Maurice Teynac

Maurice Teynac

Born: August 8, 1915
Died: March 28, 1992
in Paris, France
Maurice Teynac (1915–1992) was a French actor. In 1948 he starred in the film The Lame Devil under Sacha Guitry.

In 1954 he appeared in London's West End in J.B. Priestley's poorly reviewed play The White Countess.

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

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Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno
Title: Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno
Character: M. Bordure (archive footage)
Released: October 1, 2009
Type: Movie
In 1964, Henri-Georges Clouzot's production of L'Enfer came to a halt. Despite huge expectations, major studio backing and an unlimited budget, after three weeks the production collapsed. This documentary presents Inferno's incredible expressionistic original rushes, screen tests, and on-location footage, whilst also reconstructing Clouzot's original vision, and shedding light on the ill-fated endeavor through interviews, dramatizations of unfilmed scenes, and Clouzot's own notes.
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Raumpatrouille Orion - Rücksturz ins Kino
Title: Raumpatrouille Orion - Rücksturz ins Kino
Character: Chefingenieur Kranz (archive footage)
Released: July 24, 2003
Type: Movie
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Birgit Haas Must Be Killed
Title: Birgit Haas Must Be Killed
Character: Chamrode
Released: September 2, 1981
Type: Movie
"Hangar" is a new agency whose purpose is to carry out missions even too sensitive for the police or intelligence services. The agency must eliminate a German female terrorist by the name of Birgitt Haas. The murder is to be disguised as a crime of passion, so an agent must lure Birgitt into falling in love.
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Un amour de jeunesse
Title: Un amour de jeunesse
Released: July 2, 1977
Type: Movie
Normandy 1850. A stagecoach drives along a road in the middle of the countryside. Inside, the passengers are all asleep except two men who are talking. Suddenly the coach stops: an axle has just broken. When one of the two men leans out of the window to see what is going on, his gaze lingers on the front a provincial abode, which seems to upset him. He soon starts remembering facts that took place forty years earlier...
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Barry of the Great St. Bernard
Title: Barry of the Great St. Bernard
Character: Prior
Released: January 30, 1977
Type: Movie
A Wonderful World of Disney TV movie based on the true story of famed Saint Bernard dog, Barry, who rescued dozens of stranded travelers in the Swiss Alps.
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Holy Year
Title: Holy Year
Character: Marcel Scandini
Released: April 23, 1976
Type: Movie
Two bank robbers, an old and a young, escape from prison to get to the hidden loot.
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Title: 30 millions d'amis
Character: Self
Released: January 6, 1976
Type: TV
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Ash Wednesday
Title: Ash Wednesday
Character: Doctor Lambert
Released: November 1, 1973
Type: Movie
Barbara gets secret plastic surgery in Switzerland in an attempt to save her marriage to Mark, but he doesn't seem interested in meeting her. She checks in to a ski resort to wait for Mark, and begins getting attention from young men. Her daughter tries to warn her that even though she has had the surgery it might be too late for her marriage, but she clings to the hope that Mark will come back once he sees her new look. Meanwhile, she must decide whether or not have an affair with a young man she's met.
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The Day of the Jackal
Title: The Day of the Jackal
Character: Bastien-Thiery's Lawyer
Released: May 16, 1973
Type: Movie
An international assassin known as ‘The Jackal’ is employed by disgruntled French generals to kill President Charles de Gaulle, with a dedicated gendarme on the assassin’s trail.
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State of Siege
Title: State of Siege
Character: Minister of Internal Security
Released: December 30, 1972
Type: Movie
Using the interrogation of a US counterinsurgency agent as a backdrop, the film explores the consequences of the struggle between Uruguay's government and the leftist Tupamaro guerrillas.
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Title: Un mystère par jour
Character: Silvio Scott
Released: October 5, 1970
Type: TV
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Dix petits nègres
Title: Dix petits nègres
Character: Lewis
Released: October 1, 1970
Type: Movie
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Les Dix Petits Nègres
Title: Les Dix Petits Nègres
Released: October 1, 1970
Type: Movie
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Title: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Character: Mr. Dobbins
Released: December 1, 1968
Type: TV
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Mayerling
Title: Mayerling
Character: Moritz Szeps
Released: October 31, 1968
Type: Movie
Crown Prince Rudolf of Austria clashes with his father, Emperor Franz Joseph I of Austria, over implementing progressive policies for their country. Rudolf soon feels he is a man born at the wrong time in a country that doesn't realize the need for social reform. The Prince of Wales, later to become Britain's King Edward VII, provides comic relief. Rudolf finds refuge from a loveless marriage with Princess Stéphanie by taking a mistress, Baroness Maria Vetsera. Their untimely demise at Mayerling, the imperial family's hunting lodge, is cloaked in mystery.
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Therese and Isabelle
Title: Therese and Isabelle
Character: Monsieur Martin
Released: May 14, 1968
Type: Movie
Two young girls experience awakening sexuality in the heated atmosphere of a Swiss girls' boarding school.
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The Golden Claws of the Cat Girl
Title: The Golden Claws of the Cat Girl
Character: Stanmore
Released: February 9, 1968
Type: Movie
Françoise looks like a sexy kitten by day, but is a silent she-wolf by night, making very clever robberies of gold jewels. Despite the interest, and competition, from Bruno, she ends a lonely she-wolf.
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Erotic Urge
Title: Erotic Urge
Character: Le patron
Released: January 17, 1968
Type: Movie
Three young girls hitchhike to St Tropez on vacation. During the trip, they meet three boys, and split up to go on different adventures. One with a journalist, one with a daddy's boy and one with a black jacket.
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Title: Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre
Character: Cooper
Released: September 15, 1967
Type: TV
Graf Yoster gibt sich die Ehre [French title: Le comte Yoster a bien l'honneur] is a TV series which followed the adventures of the title’s amateur gentleman detective. It was a success in particular in Germany and in France. Originally the show was a German production in black-and-white but it evolved into a European co-production in colour.
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The Night of the Generals
Title: The Night of the Generals
Character: General (uncredited)
Released: January 29, 1967
Type: Movie
A German intelligence officer investigates a prostitute's killing in Warsaw during World War II. He lands on three major Nazi generals as suspects, two of whom are also involved in a plot to kill Adolf Hitler.
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Title: At Theatre Tonight
Character: Alain
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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The Uninhibited
Title: The Uninhibited
Character: Reginald
Released: April 21, 1965
Type: Movie
Vincent is recovering from a nervous breakdown in a seaside village on the Costa Brava. He enters into an affair with nightclub owner Jenny, but their relationship changes when she falls for alcoholic author Pascal Regnier, who is struggling to resume his writing career. Vincent eventually returns home, leaving Jenny to stay on with Pascal and his young son Daniel.
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X-Ray of a Killer
Title: X-Ray of a Killer
Released: March 31, 1965
Type: Movie
The murder of a bandit gives a policeman the opportunity to unmask the activities of a spy.
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In the French Style
Title: In the French Style
Character: Baron Edward de Chassier
Released: September 18, 1963
Type: Movie
A young American art student must decide whether to stay in Paris with her boyfriend or go back to the U.S. when her wealthy father arrives to bring her back.
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The Reluctant Spy
Title: The Reluctant Spy
Character: Alfred Thirios
Released: September 3, 1963
Type: Movie
Stanislas Dubois is the manager of a successful advertising agency. One day, he comes up against an imposing woman who foists on him a cumbersome painting by Cézanne.
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A Blonde Like That
Title: A Blonde Like That
Released: February 1, 1963
Type: Movie
Myra, daughter of the circus king, has been kidnapped in South America. Or so her father believes. In reality, Miss Shumway has escaped into the Indian jungle in the company of a conjurer. Millan, a mischievous and adventurous journalist, tracks down the young woman in the Indian sector of Tamazunchale. They get to know each other and Myra tells the young man what drove her to flee her father. But she's run out of money and expects her adventure to come to an end soon. Then she meets a man named Doc, who suggests she contact an old Indian sorcerer.
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The Trial
Title: The Trial
Character: Deputy Manager
Released: December 21, 1962
Type: Movie
Josef K wakes up in the morning and finds the police in his room. They tell him that he is on trial but nobody tells him what he is accused of. In order to find out about the reason for this accusation and to protest his innocence, he tries to look behind the façade of the judicial system. But since this remains fruitless, there seems to be no chance for him to escape from this nightmare.
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The Merry Widow
Title: The Merry Widow
Character: André Napoleon Renard
Released: December 20, 1962
Type: Movie
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The Devil and the Ten Commandments
Title: The Devil and the Ten Commandments
Character: Le père supérieur / Father Superior
Released: September 14, 1962
Type: Movie
The film consists of seven roughly 15 minute episodes, each showing what will happen if one or more of the Ten Commandments will be broken: Jérome Chambard is warned that he will lose his job if he continues to swear; Françoise Beaufort enamored of a stripper calls on her only to find her married to a janitor who doesn't know what kind of dancing his wife performs; Denis, a Jesuit novice, leaves the order to avenge his sister's suicide, which was provoked by Garigny, who seduced her into prostitution and drug addiction; Philip buys a necklace for Micheline though he is bored with her; a young man find out that his real mother is not Madeleine, but actress Clarisse Ardant; Didier Marin, cashier of a bank, was fired by his boss; the Devil appears as a serpent for Jérome Chambard and the bishop are eating.
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Assassin in the Phonebook
Title: Assassin in the Phonebook
Released: March 2, 1962
Type: Movie
Fernandel plays Albert, the unhappy brunt of jokes by his fellow office-workers who goes from the frying pan into the fire. Albert gets caught up in a robbery that also goes from bad to worse when it leads to several murders. Although he is not a killer and essentially innocent, there does not seem to be very much that Albert can do to convince others of the truth.
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Captain Fracasse
Title: Captain Fracasse
Character: Baron des Bruyères
Released: April 21, 1961
Type: Movie
A ruined Baron Philippe de baron, meets one day a troupe of traveling actors led by Herod. Attracted by the one who plays the role of the ingenue: Isabella, and by the dynamism and enthusiasm of his companions, he takes the place of the deceased poet of the troupe. And during performances, Philippe became the captain Sunder. For his part, Isabelle loves Philip, but does not consider marriage, nobility him missing, she refuses to harm the career of Baron. And one day, the Duke of Vallombrosa, seduced by Isabella, finds himself challenged to a duel by Philippe for touching the girl. Defeated, he launched his men against Sunder, then removes Isabelle. The actors throw themselves then to storm the castle where she is being held. This time Vallombrosa was seriously injured, and the duke's own father, rushed to the scene, Isabelle discovers the girl he had once been an actress. Nothing stands now the union of Sunder and Isabella, under the tender gaze of the actors Herod and Scapin.
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The Passion of Slow Fire
Title: The Passion of Slow Fire
Character: L'ivrogne / Stephane's Friend
Released: March 2, 1961
Type: Movie
Stéphane Blanchon lives a quiet life in Switzerland with his wife, Christine, until a young American boarder named Belle, who was living with them, is found murdered. Despite Stéphane's innocence, the evidence points to him, and he learns that Belle harbored romantic feelings for him. Suspicions mount against him; even Christine thinks he is the culprit. Stéphane's sanity begins to crumble, and he lashes out in unprecedented ways.
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Crack in the Mirror
Title: Crack in the Mirror
Character: Doctor
Released: May 19, 1960
Type: Movie
Three stars appear in two separate but intertwined stories of romantic triangles gone wrong in this ambitious drama. In the first segment, Hagolin is a loutish construction worker with an unhappy wife, Eponine. The wife becomes involved with a swarthy working man, Larnier, and their passion knows no boundaries of caution or safety. Eventually, Eponine's and Larnier's lust drives them to madness, and they murder Hagolin. The second tale concerns an up-and-coming young lawyer, Claude, whose mentor is a highly successful veteran attorney, Lamerciere, with a beautiful young wife named Florence. Claude finds himself defending Larnier and Eponine, while Lamerciere dies of a heart attack after he discovers that Florence has been unfaithful to him with Claude.
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The Versailles Affair
Title: The Versailles Affair
Released: February 10, 1960
Type: Movie
Suzuki, a Japanese secret agent, is sent to Versailles to unmask a certain Klauss, who is to receive stolen documents from Saudi Arabia.
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Title: Discorama
Character: Self
Released: February 4, 1959
Type: TV
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Paris Holiday
Title: Paris Holiday
Character: Doctor Bernais
Released: April 5, 1958
Type: Movie
Comedian Bob Hunter is aided by his French counterpart Fernydel and two beautiful blondes when he is targeted for death by a powerful European counterfeiting ring.
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Sans famille
Title: Sans famille
Character: James Milligan
Released: January 1, 1958
Type: Movie
The Remi abandoned by his foster father sold to the troubadour Vasalis, in his living through the rural villages the people to entertain, gehoplen his three dogs and a monkey. In the beginning Remi takes its new master, but a demanding and hard man, and the animals have not been too much with the clumsy boy. But gradually creates a bond between Remi and his new comrades, until their friendship is suddenly disrupted when Vasalis is arrested for vagrancy and sentenced. Then Remi, alone in the world, along with his animal friends in position to try to keep ...
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The Mysteries of Paris
Title: The Mysteries of Paris
Released: August 21, 1957
Type: Movie
Paris 1838, Prince Rodolphe vows on the deathbed of his friend Matilde to find Germain, the woman's son kidnapped by his father at birth. Disguised as a tramp, he wanders the city's slums encountering various characters who either help or hinder him.
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The Suspects
Title: The Suspects
Character: Kurt Topfer
Released: August 20, 1957
Type: Movie
Commissaire Perrache, the chief of the D.S.T., the French domestic intelligence service, tries to neutralize a group of terrorists named the Partisans de la Métropole. He sends one of his best agents, inspector Louis Vignon, incidentally the husband of his charming secretary Lucette, on the trail of an illegal transmitter. But Vignon gets kidnapped by the gang and held captive on a boat off the shores of Monaco...
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The Seventh Commandment
Title: The Seventh Commandment
Character: Labaroche
Released: February 1, 1957
Type: Movie
Princesse Nadia Vronskaïa is a veteran con artist who uses her feminine wiles to bilk wealthy, susceptible old men. Inevitably, she outsmarts herself when she falls in love with one of her victims. In concert with her new beau, she turns the tables on her former partners in crime.
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Zaza
Title: Zaza
Character: Bernard Dufresnes
Released: October 3, 1956
Type: Movie
Around 1900, Zaza was the undisputed star of the "Variétés parisiennes". Bonded with pianist Cascard, she indulges in adventures and falls in love with handsome Bernard Dufresne. A short affair. Surprised by her friend's behavior, she believes he has a mistress in the provinces. In reality, he is married and Zaza, faced with her daughter, prefers to step aside. From now on, she'll live for her art, and will always refuse to renew her acquaintance with the man who made her suffer.
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Les insoumises
Title: Les insoumises
Released: August 22, 1956
Type: Movie
Four noble ladies, four widows, live in isolation in a Berry ch teau. There's the Mme de Bussange, her two sisters Sylvie and Hélène, her sister-in-law Elisabeth and her little boy, who alone will pass on the family name. Two men come along: Gilbert and René, bringing trouble and confusion. Gilbert courts Hélène, while René becomes attached to Elisabeth. Relations between the widows become strained and heated, until an attempt is made on Elisabeth's life. The culprit, Sylvie, kills herself. In despair, Mme de Bussange sets fire to the castle and dies in the inferno.
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The Case of Poisons
Title: The Case of Poisons
Character: Nicolas de La Reynie
Released: November 4, 1955
Type: Movie
Madame de Montespan, the Maîtresse-en-titre of Louis XIV, has been in disgrace since the King set eyes on a younger beauty, Marie-Angélique Scorailles. Having had enough of the situation, the rejected mistress decides to visit La Voisin, a woman known as a fortune teller, a doctor, a midwife and who is also said to arrange black masses and sell poisons. Some time later Marie-Angélique, now Duchess of Fontanges, dies mysteriously aged only twenty...
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Bedevilled
Title: Bedevilled
Character: Trevelle
Released: April 28, 1955
Type: Movie
A seminary student (Steve Forrest) helps a nightclub singer (Anne Baxter) sought by Paris police for killing her married lover.
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Napoleon
Title: Napoleon
Character: Count Emmanuel de Las Cases
Released: March 25, 1955
Type: Movie
The film follows the life of Napoleon from his early life in Corsica to his death at Saint Helena. The film is notable for its use of location shooting for numerous scenes, especially at the French estates of Malmaison and Fontainebleau, the Palace of Versailles, and sites of Napoleonic battles including Austerlitz and Waterloo.
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La Soupe à la grimace
Title: La Soupe à la grimace
Released: December 12, 1954
Type: Movie
Frank Keany is the chief engineer of a uranium mine located under the overwhelming sun of New Mexico and owned by a woman, Moira Warden. She suspects her ex-husband want to take possession of the mine.
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The Beautiful Otero
Title: The Beautiful Otero
Character: Mountfeller
Released: November 4, 1954
Type: Movie
An Italo-French biopic about one of the most famous women of Belle Époque, Spanish-born dancer and actress, star of Folies-Bèrgere: Carolina Otero.
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Royal Affairs in Versailles
Title: Royal Affairs in Versailles
Character: M. de Montespan
Released: February 10, 1954
Type: Movie
Witty narration follows the history of Versailles Palace; founded by Louis XIII, enlarged by autocratic Louis XIV, whose personal affairs and amours, and those of his two successors, are followed in more detail to the start of the Revolution, after which the story is brought rapidly up to date. A huge cast plays mainly historical persons who appear briefly.
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Cinema of yesteryear
Title: Cinema of yesteryear
Character: Za l'Amour
Released: December 3, 1953
Type: Movie
While filming in the Roman countryside, some of the workers damage the garden of Caterina. Going to ask for compensation, she meets the director Marcello, who propose her to star working in movies.
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My Childish Father
Title: My Childish Father
Released: July 8, 1953
Type: Movie
A middle-aged man, an architect by trade, decides to make an end run around getting married. He marries a charming young woman, tenderly in love, who proves incapable of holding him back and, above all, of making him work. But a young American arrives in Paris and reveals that he is the architect's natural son. At first reluctant, the latter and his young wife quickly adapt to the new situation, until the son, a businessman through and through, wants to share with his father his ideas on life, which can be summed up in one sentence: hard work, with no time for pleasure. The father is quick to balk, and the son is forced to unwillingly participate in the fickle architect's nightlife. Eventually, the father is able to settle down, while the son, having acquired a taste for love, has a good time.
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The Road to Damascus
Title: The Road to Damascus
Character: The Christ
Released: December 5, 1952
Type: Movie
Saul De Tarse is a Roman soldier who is making rough all over. He arrives at the Golgotha when the apostles remove the cross. He ruthlessly persecutes the Christians, even though they are his own friends.
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Full House
Title: Full House
Character: Heldinge
Released: October 10, 1952
Type: Movie
Anthology film with three shorts each featuring a famous detective: Monsieur Wens, Lemmy Caution and Maigret.
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Massacre in Lace
Title: Massacre in Lace
Character: Sophocle Zélos
Released: March 12, 1952
Type: Movie
Cock-eyed reporter Georges Masse enjoys a peaceful vacation in Venice. Which does not please his boss as he is not supposed to be... in vacation! P'tit Louis, Georges' blundering but faithful photographer, is sent to Venice with a mission: pull up his socks. But Georges is not so dormant as he appears. Behind the scenes, he investigates the activities of a gang that cleans out Venice. Quite logically, he soon finds himself face to face with a bunch of shady brutal characters, among whom Zélos, a Greek nightclub owner, and Alessandro Cassidi, a powerful motor manufacturer married to the alluring Clara, twice younger than he is...
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Poison
Title: Poison
Character: Un avocat (uncredited)
Released: November 30, 1951
Type: Movie
Paul Braconnier and his wife Blandine only have one thing in mind: to find a way to kill each other without risk. After listening to a radio show, Paul decides to go to Paris to meet a famous lawyer in the acquittal of the murderers. He tells the lawyer that he killed his wife. The lawyer asks Paul to reconstruct the circumstances of the drama. Without knowing it, he explains, in spite of himself, the way for Paul to murder his wife by putting the odds on his side to avoid death penalty or even be released...
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Over the waves
Title: Over the waves
Character: Self
Released: May 11, 1951
Type: Movie
Panorama of the programs and hosts who made the heyday of radio in the 1950s.
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Night Without Stars
Title: Night Without Stars
Character: Louis Malinay
Released: April 3, 1951
Type: Movie
A partially blind Englishman retires to the French Riviera. He meets and falls for the Widow of a French Resistance fighter but is horrified when he discovers she is involved with smugglers and murderers.
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The Red Rose
Title: The Red Rose
Character: Jean Maréchal, le cinéaste
Released: February 6, 1951
Type: Movie
The Jacques Brothers, their temporary replacements, Yves Gérard and his troupe, as well as a famous movie star looking for a new partner, Evelyne Dorsey, are causing disruption at the "La Rose rouge" cabaret, the most famous cellar in Saint-Germain-des-Prés, to the delight of regulars.
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Mystère à Shanghai
Title: Mystère à Shanghai
Character: Inspecteur Wens
Released: November 4, 1950
Type: Movie
In Shangai, the "Green Dragon" threatens to kill Herbert Aboody, a rich exporter, unless he pays him 50,000 dollars. One of Aboody's secretaries calls inspector Wens for help. An amazing fact occurs, Wens kills Aboody and then disappears. What is the key to this mystery?
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We Request an Assassin
Title: We Request an Assassin
Released: October 20, 1949
Type: Movie
A son of a family in debt decides to put an end to his life and calls on a professional killer to do so, who promises to kill him within forty-eight hours. However the next day, money, luck and love smile at her again. Then can begin an infernal hide-and-seek between the assassin and his victim.
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The Barton Mystery
Title: The Barton Mystery
Character: Barton
Released: August 19, 1949
Type: Movie
Following the assassination of a financier, several people who had an interest in seeing him disappear are suspected.
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Fantomas Against Fantomas
Title: Fantomas Against Fantomas
Character: Fantomas
Released: February 8, 1949
Type: Movie
Everyone in Paris thinks Fantomas is dead. A wave of extortion, blackmail and murder all point to the master criminal. Inspector Juve and his reporter friend Fandor set out to find the truth.
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Rapide de nuit
Title: Rapide de nuit
Character: Georges Sommer
Released: September 19, 1948
Type: Movie
Duped by a pretty woman who uses him to smuggle a suitcase containing the proceeds of a theft through the station, an honest fellow understands everything and replaces the suitcase with a similar one. The police do not understand anything, but the pretty girl promises to become honest like the one who almost was her pigeon.
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Femme sans passé
Title: Femme sans passé
Character: Chimerowitz
Released: August 27, 1948
Type: Movie
Caroline feels neglected by her husband, the businessman Lorin. She plans to have fun with an inventor but finds herself, following a combination of circumstances, locked up in a psychiatric clinic. To get out of it, she is forced to take on the identity of the wife of a third man, whom she resembles.
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The Devil Who Limped
Title: The Devil Who Limped
Character: Charles X
Released: July 11, 1948
Type: Movie
The film is a 125-minute, black-and-white biography of French priest and diplomat Charles Maurice de Talleyrand-Périgord (1754–1838), who served for 50 years under five different French regimes: the Absolute Monarchy, the Revolution, the Consulate, the Empire, and the Constitutional Monarchy. Its title comes from one of the main historical nicknames for Talleyrand, that he shares with demon king Asmodeus and English poet Lord Byron.
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The Private Life of an Actor
Title: The Private Life of an Actor
Character: André Leclerc, l'auteur dramatique
Released: February 26, 1948
Type: Movie
Biography of Lucien Guitry, stage comedian, by his son, movie director, and a poetic reflection on the passionate love of both men for their chosen art forms.
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Criminal Brigade
Title: Criminal Brigade
Character: Fred
Released: September 5, 1947
Type: Movie
After the discovery of two murders, Commissioner Chabrier, of the French secret services, is investigating the disappearance of plans affecting the national defense of the country robbed by a gang of international spies.
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Counter Investigation
Title: Counter Investigation
Released: March 21, 1947
Type: Movie
Alain Marchal, wrongly accused of murdering his wife, escapes from prison the day before his execution. Before committing suicide, he contacts Monsieur Charles, a retired gangster, and asks him to investigate, find the real culprit and clear his name. Monsieur Charles accepts his request and along with his wife Ginette and two former accomplices, Paragraphe and Teddy Coffre fort, embarks on his counter-investigation.
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Song of the Clouds
Title: Song of the Clouds
Released: March 6, 1946
Type: Movie
Sylvio, a successful singer, has found a way to take a peaceful vacation, safe from his female adulators: to travel incognito. He puts up at an old castle whose landlord, Count Fabrice, a ruined nobleman, seeks a hidden treasure. Posing as the nephew of the castle gardener, Sylvio enjoys happy days and even finds the time to fall in love with Gracieuse, the count's daughter. Unfortunately for him, his impresario ends up locating him...
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My Last Mistress
Title: My Last Mistress
Character: L'imitateur
Released: November 24, 1943
Type: Movie
A renowned sculptor aged about fifty years, François Bressolles falls for the young Catherine Collet whom he convinces without difficulty to pose for him. Complications ensue when he starts to go blind.
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Opéra-musette
Title: Opéra-musette
Character: Maxence Leroy
Released: February 18, 1942
Type: Movie
The itinerant musician Lampluche, having found a musical score on the banks of a river and a full wallet, was taken to the neighboring town for the famous composer Maxence Leroy. The inhabitants of the small town only dream of music, so Lampluche is very well received. But Maxence Leroy arrives in the city.
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The Pavilion Burns
Title: The Pavilion Burns
Released: December 17, 1941
Type: Movie
Denise, a young employee of the mine, is courted by the engineer Risay while she is engaged to Daniel, a simple underground worker. A betrayal has occurred that compromises the mine. An accident occurs and about fifteen workers, including Denise's fiancé, are buried under rubble in a collapsing shaft.
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Paris Romance
Title: Paris Romance
Released: October 3, 1941
Type: Movie
Georges Gauthier is an electrician who lives with his mother and his sister Madeleine. He is the son of a womanizing singer who made his mother miserable. For all that, Georges is attracted to show business all the more as he falls in love with Jeanne, the daughter of singer Lormel. Georges is spotted by Cartier, the manager of the Folies Concert and makes his debut as a singer under the assumed name of Jean Papillon.
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Mlle. Desiree
Title: Mlle. Desiree
Character: Marmont
Released: July 3, 1941
Type: Movie
Julie and Désirée Clary are courted by the brothers Joseph and Napoleon Bonaparte. Joseph marries Julie and Napoleon is affianced to Désirée. When Napoleon breaks the engagement and marries Joséphine de Beauharnais, Désirée becomes involved with General Bernadotte.