Catherine Samie

Catherine Samie

Born: February 3, 1933
in Paris, France
Catherine Samie (born 3 February 1933) is a French actress and member (sociétaire, doyen) of the Comédie-Française from 1962. On 14 July 2011 she became Grand Officier of the Legion of Honor. She is a Catholic.

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Links of Life
Title: Links of Life
Character: Gisèle
Released: April 10, 2020
Type: Movie
Marion is a charismatic fifty-year-old French woman who was born with an attention disorder. Rob is a desperate and mysterious thirty-year-old American man. In the wilderness of Canyonlands, Utah, they meet.
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The Origin of Violence
Title: The Origin of Violence
Character: Clémentine Fabre (2014)
Released: May 25, 2016
Type: Movie
A French teacher makes a startling discovery while on a trip to Buchenwald.
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News from Planet Mars
Title: News from Planet Mars
Character: Philippe's Mother
Released: March 9, 2016
Type: Movie
Philippe Mars wants to please everyone. He wants to be a good father, a friendly ex-husband, a helpful colleague and an understanding brother. Unfortunately, his little world goes out of its planned orbit. His son becomes a hardcore vegetarian, his daughter a compulsive swot, whilst his sister exhibits giant paintings of their naked parents. At the office he must face the rampages of his mentally unstable colleague Jerôme who one night turns up at his door with a young woman in tow who has just been released from a clinic.
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Title: Capitaine Marleau
Character: Hadrienne Nobécourt
Released: September 15, 2015
Type: TV
Beneath her eccentric appearance, Captain Marleau is a formidable detective. Her Sherlock Holmes deerstalker cap, her character, her unusual appearance, her humor, her unpredictable behavior--Captain Marleau is not your average gendarme. She never rushes an investigation; she becomes the investigation and relentlessly pursues the suspects.
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Title: À la recherche du temps perdu
Character: La grand-mère du narrateur
Released: February 1, 2011
Type: TV
Follows a young man, Marcel, from his childhood in Combray to his discovery of social life among the upper classes.
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La Vénitienne
Title: La Vénitienne
Character: Maryvonne Levasseur
Released: September 28, 2010
Type: Movie
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22 Bullets
Title: 22 Bullets
Character: Stella Matteï
Released: March 23, 2010
Type: Movie
Charly Matteï has turned his back on his life as an outlaw. For the last three years, he's led a peaceful life devoting himself to his wife and two children. Then, one winter morning, he's left for dead in the parking garage in Marseille's Old Port, with 22 bullets in his body. Against all the odds, he doesn't die...
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Eat, for This Is My Body
Title: Eat, for This Is My Body
Character: La mère de Madame
Released: September 10, 2007
Type: Movie
Haiti, a lonely forgotten black island abandoned to its poverty and misery. A white woman, Madame lives in a fantasy in which she helps to teach, inspire and feed the retched masses of the world. She is in fact completely cut off from them – a continent away. The awakening of desire between Madame and her black servant boy, Patrick, will lead her from her isolation out into the real Haiti, where she will for the first time see and hear the land and its people, discover the reality of her own body, her identity and come face to face with her own mortality.
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Victoire
Title: Victoire
Character: la psychanalyste
Released: December 22, 2004
Type: Movie
Victoire is sweet, sensitive, nice and understanding. She leads an existence which doesn't leave her much time to wonder.
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They Came Back
Title: They Came Back
Character: Martha
Released: October 27, 2004
Type: Movie
The lives of the residents of a small French town are changed when thousands of the recently dead inexplicably come back to life and try to integrate themselves into society that has changed for them.
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Le Divorce
Title: Le Divorce
Character: Madame Florian
Released: August 8, 2003
Type: Movie
While visiting her sister in Paris, a young woman finds romance and learns her brother-in-law is a philanderer.
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The Last Letter
Title: The Last Letter
Character: Anna Semyonovna
Released: May 21, 2002
Type: Movie
Locked away in the Jewish ghetto of an occupied Ukrainian town in 1941, a mother revisits her life in a last letter to her son.
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Deux femmes à Paris
Title: Deux femmes à Paris
Character: Tante hannah
Released: November 27, 2000
Type: Movie
In Paris in 1935, a young Jewish woman married to an anti-fascist activist befriends her neighbor who is dating a far-right supporter.
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L'école des femmes
Title: L'école des femmes
Character: Georgette
Released: June 7, 1999
Type: Movie
Theater play "L'école des femmes" played by the "Comédie française" in 1999.
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La Mort du Chinois
Title: La Mort du Chinois
Released: June 24, 1998
Type: Movie
Michel, a children's book author, has always been successful in life until the day his wife leaves him for a Chinese person. Planning on killing his rival, he starts looking for them.
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L'impromptu de Versailles
Title: L'impromptu de Versailles
Released: June 7, 1998
Type: Movie
At Versailles, the last rehearsal of a play, ordered to molière by Louis XIV the king. Staged in their own characters, actors and author display their art's conception. It is, too, the opportunity for them to answer by irony to their detractors.
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Les précieuses ridicules
Title: Les précieuses ridicules
Character: Marotte
Released: June 7, 1997
Type: Movie
Theater play "Les précieuses ridicules" played by the "Comédie française" in 1997.
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Bernie
Title: Bernie
Character: la grand-mère
Released: November 27, 1996
Type: Movie
Bernie, a 30 years old orphan, decides to leave his orphanage and find his parents. After an investigation, he meets Marion, a young heroin addict and falls in love with her. He believes that his family was victim of a plot and this is why they deserted him.
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La Belle Verte
Title: La Belle Verte
Character: La femme sage
Released: September 18, 1996
Type: Movie
As part of an intergalactic coalition, a well-meaning space alien volunteers to bring a message of self-actualization and harmony with nature to the one planet rejected by all her peers as incorrigible: Earth.
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La Comédie-Française ou L'amour joué
Title: La Comédie-Française ou L'amour joué
Character: Self
Released: September 1, 1996
Type: Movie
La Comédie-Française is the oldest continuous repertory company in the world, founded in Paris in the late 17th century. This is the first time a documentary film-maker has been allowed to look at all the aspects of the work of this great theatrical company. Sequences in the film include sections of plays, casting, set and costume design, administrative meetings and rehearsals and performances of four classic French plays, Don Juan by Molière, La Thebaide by Racine, La Double Inconstance by Marivaux and Occupe-toi d'Amelie by Feydeau. (Zipporah Films)
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What Maisie Knew
Title: What Maisie Knew
Character: Mme Wix
Released: December 22, 1995
Type: Movie
Paris during the 1920s. Ever since her parents' separation, ten-year-old Maisie has been travelling to and fro between her father Beale Farange and her mother Ida. She spends half a year with each one alternately. But neither parent can provide Maisie with the warmth and affection she so desperately needs.
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French Twist
Title: French Twist
Character: Prostitute
Released: January 18, 1995
Type: Movie
After learning of her husband's infidelities, a housewife invites an itinerant lesbian to move in with them. None of their lives will ever be the same again.
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False Pregnancy
Title: False Pregnancy
Character: Antoinette
Released: September 11, 1993
Type: Movie
Perhaps you have to love dogs in order to sell tins of slimy mystery meat to their owners. At any rate Martin, who is indifferent to pets in general, isn't doing all too well in his marketing job at Floppy Dog Foods. But right now this is the least of his problems: he has made a British au-pair pregnant in a one night stand; and while he is trying to figure out how to deal with this, his ex-wife (who divorced him over his not wanting children) and his mother (a militant anti-overpopulation, pro-birth control, pro-abortion activist) have a few comments to offer on the situation. Before his own child is born, Martin clearly has some growing up of his own to do.
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My Life Is Hell
Title: My Life Is Hell
Character: Flo Lemonier
Released: December 4, 1991
Type: Movie
The naive and self-conscious Leah mistakenly signs a pact with the devil Abargadon. But she's on Heaven's hit list, so the Archangel Gabriel intervenes to bring about the demon's demise. But Leah begins to find Abargadon attractive and not so bad. She decides to save his soul.
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Gawin
Title: Gawin
Character: Marthe
Released: April 17, 1991
Type: Movie
Six-years-old and terminally ill, Felix dreams of meeting an extra-terrestrial. Hearing this his Dad decides to make his dream come true by finding a 'saucer' and playing the part by dressing up as an alien.
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Tolérance
Title: Tolérance
Character: Marie-The
Released: October 20, 1989
Type: Movie
In the 18th century, English aristocrats had, among their better known strange customs, one really strange one: they kept "ornamental hermits" for their gardens. These were actual people who were willing to live in squalid conditions and serve as something like museum exhibits for the amusement of the wealthy. This movie takes that notion and transfers it to 18th century France. In the story, an English hermit Rupert Everett) has somehow been brought to France in the period following the French Revolution, and prior to the Napoleonic Era, a period (1795-1799) known as "The Directory." He eventually comes down out of his tree into a chateau owned by an Italian nobleman (Ugo Tognazzi) and his wife. Before long, the hermit has washed and bathed and become quite presentable, even charming. However, his appearance in their midst is like a sentence of death for many of those who associate with him.
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The Chicks
Title: The Chicks
Character: Simone
Released: January 29, 1985
Type: Movie
Focuses primarily on three women and the (unseen) man who goes in and out of their lives. One member of this trio is a saleswoman with an open relationship that suddenly closes when she learns that her lover has been unfaithful. It seems that he has dallied with a book-dealer (her nemesis) who ultimately does not propose as much of a threat to the disillusioned saleswoman as a certain actress. Along with these three are several other females who interact with the main protagonists. Set up more in the manner of a stage play with changing scenes and acts.
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A Friend of Vincent
Title: A Friend of Vincent
Character: Odette
Released: September 28, 1983
Type: Movie
Vincent is the victim of an assassination attempt carried out by a young woman who wants to avenge her sister. Albert, the childhood friend of Vincent, wants to help and begins to investigate the woman, but he realizes that Vincent is perhaps not the person he seems to be.
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Les Plaisirs de l'île enchantée
Title: Les Plaisirs de l'île enchantée
Character: Mrs. Pernelle
Released: July 8, 1981
Type: Movie
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La Puce et le privé
Title: La Puce et le privé
Character: Pharmacist
Released: March 11, 1981
Type: Movie
Val Brosse, a private detective, receives Françoise, who confesses to him that she murdered her husband. The story is false, but Val, intrigued, decides to investigate.
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La Dame de chez Maxim
Title: La Dame de chez Maxim
Character: La Môme Crevette
Released: February 12, 1981
Type: Movie
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Hothead
Title: Hothead
Character: Mrs. Brochard (uncredited)
Released: February 14, 1979
Type: Movie
François, a miserable football player, becomes a town hero after bringing victory in an extremely important game. He uses his fame for revenge on the team star for the previous mockeries.
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Take It from the Top
Title: Take It from the Top
Character: Le gynécologue
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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Title: Claudine
Character: Mlle Sergent
Released: April 12, 1978
Type: TV
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On ne badine pas avec l'amour
Title: On ne badine pas avec l'amour
Character: Dame Pluche
Released: January 1, 1978
Type: Movie
While Camille refuses Perdican's advances, she takes offense when he courts Rosette. Then begins a confrontation of pride, where each seeks to establish his ascendancy over the other in the name of love.
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Title: Nouvelles d'Henry James
Character: Kate Cookham
Released: March 13, 1976
Type: TV
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La grande Paulette
Title: La grande Paulette
Released: April 24, 1974
Type: Movie
This is an attempt to imitate the inimitable, Jacques Tati. Paulette is a life-size blow-up doll. Imagine the rest yourself.
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Un ange au paradis
Title: Un ange au paradis
Character: Suzanne
Released: October 11, 1973
Type: Movie
A bored undertaker, married to an ex prostitute, falls in love with a transsexual.
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George Dandin
Title: George Dandin
Character: Claudine
Released: January 6, 1973
Type: Movie
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She No Longer Talks, She Shoots
Title: She No Longer Talks, She Shoots
Character: Clarisse
Released: August 23, 1972
Type: Movie
Rosemonde, hailed as "the Princess" reign over a slum in the Paris suburbs. Herbert, a reporter who came to investigate on the pollution, ends up in a grinding machine of her invention. Rosemonde resells the bones to the church authorities who use them as holy relics. Inspector Adrian Bondu is handling the case... But a young hippie who looks like Jesus will have Rosemonde suddenly feel very earthly feelings...
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Title: Le Grand Échiquier
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 1972
Type: TV
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The Old Maid
Title: The Old Maid
Character: Clotilde
Released: January 5, 1972
Type: Movie
Muriel is a shy woman who bluffs and blusters around in order to hide her shyness and to protect her loneliness, even though she longs wistfully for a companion of some sort. She has been lonely so long that now she is an old maid and has never been wooed. In this gentle French film, Muriel gets a glimpse of romance when Gabriel walks into the seaside hotel she is vacationing in. His car has broken down, and he has to stay there for a few days while it is repaired. Hers is the only dinner table with room at it, and Gabriel cannot prevent himself from charming women. She is stiff with him at first, but soon they develop a friendship.
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Fric-Frac
Title: Fric-Frac
Character: Loulou
Released: October 14, 1971
Type: Movie
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Un fil à la patte
Title: Un fil à la patte
Character: Nini
Released: December 26, 1970
Type: Movie
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Distracted
Title: Distracted
Character: Clarisse Guiton
Released: December 9, 1970
Type: Movie
A comedy about an absent-minded man who works at a advertising company and topples from one problem to another.
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She Does Not Drink, Smoke or Flirt But... She Talks
Title: She Does Not Drink, Smoke or Flirt But... She Talks
Released: April 17, 1970
Type: Movie
Housemaid Georgette loves to gossip and this causes major trouble to people around her.
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Life Love Death
Title: Life Love Death
Character: Julie
Released: January 29, 1969
Type: Movie
François Toledo, married businessman and father, falls head-over-heels in love with Janine, a work colleague. However, he is soon found out: after three dates, he strangles some prostitutes, when, the victim of blackmail, he becomes dishonored. He is taken to court, and sentenced to be killed by a guillotine.
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Woman Times Seven
Title: Woman Times Seven
Character: Jeannine
Released: September 29, 1967
Type: Movie
Seven mini-stories of adultery: "Funeral Possession," a wayward widow at her husband's funeral; "Amateur Night," angry wife becomes streetwalker out of revenge; "Two Against One," seemingly prudish girl turns out otherwise; "Super Simone," wife vainly attempts to divert her over-engrossed writer husband; "At the Opera," a battle over a supposedly exclusive dress; "Suicides," a death pact; "Snow," would-be suitor is actually a private detective hired by jealous husband.
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The Oldest Profession
Title: The Oldest Profession
Character: Toinette (segment "Mademoiselle Mimi")
Released: April 7, 1967
Type: Movie
A collection of sketches that tells the story of prostitution through the ages.
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Les Femmes savantes
Title: Les Femmes savantes
Character: Martine
Released: June 7, 1966
Type: Movie
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How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning
Title: How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning
Character: Une pensionnaire (La Fermeture)
Released: October 28, 1965
Type: Movie
The film consists of three novels. The film begins with the fact that the Bernard Blier hero removes a lantern from the entrance to a brothel. The second part is about how the lantern and jewelery were stolen from a young baroness. And in the third part the hero of Louis de Funes hangs a lantern at the entrance to his house.
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Mum's the Word
Title: Mum's the Word
Character: Colette
Released: April 26, 1960
Type: Movie
Martin is a nurse in a private clinic in Paris. The victim of a serious concussion, an unidentified casualty, arrives in the emergency room one night. He is operated on immediately. When he wakes up, half-unconscious, he tells Martin a confused story about stealing jewels from a maharajah visiting Marseille... before falling into total amnesia. Real and fake policemen interrogate Martin, gangsters kidnap him to get him to reveal precious information, but... the nurse keeps his mouth shut!
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Lovers of Paris
Title: Lovers of Paris
Character: Clémence
Released: October 18, 1957
Type: Movie
Young, handsome, dashing but cynical, Octave Mouret arrives in Paris, determined to conquer the belles of the capital.