Gabriel Jabbour

Gabriel Jabbour

Born: November 7, 1922
Died: September 18, 1987
in Alexandria, Egypt

Movies for Gabriel Jabbour...

La Galette du roi
Title: La Galette du roi
Character: Arab Prince Abdallah Ibn
Released: January 29, 1986
Type: Movie
In this conventional, broadly comic farce of greed and royal matrimony, nearly bankrupt businessman Victor Harris is marrying Maria-Helena, a princess who comes with a dowry that is made up of one half of her island kingdom. Her father, the cowardly King Arnold III is counting on the money this marriage will bring him. The country is now almost bankrupt because of the king's gambling debts. As Harris and the king look forward to their illusory profits from the royal merger, other characters add some liveliness to the otherwise predictable story.
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Three Men and a Cradle
Title: Three Men and a Cradle
Character: Superior
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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The Secret of the Selenites
Title: The Secret of the Selenites
Character: (Voice)
Released: February 1, 1984
Type: Movie
The film follows the adventures of Baron Munchausen, who is prompted to travel to the moon by his cousin Sirius, an astrologer convinced that it is inhabited by an ancient race called the Selenites. The Selentites incidentally possess the secret of immortality. The Baron takes up his cousin's offer and travels to the moon using a tall masted ship pulled by three hot air balloons and he is aided by his super-ability friends (who are from the prequel to this film, The Fabulous Adventures of the Legendary Baron Munchausen). When they reach the moon, they are initially placed in jeopardy as their craft lands in a crater and they fall into a subterranean sea inhabited by monsters...
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Microbidon
Title: Microbidon
Character: Le producteur de films
Released: June 2, 1983
Type: Movie
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La Flambeuse
Title: La Flambeuse
Character: The professor
Released: May 13, 1981
Type: Movie
A woman on the brink of middle age becomes bored and takes up playing cards. She becomes hooked on gambling and begins to neglect her husband and children.
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Title: L'Agence Labricole
Character: Agénor Labricole
Released: November 10, 1979
Type: TV
L'Affaire Labricole was a 1981 French - Belgian thriller TV series aired in France, Belgium and Switzerland.
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Womanlight
Title: Womanlight
Character: Sacha
Released: August 29, 1979
Type: Movie
Having both suffered extreme losses, a man and a woman try to form a relationship.
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State Reasons
Title: State Reasons
Character: Meslan
Released: April 26, 1978
Type: Movie
Professor Marrot obtains the secret documents containing evidence of the illegal weapon transactions between the French government, in the face of its high official Leroi, and two African countries. Before making the public statement, Marrot finds himself under surveillance. In the critical circumstances his Italian friend and partner Angela takes action and the game continues.
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Dear Inspector
Title: Dear Inspector
Character: Medical examiner
Released: January 18, 1978
Type: Movie
When Lise's car bumps Antoine's bike, they recognize each other from a brief fling 20 years before while at the Sorbonne. He's now a professor of Greek; she's loathe to tell him she's a police inspector. A call interrupts their first dinner date: a Deputy of the National Assembly has been murdered. She has a suspect, another Deputy, and must track him while deflecting Antoine's eye from her vocation. All roads in the inquiry lead to Christine Vallier, the dead Deputy's mistress, a beguiling 22-year-old whose mother ran the Assembly's snack bar. When more deputies die and Antoine learns Lise's identity, she must act quickly solve the crime and save her future.
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Madame Rosa
Title: Madame Rosa
Character: M. Hamil
Released: November 2, 1977
Type: Movie
Madame Rosa lives in a sixth-floor walkup in the Pigalle; she's a retired prostitute, Jewish and an Auschwitz survivor, a foster mom to children of other prostitutes. Momo is the oldest and her favorite, an Algerian lad whom she raises as a Muslim. He asks about his parents; she answers evasively. As she ages and takes fewer children, Momo must do more for her; as money is tight, he tries to earn pennies on the street with a puppet. He's a beautiful man-child, and Madame Rosa makes him promise never to sell himself or become a pimp. A film editor, Nadine, befriends him, and his father appears as well. Madame Rosa reaches her last days in fear of hospitals, and Momo must act.
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The Night of Saint-Germain-des-Prés
Title: The Night of Saint-Germain-des-Prés
Character: Brandonnel
Released: June 1, 1977
Type: Movie
In 1951, in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, the private detective Nestor Burma was commissioned by an insurance company to find stolen jewelery. The deal seemed easy and Burma got an appointment with a well-known black trumpet player in the neighborhood who could provide him with information. But the musician does not come and we find him murdered. The investigation becomes more complicated and Nestor must find an alibi so as not to be suspected of the crime.
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The Groper
Title: The Groper
Released: September 29, 1976
Type: Movie
Because he dishonored the daughter of a mafia boss, Ernesto must leave Rome and take shelter with his uncle in Paris. There, he thinks of only one thing: to seduce girls.
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Title: Police Commissioner Moulin
Character: Commissaire Martinelli
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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Title: Des Christoffel von Grimmelshausen abenteuerlicher Simplizissimus
Character: Filzspar
Released: November 19, 1975
Type: TV
The boy Simplizissimus grows up with simple farmers in the Spessart region. But the idyll is abruptly destroyed by the Thirty Years' War. Simplizissimus is sent to the besieged fortress of Hanau. When the lansquenets there play crude jokes on him, he flees with his friend Herzbruder to the Croats. But even here he does not fare much better.
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Title: Paul Gauguin
Character: Picasso
Released: May 23, 1975
Type: TV
The life of famous painter Paul Gauguin.
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Auf's Kreuz gelegt
Title: Auf's Kreuz gelegt
Character: Farsikan
Released: October 26, 1974
Type: Movie
Two young oil salesmen from Hamburg, who are tasked with buying oil from the Middle East as cheaply as possible for their company, get caught up in a clash between a local gang of drug smugglers and the police. Each stage of this dangerous adventure could earn them either twenty years in prison or liquidation by the gang. The appearance of a beautiful, somewhat enigmatic woman adds to the allure. Two middle-class existences in a foreign country, confronted with the rude methods of the police and criminal elements, form the field of tension in this adventure story, which was produced with an international cast.
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OK Patron
Title: OK Patron
Released: June 1, 1974
Type: Movie
Mario, the head of the Mafia in France, has just been mortally wounded. His "companion" decides to find him a successor, before the New York "organization" appoints one. She instructs her two bodyguards to take on anyone who likes money, doesn't have any and, above all, doesn't want to work too hard - in short, "the average Frenchman"... They discover Léon Bonnet, a representative of "magic crosses". They send him gifts: champagne, weapons (a mistake...), a ring for his fiancée, and a meal worthy of the finest gourmets. In return, they take him to Mario's dying bedside, and have him sign over the estate. It's then that Leon, with his angelic good looks, restores order within the Mafia, surprising all his adversaries with his manners, and outwitting the police...
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A Cloud in the Teeth
Title: A Cloud in the Teeth
Character: Casenave
Released: May 1, 1974
Type: Movie
Malisard is a reporter at "Soir de Paris", his colleague Prévot is a photographer. Together, they roam the streets of Paris.
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Far West
Title: Far West
Character: Gabriel
Released: May 31, 1973
Type: Movie
This Belgian/French tale chronicles the efforts of Jacques (Jacques Brel) to find the Old West in modern America. Dressed as cowboy, he travels throughout western American cities and towns and finds others similarly dressed. These idealists gather together and build an old-western-style town in the middle of an abandoned factory, battling local bureaucracies in the process.
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The Bar at the Crossing
Title: The Bar at the Crossing
Character: Mosé
Released: August 23, 1972
Type: Movie
In 1916, Vincent van Horst leaves Europe to return to his Canadian homeland. There, he seeks his former love, Maria... but the lady's pride is hurt and she refuses to see him. Vincent then falls for a younger woman, Annie.
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The Annuity
Title: The Annuity
Character: M. Levasseur, le patron de Martinet
Released: January 19, 1972
Type: Movie
In 1930, Louis Martinet, a peaceful sexagenarian, no longer has a long life to live according to the words of his doctor, Leon Galipeau, who sees to take advantage of the very interesting situation of the "future deceased". This one indeed has a small house in Saint-Tropez. Galipeau sniffs the windfall. Following his advice, Martinet agrees to give it in life to the brother of the doctor, Emile, and then rushes back to a health of iron. Worse, he even survives the war. Galipeau, exhausted, decide to use the great means to get rid of the importunce who persists in thwarting their project ...
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Herminie
Title: Herminie
Character: Le commissaire
Released: September 9, 1971
Type: Movie
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Lancelot du Lac
Title: Lancelot du Lac
Character: Bélinant
Released: December 25, 1970
Type: Movie
This story is set in the 13th century, in Britain, where Lancelot, who was raised by Vivian, the Lady of the Lake, becomes one the Knight of the Round Tables and falls secretly in love with Guinevere, the wife of King Arthur, for whom he wants to accomplish many deeds.
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Et qu'ça saute !
Title: Et qu'ça saute !
Released: September 11, 1970
Type: Movie
A uranium deposit brings turmoil to the small South American republic of Guatalpa. Between two revolutions, the government tries unsuccessfully to decide whether the Americans, Soviets or Cubans will exploit the concession. Delegates from these nations spy on and betray each other to achieve their goal.
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Jeff
Title: Jeff
Character: Zucci
Released: April 25, 1969
Type: Movie
Jeff is a gangster who's disappeared with a million dollars, and Laurent is looking for him to catch him before the other members of the gang find him.
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Z
Title: Z
Character: Bozzini, secretary of the investigating judge (uncredited)
Released: February 26, 1969
Type: Movie
Amidst a heated political climate, the opposition leader is killed in what appears to be a traffic accident. When a magistrate finds evidence of a government cover-up, witnesses start to get targeted. A thinly-fictionalized account of the events surrounding the assassination of Greek politician Grigoris Lambrakis in 1963, Z captures the outrage about the military junta that ruled Greece at the time.
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Title: At Theatre Tonight
Character: Le commissaire
Released: July 21, 1966
Type: TV
At Theater tonight is a TV show broadcasted from 25th August 1966 to 21st September 1985. The show is broadcast plays recorded in two or three days, during public performances at the Théâtre Marigny on the Champs-Élysées, or sometimes Edouard VII theater.
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Title: At Theatre Tonight
Character: Joseph Lippi
Released: July 21, 1966
Type: TV
At Theater tonight is a TV show broadcasted from 25th August 1966 to 21st September 1985. The show is broadcast plays recorded in two or three days, during public performances at the Théâtre Marigny on the Champs-Élysées, or sometimes Edouard VII theater.
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Title: Marie Tudor
Character: Le juif
Released: April 23, 1966
Type: TV
Based on the play by Victor Hugo, portraying the rise, fall and execution of Fabiano Fabiani, a fictional favourite of Mary I of England.
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Gaspard des montagnes
Title: Gaspard des montagnes
Character: Gervais
Released: December 30, 1965
Type: Movie
We are in 1814, in Auvergne, in the dark fir forests of Livradois, near La Chaise Dieu. Gaspard and his beautiful cousin Anne-Marie see their love thwarted and their lives disrupted because of a treasure that an old uncle, who made his fortune in Guadeloupe, buried in the mountains of Auvergne.
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Ubu Roi
Title: Ubu Roi
Character: Tsar Alexis
Released: September 20, 1965
Type: Movie
Based on Alfredy Jarrry's 1896 play about a greedy, overweight, selfish dude named Pere Ubu. The story follows Ubu on his journey to overthrow the current ruler and become King of Poland. Along the way he betrays many of his followers, taxes the civilians to an unreasonable degree and eventually slaughters everyone. Along his side, is the equally crude but somehow more likable Mere Ubu, who's like a foul mouthed Lady Macbeth.
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Les pieds dans le plâtre
Title: Les pieds dans le plâtre
Released: February 18, 1965
Type: Movie
A butcher's boy, in love with the daughter of one of his neighbors, a penniless baron, finds himself in financial difficulties as he begins construction of a building on the land he has inherited.
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Trafics dans l'ombre
Title: Trafics dans l'ombre
Released: October 28, 1964
Type: Movie
Codeine has been stolen from Philippe Calaro's pharmaceutical laboratory. The police are investigating and ask the young chemical engineer to remain at their disposal, as one of his direct employees is under suspicion. On his way home from an evening out with a friend, whom the case has forced him not to accompany on a trip, he discovers the corpse of an unknown man in the boot of his car. Distraught, and without thinking about his imprudence, he disposes of the cumbersome and inert passenger in the woods of St-Cloud. After the departure of his girlfriend's plane to Orly, he is accosted by a young girl who tells him she knows the dead man from the previous evening, and begs him to join her on the Air France bus, to disguise the fact that he is being followed.
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Le Troisième Concerto
Title: Le Troisième Concerto
Character: Max
Released: October 19, 1963
Type: Movie
Delphine Seyrig is Catherine Miller, an internationally renowned pianist. Married and mother of a little boy, she leads a hectic life. Following a recital, she accepts a dinner with the music critic Gilles Bollème. This seemingly innocuous encounter gradually confronts Catherine with her own demons.
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The Doll
Title: The Doll
Released: November 7, 1962
Type: Movie
An avant-garde political satire that takes place in a mythical country in South America. The dictator has been replaced by a look-alike revolutionary, and the dictator's wife has been replaced by a robot.
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The Burning Court
Title: The Burning Court
Character: Jacob Kramer, le bijoutier
Released: March 30, 1962
Type: Movie
A group of people visit a weird old man who is a student of the black arts. The man lives in an ancient, cursed castle. Soon people in the group start being killed off.
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Goha
Title: Goha
Character: Sayed Khamis
Released: May 6, 1959
Type: Movie
As far as can be determined, Goha was Tunisia's first entry in the Cannes Film Festival. Omar Sharif stars as a naïve young man who is taken for granted by friends and family. Little do they know that he has more intelligence, tenacity and imagination than all of them put together. The story takes an unexpectedly dramatic turn when the man falls in love with the young wife of his village's elderly "wise man". Based on an ancient Tunisian folk tale, Goha boasts impressive production values and sure-handed direction (by Jacques Baratier).
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Title: Plaisir du théâtre
Released: July 3, 1956
Type: TV