Roland Lesaffre

Roland Lesaffre

Born: June 26, 1927
Died: February 3, 2009
in Clermont-Ferrand, Puy-de-Dôme, France

Movies for Roland Lesaffre...

Gallant Ladies
Title: Gallant Ladies
Character: Canillac
Released: November 14, 1990
Type: Movie
Despite being busy with his profession of soldiery, Brantome manages to find much more time for amorous dalliances with the ladies of the 16th-century French court than for battles. Unfortunately for him, his true love, Victoire, is beyond his reach most of the time. He more than compensates for this in the arms of others.
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The Passion of Bernadette
Title: The Passion of Bernadette
Character: François Soubirous
Released: May 9, 1990
Type: Movie
French filmmaker Jean Delannoy directs this inspiring sequel to his biopic about Marie-Bernarde Soubirous (portrayed by Sydney Penny), a young shepherdess who claimed to have seen numerous apparitions of the Lady in White at Lourdes in 1858. Chronicling Bernadette's years with the Sisters of Charity of Nevers convent, the film traces her life from age 22 until her untimely death from tuberculosis at age 35.
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Salut, j'arrive
Title: Salut, j'arrive
Released: April 7, 1982
Type: Movie
Gérard Travers has known Minou since childhood. After completing his military service, he moved in with her, in all honor, until he could find something better. Together, they establish a protocol for living harmoniously as roommates without stepping on each other's toes, but little by little, Gérard becomes irresistibly attracted to Minou and vice versa. They realize that they've always been made for each other.
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Au bout du chemin
Title: Au bout du chemin
Character: le facteur
Released: January 7, 1981
Type: Movie
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El avispero
Title: El avispero
Released: January 1, 1976
Type: Movie
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One Must Live Dangerously
Title: One Must Live Dangerously
Character: Edouard Lory
Released: September 3, 1975
Type: Movie
Richard is a private detective. He makes a good money from marital infidelity: the deceived husband and wife generously paid him for proof of their infidelity "halves"...
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Maître Pygmalion
Title: Maître Pygmalion
Released: July 27, 1975
Type: Movie
Juliette, a young woman of twenty-five, works unsuccessfully as a sales representative. Discouraged, on the point of giving up, Juliette meets Christian, a brilliant and seductive salesman, who offers her to play Pygmalion: he will be the master, she will be the pupil. But the master falls in love with Juliette.
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Title: Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 1975
Type: TV
A talk show presented by Michel Drucker
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The Marvelous Visit
Title: The Marvelous Visit
Character: Ménard
Released: November 27, 1974
Type: Movie
One morning, the rector of a small French village comes across a young man, lying unclothed and unconscious on a deserted beach. Intrigued, the rector has the young man carried back to his home. When he awakes the stranger calmly identifies himself as Jean, an angel who has just arrived on Earth. Naturally, the rector doesn’t believe this, but decides to humour the young man. At first, Jean’s arrival in the village causes no upset. He is a harmless soul, full of good intentions and capable of only the kindest deeds. But then the villagers grow wary of him, and this wariness turns to outright hostility when Jean unwittingly causes an accident...
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Kisss.....
Title: Kisss.....
Character: Le flic en civil de Dieppe
Released: October 13, 1971
Type: Movie
A young man, Jimmy known as “Kisss”, wanders on the bridges of Paris, carrying a sign “for rent”: he offers his services as a companion, in exchange for a can of tin per hour. He meets a young woman, Renée, who then takes him into her home. Both are maintained by Renée's sister, the naive Jacqueline. The latter works as a secretary for a businessman who pursues her with his attentions.
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Fight in Vain
Title: Fight in Vain
Character: Michel
Released: October 6, 1971
Type: Movie
Paul lives in Africa. He leads an honest and calm existence. Until the day when he finds his friend Frankovich dead.
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Law Breakers
Title: Law Breakers
Character: Saugeat
Released: May 7, 1971
Type: Movie
A judge investigating police corruption finds that the deeper he digs, the more roadblocks he finds.
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Atlantic Wall
Title: Atlantic Wall
Character: Le faux résistant bourré de tics
Released: October 14, 1970
Type: Movie
1944. Léon Duchemin owns a restaurant with his sister. His clients are Germans, Résistance et black marketeers. Léon unwillingly joins the Résistance when a British pilot is shot down and hides in his attic and, through a series of mishaps, he accidentally steals the plans for Hitler's V1 missiles.
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Love Life in Luxembourg
Title: Love Life in Luxembourg
Character: Flou-Flou
Released: September 11, 1970
Type: Movie
The story of a hotel boss that, from time to time, observes the couples in the rooms and even films them.
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Erotic Trap
Title: Erotic Trap
Character: Bob
Released: April 30, 1969
Type: Movie
Varen and Bob are a couple of buddies who get mixed up with a white-slave trader. Pursued by a pair of mob-connected brothers, Bob is killed. Varen retaliates by killing one of the brothers, then enlists the aid of his friend Agnès in tracking down the remaining sibling.
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Le bourgeois gentil mec
Title: Le bourgeois gentil mec
Released: January 1, 1969
Type: Movie
Monsieur Gentil runs a perfume factory. He is a shy man, bullied by Madame Marthe, the manager, and spurned by Cléo, the young travel agent he is in love with. He 'd rather be a tough guy than a wet blanket and his meeting with Durante, a gangster, will be decisive. Considering him a providential piggy bank, Durante, following the advice of his boss Spinosa, entrusts the" education" of Gentil to two experts, Perrugo and Bersone.
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Playmates
Title: Playmates
Character: Inspector Fougas
Released: July 31, 1968
Type: Movie
Henri Verdier, a young bank manager, has made the acquaintance of Karine, a model of great beauty. Robert, who claims to be Karine's brother, forces Karine to introduce him to Verdier. This is to offer him an urgent business deal: 50 million for a uranium purchase which, within a few days, should yield double that amount. Blinded by passion, Verdier accepts and "withdraws" the necessary sum from his bank. He soon realizes he's been duped. Karine is not Robert's sister and Robert is a crook. Verdier tracks them down.
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Young Wolves
Title: Young Wolves
Character: Albert
Released: April 1, 1968
Type: Movie
Alain, "a young wolf", elegant and racy, is maintained by the princess Linzani. At the same time, he goes out with a girl of his age, Sylvie, who despite her bold attitude has never had a lover.
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Star Pilot
Title: Star Pilot
Character: Prof. Solmi
Released: October 1, 1966
Type: Movie
Aliens from the constellation Hydra crash-land on the island of Sardinia. A prominent scientist, his daughter, several young technicians, and a pair of Oriental spies are taken hostage by the beings so they can use them to repair their spaceship's broken engine. With that done, they take off towards their home planet, taking the earthlings with them. However, the humans attempt to mutiny against their captors, inadvertently sending their tiny spaceship hurtling into the infinite beyond...
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Pas de panique
Title: Pas de panique
Character: François Toussaint
Released: August 10, 1966
Type: Movie
A robbery of 10 billion is successfully carried out by a Corsican gang led by a man called Toussaint. The heist is also the start of a war with a rival gang.
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Three Rooms in Manhattan
Title: Three Rooms in Manhattan
Character: Pierre
Released: November 10, 1965
Type: Movie
When his wife leaves him, a young French actor, François Combe, moves to New York to work for a television company. One evening, he meets an attractive young woman, Kay Larsi, in a bar.
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L'or du duc
Title: L'or du duc
Released: September 23, 1965
Type: Movie
A young duke marries a girl, also penniless, and moves into a bus left him by an uncle, with their ten children. At last he finds the bus is made of solid gold.
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Le bluffeur
Title: Le bluffeur
Released: May 6, 1964
Type: Movie
Fredo, a former gangster nicknamed "The Bluffer", has just been released from prison and is now thinking of going into the legal world with a friend. But his ex-partners are desperate to find him, to punish him for operating without their cooperation. His fortune is stolen and he is accused of a diamond robbery perpetrated by the old gang.
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Pariahs of Glory
Title: Pariahs of Glory
Character: La Coquille
Released: April 5, 1964
Type: Movie
During World War II a young Frenchmen sees his brother killed in Alsace by a German officer. He vows revenge on all Germans, but after the War he is conscripted into the French Army and sent to Indochina. There he meets his brother's killer under strange circumstances.
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The Accident
Title: The Accident
Character: Yvon Le Goualec
Released: August 7, 1963
Type: Movie
A young beautiful teacher is transfered to a remote island's school, where her colleague (also the principal of the school) falls in love with her. This banned love provokes the jealousy of the principal's wife and makes her seek revenge.
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Chicken Feed for Little Birds
Title: Chicken Feed for Little Birds
Character: le locataire
Released: February 15, 1963
Type: Movie
In a building close to the Place de la Contrescarpe in Paris, a tale of criss‑crossings in turn romantic, gourmet, interested or mystical, between an Italian gigolo and a nightclub hostess, a family of butchers and an apprentice rocker, a mystic tailor, a writer sending himself telegrams, an alert paralytic woman, a thoughtful concierge, a bird breeder and a just‑out‑of‑jail hooligan. Little by little each one discovers each other’s more or less troubled history… when a mysterious death introduces the Police within this huis clos, hastens disclosure of well‑kept secrets and ruffle this little World.
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Ursus and the Tartar Princess
Title: Ursus and the Tartar Princess
Character: Ivan
Released: December 30, 1961
Type: Movie
Peplum movie from 1961
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House of Sin
Title: House of Sin
Character: Clement
Released: October 25, 1961
Type: Movie
In this mystery, a nouveau-riche Frenchman returns to his Parisian home after finding a fortune in Africa. He is looking for a wife and begins advertising in the newspaper. Instead he finds himself victimized by con-artists.
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No Time for Ecstasy
Title: No Time for Ecstasy
Character: Marcel Nancini
Released: September 1, 1961
Type: Movie
Michel, a young man of Ukrainian origin, flees the Red Army and joins the International Brigades in Perpignan to fight Franco. He was arrested for being Russian, Communist and deserter. He was wounded by his involvement, but fell in love with an American journalist.
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Wasteland
Title: Wasteland
Character: Big Chief
Released: November 9, 1960
Type: Movie
On the outskirts of Parisian council housing estates lies a vast wasteland that still retains its mysteries in this day and age, and serves as a refuge for people who, in their spare time, escape or are often ejected from their overcrowded dwellings. They form small, rather harmless bands, share their first secrets, build up their "treasures" and submit to strict rituals. The sanctity of their rebellions is underscored by initiation through blindfolded jumping and a blood test. An impossible love story is born between two members of the same clan, Dan, a beautiful, tomboyish girl, and Lucky, a sweet but feisty boy.
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Amour, autocar et boîtes de nuit
Title: Amour, autocar et boîtes de nuit
Released: August 17, 1960
Type: Movie
A young girl, Christiane, leaves her family to join friends with whom she intends to "make a life". Two boys, Jo and Paul, look after the heroine, whose relations seem rather shady. Jo, a guide in a tourist agency specializing in nightlife in Paris, has a "shadow" of his own in the scatterbrained Annette, who is determined to marry him. While touring the capital's cabarets, Jo meets a model, Jacynthe, and her photographer, Daniel, as well as a star, Jackie, and her manager, Helios. The latter organizes a mock jewel robbery for publicity purposes, with Jackie as the victim. But contrary to expectations, the robbery takes place.
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Le 7ème jour de Saint-Malo
Title: Le 7ème jour de Saint-Malo
Character: François, a Saint-Malo guide
Released: April 19, 1960
Type: Movie
End of WW2 : the German officers lock all the men between 18 and 65 into the "Fort National" on an islet in Saint-Malo.
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The Cheaters
Title: The Cheaters
Character: Roger
Released: October 10, 1958
Type: Movie
Bob Letellier, a good looking rich kid who studies science, makes the acquaintance of Alain, a cynical and immoral young man. The latter introduces him to the existentialist circles of Saint-Germain-des-Prés. Bob is invited to a party and becomes Clo's lover, a rich heiress.
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No Escape
Title: No Escape
Released: June 25, 1958
Type: Movie
In Provence , Father Caillé runs a family pension backed by his daughter-in-law Cora and a maid. The old man persecutes Cora for her assiduity until the day when she, in a particularly violent confrontation, knocks him down before the eyes of Gino, an Italian pensioner of whom she is in love. The two accomplices will try to make up the murder.
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Secrets of a French Nurse
Title: Secrets of a French Nurse
Character: Roger
Released: February 19, 1958
Type: Movie
A gangster is back in business after a while and tries to take it back the hard way, but things don't go as well as planned. At the same time, we watch the fate of a young nurse in a hospital. Soon, the two stories meet when the gangster faces his problems.
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Filous et compagnie
Title: Filous et compagnie
Released: November 20, 1957
Type: Movie
Marianne, whose past is not beyond reproach, runs a real estate agency, to whose customers Mr. Donzin grants high-interest mortgages. Donzin provides high-interest mortgages. Mr. Donzin has just executed a charming victim who, unable to repay her loan after her husband's death, has had her business confiscated. Marianne is dreaming of a vigilante when her ex-husband, Alfredo, pardoned from prison, reappears. When he finds out, he sees in Mr. Donzin a "pigeon" worthy of attention.
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Young Girls Beware
Title: Young Girls Beware
Released: July 4, 1957
Type: Movie
Raven, a mobster just released from prison, settles the score by murdering Mendetta and her partner, who had turned him in. Having taken over Mendetta's various bars, he finds himself at war with other mobsters who want to kill him.
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Soupçons
Title: Soupçons
Character: Raymond Dellez
Released: November 23, 1956
Type: Movie
"Poisoner" - After her fiancé is arrested Claire finds herself alone and forced to find work. She is hired by a country squire, Etienne de Montenoy, as the tutor of his goddaughter. It does not take long before Montenoy falls for her but a little longer before the young woman, reluctant at first, understands Etienne loves her truly and then requites his love. Etienne lives so happily with her that he decides to make her his heir. Shortly after, he is murdered by poison...
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Law of the Streets
Title: Law of the Streets
Released: April 25, 1956
Type: Movie
Yves Tréguier, a young orphan, escapes from a reform school in Brittany to join "Dédé la Glace" in Paris, an old-timer with whom he has a sincere friendship. The love of Zette, a young girl he has met, and the benevolent friendship of Father Blain, the bistro owner, give him the desire for regular work. "Jo le Grec", a pimp jealous of Dédé's friendship with Yves, seduces Wanda, a prostitute he loves, and shoots Dédé dead. Blain prevents him from doing the same to Yves, and shoots him in turn. Yves can live an honest life with Zette and the baby she's expecting.
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Title: Cinépanorama
Character: Self
Released: February 4, 1956
Type: TV
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If Paris Were Told to Us
Title: If Paris Were Told to Us
Character: Le Premier Royaliste
Released: January 27, 1956
Type: Movie
Historical film directed and written by Sacha Guitry follows the the history of Paris from its founding through the significant events in the city's history.
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To Catch a Thief
Title: To Catch a Thief
Character: Bertani Employee (uncredited)
Released: August 3, 1955
Type: Movie
An ex-thief is accused of enacting a new crime spree, so to clear his name he sets off to catch the new thief, who’s imitating his signature style.
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Air of Paris
Title: Air of Paris
Character: André 'Dédé' Ménard
Released: September 24, 1954
Type: Movie
Victor Le Garrec, a former boxer, runs a gym in Paris while dreaming of finding an aspiring champion who will reach the goals he was never able to achieve.
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The Love of a Woman
Title: The Love of a Woman
Character: Yves
Released: December 13, 1953
Type: Movie
Marie, a young doctor, settles down on the Ouessant Island. She will be able to win the diffidence of the local population but she will have to fight for her independence after falling in love with an italian engineer.
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Thérèse Raquin
Title: Thérèse Raquin
Character: Henri dit « Riton »
Released: November 6, 1953
Type: Movie
Star-crossed lovers Thérèse and Laurent think they've gotten away with murder after Thérèse's weakling husband "falls" from a speeding train. But when forced to contend with a blackmailer's demands and the mute accusations of Thérèse's mother-in-law, it's only a matter of time before the law, their passion or blind chance trips them up.
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When You Read This Letter
Title: When You Read This Letter
Character: Roland
Released: July 26, 1953
Type: Movie
After a novice nun learns of the sudden death of her parents, she leaves the convent to manage the family business and look after her teenage sister. Both of them fall prey to a womanizing mechanic with psychopathic tendencies.
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We Are All Murderers
Title: We Are All Murderers
Character: Le détenu-coiffeur
Released: May 21, 1952
Type: Movie
Originally titled Nous Sommes Tout des Assassins, We Are All Murderers was directed by Andre Cayette, a former lawyer who detested France's execution system. Charles Spaak's screenplay makes no attempt to launder the four principal characters (Marcel Mouloudji, Raymond Pellegrin, Antoinine Balpetre, Julien Verdeir): never mind the motivations, these are all hardened murderers. Still, the film condemns the sadistic ritual through which these four men are brought to the guillotine. In France, the policy is to never tell the condemned man when the execution will occur--and then to show up without warning and drag the victim kicking and screaming to his doom, without any opportunity to make peace with himself or his Maker. By the end of this harrowing film, the audience feels as dehumanized as the four "protagonists." We Are All Murderers was roundly roasted by the French law enforcement establishment, but it won a special jury prize at the 1952 Cannes Film Festival.
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Casque d'Or
Title: Casque d'Or
Released: March 13, 1952
Type: Movie
At the end of the 19th century, during a ball in Joinville, on the outskirts of Paris, Georges, a former delinquent working as a carpenter, meets Marie, a young woman connected to a criminal gang.
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Paris Is Always Paris
Title: Paris Is Always Paris
Character: Carlo
Released: November 15, 1951
Type: Movie
A group of Italian soccer fans arrive in Paris for a match, but most of them go their separate ways to explore the sights, have a bit of an adventure, and maybe even find some romance.
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The Strange Madame X
Title: The Strange Madame X
Character: Roland, waiter (uncredited)
Released: May 24, 1951
Type: Movie
Irène is the unhappy wife of a wealthy publisher, Jacques Voisin-Larive, who cares about her no more than a beautiful piece of furniture. Her meeting with Étienne, a young cabinetmaker with whom she falls in love, turns her dismal existence upside down. Not wanting to reveal her condition to her lover, she pretends to be a modest maid, employed by the Voisin-Larive. At the end of a weekend spent with her lover, Irène discovers that she is pregnant. The fragile balance of their existence is suddenly broken. Taking the initiative, she reveals her affair to Jacques and tells him about her desire to divorce. But her husband has no intention of giving her back her freedom...
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Juliette, or Key of Dreams
Title: Juliette, or Key of Dreams
Character: Le légionnaire
Released: May 18, 1951
Type: Movie
Michel has stolen from his employer, Mr Bellanger, for the love of Juliette. He is now in jail. One night, while sleeping in his cell, he wakes up all of a sudden, the gates open and he finds himself in a strange village where all the inhabitants have lost their memory. There, meets Juliette again who seems to agree to marry a powerful man, who might well be Bluebeard...
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Marie of the Port
Title: Marie of the Port
Character: Un marin (uncredited)
Released: February 27, 1950
Type: Movie
Henri Chatelard is well into his forties, owns a restaurant and a cinema in the city, and appreciates women. When he meets Marie, an 18-ish strong-head who just lost her father in a small fishing village, it is not clear who is the hunter and who is the prey.
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La Présidente
Title: La Présidente
Released: May 24, 1938
Type: Movie
Vérotchka, a vivacious theater actress touring in a provincial town, is turned out of her hotel by orders of Monsieur Tricointe, the stern president of the local law court. In a rage, the actress knocks at Tricointe's door with a view to protesting against the treatment she is given. She goes about it so well that she ends up being accommodated by the president himself. This is the moment Jean-Pierre Gaudet, the Minister of Justice, chooses to pay an unannounced visit to his friend Tricointe. There he mistakes Vérotchka for Madame Tricointe and the president does not dare to contradict Gaudet. A lot of absurd situations ensue.