Jacques Fabbri

Jacques Fabbri

Born: July 4, 1925
Died: December 24, 1997
in Paris, France

Movies for Jacques Fabbri...

Croce e delizia
Title: Croce e delizia
Character: Germont
Released: January 1, 1995
Type: Movie
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La Femme fardée
Title: La Femme fardée
Character: Elledocq
Released: November 7, 1990
Type: Movie
Marivaudages of a privileged group embarked on the "Narcissus" for a musical cruise in company of the famous diva La Doria.
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L'étiquette
Title: L'étiquette
Character: Roger Montardu
Released: August 4, 1986
Type: Movie
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Lucky Luke: Daltons on the Loose
Title: Lucky Luke: Daltons on the Loose
Character: Thadeus Collins (voice)
Released: September 30, 1983
Type: Movie
The cowboy Lucky Luke tracks the Dalton brothers who escaped from prison and are seeking refuge in Canada.
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Un matin rouge
Title: Un matin rouge
Character: Robert
Released: June 23, 1982
Type: Movie
During the world war two in a French village a teacher and a female pupil have been killed by the Gestapo because of an informer.Now forty years later former pupils , now adults will meet together in a villager to find out who was the pupil who denounced the teacher to the Germans and also to take a decision about it.
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Guy de Maupassant
Title: Guy de Maupassant
Character: Daremberg
Released: April 14, 1982
Type: Movie
The life and times of the famous French writer Guy de Maupassant.
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Signé Furax
Title: Signé Furax
Character: Le commissaire en uniforme
Released: April 1, 1981
Type: Movie
The notorious and mysterious criminal Furax steals France's famous monuments, replacing them with replicas.
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Diva
Title: Diva
Character: Commissaire Jean Saporta
Released: March 11, 1981
Type: Movie
Jules, a young Parisian postman, secretly records a concert performance given by the opera singer Cynthia Hawkins, whom he idolises. The following day, Jules runs into a woman who is being pursued by armed thugs. Before she is killed, the woman slips an audio cassette into his mail bag...
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The Lady Banker
Title: The Lady Banker
Character: Moïse Nathanson
Released: August 27, 1980
Type: Movie
The scene is the restless Paris of the interwar years where an attractive and ambitious woman successfully makes her way in a world previously reserved for men: that of high finance. Originating from a humble background, she quickly becomes popular with small savers by offering them outstanding interest rates. Extremely popular, she makes no secret of her taste for the good things in life and her homosexual affairs. They will cost her dearly...
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Too Shy to Try
Title: Too Shy to Try
Character: Le routier
Released: August 23, 1978
Type: Movie
Pierre is a hotel cashier in Vichy, so shy that he answers an ad from the Psychology Institute and can't say no to the salesman, Aldo; he spends 6,000 francs on tapes, books, and a punching bag. Soon after, he's smitten by Agnes, a hotel guest with a model's looks and photographers wherever she goes. When she leaves for Nice, he follows, meeting Aldo on the way. Aldo becomes his boldness coach. Pierre gets a job washing dishes where Agnes is staying, but after a week or so, she's off to Deauville, with Aldo and Pierre in pursuit. Using funds they get by selling Aldo's car, this time Pierre poses as a polo-playing jet setter. Will this win the heart of Agnes?
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Title: Apostrophes
Character: Self
Released: January 10, 1975
Type: TV
Apostrophes was a live, weekly, literary, prime-time, talk show on French television created and hosted by Bernard Pivot. It ran for fifteen years (724 episodes) from January 10, 1975, to June 22, 1990, and was one of the most watched shows on French television (around 6 million regular viewers). It was broadcast on Friday nights on the channel France 2 (which was called "Antenne 2" from 1975 to 1992). The hourlong show was devoted to books, authors and literature. The format varied between one-on-one interviews with a single author and open discussions between four or five authors.
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Title: Midi Première
Character: Self
Released: January 6, 1975
Type: TV
Midi Première is a French variety show presented by Danièle Gilbert, directed by Jacques Pierre and broadcast from January 6, 1975 until January 1, 1982 on TF1. The program was generally broadcast between 12:15 p.m. and 12:55 p.m., then giving way to the 1:00 p.m. TV news. However, the broadcast schedule could change, depending on the guests, and the setting where the recording of the program was shot. Certain performances by artists who have become cult like the one where Ringo jostles with a demonstrator in interpretation (1977), that of Dalida with the title There is always a song with the soundtrack that does not start, twice, at the right speed (1978), Claude François and his Clodettes, who, in the provinces, are unable to join "the set" in order to interpret his song, the latter being taken by the crowd of delirious fans (summer 1977) . The group Supertramp performed there with the title "Dreamer" on March 8, 1975.
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The Suspects
Title: The Suspects
Character: Commissaire Bretonnet
Released: November 27, 1974
Type: Movie
When an American tourist is murdered in the south of France, the police must investigate. In this movie, the police inspector re-creates the girl's journeys through France until the murder is solved. Suspicions are narrowed down to four possible perpetrators early on, and flashbacks illuminate the roles each one played in the girl's vacation.
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Ubu Roi
Title: Ubu Roi
Released: November 9, 1974
Type: Movie
Pere Ubu, a monster of stupidity, is incapable of the slightest intelligence. But his bestial force is manipulated by a diabolical creature: Mother Ubu... This adaptation of Alfred Jarry's work is performed by the Petit Théâtre de Marionnettes de Nantes, with the voices of Jacques Fabri, Michel Roux, Roger Carel , and Antoine. Broadcasted on French TV.
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Title: Midi trente
Character: Self
Released: March 6, 1972
Type: TV
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Title: Les Évasions célèbres
Character: Léon
Released: March 6, 1972
Type: TV
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Daisy Town
Title: Daisy Town
Released: November 1, 1971
Type: Movie
When the members of a caravan of pioneers find a daisy growing in the middle of the desert they decide to stop there and to build their town on this very spot. Houses soon spring up like mushrooms, immediately followed by a bank, a saloon, a prison, etc. Daisy Town is born. Unfortunately a city does not go without its bad boys and the peaceful place is soon turned into a lawless place. To restore law and order, a lawman is needed. Lucky Luke, the cowboy who shoots faster than his shadow, will be this man: all the villains had better watch out!
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Title: Samedi soir
Character: Self
Released: January 9, 1971
Type: TV
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The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun
Title: The Lady in the Car with Glasses and a Gun
Character: Le docteur
Released: October 22, 1970
Type: Movie
Dany Longo is blonde, beautiful, disturbed, passionate--and nearsighted. As she speeds through the south of France in a purloined Thunderbird on an errand for her employer and his wife, no one, including Dany herself, knows where she is headed--or why she is going there.
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Je veux voir Mioussov
Title: Je veux voir Mioussov
Character: Mioussov
Released: February 14, 1969
Type: Movie
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Title: À bout portant
Character: Self
Released: December 16, 1968
Type: TV
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Title: Les Sept de l'escalier 15
Character: Goujon
Released: January 3, 1967
Type: TV
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Title: At Theatre Tonight
Character: Le Gouce
Released: July 21, 1966
Type: TV
At Theater tonight is a TV show broadcasted from 25th August 1966 to 21st September 1985. The show is broadcast plays recorded in two or three days, during public performances at the Théâtre Marigny on the Champs-Élysées, or sometimes Edouard VII theater.
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Title: At Theatre Tonight
Character: Monsieur Dupont
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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Les pieds dans le plâtre
Title: Les pieds dans le plâtre
Released: February 18, 1965
Type: Movie
A butcher's boy, in love with the daughter of one of his neighbors, a penniless baron, finds himself in financial difficulties as he begins construction of a building on the land he has inherited.
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The Empire of Night
Title: The Empire of Night
Released: December 5, 1962
Type: Movie
Usually cast as secret agent/private eye Lemmy Caution, Eddie Constantine plays "Eddie" in The Empire of Night. This time, Constantine is a cabaret singer at odds with a criminal gang. When the villains try to take over every nightclub in town for their own nefarious purposes, Eddie sings a new tune with his fists. The story takes several unexpected turns, but Constantine remains in charge throughout.
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My Uncle from Texas
Title: My Uncle from Texas
Character: Boss of the New York hotel
Released: September 28, 1962
Type: Movie
In 1911, Arnolphe Combalette left his corner of Provence to seek his fortune in the Americas. Fifty years later, a letter from him arrived in the village: "No, I'm not dead yet, but it won't be long now. A Combalette should be sent here to settle a question of big money". The family took counsel and delegated their youngest son, Dieudonné, a cook by trade. Dieudonné arrived safely in New York, but soon found himself short of money. Somehow, he managed to reach that prodigious corner of Texas where, he thought, his uncle's many factories would be built. Neither the factories nor his uncle, who died in poverty a week ago, welcome him there. Dîeudonné can't imagine returning to his native village to announce this new family disgrace; for one thing, he hasn't got a penny in his pocket. The owner of a modest saloon hires him as a cook.
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Napoléon II, the Eagle
Title: Napoléon II, the Eagle
Released: November 1, 1961
Type: Movie
The story of Napoleon 1st's long-awaited son, born in 1911. He spent his childhood in the Tuileries, before being separated from his father and taken in and raised by his grandfather, Emperor Francis, who made him an Austrian prince.
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The American Beauty
Title: The American Beauty
Character: Le gros / Fatso
Released: September 29, 1961
Type: Movie
Marcel, a simple-minded factory worker, is tricked into buying a high-priced American convertable car by a widow determined not to let it fall into the hands of her late husband's secretary/secret lover. Once in pocession of the car, Marcel only encounters one bad luck episode after another with the excessive gasoline consumtion, his wife trying to sell it to make ammends meet, getting into traffic jams, accidently riding into a car wash with the top down, and more.
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The Fruit Is Ripe
Title: The Fruit Is Ripe
Released: June 22, 1961
Type: Movie
It is fruit-picking season in the plain and pickers come from all over and live in a camp for several weeks. Among the many pretty girls are Kissa, a natural vamp who delights in exciting men; Margo who is hard and tough, and Josine who is tender and romantic. They work in a feverish atmosphere and inflamed by the summer heat, youthful passions run riot, and the girls' sensual behavior cause rivalry among the men. Lorry driver Armand applies the same degree of ardor to his love-making as to his work, and his biggest rival is the boss' son, Berto, a strutting rooster who is very proud of his American car. After work each day, Kissa queens it in the cabaret on shore, and derives great pleasure in arousing jealousy between the men.
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The Pavements of Paris
Title: The Pavements of Paris
Character: The father
Released: February 19, 1961
Type: Movie
Arlette has too provincial parents to whom she announces her plan about own independence. After her departure, Marc, her absent fiance seek for her in vain in Paris until he discovers her picture on the magazine cover.
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The Cat Shows Her Claws
Title: The Cat Shows Her Claws
Character: Gustave
Released: March 9, 1960
Type: Movie
France under the Occupation. Executed for treason against the Resistance, Cora, code-named "La Chatte", was left for dead. Recovered and cared for by the Germans, Dr. von Hollwitz brainwashed her to control her and use her as a counter-espionage. In the spring of 1944, her escape was faked so that she could resume contact with the Resistance. She has to scupper the mission of Charles, an engineer with the SNCF, to blow up a train loaded with V1s intended to power the launch pads set up on the French coast to bomb London. But at the last moment, La Chatte regains her lucidity.
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Bobosse
Title: Bobosse
Character: Le radio-reporter
Released: March 18, 1959
Type: Movie
Bobosse is increasingly immersing himself into the world of theater and experiencing his role as an actor more intensively. He plays in a piece where a man is abandoned by his wife and processes this philosophically. When his wife actually abandons him, he becomes embarrassed and plans to kill her.
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Title: Discorama
Character: Self
Released: February 4, 1959
Type: TV
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The Wreckers
Title: The Wreckers
Character: Le gitan
Released: January 27, 1959
Type: Movie
In 1852, the famine on a desolate Britanny's island named Blaz-Mor, off the coast of Finistère. Some residents exalted hold responsible the young Moira, equivalent to a witch. The old Marnez, "head" of the island, is trying to restore calm and opposes Yann Le Heart, the fiancé of his daughter Louise Kermelen, who wants causing a shipwreck to save the island from famine.
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Madame et son auto
Title: Madame et son auto
Character: The innkeeper
Released: October 15, 1958
Type: Movie
Sophie Dirondel, history teacher at the Saint-Cloison-sur-Ermoise, wins the jackpot of a lottery, a 2CV. The good-natured woman is both happy and slightly upset, as she doe not have her driving-license. But she decides to take driving lessons and although she does not prove very gifted she manages to pass the test. She grasps the opportunity to achieve one of her sweetest dreams and, proudly sitting behind her wheel, heads for the City of Light. Alone in Paris, she gets to know Victor Martini, a smooth operator. The man who, in real fact, is the leader of a gang, has no problem bamboozling the naive woman.
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Secrets of a French Nurse
Title: Secrets of a French Nurse
Character: Docteur Carré
Released: February 19, 1958
Type: Movie
A gangster is back in business after a while and tries to take it back the hard way, but things don't go as well as planned. At the same time, we watch the fate of a young nurse in a hospital. Soon, the two stories meet when the gangster faces his problems.
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White Smoke
Title: White Smoke
Released: November 1, 1957
Type: Movie
Sophie Mallet is the lively manager of a detective agency, assisted by Emile Gachit, her conscientious but not very effective right-hand man. One day a fellow named David entrusts her a pack of cigarettes that she is supposed to hand over to a certain John Smith. But David soon disappears while John Smith is murdered. Moreover, a lot of dubious characters prove "very interested" in the pack of cigarettes... Which will keep Sophie and Emile for some time...!
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This Pretty World
Title: This Pretty World
Character: Ravaillac
Released: September 27, 1957
Type: Movie
Pépito runs a gang of thugs with authority. He has a natural son, Gaston, a professor of literature in Aix-en-Provence, whom he has hardly ever seen. Gaston announces himself for Christmas, and Pépito decides to make him look good by moving into his headquarters: a château where the crooks will be able to exercise their talents as composers.
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On Foot, on Horse, and on Wheels
Title: On Foot, on Horse, and on Wheels
Character: Auguste
Released: September 11, 1957
Type: Movie
When he learns that his daughter is to be engaged to the son of a rich businessman, Leon Martin realizes that extreme measures are needed to create a good impression.
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Le violon de l'orphéon
Title: Le violon de l'orphéon
Character: Gabriel
Released: March 23, 1957
Type: Movie
Antoine is a violinist in love with sweet Sophie. Problem: his sweetheart is the daughter of the master of the municipal harmony, a stubborn man who swears only by the brass. Never mind: Antoine decides to ask him for his daughter's hand and to win his place at the orpheon. Will the two men be able to get in tune?
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The Grand Manoeuvre
Title: The Grand Manoeuvre
Character: l'ordonnance d'Armand
Released: October 25, 1955
Type: Movie
Armand, a boastful womaniser, makes a bet that he can seduce any girl he wants. He soon crosses paths with a beautiful Parisian divorcee, who is nothing like anyone he has ever met before.
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The Ragpickers of Emmaus
Title: The Ragpickers of Emmaus
Character: Matthieu, le flic
Released: February 23, 1955
Type: Movie
The Emmaüs community opened and functioned thanks to the generous impetus of Abbé Pierre Groues, bringing together a cross-section of the underprivileged: unemployed truck drivers, former paratroopers, young people leaving prison, etc., and underprivileged families. The "ragpickers" manage to make a bit of money by practicing the art of "chine", while the abbé tries his hand at winning radio games. The accident and death of one of them will unite the Emmaus companions even more.
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Men Think Only of That
Title: Men Think Only of That
Released: June 13, 1954
Type: Movie
Alfred is in love, but shy. Desperate not to have the audacity to express his passion to the woman of his dreams, Nicole, a young dairyman, he enthusiastically accepts the proposal of Don Juan to make his sentimental education.
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Crainquebille
Title: Crainquebille
Character: The distinguished tramp
Released: April 19, 1954
Type: Movie
In the Mouffetard district of Paris, Jérôme Crainquebille, an affable four-season merchant, is stopped by a police officer and taken to the station, unjustly accused of shouting "Mort aux vaches!" ("Death to the cows!"). When he returns to work after a fortnight's detention, he is ostracized by his neighbors. Lonely, Crainquebille sank into despair and alcoholism. His life in prison seemed sweeter, and his attempts to return were in vain. He owes his salvation to the affection of a local kid.
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The Unfrocked One
Title: The Unfrocked One
Character: L'ordonnance
Released: February 26, 1954
Type: Movie
Pierre Fresnay plays the title character in Le Defroque (The Defrocked One). Cast out by his church, former priest Maurice (Fresnay) delights in mocking the traditions and credos of Catholicism. Even so, young Gerard (Pierre Trabaud) becomes convinced that Maurice has never truly lost his calling. Becoming a priest himself, Gerard devotes his life to bringing Maurice back into the fold. Things don't turn out quite as Gerard hopes, however; he has not reckoned with the possibility that Maurice may have been driven into insanity by his raging self-hatred.
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Une vie de garçon
Title: Une vie de garçon
Released: February 3, 1954
Type: Movie
Determined to marry, but without enthusiasm, Bernard chose Lysiane Laborie. To bid a fitting farewell to his wild youth, he buried his bachelorhood. Then his friend Bobby, with Lysiane's consent, persuades Bernard that he's marrying not a candid young girl, but Lily the Strychnine, a volcanic creature. The future husband discovers the joke and responds by introducing himself as a notorious gangster. Confrontations with thugs lead them all to the station. Bernard and Lysiane fall into each other's arms.
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Daughters of Destiny
Title: Daughters of Destiny
Character: Pierre d'Arc (segment "Jeanne")
Released: January 21, 1954
Type: Movie
Three stories, very different in space and time. Lysistrata, a dancer from ancient times, Jeanne d'Arc, medieval warrior and Elisabeth, American war widow who comes on pilgrimage in Italy.
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My Brother from Senegal
Title: My Brother from Senegal
Character: Le brigadier de gendarmerie
Released: November 20, 1953
Type: Movie
Jules Pinson, photographer in a small provincial village is in love with Annette, the daughter of the grocer. She 's dreaming only heros of adventure movies, so Jules invents a twin brother, Caesar, hunter of lions in Senegal ...
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Woman Are Angels
Title: Woman Are Angels
Character: Théodore
Released: September 3, 1952
Type: Movie
In order to inherit her husband's old aunt more quickly, a greedy peasant woman engages in various dishonest maneuvers.
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Three Women
Title: Three Women
Character: Albert (segment "Mouche")
Released: August 13, 1952
Type: Movie
The short stories of Guy de Maupassant enjoyed a renaissance in the early 1950s, thanks in great part to the Max Ophuls production Le Plaisir. In Trois Femmes, three De Maupassant stories are dramatized, each conveying the central theme of women falling in love. In the first, a black female carnival entertainer causes an uproar when she falls in love with a white soldier. In the second, a young bride is pressured into having a baby to collect a huge inheritance. And in the final episode, a pregnant girl is "adopted" and protected by a small circle of friends. In standard De Maupassant fashion, each of the three stories in Trois Femmes is capped by a surprise twist.
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The Seven Deadly Sins
Title: The Seven Deadly Sins
Character: Julien (segment "Lust")
Released: March 27, 1952
Type: Movie
A compilation of segments covers the seven deadly sins of greed, wrath, envy, pride, lust, sloth, and gluttony.
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Girl from Maxim's
Title: Girl from Maxim's
Character: Le duc
Released: September 15, 1950
Type: Movie
After a crazy night spent at Maxim's, Doctor Montgicourt returns home with the Môme Shrimp. General Petypon invites her to his castle for the engagement of his niece and Lieutenant Corrignon, the kid's lover. The reception is likely to be very busy...
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Rendezvous in July
Title: Rendezvous in July
Character: Bernard
Released: December 6, 1949
Type: Movie
Hopes and love and ambitions and friendship in a group of young jazz-loving Parisians.
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Les hussards
Title: Les hussards
Character: Ange-Marie La Gouce
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie