Gérard Watkins

Gérard Watkins

Born: July 4, 1965
in London, England, UK
Gérard Watkins is an English-French actor, playwright, director, and songwriter. As a stage actor he has performed in over forty productions in Paris with such directors as Véronique Bellegarde, Julie Beres, Jean-Claude Buchard, Elizabeth Chailloux, Michel Didym, André Engel, Frederic Fisbach, Marc François, Daniel Jeanneteau, Philipe Lanton, Jean-Louis Martinelli, Lars Noren, Claude Régy, Yann Ritsema, Bernard Sobel, Viviane Theophilides, and Jean-Pierre Vincent. Among his critically acclaimed performances are Ian in Sarah Kane's Blasted, Edmond in King Lear, and Rosalind in As you Like it. In the Cinema he is perhaps best known for his role in the 2009 film Taken as Patrice Saint Clair, the sex trafficking kingpin that runs the operation that kidnapped the protagonist's 17-year old daughter, but he has also performed with directors as Julie Lopez Curval, Jérome Salle, Yann Samuel, Julian Schnabel, Hugo Santiago, and Peter Watkins. Since 1994 he has directed his own theatre company, the Perdita Ensemble, where he has staged all of his plays, the Secret Capital, Follow Me, The Tower, In the Faraway Forest, Icone, Identity, Lost, and I Don't Remember Very Well.

Movies for Gérard Watkins...

Title: Citoyens clandestins
Character: Arnaud
Released: March 21, 2024
Type: TV
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Amarres
Title: Amarres
Released: February 3, 2023
Type: Movie
This summer, Livia returns to spend a few days in the family apiary. Louis, her elusive and brilliant brother, is also back.
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Our Brothers
Title: Our Brothers
Character: Le directeur de l'IGS
Released: December 7, 2022
Type: Movie
Inspired by the story of Malik Oussekine, an affair of police violence which is believed to have caused the death of 22-year-old Malik Oussekine on the night of 5-6 December 1986, following several weeks of student protests against a university reform bill
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Title: Marie Antoinette
Character: Duc de Choiseul
Released: October 31, 2022
Type: TV
Marie Antoinette is just a teenager when she leaves Austria to marry the Dauphin of France. At Versailles, under the complex rules of the French court, she suffers from not being able to live her life the way she wants, under pressure to continue the Bourbon line and secure the Franco-Austrian alliance.
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The Accusation
Title: The Accusation
Character: L'avocat général
Released: December 1, 2021
Type: Movie
The Farels are a power couple: Jean is a prominent French pundit and his wife Claire an essayist known for her radical feminism. Together they have a model son, Alexandre, who is a student at a prestigious American university. During a brief visit to Paris, Alexandre meets Mila, the daughter of his mother’s new partner, and invites her to a party. The next day, Mila files a complaint against Alexandre for rape, destroying family harmony and setting in motion an inextricable media-judicial machine that posits opposing truths.
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Normandy Nude
Title: Normandy Nude
Character: Volker
Released: January 10, 2018
Type: Movie
At the Mêle sur Sarthe, a small Norman village, farmers are affected by a crisis. Georges Balbuzard, the mayor of the city, is not one to let them down and decides to try everything to save his village...
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The Odyssey
Title: The Odyssey
Character: Le maître de cérémonie
Released: October 12, 2016
Type: Movie
The aquatic adventure of the highly influential and fearlessly ambitious pioneer, innovator, filmmaker, researcher, and conservationist, Jacques-Yves Cousteau, covers roughly thirty years of an inarguably rich in achievements life.
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Le monde qui nous perd
Title: Le monde qui nous perd
Character: Avocat partie civile
Released: October 9, 2015
Type: Movie
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Colt 45
Title: Colt 45
Character: Calhoun
Released: August 6, 2014
Type: Movie
Vincent Miles, a gunsmith and shooting instructor at the National Police, is an expert in combat shooting who stubbornly refuses to join a field brigade, a choice which their colleagues do not understand. When he meets Milo Cardena, a mysterious and skilled cop, his life changes in such way that he cannot ignore his true nature anymore.
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The Ponzi Scheme
Title: The Ponzi Scheme
Character: Banquier Chmelinski
Released: February 14, 2014
Type: Movie
Ponzi, from his arrival in Boston in 1903, to hi death in Rio in 1949. He made himself famous in inventing the first fraud of modern times on a large scale, and inspired Bernard Madoff.
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Silences d'état
Title: Silences d'état
Character: Stéphane Ferran
Released: May 16, 2013
Type: Movie
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Solitudes
Title: Solitudes
Character: Le capitaine de police
Released: September 20, 2012
Type: Movie
One night, an interpreter translates a Romanian prostitute's testimony.
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Title: Les Châtaigniers du désert
Character: Révérend Le Sage
Released: November 13, 2010
Type: TV
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Rebecca H. (Return to the Dogs)
Title: Rebecca H. (Return to the Dogs)
Character: Detective
Released: May 20, 2010
Type: Movie
Filmmaker Lodge Kerrigan makes a self-referential movie about a fictional attempt to make a Grace Slick biopic.
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Plein sud
Title: Plein sud
Character: Le père
Released: December 30, 2009
Type: Movie
In the summer, 27 year-old Sam drives towards the south of France in his Ford. He meets Matthieu and his sister Léa and takes them along in his apparently aimless journey. Matthieu has a crush on Sam and tries to seduce him. Léa is a beautiful, young, provocative girl who likes men so much that she got pregnant. She soon brings along Jérémie with them. Throughout the trip, they learn to know, fight and love each other. In spite of a blooming relationship with Matthieu, Sam isolates himself because of his secret: he is headed for Spain to find his long-lost mother.
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Hidden Diary
Title: Hidden Diary
Character: Gilles
Released: October 7, 2009
Type: Movie
In the 1950s, Louise left her husband when their children were still little. She was never heard from again. Her daughter Martine stayed in the small seaside town, where she became a doctor. Martine's daughter, Audrey, a thirty-year-old independent woman, returns to visit her parents. By chance, she finds a notebook that belonged to her grandmother, a diary that may at last explain her departure. Will it reveal the things left unsaid, that have altered the relationships within the heart of the family ever since? In it, will Audrey find answers to the questions that she is asking herself about her own future?
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The Invisible Woman
Title: The Invisible Woman
Character: Paul
Released: July 22, 2009
Type: Movie
Once assuming people ignored her because they weren't interested, Lili begins to suspect that she might be literally invisible.
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The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch
Title: The Heir Apparent: Largo Winch
Character: Cattaneo
Released: December 17, 2008
Type: Movie
After a powerful billionaire is murdered, his secret adoptive son must race to prove his legitimacy, find his father's killers and stop them from taking over his financial empire.
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Taken
Title: Taken
Character: Patrice Saint-Clair
Released: February 18, 2008
Type: Movie
While vacationing with a friend in Paris, an American girl is kidnapped by a gang of human traffickers intent on selling her into forced prostitution. Working against the clock, her ex-spy father must pull out all the stops to save her. But with his best years possibly behind him, the job may be more than he can handle.
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The Feelings Factory
Title: The Feelings Factory
Character: Michel
Released: February 6, 2008
Type: Movie
A successful woman searches for romance by speed dating in this drama. Eloise has a great job and a great education, but she's looking for love. Can a couple of minutes be the key to finding true love?
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Le Roi Lear
Title: Le Roi Lear
Character: Edmund
Released: September 19, 2007
Type: Movie
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The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Title: The Diving Bell and the Butterfly
Character: Doctor Cocheton
Released: May 23, 2007
Type: Movie
The true story of Elle France editor Jean-Dominique Bauby, who, in 1995 at the age of 43, suffered a stroke that paralyzed his entire body, except his left eye. Using that eye to blink out his memoir, Bauby eloquently described the aspects of his interior world, from the psychological torment of being trapped inside his body to his imagined stories from lands he'd only visited in his mind.
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Je me fais rare
Title: Je me fais rare
Character: Acteur 1
Released: June 28, 2006
Type: Movie
Daniel, a filmmaker is convinced that cinema is dying as an art form, and thinks he is a new Don Quichotte.
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They Came Back
Title: They Came Back
Character: Le fils du maire
Released: October 27, 2004
Type: Movie
The lives of the residents of a small French town are changed when thousands of the recently dead inexplicably come back to life and try to integrate themselves into society that has changed for them.
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Love Me If You Dare
Title: Love Me If You Dare
Character: Julien's Father
Released: September 17, 2003
Type: Movie
As adults, best friends Julien and Sophie continue the odd game they started as children -- a fearless competition to outdo one another with daring and outrageous stunts. While they often act out to relieve one another's pain, their game might be a way to avoid the fact that they are truly meant for one another.
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La Commune (Paris, 1871)
Title: La Commune (Paris, 1871)
Character: Gérard Bourlet
Released: July 3, 2003
Type: Movie
We are in the year 1871. A journalist for Versailles Television broadcasts a soothing and official view of events while a Commune television is set up to provide the perspectives of the Paris rebels. On a stage-like set, more than 200 actors interpret characters of the Commune, especially the Popincourt neighbourhood in the XIth arrondissement. They voice their own thoughts and feelings concerning the social and political reforms. The scenes consist mainly of long camera takes.
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Title: Alice Nevers, le juge est une femme
Character: Carlo Conti
Released: September 2, 2002
Type: TV
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The Wolf of the West Coast
Title: The Wolf of the West Coast
Character: Harry
Released: August 27, 2002
Type: Movie
James Faulkner plays Lew Millar, a renowned private eye who is hired by a gangster to be his bodyguard. When Millar arrives at the criminal's French hideaway, the gangster is already dead. Among the people Millar investigates are the gangster's brother, the man's sister-in-law, and their teenage daughter. A judge may also offer insight into the case, as well as Millar's own past.
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Title: La Commune (Paris, 1871)
Character: Gérard Bourlet
Released: May 26, 2000
Type: TV
In this war drama blurring the lines between documentary and fiction, the working class and the bourgeoisie of 19th century Paris are interviewed and covered on television, before and during a tragic workers' class revolt.
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Les Danseurs du Mozambique
Title: Les Danseurs du Mozambique
Character: Le chasseur
Released: June 11, 1992
Type: Movie
A novelist finds herself in an auction where two statuettes are up for sale: "The Mozambique Dancers". According to the legend, the one who owns both statues becomes infinitely rich but the one who owns only one of the two pieces is cursed forever...
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Near Mrs.
Title: Near Mrs.
Character: Techtronics guard #1
Released: January 8, 1992
Type: Movie
A philandering executive tries to juggle two wives and a mistress, and finds himself suddenly being shadowed by some angry Russian holdouts from the Cold War.
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Title: Bordertown
Character: Paul Dumont
Released: January 7, 1989
Type: TV
Bordertown is a television western-drama series that aired from 1989 to 1991. It depicts the town formerly known as Pemmican that was later renamed Bordertown when the western border between the United States and Canada was surveyed in 1880, dividing the town.
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New York 1935
Title: New York 1935
Character: Un invité
Released: October 1, 1988
Type: Movie
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Title: Hemingway
Character: -
Released: April 25, 1988
Type: TV
Ernest Hemingway attained celebrity at the age of twenty-five. Some of his novels are among the greatest bestsellers of American literature. His life is a legend woven with countless passions, encounters and experiences. This colossus of a man was a novelist, journalist polemicist, playwright, hunter, fisherman, adventurer... A globetrotter with a hermit's soul, he went through three wars, had a life-long romance with danger, and made death his closest companion and his main source of inspiration. The son of a Puritan family, he was also a pleasure seeker. A self-confessed male chauvinist, he thought of Woman as a muse, a worshipper, a second mother. His four wives- Hadley Richardson, Pauline Pfeiffer, Martha Gellhorn and Mary Welsh - represented both his mirror and his straight man, seeking to appease his torments and contradictions and to accompany him to the end of his dreams.
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Travelling avant
Title: Travelling avant
Released: August 19, 1987
Type: Movie
Paris, October 1948. Nino, Gilles, Donald, Barbara and their friends are a new breed of spectators. They discover the cinema as art, they are moviegoers. They will try to realize their grand project: to found a film club. "My film first wants to be a testimony of young people who have lived for a passion. Cinema"
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Public Security
Title: Public Security
Character: -
Released: June 17, 1987
Type: Movie
Tempted by an important contract, Anna, a renowned writer, agrees to write a screenplay. But she lacks inspiration. She talks to her old university professor. No solution... Or maybe one... Take inspiration from reality. Desperate to express what seems to her to be clichés, Anna sees her life turned upside down after her husband's arrest, when a dancer is found murdered. A tornado, against a backdrop of police drama, her scenario takes shape. Her husband, innocent, is released, the murderer is still at large.
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On a volé Charlie Spencer !
Title: On a volé Charlie Spencer !
Character: Le soldat américain du film
Released: December 24, 1986
Type: Movie
Students of film history will appreciate the many tributes to famous films of yore which appear in this first-time feature directed and written by former drama teacher Francis Huster. In the story, a mild-mannered bank clerk has heroic dreams of being a real he-man. Given his diffident, shy nature, it comes as a bit of a surprise that not only does he actually have a girlfriend, but he has managed to get her pregnant. However, she doesn't fit his image of himself, and he can't bring himself to marry her. When the bank he works in is robbed by a daring group which includes a magnetically attractive woman, the clerk throws his lot in with them and becomes an outlaw.
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Title: EastEnders
Character: Gendarme
Released: February 19, 1985
Type: TV
The everyday lives of working-class residents of Albert Square, a traditional Victorian square of terrace houses surrounding a park in the East End of London's Walford borough.
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Title: The Hitchhiker
Character: Eric
Released: November 1, 1983
Type: TV
A young hitchhiker introduces characters who are about to experience a frightening and sometimes supernatural incident of some kind in this moody anthology series.
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Title: Floodtide
Character: TJ
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
Floodtide is a British television crime drama was produced by Granada Television, first broadcast on ITV from 14 June 1987 to 12 February 1988. The series focuses on a dogged inspector's pursuit of a group of cocaine smugglers across Europe and his bid to bring them to justice. A total of thirteen episodes aired over the course of nine months. Co-produced and partly filmed in France, it was one of the first ITV dramas to be co-produced with an international production company. Written by acclaimed The Sweeney scriptwriter Roger Marshall, the series was released on DVD by Network DVD for the first time on 19 July 2010. Although further series of the programme were planned, lead actor Phillip Sayer was diagnosed with cancer in 1988 and eventually died in 1989. Marshall concluded that it would be wrong to re-cast the part and instead decided to bring the series to a natural close.
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Title: Venus and Apollo
Character: -
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: TV
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