
Released: October 29, 1988
Type: TV
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Promised... sworn!
Title: Promised... sworn!
Character: Jean-Charles
Released: December 9, 1987
Type: Movie
The life and love affairs of a 12-year-old boy Pierre who lived in France during the Nazi occupation in 1944. We see his family, his chubby friend, the girl who ignores him - and the German defector who hides in the cellar. He suffers from a slightly more prominent nasal appendage than the average of his congeners. This complex initially serving it, will ultimately be the detonator of his success with women and the entire population of the city.
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Tant qu'il y aura des femmes
Title: Tant qu'il y aura des femmes
Character: Sam
Released: October 14, 1987
Type: Movie
Sam is a screenwriter, good at sorting out other people's stories but unable to organize his own life. He loves women with passion and there are too many around him.
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Title: Sacrée soirée
Character: self
Released: September 2, 1987
Type: TV
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Title: Nulle part ailleurs
Character: Self
Released: August 31, 1987
Type: TV
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The Little Coquette
Title: The Little Coquette
Character: Jean-Louis
Released: August 12, 1987
Type: Movie
Fifteen-year-old Camille is a vulnerable and a strong-willed seductress- she chooses, she takes, she leaves; she can go very far in her desire for freedom. She is the daughter of disunited parents, Armand, a professor and Colette, an intellectual bourgeois. She manages to seduce Jean-Louis, a professor of letters of thirty-seven years, friend and colleague of her father. She makes him commit a lot of extravagance - he even dyed blond. Later she had a passion for Samuel, a former student of Jean-Louis, lout and trafficker. She is not easy, men learn at their expense, either sentimentally, as with the teacher, or that the first sexual experience come to ignite the relationship with Samuel.
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Cross
Title: Cross
Character: Eli cantor
Released: February 4, 1987
Type: Movie
Thomas Crosky, known as Cross, a lonely policeman, learns that his wife, daughter and sister-in-law have been kidnapped by a criminal who has escaped from a psychiatric hospital.
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The Debauched Life of Gerard Floque
Title: The Debauched Life of Gerard Floque
Character: Gérard Floque
Released: January 14, 1987
Type: Movie
On the day he loses his job in advertising agency, Gérard Floque returns home to find that his infant daughter has been arrested for drugs trafficking and his wife is having an affair with a TV presenter. Gérard's only comfort in this time of mid-life crisis is his colleague, a young punk girl named Martine.
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Make It Mine
Title: Make It Mine
Character: Loic Mast
Released: September 10, 1986
Type: Movie
Loïc, a chestnut seller, has a mistress who wants a baby. Not daring to admit to her that he had the mumps late in life, he finds other excuses. Until the day he meets Claire, an old girlfriend, who has a little boy. Loïc finds the resemblance between the little boy and himself enormous and is convinced that he is his father...
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Vaudeville
Title: Vaudeville
Character: Victor
Released: March 19, 1986
Type: Movie
The husband, the wife and the lover. The husband is tired of playing the eternal husband. The wife would like to live a last love story. The lover, seducer in the soul, only dreams of slippers. As a bonus, there is the brother-in-law, Santa Claus in a department store who carries jealousy in his sack. So everyone changes roles.
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Title: Victoires de la musique
Character: Self
Released: November 23, 1985
Type: TV
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Three Men and a Cradle
Title: Three Men and a Cradle
Character: Pierre
Released: September 18, 1985
Type: Movie
Three young men - Jacques, Pierre, and Michel - share an apartment in Paris, and have many girlfriends and parties. Once, during a party, a friend of Jacques' tells him he has a quite compromising package to deliver, and asks him if he can leave it discreetly at their place. Jacques agrees and, as he works as a steward, flies away for a one-month trip in Japan, telling Pierre and Michel about the package. Then, one of Jacques' former girlfriends drops a baby before their door, making Pierre and Michel believing it is the package they are waiting for. Their lives are then completely changed.
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Liberté, égalité, choucroute
Title: Liberté, égalité, choucroute
Character: Robespierre
Released: April 30, 1985
Type: Movie
A parody of the French Revolution, on Arabian Nights background. Bagdad Calif is in Paris in 1789, where he decides to visit the Executionner equipment exhibition.
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Slices of Life
Title: Slices of Life
Character: Jean, l'astronaute
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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Santa Claus Is a Stinker
Title: Santa Claus Is a Stinker
Released: January 14, 1985
Type: Movie
Two neurotics, working for a suicide hotline on the night of Christmas Eve, get caught up in a catastrophe when a pregnant woman, her abusive boyfriend, and a transvestite visit their office.
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À nous les garçons
Title: À nous les garçons
Character: Alex
Released: January 9, 1985
Type: Movie
Two best friends fall in love with the same boy.
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Vive les femmes!
Title: Vive les femmes!
Character: Bob
Released: March 7, 1984
Type: Movie
The love affairs of Bob, a womanizer and seducer and Mammouth, the unhappy loner.
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Signes extérieurs de richesse
Title: Signes extérieurs de richesse
Character: Gérard Picard, bailleur de Béatrice
Released: November 9, 1983
Type: Movie
Jean-Jacques Lestrade is the owner of a renowned veterinary clinic in Paris who lives in a luxurious apartment. He is part of Parisian high society and lives a wealthy lifestyle surrounded by young women and money. He relies on his trusty accountant, Jérôme Bouvier, to manage his finances. All goes well until the day that Béatrice Flamand, a tax inspector, shows up at his clinic, at which point Lestrade is now in trouble.
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Gramps Is in the Resistance
Title: Gramps Is in the Resistance
Character: Général Herman Spontz
Released: October 26, 1983
Type: Movie
It is 1943 in Paris. Like so many others, the Bourbelle family's home has been taken over by the Germans and they now live in their cellar. Little do they know that the son, Guy-Hubert Bourdelle, is far from being the cowardly hairdresser he pretends. He is in truth the Germans’ most feared opponent: le super-résistant!
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My Other Husband
Title: My Other Husband
Character: Mr. Belhomme aka 'Jeff'
Released: September 21, 1983
Type: Movie
A woman leaves her husband and marries another man without divorcing the first.
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Elle voit des nains partout !
Title: Elle voit des nains partout !
Character: Jean Valjean
Released: April 7, 1982
Type: Movie
La reine de France meurt en couche. Elle met au monde un petite fille prénommée Blanche-neige. Le roi deçu de n'avoir pas un fils est résolu à faire disparaître sa progéniture mais c'est sans compter sur la protection de nombreux personnages de la littérature enfantine : les fées, Tarzan, Robin des Bois ou d'autres encore...
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Title: Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 1982
Type: TV
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A Business of Men
Title: A Business of Men
Character: Benedetti
Released: November 9, 1981
Type: Movie
Two friends, Commissioner Servolle and real estate developer Faguet, see their friendship tested by the investigation carried out following the murder of Faguet's wife.
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Le Maître d'école
Title: Le Maître d'école
Character: Monsieur Meignant, unionized teacher
Released: October 28, 1981
Type: Movie
After having lost his job for having saved a child accused of shop lifting, Frédéric Barbier decides to become a school teacher with some funny results.The great comedy actor Coluche is excellent as a simple school teacher.
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Clara and Chics Types
Title: Clara and Chics Types
Character: Paul
Released: January 14, 1981
Type: Movie
Three days in the lives of six friends who are nearly 30 years old, live in Grenoble, and have a rock band called the "Why Notes?". They're to play in Paris at Charles's school reunion. In getting to Paris and back, the characters interact with Aimee's ex-husband and her abrasive, cruel ex-mentor, Louise's would-be lover who turns out to have a husband, Mickey's long-time lover and her children, Bertrand's Germanic wife and their children who speak no French, and Frederic's distant mother. The band also meets Clara, a mercurial free spirit who beguiles Bertrand, then Mickey, then takes up with someone else in the band.
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French Fried Vacation 2: The Bronzés go Skiing
Title: French Fried Vacation 2: The Bronzés go Skiing
Character: M. Camus, le cocu
Released: November 22, 1979
Type: Movie
In this sequel to Les Bronzes (1978) summer has passed, but that doesn't mean the fun has to end for Bernard, Nathalie, Gigi, Jerome, Popeye, Jean-Claude, and Christiane.
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Heroes Are Not Wet Behind the Ears
Title: Heroes Are Not Wet Behind the Ears
Character: Le directeur de l'agence bancaire
Released: January 17, 1979
Type: Movie
Two brothers are fighting for a one girl attention...
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Take It from the Top
Title: Take It from the Top
Character: Le psychanalyste
Released: August 9, 1978
Type: Movie
Tired of being a housewife, Annie wants to work. Between her professional life and her responsibilities as a parent, she can no longer cope. She decides to leave and starts writing a memoir of her life...
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You Won't Have Alsace-Lorraine
Title: You Won't Have Alsace-Lorraine
Character: Le duc d'Orléans
Released: October 19, 1977
Type: Movie
Whilst King Gros Pif I amuses himself at debauched banquets, his musketeers pursue their tax-collecting duties with a malicious zeal. Goaded by the court jester (who is also the Queen’s lover), the ministers decide to put an end to this regime and have the King locked up. Hearing the news, the famous Chevalier Blanc comes to his rescue. Aided by the knight and his cousin Lucienne, the King flees to Flanders, where he devises a scheme to win him back the throne of France...
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Title: Cadet Rousselle
Character: Self
Released: November 4, 1971
Type: TV
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Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard
Title: Fantomas vs. Scotland Yard
Character: Homme de main de Fantômas (uncredited)
Released: March 16, 1967
Type: Movie
In the third and final episode of the trilogy, Fantômas imposes a head tax on the rich, threatening to kill those who do not comply.
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The Big Swag
Title: The Big Swag
Released: July 9, 1965
Type: Movie
Louis Bourdin est employé à la RATP le jour, romancier la nuit, avec une forte prédilection pour le genre policier. Un jour, il rédige un polar situé dans l'univers de la RATP, boudé par les éditeurs. Le livre parvient alors aux yeux d'une bande de criminels...