Marc Dudicourt

Marc Dudicourt

Born: May 6, 1932
Died: May 1, 2021
in Amiens, Somme, France
Marc Dudicourt (6 March 1932 – 1 May 2021) was a French actor.

Son of an industrial designer, he came to live in Paris with his family when he was eleven years old. Passionate about Walt Disney and cartooning, he decided to become a designer and was hired by Jean Image in his drawing workshop. Then, pushed by his colleagues because of his fun side, he decided to take lessons at the Théâtre National Populaire and played in several plays, notably alongside Maria Casarès and Alain Cuny. After the T.N.P. he went to the Comédie de l'Est then to the Villeurbanne theater where he staged Nikolai Gogol]'s Dead Souls, he stayed there for six years, acknowledging that Roger Planchon had taught him everything.

He became known to the public for the television series Les nouvelles aventures de Vidocq in 1971, in the role of Flambart.

He was the co-founder of the ACE15 association (cultural and event association of the 15th arrondissement of Paris) which runs the Georges Brassens Days in October in Parc Georges-Brassens each year.

Dudicourt was also, with his friend Rémi Gidel, founder and president of the 1901 law association "La Vie en Chansons" which aims to defend French song and help young artists to become known.

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

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My Russian Uncle
Title: My Russian Uncle
Character: Fernand Jaunart
Released: December 10, 2006
Type: Movie
Officially declared missing in 1945, Gaston Boissac suddenly comes back at 70 years old in his home village.
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Beaumarchais the Scoundrel
Title: Beaumarchais the Scoundrel
Character: Bartholo
Released: March 20, 1996
Type: Movie
Beaumarchais the Scoundrel is a biopic film based on the life of the French playwright, financier and spy Pierre Beaumarchais depicting his activities during the American War of Independence and his authorship of the Figaro trilogy of plays.
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Boxer
Title: Boxer
Character: M'nsieur Martinez
Released: April 17, 1995
Type: Movie
Patrick, a not so successful boxer, meets Nathaniel - and adventures started.
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1001 Nights
Title: 1001 Nights
Released: April 11, 1990
Type: Movie
Sheherazade has been married to a ruler who wants many wives, but only one at a time. Consequently, as soon as he has bedded them, he has them put to death. In most retellings, the girl staves off this unfortunate conclusion by putting off the connubial event for a thousand and one nights, telling irresistible stories instead. In this one, she gets hold of a magic lamp.
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Title: Palace
Character: Émile / Académicien / Homme qui veut changer d'opinion sur son beau-frère / Homme qui veut changer sa date de naissance / Homme qui a gagné deux fois la suite royale
Released: October 29, 1988
Type: TV
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Frantic
Title: Frantic
Character: Cafe Owner
Released: February 19, 1988
Type: Movie
The wife of an American doctor suddenly vanishes in Paris and, to find her, he navigates a puzzling web of language, locale, laissez-faire cops, triplicate-form filling bureaucrats and a defiant, mysterious waif who knows more than she tells.
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Double mixte
Title: Double mixte
Character: l'inspecteur Porterhouse
Released: November 7, 1986
Type: Movie
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La Pomme
Title: La Pomme
Character: Templier
Released: November 22, 1985
Type: Movie
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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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Tête à claques
Title: Tête à claques
Character: Prison director
Released: February 17, 1982
Type: Movie
Alex Berthier would love to be a famous songwriter. Meanwhile, he has to cope with unemployment, a witty 12 years old son and a rich and cute heiress who tries to help Alex as much as he tries to escape her: she brings nothing but trouble ! Fortunately, luck will strike again.
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Title: Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 1982
Type: TV
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Jupiter's Thigh
Title: Jupiter's Thigh
Character: Spiratos
Released: February 6, 1980
Type: Movie
Antoine, a professor of Greek, and Lise, a police inspector, honeymoon in Greece. There they meet a young couple, Charles, an archaeologist, and Agnes, a dishy flirt. Charles unearths the lovely buttocks of a classical statue and is determined to donate it to the Louvre. Agnes wants to sell it and gets a handsome local sailor to take it for an appraisal. When the sailor is murdered, the police suspect Charles and arrest Antoine as his accomplice. Lise swings into action, but before she can clear the men, Agnes springs them from jail, and now Lise must help them elude the police, find the real murderer, and recover the statue fragment. More art goes missing. What is the statue's secret?
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Alors... Heureux ?
Title: Alors... Heureux ?
Character: Le maire
Released: January 9, 1980
Type: Movie
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Title: Émile Zola ou la Conscience humaine
Character: Millerand
Released: April 29, 1978
Type: TV
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L'Exercice du pouvoir
Title: L'Exercice du pouvoir
Released: March 8, 1978
Type: Movie
At the turn of the century, an unusual woman refuses to become an object to be desired or played with. Instead she wants to succeed on the stage of politics in the Third Republic.
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Les Filles
Title: Les Filles
Character: Robert
Released: March 19, 1977
Type: Movie
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Incorrigible
Title: Incorrigible
Character: Guardian of the Ministry
Released: October 15, 1975
Type: Movie
Victor Vautier is incorrigible: he's in constant motion, working several cons at once, using different names and changing disguises. He's charming and outrageous, incapable of uttering a sentence that isn't embellished or an outright lie. His life goal is to make enough money to build a sea wall to protect Mont-Saint-Michel. Charlotte, a parole officer, shows up: she's young and seems taken in by Victor. He discovers she lives above the Senlus Museum, where her parents are the curators. With two pals he decides to steal a priceless El Greco triptych and then ransom it back to the cultural ministry. What will Charlotte do when she realizes he's used her to make a fortune?
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L'aigle à deux têtes
Title: L'aigle à deux têtes
Character: Le comte de Fohn
Released: July 24, 1975
Type: Movie
A queen lives secluded in her chambers, mourning the loss of her husband on their wedding day ten years from then. Stanislas, a suicidal poet and anarchist, enters her apartments with the intent of killing her. When he appears, wounded, fleeing the guards, she is struck by his resemblance to the late king...
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The Dangerous Mission
Title: The Dangerous Mission
Character: L'adjudant Médeux
Released: April 22, 1975
Type: Movie
1944. A young French soldier is involved, without really wanting it, into American operations for Liberation.
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Serious as Pleasure
Title: Serious as Pleasure
Character: Le mercier
Released: January 15, 1975
Type: Movie
"In Serieux comme le plaisir, two men and a woman live quite happily together in a romantic liaison. The woman is probably wealthy anyway, so the trio doesn't worry much about money. One day they decide to take a trip in their beat-up car, managing the whole affair in their own special, insouciant manner. They are followed by a suspicious policeman who thinks there's something fishy about this group..."
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Like a Pot of Strawberries
Title: Like a Pot of Strawberries
Character: Le clochard
Released: September 11, 1974
Type: Movie
Amandine is twenty years old, the most beautiful buttocks in Paris, and unfortunately a very ugly nose, which forces her in her profession of model, to pose only from behind. Trying in vain to save money that her sister Joëlle constantly borrows from her, she will finally be reimbursed and will thus be able to afford aesthetic surgery and become a lovely cover girl...
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Gross Paris
Title: Gross Paris
Released: May 1, 1974
Type: Movie
Bernard, a journalist, and his friend Jules, a butcher by trade, are both passionate about horse racing.
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A Cloud in the Teeth
Title: A Cloud in the Teeth
Character: Garnier
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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Oh, Sun
Title: Oh, Sun
Released: January 4, 1973
Type: Movie
The film Soleil Ô, shot over four years with a very low budget, tells the story of a black immigrant who makes his way to Paris in search of “his Gaul ancestors”. This manifesto denounces a new form of slavery: The immigrants desperately seek work, a place to live, but find themselves face to face with indifference, rejection, humiliation…until the final call for uprising. “Soleil Ô” is the title of a West Indian song that tells of the pain of the black people from Dahomey (now Benin) who were taken to the Caribbean as slaves.
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La Main passe
Title: La Main passe
Character: Commissioner Panteloup
Released: December 31, 1972
Type: Movie
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L'École des contribuables
Title: L'École des contribuables
Character: Émile Fromentel, directeur des contributions, père de Juliette
Released: June 26, 1972
Type: Movie
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Rum Runners
Title: Rum Runners
Character: The stage director
Released: October 13, 1971
Type: Movie
During the prohibition era, Cornelius, a bootlegger, is on the run from the American coastguards. He comes across a silent film actress, Linda, on the set of a movie and falls in love with her.
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The Married Couple of the Year Two
Title: The Married Couple of the Year Two
Character: la Chauve
Released: April 7, 1971
Type: Movie
Nicolas Philibert goes to America after killing a French aristocrat. On his return he tries to divorce his wife, Charlotte, but when he sees others trying to woo her his own interest is rekindled.
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Don't Deliver Us from Evil
Title: Don't Deliver Us from Evil
Character: L'aumônier
Released: April 5, 1971
Type: Movie
Anne and Lore, neighbors and best friends, barely into their teens, board at a convent school where they have taken a vow to sin and to serve Satan. Anne keeps a secret diary, they read a salacious novel, they get a classmate in trouble, they spy on the nuns, they set aside their communion wafers; they make a pact of devotion.
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Title: Les Nouvelles Aventures de Vidocq
Character: l'inspecteur Flambart
Released: January 5, 1971
Type: TV
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Ces messieurs de la gâchette
Title: Ces messieurs de la gâchette
Character: L'inspecteur
Released: April 8, 1970
Type: Movie
Gabriel Pelletier's life is no bed of roses. Not because of his job: he is a successful sales manager. But on account of the various wrongdoings committed by his kin. First, there is his daughter Nicole, who has just developed an infatuation with a young man who is not only a revolutionary student but the the son of a Sicilian mobster as well. Then he has to cope with Bernard, his brother-in-law, a ladies'man who has been vamped by one of the sexy daughters of the Sicilian. Let's not forget Albert, his own brother, an avant-garde filmmaker also in trouble with Lombardi, the omnipresent gangster. To crown it all, Maryse, his domestic worker, is a Maoist militant!... In the end, poor Gabriel can't take it anymore. He hits the road and calls it quits.
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Give Her the Moon
Title: Give Her the Moon
Released: February 25, 1970
Type: Movie
Marie, a young provincial girl, is seduced by an American billionaire. She agrees to stay with him if he moves her village to New York.
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Le Huguenot récalcitrant
Title: Le Huguenot récalcitrant
Character: the priest
Released: June 14, 1969
Type: Movie
A historical and tragic backdrop: the dragonnades, the persecution of Protestants after the revocation of the Edict of Nantes. And a comic situation: an insubordinate singer who taunts Louis XIV's soldiers from the top of his rock, driving Marshal Boutre half mad.
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Azaïs
Title: Azaïs
Character: Le vicomte, le prédentant de Suzette
Released: November 9, 1968
Type: Movie
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Title: Les Dossiers de l'Agence O
Character: Marcel Trochu, le patron de La Vanne Rouge
Released: March 11, 1968
Type: TV
L’Agence O is a famous Parisian private detective firm. Its premises are located in the Passage Choiseul. In front, Torrence leads the shop. In fact, the agency's team is complemented by Émilie le Roux, Mademoiselle Berthe and Barbet, who scrutinize clients through a one-way mirror located behind the desk. Getting hold of a man disguised as an old lady, solving the mystery of the Prisoner of Lagny or discovering who is blackmailing the painter Tigrane Alban does not worry the experts at the O Agency. Les Dossiers de l’Agence O is a French-Canadian television series in thirteen episodes of approximately 55 minutes created by Marc Simenon and broadcast first in Quebec from December 14, 1967 to March 13, 1968 on Télévision de Radio-Canada, then in France from March 11 to June 3, 1968 on the first channel of the ORTF.
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Very Happy Alexander
Title: Very Happy Alexander
Character: Mr Tondeur, TV game candidate (uncredited)
Released: February 9, 1968
Type: Movie
Alexandre, a young and honest farmer, is oppressed by an authoritarian wife, who makes him work like a dog. When she dies in a car crash, he decides to stay in bed, absolutely free and inactive. Just a dog is occupied to carry food and newspapers to him.
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Bang Bang
Title: Bang Bang
Character: Notary
Released: May 18, 1967
Type: Movie
Sheila's uncle has just died; many of his relatives come, but,much to their displeasure, it's his niece who inherits his private detective agency. But she must first go through a training in a school: gymnastic, assault course, machine gun shooting; she must also learn how to cheat at card games .Her first mission is to find back gangster La Rafale's fiancee, Genevieve, who ran away with another gang. She meets a handsome Interpol lieutenant she falls in love with.
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The Thief of Paris
Title: The Thief of Paris
Character: Georges Antoine
Released: February 22, 1967
Type: Movie
In Paris around 1900, Georges Randal is brought up by his wealthy uncle, who steals his inheritance. Georges hopes to marry his cousin Charlotte, but his uncle arranges for her to marry a rich neighbour. As an act of revenge, Georges steals the fiance's family jewels, and enjoys the experience so much that he embarks upon a life-time of burglary.
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Made in U.S.A
Title: Made in U.S.A
Character: Barman (uncredited)
Released: January 27, 1967
Type: Movie
Paula Nelson goes to Atlantic City to meet her lover, Richard Politzer, but finds him dead and decides to investigate his death. In her hotel room, she meets Typhus, whom she ends up knocking out. His corpse is later found in the apartment of David Goodis, a writer. Paula is arrested and interrogated. From then on, she encounters many gangsters.
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King of Hearts
Title: King of Hearts
Character: Le Lieutenant Hamburger
Released: December 21, 1966
Type: Movie
An ornithologist mistaken for an explosives expert is sent alone into a small French town during WWI to investigate a garbled report from the resistance about a bomb which the departing Germans have set to blow up a weapons cache.
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Title: At Theatre Tonight
Character: Le vicomte, le prédentant de Suzette
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: Émile Fromentel, directeur des contributions, père de Juliette
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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Une femme en blanc se révolte
Title: Une femme en blanc se révolte
Released: March 25, 1966
Type: Movie
Preparing her gynecology thesis, Claude Sauvage, at the urging of a village doctor, Vincent Ferrière, agrees to replace him for a few days. During this time, she took it upon herself to abort the schoolteacher, who was afraid of giving birth to a handicapped child. But an anonymous letter denounces her, and she goes on trial.
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A Matter of Resistance
Title: A Matter of Resistance
Character: Schimmelbeck
Released: January 25, 1966
Type: Movie
In the countryside near Normandy's beaches lives Marie, unhappy. It's 1945, she's married to Jérôme, a somewhat fussy milquetoast, diffident to the war around him and unwilling to move his wife to Paris, where she longs to live, shop, and party. A German outfit is bivouacked at Jérôme and Marie's crumbling château because its commanding officer is pursuing Marie. She's also eyed by a French spy working with the Allies as they plan D-Day. He woos her (posing to the Germans as her brother) and, in his passion, forgets his mission. Heroics come from an unexpected direction, and Marie makes her choice.
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The Other Christopher
Title: The Other Christopher
Character: Dictator Anastasio
Released: May 14, 1963
Type: Movie
The dictator Anastasio rules with an iron fist backed by business-men making deals and speeches about building canals, completely disconnected from the chaos amongst the population. Anastasio is rumored to have died after an incident with a mirror and a violent confrontation after literally crowing as a cock amongst his chicken followers. The afterlife is shown as a casino where Anastasio strong-arms his way into heaven. Divination is used to find the next dictator, and a sailor and his black, peasant sidekick find themselves attempting to start a revolution with an organ, dragging it through the countryside, as the movie explores the country, culture and music.