Francis Blanche

Francis Blanche

Born: July 20, 1921
Died: July 6, 1974
in Paris, France
François Jean Blanche, known as "Francis Blanche" (20 July 1921 – 6 July 1974) was a French actor, singer, humorist and author. He was a very popular figure on stage, radio and in films, during the 1950s and 1960s. His two daughters, Barbara & Dominique, are artists with their studios in Eze.

Blanche was born in an artistic family, mainly of stage actors—including his father Louis Blanche and his uncle, Emmanuel Blanche, who was a painter—. He completed his secondary schooling at fourteen, the youngest in France to do so at the time.

In the 1940s and 1950s, Blanche was part of Robert Dhéry's theatrical company Les Branquignols, with whom he played in the film Ah! Les belles bacchantes, starring Robert Dhéry, Colette Brosset (Dhéry's then-wife), and Louis de Funès; directed by Jean Loubignac in 1954.

Blanche teamed up with Pierre Dac to form a comic duo best remembered for Le Sâr Rabindranath Duval, a sketch about a phony and nonsensical Indian clairvoyant and guru (1957). They also created a popular and equally nonsensical radiophonic series, loosely based on a highly improbable espionage and conspiration plot, Malheur aux barbus, which was broadcast on Paris Inter in 213 episodes from 1951 to 1952. The same plot and characters were revived on Europe 1 in a series called Signé Furax, enjoying no less than 1,034 daily episodes between 1956 and 1960. Both broadcasts were phenomenal audience successes in the pre-television era. Blanche was also renowned for broadcasting phone pranks, in which he entertained listeners by making the most improbable situations sound plausible.

He wrote poems, and the lyrics of 673 songs. On stage, he acted in Tartuffe and Néron and, in 1955, Chevalier du Ciel, an operetta by Luis Mariano at the Gaîté-Lyrique theatre.

Blanche also enjoyed a successful cinematographic career, both as an actor and scriptwriter. He appeared as a hard-headed German colonel ("Obersturmführer Schulz") opposite Brigitte Bardot in Babette s'en va-t-en guerre (1959). He was one of the favourite actors of French filmmaker Georges Lautner, and played Maître Folace (a shady solicitor counselling a colourful gangster mob) in Les Tontons flingueurs (1963). Blanche also appeared in Boris Vassilief's Les Barbouzes (1964).

He delighted in parodying classical music, adapting famous works such as Schubert's "Die Forelle" (The Trout) into a crazy and slightly risqué piece about a 16-year-old romantic girl obsessed with Schubert's song to the point of giving birth to a live trout while performing it on her piano. Similarly, he turned Beethoven's 5th Symphony into a lengthy and quite repetitive musical glorification of the clothes peg and its fictitious inventor, Jérémie-Victor Opdebec.

Blanche died at the age of 52, from a heart attack with a background of untreated Type 1 diabetes. He is buried in Èze cemetery.

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

Movies for Francis Blanche...

Les 100 vies de Francis Blanche
Title: Les 100 vies de Francis Blanche
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: March 19, 2022
Type: Movie
Comedian, actor, author, director and emblematic figure of the French stage and cinema of the 50s and 60s, Francis Blanche liked to change register, moving from radio to writing to television and cinema, living more than "hundred lives".
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Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4)
Title: Comiques de toujours (Vol. 1 à 4)
Character: Self (archive footage)
Released: October 13, 2009
Type: Movie
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A Whale That Had a Toothache
Title: A Whale That Had a Toothache
Character: Francis
Released: April 15, 1975
Type: Movie
Bernardette is feeling bored in a country house. She decides to send weekend invitations to a lot of people.
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No Pockets in a Shroud
Title: No Pockets in a Shroud
Character: Nathaël Grissom
Released: October 25, 1974
Type: Movie
In the newspaper he has just founded, journalist Dolannes exposes all the wheeling and dealing and scandals that go on in his town. But the day he exposes the socialist mayor's homosexual crime, he is shot dead by an unknown assailant in a cul-de-sac just before the paper is due to appear.
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Say it with Flowers
Title: Say it with Flowers
Released: September 4, 1974
Type: Movie
The action begins in black and white, like a memory. Klaus is a Nazi military who has just failed an attempt on Hitler. Desperate, Klaus shoots and kills his children and then shoots at his pregnant wife and leaves her badly injured. Finally, attempts suicide, but at the last moment does not have the courage to pull the trigger, and flees on a motorcycle, having an accident ... The action continues in France. Jean-Claude is a handsome young man self-conscious about a malformation in his face. Jean-Claude lives with his parents, Jacques Bergé, an amnesiac man, self-enclosed and obsessed with Egyptian art, and Concepcion, a woman also closed in herself and obsessed with flowers from her garden, and apparently , suffering from paranoia.
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OK Patron
Title: OK Patron
Character: Victor Hutin, le père de Sophie
Released: June 1, 1974
Type: Movie
Mario, the head of the Mafia in France, has just been mortally wounded. His "companion" decides to find him a successor, before the New York "organization" appoints one. She instructs her two bodyguards to take on anyone who likes money, doesn't have any and, above all, doesn't want to work too hard - in short, "the average Frenchman"... They discover Léon Bonnet, a representative of "magic crosses". They send him gifts: champagne, weapons (a mistake...), a ring for his fiancée, and a meal worthy of the finest gourmets. In return, they take him to Mario's dying bedside, and have him sign over the estate. It's then that Leon, with his angelic good looks, restores order within the Mafia, surprising all his adversaries with his manners, and outwitting the police...
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Par le sang des autres
Title: Par le sang des autres
Character: Le médecin
Released: March 7, 1974
Type: Movie
In a little French town everything goes on as usual and people seem friendly and good-natured, until the day two women arrive from Paris. A man gets off the same bus, and that very night he seizes the two women and asks for the most beautiful woman in town as their ransom. After the initial shock, the mayor, his brother, the prefect, the police, and the gendarmerie gather around the house where the two woman are imprisoned. It will be a test for everyone and each of them will show his/her real stuff: hypocrisy, meanness, or humanity concealed under their provincial respectability.
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La Dernière Bourrée à Paris
Title: La Dernière Bourrée à Paris
Character: Gaston Payrac
Released: October 31, 1973
Type: Movie
Young Berthe, deeply moved by a cinema screening of the notoriously sultry Le Dernier Tango à Paris, goes to the address where most of the action takes place, a building overlooking the Bir-Hakeim Bridge metro station. Reality suddenly seems to mimic fiction when she discovers not only an apartment advertised for rent, but also a man prostrate in a corner who seems to be waiting for her. Hoping for the same torrid embrace as in the film, she discovers that he is in fact preoccupied only by the apartment's defects. Attempting to embark on a passionate affair, she learns that the man suffers from libido problems.
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Le Solitaire
Title: Le Solitaire
Character: Norbert
Released: October 24, 1973
Type: Movie
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The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot
Title: The Edifying and Joyous Story of Colinot
Character: Le vagabond
Released: October 24, 1973
Type: Movie
Colinot's world is turned upside down when his fiancee is kidnapped.
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Racconti romani di una ex-novizia
Title: Racconti romani di una ex-novizia
Character: Pietro l'Aretino
Released: September 21, 1973
Type: Movie
A girl who entered the convent pushed by devotion is depraved, marries, betrays her husband and becomes a courtesan.
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I. You. They.
Title: I. You. They.
Character: Darbon, le galeriste
Released: June 28, 1973
Type: Movie
Little did this pretty brunette know when she applied for a babysitting job that her employer was an artist and that everything at his place differed from the outside world. What struck her the most was to find out that her boss had shrunk his wife and kept her in the fridge in order, as he said, to keep her safe from a hostile world!
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I've Had It
Title: I've Had It
Character: Mr. de Chatiez
Released: February 23, 1973
Type: Movie
A Parisian named Cartier living in Quebec City and employee of a major English Canadian insurance company is promoted to a job in Vancouver. He brings along his annoying and hyperactive Quebecquer wife and his two young kids. Rolling on a trailer van and with no knowledge of the English language, it becomes a Trans-Canadian wacky journey for the French-speaking family, and might influence Mr.Cartier to reconsider accepting this important position...
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The Terror with Cross-Eyes
Title: The Terror with Cross-Eyes
Character: Commissioner Pigna
Released: September 2, 1972
Type: Movie
To gain fame quickly - three actors - Mino, Giacinto and Mirella, stage a fake murder (Mirella is the "victim"), then plan to find the "body" at the most opportune moment. Unfortunately, a real murder takes place in Mirella's apartment when a young woman named Margaret is killed. Having left abundant clues to the fake murder, Mino and Giacinto realise the only way to save themselves from jail is to find Margaret's killer. Despite the intrusions of a stupid police inspector, the two men discover she was killed by a mysterious "organization". Although every witness they try to question is killed by a hitman, they eventually unravel the mystery...
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The Eroticist
Title: The Eroticist
Character: padre Scirer
Released: March 16, 1972
Type: Movie
Senator Pupis feels a strong and uncontrollable urge to grab women's bottoms, a habit than can lead to embarrassment, especially if the woman in question is head of another state and the occasion a state visit. In his desperation Pupis turns to the clergy for spiritual and psychological help.
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Title: Midi trente
Character: Self
Released: March 6, 1972
Type: TV
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Scandal Man
Title: Scandal Man
Released: February 14, 1972
Type: Movie
Marc, is a reporter in a tabloid. At the "Bongo Club", he photographs a young blond woman kissing a black man. This woman is the daughter of Senator Linden, head of the segregationist movement of USA.
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Are You Engaged to a Greek Sailor or an Airline Pilot?
Title: Are You Engaged to a Greek Sailor or an Airline Pilot?
Character: Maurice Gombaud
Released: November 11, 1971
Type: Movie
Roger Blanchard has a busy life. On the family side, he is married and has two children, aged ten and fifteen. On the work side, he holds an important position at the Ministry of Culture. To bolster his social status, he has a mistress to liven up his Saturdays. But nothing is going right. His wife Marion exasperates him, his children irritate him, his job gives him no real satisfaction, his mistress neglects him and his superior, Monsieur Gambaud, gets on his nerves. But when he meets a beautiful young secretary, his life and habits are turned upside down: Blanchard amuses him and gets his way. In revenge, Gambaud warns Blanchard's wife.
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La Grande Maffia
Title: La Grande Maffia
Character: Modeste Miette
Released: September 17, 1971
Type: Movie
After receiving a mobster's heart as a transplant, a modest bank teller embarks on a life of criminal exploits.
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Il furto è l'anima del commercio!?...
Title: Il furto è l'anima del commercio!?...
Character: Sigfrid
Released: July 9, 1971
Type: Movie
Libero Sbardelloni, newly married, cannot find work in Rome, so he moves to Naples, where Baron Gaetano Gargiulo, his wife Marcella's uncle, lives. The baron, however, is a penniless nobleman who lives by swindling and petty theft, constantly going in and out of prison.
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Qu'est-ce qui fait courir les crocodiles ?
Title: Qu'est-ce qui fait courir les crocodiles ?
Character: Hector Grogenol
Released: May 21, 1971
Type: Movie
To replace Hector Grofenol, the tyrannical boss of the "Tout pour le camping" factory, who has been put out of action, a group of employees call on his cousin Achille, a Provençal shepherd, thinking they can use him. But Achille is quick to take his role as CEO seriously, and becomes very enterprising. Fortunately, young secretary Martine uses her charms to calm this man with a thirst for power.
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Les jambes en l'air
Title: Les jambes en l'air
Character: Hugon
Released: May 13, 1971
Type: Movie
Story of a marginal couple, César and Favouille, who set out to find their youngest daughter, who run away from home.
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The Great Java
Title: The Great Java
Character: Auguste Kougloff / Augustin Colombani
Released: January 13, 1971
Type: Movie
Five friends come to the city Brizul. Here they want to find Mr Auguste Kougloff who owns them money, namely 20 million.
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Title: Samedi soir
Character: Self
Released: January 9, 1971
Type: TV
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Alice au pays des merveilles
Title: Alice au pays des merveilles
Released: December 22, 1970
Type: Movie
Alice sets off in pursuit of a mysterious white rabbit in a hurry. After a dizzying fall into a deep well, she discovers a strange world populated by beasts who behave like humans. She changes size, is invited to a wacky tea-time party and becomes a witness to a momentous trial conducted by the Queen of Hearts.
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Ces messieurs de la gâchette
Title: Ces messieurs de la gâchette
Character: Marco Lombardi
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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Adieu Berthe
Title: Adieu Berthe
Character: Léo Bertold
Released: March 21, 1970
Type: Movie
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The Stud
Title: The Stud
Character: le percepteur Dupuis
Released: February 13, 1970
Type: Movie
Veterinary surgeon William Chaminade is having a peaceful holiday in the South of France when he is witness to an event that will change not only his life but the destiny of France! A young woman tries to kill herself by jumping from the upstairs window of the hotel where he is staying. Thanks to the services of a passing athlete, the woman is unharmed, and she reveals that her distress is down to her husband’s apparent lack of interest in her. Immediately, Chaminade has a brainwave. He will open a special centre for people like this unfortunate young woman, who will be able to satisfy their romantic needs, at the tax payers’ expense. All is well until this innovative ’pleasure centre’ draws the attention of an over-zealous tax inspector, Dupuis...
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Poussez pas grand-père dans les cactus
Title: Poussez pas grand-père dans les cactus
Character: Alphonse Ramier / Al Gregor
Released: November 5, 1969
Type: Movie
Alphonse flees to Paris to escape his wife's despotism. Intoxicated by the frenzied pace of Parisian life, he ruins himself completely. During a nightclub outing, some hoodlums mistake him for Al Gregor, the king of the underworld.
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Un merveilleux parfum d'oseille
Title: Un merveilleux parfum d'oseille
Character: Loïc de Kerfuntel
Released: August 14, 1969
Type: Movie
Baron Yves de Kerfunte learns of his uncle's death. Overjoyed, he is astonished to discover that seven other individuals are vying for the inheritance. Worse still, when they open the will, they learn that only the elderly Louise de Kerfunte is the heiress, and that she intends to squander the money quickly.
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Aux frais de la princesse
Title: Aux frais de la princesse
Released: July 4, 1969
Type: Movie
The Eloi family, who have just won the "model family" competition, set off for winter sports. Also on the trip are Aunt Gabrielle and Dagobert, the village warden. For the eccentric little group, the initiation to the joys of skiing begins with a lot of excitement. The vacation gets complicated when a Hindu prince has a precious diamond stolen from the local hotel.
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Erotissimo
Title: Erotissimo
Character: Le polyvalent
Released: June 7, 1969
Type: Movie
Annie is a middle-age wife, still sexy and pampered by her husband, Phillippe, who is the owner and general manager of a dynamic company. Under the deluge of sexy Swedish movies, sexy advertising on the streets, sexy intimate clothing in ladies' shops, and even talks about sex and marital infidelity with her mother and female friends, Annie starts feeling left aside by her husband, and trying to attract in a number of ways - and failing. It's not the all-purpose secretary at the office that is keeping him late, it's a tax expert that, asking the most innocent questions, is finding out how Philippe can manage a company without profits, and still manage a home, may be two... with high quality levels.
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Les gros malins
Title: Les gros malins
Character: Francis Bertolde dit 'Le book'
Released: May 13, 1969
Type: Movie
Paul Blanc runs a butcher's shop with his Neapolitan wife, the vivacious Giulia. One night, thanks to sleeping pills received from his brother in Argentina, he dreams of horse racing and sees in his dream the order of arrival of the horses. Giulia praises her husband's gift at the local café. But the turfmen dissuade her from betting on the nags chosen by Paul, who they consider to be real losers! But her vision proves to be right. When her secret is discovered, everyone wants to buy this miracle medicine. But the product is no longer manufactured, as it is considered dangerous and has been banned by the authorities.
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Faites donc plaisir aux amis
Title: Faites donc plaisir aux amis
Character: Maximiliano
Released: February 5, 1969
Type: Movie
Jean-Louis, a garage worker and womanizer, asks his friend and boss to reverse roles for a while, to make his brother, who has just arrived from South America, believe he's not only the boss, but also his wife's husband.
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Le bourgeois gentil mec
Title: Le bourgeois gentil mec
Character: spinosa
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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Title: À bout portant
Character: Self
Released: December 16, 1968
Type: TV
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The Big Wash
Title: The Big Wash
Character: Le docteur Loupioc
Released: November 12, 1968
Type: Movie
Sickened to see his students always sleeping in class, a teacher with a colleague and an anarchist start a war against the television. They climbed on Paris roofs to coat the T.V. antennas with a special product cutting the signal reception.
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Salut Berthe !
Title: Salut Berthe !
Released: August 20, 1968
Type: Movie
Adrien Chautard, a major industrialist from Abidjan, has been chosen to replace an expert on the official Ivory Coast delegation sent to Paris to discuss the country's association with the Common Market. Chautard is delighted at the prospect of this trip, where he will be reunited with the woman of his dreams: Elisabeth. Alas, at Abidjan airport, a nasty surprise awaits him: Berthe, his lawful wife, has decided to leave with him to consult a leading cardiologist in the capital.
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Rita the Field Marshal
Title: Rita the Field Marshal
Character: Captain Hans Vogel
Released: December 21, 1967
Type: Movie
A waitress helps a scientist flee the Nazis.
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Du mou dans la gâchette
Title: Du mou dans la gâchette
Character: La Prudence
Released: August 30, 1967
Type: Movie
Nicolas Pappas and Léon Dubois, two particularly calamitous killers, arrive in Paris, where a gangster boss in need of "staff", Jo Laguerre, hires them to cover the escape of the perpetrators of a hold-up. They get away with it as best they can and then find themselves in charge of liquidating a certain "Magnum"...
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The Great Gadget
Title: The Great Gadget
Character: Copec
Released: June 21, 1967
Type: Movie
A scientist from the East happens in France where it is supposed to improve one of his inventions. But it is much more interested in the fact to enjoy it and have fun ...
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Belle de Jour
Title: Belle de Jour
Character: Monsieur Adolphe
Released: May 24, 1967
Type: Movie
Beautiful young housewife Séverine Serizy cannot reconcile her masochistic fantasies with her everyday life alongside dutiful husband Pierre. When her lovestruck friend Henri mentions a secretive high-class brothel run by Madame Anais, Séverine begins to work there during the day under the name Belle de Jour. But when one of her clients grows possessive, she must try to go back to her normal life.
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Le canard en fer blanc
Title: Le canard en fer blanc
Character: Le docteur Grego
Released: April 22, 1967
Type: Movie
In South America, airplane pilot François Cartier is searching for treasure for a group of political exiles who helped him escape the death penalty. But the members of the group are being murdered one by one. Having managed to get his hands on the loot, François will use it to exchange it for a beautiful revolutionary with whom he has fallen in love. But the return flight proves particularly perilous.
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The Oldest Profession
Title: The Oldest Profession
Character: The Doctor (segment "Aujourd'hui")
Released: April 7, 1967
Type: Movie
A collection of sketches that tells the story of prostitution through the ages.
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Deux Romains en Gaule
Title: Deux Romains en Gaule
Character: Le druide inventeur de la potion d'invisibilité
Released: February 25, 1967
Type: Movie
This film is directly inspired by Asterix, created by René Goscinny and Albert UDERZO, chronicles the adventures of a little boy, Antoine, entered the world of antiquity by studying its history lesson and two Romans, and TICKETBUS PROSPECTUS, who prefer to leave their life of legionnaires and discover the lifestyle of Gaulois.Antoine meeting Asterix cartoon form, which explains certain peculiarities of life in Lutetia.
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Les Compagnons de la marguerite
Title: Les Compagnons de la marguerite
Character: L'inspecteur Maurice Leloup
Released: January 20, 1967
Type: Movie
Jean-Louis Matouzec works for French National Library as an expert looking after the restoration of old manuscripts.He falsifies marriage certificates as his wife refuses divorce.
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The Big Grasshopper
Title: The Big Grasshopper
Character: Gédéon
Released: January 11, 1967
Type: Movie
While he is trying to escape from a hit man, Carl is setting up a kidnapping in Beirut. He gets lost on his way, falling in love with Salène, a.k.a. "La grande sauterelle"...
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The Men in the Family
Title: The Men in the Family
Character: Strumberger
Released: January 1, 1967
Type: Movie
Gabriel Pelletier, sales manager for a major industrial firm, would be the happiest of men if he didn't have a family of rare originality. The day Gabriel Pelletier is asked by the firm's management to welcome and accommodate an important American industrialist who has come to Paris to handle a major contract, he realizes the difficulties that lie ahead. How will Mr. Strumberger, who has the reputation of a fierce puritan, react to the behavior of the various members of the family?
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Les enquiquineurs
Title: Les enquiquineurs
Character: Monsieur Achille Eloy
Released: November 9, 1966
Type: Movie
Monsieur Eloy, his wife and their ten-year-old son, Zizi, are off to their country home for the weekend. When they arrive, the two men settle into the garden, while Madame gets down to her cooking. When an embassy official and his wife invite themselves for lunch, the whole household is in an uproar.
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Les malabars sont au parfum
Title: Les malabars sont au parfum
Character: Ivanov
Released: February 2, 1966
Type: Movie
All sorts of spies are buzzing around Michel, whose cow, Dorothée, produces 200 liters of milk a day thanks to a treatment of his own invention. Dorothée is kidnapped and found. But now everyone disowns her. No matter! Dorothée's productivity will enrich Michel and his wife Nicole, who have opened a rotisserie; milk cocktails are in fashion.
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The Sleeping Sentinel
Title: The Sleeping Sentinel
Character: Constant
Released: January 21, 1966
Type: Movie
In 1812, Napoleon I set off for the Russian Campaign and planned to spend a night in Châlons-sur-Marne. However, as the police were aware of a planned assassination attempt, the place of accommodation was changed at the last minute, and the house of Doctor Mathieu was requisitioned. But Doctor Mathieu was an opponent of the Emperor who had allied himself with the instigators of the attack. They decided to plant their bomb in the doctor's home, leaving his family in danger.
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Under Your Hat
Title: Under Your Hat
Character: Mario l'enchanteur
Released: September 3, 1965
Type: Movie
An illegal gambling den where players can lose millions... and the owners make their fortune.
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Pas de caviar pour tante Olga
Title: Pas de caviar pour tante Olga
Released: August 13, 1965
Type: Movie
Rosa, a housekeeper in a NATO office in Paris, steals a micro film for her lover whom she hopes to marry.
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The Real Bargain
Title: The Real Bargain
Released: March 9, 1965
Type: Movie
The eccentric Comtesse de Saint-Plâs sells a black Citroën DS to car dealer Paul Souflé. He sells it to the young mathematics teacher Jacques Denzac who is about to marry.
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Title: Le bonheur conjugal
Character: Le patron du restaurant
Released: March 4, 1965
Type: TV
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Les baratineurs
Title: Les baratineurs
Character: Louis Dujardin
Released: February 1, 1965
Type: Movie
A precious work of art from the Italian Renaissance is stolen and passes through many hands before ending up in the shed of the farmhouse of Mr. and Mrs. Dujardin, fishmongers, who are inaugurating their luxury fish shop that very day. But the antique dealers, the free-riders and the bargain-hunters are there. They are jealously careful not to pass on the fruit of their clever investigations to their rivals, for all of them, after a picturesque treasure hunt, know that the Dujardin family own the famous Duranti altarpiece. But where have they hidden it themselves?
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Chance at Love
Title: Chance at Love
Character: L'adjudant
Released: December 30, 1964
Type: Movie
Four sketches revolving around the themes of luck and love.
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Les Gorilles
Title: Les Gorilles
Character: Félix
Released: December 23, 1964
Type: Movie
A confused pair of airport luggage carriers get involved in the disappearance of some suitcases.
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The Great Spy Chase
Title: The Great Spy Chase
Character: Boris Vassiliev
Released: December 10, 1964
Type: Movie
A cold-war spy parody. After the death of an armaments manufacturer, an international group of spies is drawn into a high-stakes battle of wits to obtain the valuable military patents which have been inherited by the lovely widow.
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The Big Scare
Title: The Big Scare
Released: October 28, 1964
Type: Movie
Two police inspectors pursue a dangerous counterfeiter on the run.
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Les pieds nickelés
Title: Les pieds nickelés
Character: Commissaire Lenoir
Released: September 30, 1964
Type: Movie
Three tramps in search of adventure and fortune decide to try their luck at swindling. After an initial failure at shoplifting, they take over a bateau-mouche and exploit tourists in their own way.
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Male Hunt
Title: Male Hunt
Character: Nino Papatakis
Released: September 18, 1964
Type: Movie
A few stories about marriage and its problems. Antoine is about to marry Gisèle. His friend Julien, an established bachelor, desperately tries to convince him not to do it, recounting his own painful experiences.
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Champagne for Savages
Title: Champagne for Savages
Character: Francis
Released: August 26, 1964
Type: Movie
A diverse group of friends gather to celebrate a witless woman's birthday in this comedy drama set in France during World War II. The guests include an uncle who is a Nazi collaborator, a blind war veteran, a simpering physician, an arrogant educator, a patriotic girl, and the husband of the guest of honor. When some German soldiers are killed outside the house, the group is told by the Gestapo that they must choose among themselves two who will be shot if the killer is not caught. If two victims are not chosen, all seven at the party will be captured. Things sound pretty grim, but the black comedy begins when all seven try to save themselves by any means possible.
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The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers
Title: The World's Most Beautiful Swindlers
Character: Mr. Humlaupt (segment "L'Homme qui vendit la tour Eiffel")
Released: August 14, 1964
Type: Movie
Five swindle stories, taking place in five international cities: Tokyo, Japan ("Fumiko's Five Benefactors" by Hiromichi Horikawa); Amsterdam, The Netherlands ("A River of Diamonds" by Roman Polanski); Naples, Italy ("The Road Map" by Ugo Gregoretti); Paris, France ("The Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower" by Claude Chabrol); and Marrakesh, Morocco ("The Confidence Man" by Jean-Luc Godard). Godard's segment was not included in the original French cinema release, and Polanski's segment was not included on the 2016 home disc release.
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The Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower
Title: The Man Who Sold the Eiffel Tower
Character: Mr. Humlaupt
Released: August 14, 1964
Type: Movie
A con man sells a tourist rube the Eiffel Tower. The entrepreneurial dolt ends up arrested after trying to charge an admission fee to visitors.
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Clémentine chérie
Title: Clémentine chérie
Character: l'importun à la cérémonie des Miss (non crédité)
Released: August 3, 1964
Type: Movie
Gaston Bellus, is the director of a textile house, and the research laboratory makes a sensational discovery: the elastic fabric. This new discovery is used to manufacture new modern stretchable bathing suits. His daughter Clementine, enters the beauty pageant to represent France for the swimsuit launch. But scandal ensues when the public soon discover, the photos of the event in which this new revolutionary material is completely invisible on photographs & live television.
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Requiem pour un caïd
Title: Requiem pour un caïd
Character: Emile
Released: July 25, 1964
Type: Movie
Police officer Antoine Delille is in charge of putting an end to the activities of a "kingpin", Jo Pinelli, trafficker, racketeer and pimp. He has three women working for him, including Eva and Jeannette, and is currently "conditioning" a charming, naive Orly employee, with whom he poses as an honorable businessman. Inspector Delille's plan is to arrest Jo for some crime and, while he's being held at the P.J., to delve into his other criminal activities and confound him.
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Jaloux comme un tigre
Title: Jaloux comme un tigre
Character: le chauffeur
Released: June 16, 1964
Type: Movie
Henri has a beautiful wife, Sophie. Unfortunately, suffering from an unhealthy jealousy, he spends much of his time watching his wife's every move, and a few domestic scenes often ensue.
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Dandelions by the Roots
Title: Dandelions by the Roots
Character: Absalon
Released: May 6, 1964
Type: Movie
Jockey Jack has a bill open with a gangster just released from jail. He somehow manages to parry the gangster's knife attack backstage at a theatre and the latter ends up dead being put into a double bass case. A day later the gangster mysteriously has disappeared, but it turns out that he was carrying a bet ticket for a horse race now worth over a million. A turbulent run for the money begins.
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Actualités télérévisées
Title: Actualités télérévisées
Character: Presenter
Released: April 1, 1964
Type: Movie
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The Black Tulip
Title: The Black Tulip
Character: Plantin
Released: February 28, 1964
Type: Movie
Aristocrat Guillaume de Saint Preux leads a double life as a masked bandit known as the Black Tulip. The Black Tulip only robs rich aristocrats, so the local peasants regard him as a hero. Baron La Mouche is convinced Guillaume is the Tulip. During a robbery, he scars the Tulip's face, and hopes to use this to expose Guillaume, but Guillaume is one step ahead.
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Les gros bras
Title: Les gros bras
Character: Mr Pédro Andromèze
Released: December 31, 1963
Type: Movie
Madame Andromèze's diamond bracelet has been stolen from the plane taking Nicole from Rome to Paris. Slipped by the thief into her bag, the bracelet undergoes many vicissitudes... Found and appraised, it is declared a fake! Nicole's brother and fiancé chase after the real bracelet, disrupting the life of a grand palace. Finally, Madame Andromèze finds her bracelet, which has been declared genuine. The original thief resurfaces and steals the jewel again.
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Crooks in Clover
Title: Crooks in Clover
Character: Maître Folace
Released: November 27, 1963
Type: Movie
An aging gangster, Fernand Naudin is hoping for a quiet retirement when he suddenly inherits a fortune from an old friend, a former gangster supremo known as the Mexican. If he is ambivalent about his new found wealth, Fernand is positively nonplussed to discover that he has also inherited his benefactor’s daughter, Patricia. Unfortunately, not only does Fernand have to put up with the thoroughly modern Patricia and her nauseating boyfriend, but he also had to contend with the Mexican’s trigger-happy former employees, who are determined to make a claim.
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Sweet and Sour
Title: Sweet and Sour
Character: Franz
Released: September 4, 1963
Type: Movie
Gerard, a young man from a "good family" dreams of becoming an actor. To do this, he follows everywhere his sister Frédérique who is infatuated with cinéma vérité.
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Thank Heaven for Small Favors
Title: Thank Heaven for Small Favors
Character: Chief Insp. Cucherat
Released: August 28, 1963
Type: Movie
Bad financial conditions compel an aristocratic family to do strange work.
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The Virgins
Title: The Virgins
Character: M. de Brétevielle
Released: May 22, 1963
Type: Movie
The story of five girls that lose their virginity.
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People in Luck
Title: People in Luck
Character: M. Bricheton (« Le Repas gastronomique »)
Released: April 26, 1963
Type: Movie
A light French comedy of 5 segments.
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The Abominable Man of Customs
Title: The Abominable Man of Customs
Character: Arnakos
Released: March 1, 1963
Type: Movie
Two rival gangs fight over drug trafficking. An American killer named Timetti Le Muet arrives at Marseille airport to make a delivery to Arnakos' gang. He is denounced to the police, and the peaceful customs officer Camposantos is put in charge of his arrest. Following a mix-up, Camposantos is mistaken for the killer himself. Taken in by Arnakos' men, the innocent customs officer is forced to play a rather unexpected role.
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Who Stole the Body?
Title: Who Stole the Body?
Character: Édouard
Released: February 1, 1963
Type: Movie
Edouard and Félix work in a real estate agency. One day, they are threatened with dismissal if they don't manage to sell a very isolated house to an elderly, silver and somewhat unusual Englishwoman. In the house, they discover a corpse. The visit is spent dragging the corpse from room to room, cupboard to chest, so as not to frighten the otherwise impressed buyer. But the corpse disappears. He has to be found before the deed can be signed. The two salesmen become detectives, tracking down the dead man's many female acquaintances. All the seducer's conquests are sifted through, to find the one who left her jewels at the scene of the crime.
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Tartarin de Tarascon
Title: Tartarin de Tarascon
Character: Antoine Tartarin
Released: November 22, 1962
Type: Movie
A well-to-do bourgeois, Tartarin lives in Tarascon, a small southern town, among friends who, like him, love hunting "à la casquette", gossip, aperitifs and thought-provoking journeys. Imaginative like all his compatriots, Tartarin ended up believing he had once been to Shanghai, so fervently did he recount his illusory adventures. It was even rumored that Tartarin was about to leave for Africa to hunt wild beasts, and this was so insistent that the brave man, urged on by his friends, was forced "for the sake of honor" to embark. He arrives in Casablanca, surprised to discover a modern city and not a single lion. But a charming Moorish woman, Baïa, seduces him, and Tartarin indulges in the "delights of Capua". This euphoria is short-lived: Baïa disappears, a false prince, mostly a swindler, finds a replacement and sets off on a hunting expedition in southern Morocco, which will only earn Tartarin the loss of his savings and a blind old lion dragged along by two beggars.
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The Hideout
Title: The Hideout
Character: Edouard
Released: September 21, 1962
Type: Movie
Set during World War II in France, the story begins when a resistance fighter is given shelter in an asylum by a friend who manages the institution. Soon after, the manager is arrested by the Gestapo, which gets the resistance fighter involved. He finds the informer who set his friend up and kills him. But then no one will believe his story about the informer and he becomes desperate enough to start losing his own mental balance. A young doctor and the daughter of one of the inmates help him keep it together, but he knows he cannot continue like this for long.
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Snobs !
Title: Snobs !
Character: Morloch
Released: September 5, 1962
Type: Movie
The director of a dairy cooperative in La Manche dies in a vat of milk. In line to succeed him are his four deputy managers, all with very different temperaments: the aristocratic Dufaux, the seductive Courtin, the pious Lainé and the wait-and-see Tousseur. Each of them pulls out all the stops to win a major order from Morloch. Once this is achieved, election to the post of director by the cooperators is all but assured.
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Accroche-toi, y'a du vent!
Title: Accroche-toi, y'a du vent!
Released: April 20, 1962
Type: Movie
A self-taught amateur detective who learned his trade from a book finds himself caught between two gangs in Milan, trying to recover a wooden leg full of drugs. He is accompanied by an unlikely trio: a deaf secretary, an undertaker and a monkey.
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The Seventh Juror
Title: The Seventh Juror
Character: Le procureur général
Released: April 18, 1962
Type: Movie
In a moment of madness a middle-aged, married and respectable pharmacist kills a young woman who is sun-bathing by a lake. Unable to take in what he has done, he flees from the scene of the crime and behaves as if nothing has happened. Eventually her boyfriend is charged with the crime and, in a strange twist of fate, the killer finds himself serving on the jury.
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The Vendetta
Title: The Vendetta
Character: Bartoli
Released: April 17, 1962
Type: Movie
Arbella is a charming village in Corsica. It's such a pleasant place to live that Monsieur Lauriston has decided to spend his old age there with his wife Marthe. Encouraged by Giuseppe, the owner of the Napoleon bar, he is promoted to mayor. This brings him the wrath of Captain Bartoli, owner of the Café Bonaparte, a self-styled pirate and navigator who has long aspired to this honorable position. Further complications arise when Lauriston's nephew romances Antonia, the daughter of Amoretti, the last bandit of honor in the area and the town's main tourist attraction.
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Hitch-Hike
Title: Hitch-Hike
Character: le douanier belge
Released: March 16, 1962
Type: Movie
Agathe, 18, dreams of change. Gone are her vacations on the rainy beaches of Belgium! She decides to hitchhike down to the South of France, where she'll have many happy and less happy encounters. On the way to Paris, men of various ages offer to shorten her wait by the roadside. Some try to take advantage of her, while another, in a fit of madness, tries to stab her. Despite these assaults, Agathe continues her journey, heading for Valence and then Aix-en-Provence.
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Operation Gold Ingot
Title: Operation Gold Ingot
Character: Fellous
Released: March 13, 1962
Type: Movie
The owner of a high-tech heating mechanism is being forced by gangsters to help them in a plot to steal gold ingots. An ex-secret agent is called in to search for him and stop the criminals.
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Romulus and the Sabines
Title: Romulus and the Sabines
Character: Mezio
Released: November 15, 1961
Type: Movie
The classic story from the early days of Rome where there are no women. Romulus, the founder of Rome, finds women to be wives from Sabina where there are a lot of women. The Sabine men, of course, attack Rome to get their wives and daughters back.
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The Girl of a Thousand Months
Title: The Girl of a Thousand Months
Character: Commendator Borgioli
Released: November 5, 1961
Type: Movie
A fashion designer rents his villa to a woman before leaving to go abroad. The daughter of the woman is forced to pretend to be handicapped in a dark conspiracy aimed to prevent the man from leaving.
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House of Sin
Title: House of Sin
Character: Blanchin
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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Les livreurs
Title: Les livreurs
Character: Félix
Released: July 24, 1961
Type: Movie
These two friendly delivery boys from a Parisian department store not only take their job to heart as much as possible, but also consider themselves responsible for the happiness of the customers they have to deliver to. This leads them successively to help, at the cost of incredible acrobatics, a young couple celebrating the first anniversary of their marriage, to mingle with the clientele of a rather disquieting doctor, to almost perish in an ambush that was of course not intended for them, and to avoid a domestic quarrel.
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Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love!
Title: Long Live Henry IV... Long Live Love!
Character: Le prieur
Released: April 4, 1961
Type: Movie
Henri IV falls in love with the young Charlotte de Montmorency, 40 years his junior. The king decided to marry her off to his nephew, Henri de Condé, so that he could later make her his mistress.
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The Bear
Title: The Bear
Character: Chappuis
Released: December 14, 1960
Type: Movie
A mild-mannered zookeeper has to contend with his tyrannical boss and a talking lovesick bear.
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Little Girls and High Finance
Title: Little Girls and High Finance
Released: October 30, 1960
Type: Movie
A low level official and a prostitute both try to commit suicide and fail, afterwards he becomes a pimp and the prostitutes take over the country.
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Le Olimpiadi dei mariti
Title: Le Olimpiadi dei mariti
Released: October 27, 1960
Type: Movie
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We Like It Cold
Title: We Like It Cold
Character: von Krussendorf
Released: September 20, 1960
Type: Movie
A farcical account of the happenings in Rome in 1943 when the allied army and the partisans fight the nazis.
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Love and the Frenchwoman
Title: Love and the Frenchwoman
Character: Me Marcerou, avocat et ami du couple (Le Divorce)
Released: September 16, 1960
Type: Movie
The seven stages in the life of the modern Frenchwomen are disclosed by seven directors in a witty way: 1 - Childhood, 2 - Adolescence, 3 - Virginity, 4 - Marriage, 5 - Adultery, 6 - Divorce, 7 - The Single Woman.
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Le pillole di Ercole
Title: Le pillole di Ercole
Character: Augusto
Released: September 10, 1960
Type: Movie
A doctor unwittingly drinks an aphrodisiac fluid and thus has relationships with an acquaintance's wife.
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Easy Come Easy Go
Title: Easy Come Easy Go
Character: Félix
Released: May 26, 1960
Type: Movie
Édouard and Félix, two inseparable friends, live off the times and do odd jobs, sharing a tiny apartment in Montmartre with Laurence, Félix's sister, a model in a fashion house who alone supports the trio.
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Long Live the Duke!
Title: Long Live the Duke!
Released: March 14, 1960
Type: Movie
A Belgian village is struck by repeated flooding, all this because they lack a new sewer. But the Ministry delays in providing the funding needed to build it. To alert public opinion, the villagers decide to do something. This "something" will be a play describing the life of their saint patron. Trouble follows, partly fueled by the short-tempered mayor.
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Some Like It... Cold
Title: Some Like It... Cold
Character: William, Foster Valmorin, l'américain
Released: February 17, 1960
Type: Movie
The old Valmorin died 200 years ago. The notary tells the family about the inheritance: the one who is terminally ill will receive the money. They all try their luck with getting ill before the other so one family member pretends to be deaf, another pretends to have a terrible back ache and so on...
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Match contre la mort
Title: Match contre la mort
Released: December 2, 1959
Type: Movie
The Lourmel couple are taking part in the final round of a TV game show: the wife has to answer questions; if she fails, her husband drives a racing car to make up the lost minutes. Moments before the start of the show, a phone call informs Lourmel that her six-year-old son has been kidnapped, and that the ransom is the amount to be won on the game show.
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The Green Mare
Title: The Green Mare
Character: Ferdinand Haudouin
Released: October 29, 1959
Type: Movie
A green mare makes the fortune of her owner, the horse dealer Haudouin. Shortly after his death, war broke out in 1870. One day, his neighbor Zèphe Maloret denounces Honoré, Haudouin's son, a maverick, to the Prussians. Following this denunciation, their non-commissioned officer enters the Haudouin home and rapes the mother while Honoré is hidden under the bed. The resentment already existing between the Haudouin and Maloret families turns to hatred... A letter recalling the events is lost, which doesn't help matters.
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Babette Goes to War
Title: Babette Goes to War
Character: Schulz
Released: September 18, 1959
Type: Movie
Comedy about a naive French country girl in London who helps the war effort by parachuting into German-occupied France to help kidnap an important German general. She bungles through to a heroic finish of plot and counter-plot.
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Too Late to Love
Title: Too Late to Love
Character: Camille, le patron du bistrot
Released: May 5, 1959
Type: Movie
Walter, a reporter and photographer, meets Catherine in a train. The young lawyer recently gained an acquittal for a man who killed his alcoholic father to save his mother. Campaigning against alcoholism, she asks Walter to help her unmask a wine merchant engaged in shady practices.
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The Indestructible
Title: The Indestructible
Released: April 29, 1959
Type: Movie
Augustin Robustal and his wife Lilane run the riverside café "Au joyeux gardon" and if the "gardon" (roach) is happy, the owners of the establishment are not as business is bad. Indeed the place is almost deserted except by four faithful patrons, Francis, a garage owner, Pivois, a man with a modest private income, Loulou, a radio technician and Boudoux, an undertaker. Now, the Robustals employ a fanciful but gifted waiter, Hippolyte. This one happens to be infatuated with Liliane, so much so that one day he takes out a life insurance in her favor. The four regulars' reaction is instant: they offer Robustal to execute Hippolyte, in exchange for a commission. But the trouble (at least for them!) is that Hippolyte is indestructible.
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The Motorcycle Cops
Title: The Motorcycle Cops
Character: His Excellency Curacagua
Released: March 18, 1959
Type: Movie
Marc, a motorcycle brigadier, is engaged to the charming Véronique. But his future brother-in-law, the clumsy Roger, leader of a Sunday motorcycle gang, has set his sights on joining the motorcycle police.
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Title: Discorama
Character: Self
Released: February 4, 1959
Type: TV
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Toto in Paris
Title: Toto in Paris
Character: Il maggiordomo (uncredited)
Released: October 23, 1958
Type: Movie
Duclos's son, a worldly gangster, is compromised in a case of which he is innocent. The proof of this innocence is in the hands of a "competitor", the Marquis de Chemantel de Beauvoiron, a misguided aristocrat. He asked for $ 10 million to cede the document. Duclos will then imagine Chemantel contracting $ 10 million in life insurance for his son. As he discovered in Rome a tramp, a look-alike of the marquis, he will bring this man to Paris and arrange for him to die accidentally.
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The Little Professor
Title: The Little Professor
Character: Le surveillant général
Released: September 26, 1958
Type: Movie
Naturally optimistic and mischievous, Jérôme Aubin crossed the time of his adolescence, around 1945, with ease and good humor. The years passed. He married the pretty Françoise, a little neighbor he had known since the age of eight, and soon found himself a secondary school teacher, a little anxious at the thought of facing for the first time students he had been told were particularly turbulent. How will he master this new difficulty? Better than you'd think, thanks to a delicious optimism: boldly going against the grain of conventional methods, he surprises his young audience, thwarting the plans of the dissipated gossips and turning their most tendentious attitudes to his advantage. All this provokes astonishment and concern among the college's leaders. But Jérôme Aubin is no pushover, and even the dreaded general supervisor finds himself obliged to give in to his most audacious initiatives...
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A Dog, A Mouse and a Sputnik
Title: A Dog, A Mouse and a Sputnik
Released: September 9, 1958
Type: Movie
A French animal lover protects a dog and a mouse wanted by Soviet scientists for their space program.
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Anyone Can Kill Me
Title: Anyone Can Kill Me
Character: La Bonbonne
Released: December 6, 1957
Type: Movie
The holdup of the bank is a success. All happened according to plan. Now, Cyril Gad and his four accomplices must secure an alibi. What better place than a prison cell? As a result the five gangsters have themselves arrested on minor charges and start waiting until they are released. Unfortunately three of them die mysteriously, another one is openly murdered. The only man still alive, Tony, is scared. Easy to understand why...
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La Polka des menottes
Title: La Polka des menottes
Character: un voisin
Released: September 4, 1957
Type: Movie
Elisabeth is persuaded to have killed her noisy upstairs neighbor, scientist Charles Magne. To save her, Mr. Matheu, Elisabeth's father, accuses himself while Pierrot, Elisabeth's fiancé gets rid of the body in order to save father and daughter. For his part, a gangster also believes he has killed the scientist but he gets shot down by a taxidermist, who runs for life. The girl, her daddy and her boyfriend also run away. But Magne is not dead. A bum is mistaken for him and a police inspector makes everyone believe that he is the one who shot the gangster. At the end of this crazy chain of events all the protagonists are reunited at the station house and everybody dances to express their relief.
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Honoré de Marseille
Title: Honoré de Marseille
Character: Pasquale Marchetti
Released: December 12, 1956
Type: Movie
As he explains to the journalist who came to interview him, Honoré cultivates, as a perfect Marseillais, farnienté and galéjade. He evokes the Phocaean Protis, who founded the city of Marseille, and the Roman Honorius, who invented pétanque. He loves to go fishing with his friends Garrigue and Watermelon to prepare a good bouillabaisse, and even more, to rig the results of a vote to allow a little protégée to be crowned Miss flots bleus.
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Life is beautiful
Title: Life is beautiful
Character: un voisin
Released: October 5, 1956
Type: Movie
Paris, 1956. Everything is going smoothly for Roger, married to Denise, and Paul, married to Monique, until the day they win a house in a radio contest. The difficulties of living together and the intrusion of their parents-in-law lead to a falling out.
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Title: Cinépanorama
Character: Self
Released: February 4, 1956
Type: TV
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Peek-a-boo
Title: Peek-a-boo
Character: Garibaldo Trouchet, le ténor / Un musicien
Released: October 15, 1954
Type: Movie
A small-town policeman is informed that "naked women" are dancing in a revue at a local variety theater. Being the guardian of public morals that he is, he decides to stroll on down there and check it out for himself.
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Trust Me!
Title: Trust Me!
Character: Nicolas
Released: May 17, 1954
Type: Movie
Max, an illusionist as unlucky as he is skilled, would like to marry his boss's daughter, but his boss won't hear of marriage and even threatens to fire him if he doesn't come up with an interesting act. A supplier of magic items comes to Marx's rescue, handing over his "magic clock". Marx locks himself in to experiment with it and, unable to get out, falls asleep... He has a dream in which, with the power to make false things true, he becomes the hero of extraordinary adventures that take him to an Eastern country where he is made Emperor. He calls Helen to marry him, but the deposed Emperor takes revenge by having the usurper locked up in a sarcophagus.
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Midnight... Quai de Bercy
Title: Midnight... Quai de Bercy
Character: M. Boulay, l'épicier libidineux
Released: May 21, 1953
Type: Movie
Having recently moved into her new apartment, Irène Cazenave, the widow of a well-known police officer, is forced by one of her husband's colleagues to take part in an investigation. The building's provocative concierge has been found murdered. We watch a parade of suspects, only to learn at the end that Irène killed the janitor under blackmail. She kills herself.
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Good Enough to Eat
Title: Good Enough to Eat
Character: Gilles
Released: June 8, 1951
Type: Movie
Rose Chaperon is asked by her confectioner mother Mathilde to bring jewels to her sick grandmother, Madame de Mergrand. But Hugues, the latter's brother, is prepared to do anything to get his hands on the loot. To this end he hires a villainous young man, Jean-Louis nicknamed Loup, to do the job. Will Loup engulf and devour Little "Rose "Riding Hood?
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Ils ont vingt ans
Title: Ils ont vingt ans
Character: Michel Barbarin
Released: December 15, 1950
Type: Movie
The former "J3" who used to be pupils at the Coutances high school are currently students in Paris. It is now a time for love stories and sentimental crises. For the moment all the boys'hearts beat for Anita, a princess, who is the splitting image of their philosophy teacher at Coutances, Mademoiselle Bravard.
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The Sad Sack
Title: The Sad Sack
Character: Jean du Bois d'Ombelles
Released: November 10, 1950
Type: Movie
Thanks to a bit of string-pulling by his aunt, Jean du Bois d'Ombelles, a young recruit who has blue blood in his veins, hopes to go through a nice and comfortable military service. Unfortunately he becomes Corporal Bourrache's pet aversion. Nevertheless, against all expectations, Jean ends up taking a liking for military life.
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The Killer is Listening
Title: The Killer is Listening
Character: Self
Released: January 1, 1948
Type: Movie
April fools in a studio where a radio host pretends to shoot dead all the performers....till a true crime occurs.
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Frédérica
Title: Frédérica
Character: Ami de Gilbert
Released: November 18, 1942
Type: Movie
Gilbert, poet and singer, is about to marry Lilette but deep inside himself he is not quite sure that she is the woman he needs. That is the reason why he has made up an imaginary woman, Frédérica" to whom he writes love letters, actual ones this time. When Lilette finds one of these, she sees red. Théodule, one of Gilbert's many friends, sets out the problem with the help of Claudine, his own girlfriend, posing as Frédérica. After Gilbert and "Frédérica" have played a phony breakup scene in front of Lilette, things seem to come right when... another Frédérica appears...