Roger Riffard

Roger Riffard

Born: April 1, 1924
Died: October 28, 1981
in Villefranche-de-Rouergue, Aveyron, France

Movies for Roger Riffard...

Inspector Blunder
Title: Inspector Blunder
Character: Parking valet
Released: December 3, 1980
Type: Movie
A detective, fresh out of the academy (lowest mark in class), gets the assignment to bodyguard a spoiled rich girl reporter. She's been interviewed on TV and has questioned the virility of a mobster who kidnaps her later.
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First Voyage
Title: First Voyage
Character: Uncle Louis
Released: March 19, 1980
Type: Movie
When her mother dies, a teenage girl, together with her five-year-old brother, decides to find her long-absent sailor father.
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Buffet Froid
Title: Buffet Froid
Character: Le garde de la tour
Released: December 19, 1979
Type: Movie
An absurd black comedy that cunningly reverses the conventions of the crime thriller to comment on the alienating and dehumanizing effects of contemporary urban life. Alphonse Tram is unwittingly involved in several murders despite having no memory of committing the crimes. His confusion lead him to confess to his neighbour, Inspector Morvandieu. Alphonse and Morvandieu become the axis around which murders occur.
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Heroes Are Not Wet Behind the Ears
Title: Heroes Are Not Wet Behind the Ears
Character: L'agent de police en cyclomoteur
Released: January 17, 1979
Type: Movie
Two brothers are fighting for a one girl attention...
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Out of It
Title: Out of It
Character: Un automobiliste à la recherche d'une prostituée, av. Foch
Released: October 10, 1978
Type: Movie
The lawyer is visiting a prison to meet with a violent criminal who has been condemned to death. During the visit, things turn bad, there is a riot where prisoners escape and the criminal escapes taking a lawyer hostage.
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Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
Title: Get Out Your Handkerchiefs
Character: Le médecin du port
Released: January 11, 1978
Type: Movie
Solange is seriously depressed, and her kindhearted husband, Raoul, makes it his mission to cure her doldrums. After many failed attempts to cheer her up, Raoul hits upon a possible solution: find his wife a lover. Unfortunately, his choice, Stéphane, proves to be just as ineffectual in restoring her flagging spirits. In the end, the gorgeous Solange finds her own, highly problematic tonic to her troubles in the form of a 13-year-old boy.
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You Won't Have Alsace-Lorraine
Title: You Won't Have Alsace-Lorraine
Character: Père L'Auriot
Released: October 19, 1977
Type: Movie
Whilst King Gros Pif I amuses himself at debauched banquets, his musketeers pursue their tax-collecting duties with a malicious zeal. Goaded by the court jester (who is also the Queen’s lover), the ministers decide to put an end to this regime and have the King locked up. Hearing the news, the famous Chevalier Blanc comes to his rescue. Aided by the knight and his cousin Lucienne, the King flees to Flanders, where he devises a scheme to win him back the throne of France...
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The Toy
Title: The Toy
Character: Paul, gardener
Released: December 8, 1976
Type: Movie
When Francois, a journalist, tours a big store for an article, he is chosen by the son of the newspaper's owner, Rambal-Cochet, as his new toy. Needing money and unwilling to quit his job, Francois agrees to this ridiculous assignment. Gradually befriending the spoiled boy, he induces him to play at making a newspaper, unveiling publicly the tyrannical way of life of the father. The powerful emotional climax we experience with the child astonishes both men.
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Incorrigible
Title: Incorrigible
Character: Second taxi driver
Released: October 15, 1975
Type: Movie
Victor Vautier is incorrigible: he's in constant motion, working several cons at once, using different names and changing disguises. He's charming and outrageous, incapable of uttering a sentence that isn't embellished or an outright lie. His life goal is to make enough money to build a sea wall to protect Mont-Saint-Michel. Charlotte, a parole officer, shows up: she's young and seems taken in by Victor. He discovers she lives above the Senlus Museum, where her parents are the curators. With two pals he decides to steal a priceless El Greco triptych and then ransom it back to the cultural ministry. What will Charlotte do when she realizes he's used her to make a fortune?
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Cher Victor
Title: Cher Victor
Released: June 6, 1975
Type: Movie
A pair of elderly men, friends for 40 years, find their relationship stressed when they set up housekeeping together in order to save money. Exploring similar ground to that covered in Neil Simon's play The Odd Couple, which spawned a movie and a television series, Ce Cher Victor explores the tragic and dramatic aspects of the story. The two friends, meek, sensitive Anselme (Bernard Blier) and blustering Victor (Jacques Dufilho) are swiftly driven apart by circumstances.
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Fear Over the City
Title: Fear Over the City
Character: Le gardien Eugène Merclin
Released: April 9, 1975
Type: Movie
A serial-killer frightens Paris by phoning young ladies at night, telling them insults about their lives. Minos, as he calls himself, wants to prevent the world from free women and he targets at first these ones. Commissaire Letellier is given the investigation and he has hard work with the maniac.
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Male of the Century
Title: Male of the Century
Released: March 12, 1975
Type: Movie
The wife of an extremely jealous merchant is held hostage by a bank robber.
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The Cold Soup
Title: The Cold Soup
Released: January 20, 1975
Type: Movie
Two young pretty Parisiennes sell their place and leave behind the capital and its pollutions to live a healthy and bucolic life in a small village in the south of France. Their arrival is an event.
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A Cloud in the Teeth
Title: A Cloud in the Teeth
Character: Un rédacteur
Released: May 1, 1974
Type: Movie
Malisard is a reporter at "Soir de Paris", his colleague Prévot is a photographer. Together, they roam the streets of Paris.
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Lacombe, Lucien
Title: Lacombe, Lucien
Character: (uncredited)
Released: January 30, 1974
Type: Movie
In Louis Malle's lauded drama, Lucien Lacombe is a young man living in rural France during World War II who seeks to join the French Resistance. When he is rejected due to his youth, the resentful Lucien allies himself with the Nazis and joins the Gallic arm of their Gestapo. Lucien grows to enjoy the power that comes with his position, but his life is complicated when he falls for France Horn, a beautiful young Jewish woman.
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The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
Title: The Mad Adventures of Rabbi Jacob
Character: Assistant to Andréani
Released: October 17, 1973
Type: Movie
In this riot of frantic disguises and mistaken identities, Victor Pivert, a blustering, bigoted French factory owner, finds himself taken hostage by Slimane, an Arab rebel leader. The two dress up as rabbis as they try to elude not only assasins from Slimane's country, but also the police, who think Pivert is a murderer. Pivert ends up posing as Rabbi Jacob, a beloved figure who's returned to France for his first visit after 30 years in the United States. Adding to the confusion are Pivert's dentist-wife, who thinks her husband is leaving her for another woman, their daughter, who's about to get married, and a Parisian neighborhood filled with people eager to celebrate the return of Rabbi Jacob.
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Chinese Glory
Title: Chinese Glory
Character: Le facteur
Released: November 26, 1972
Type: Movie
During the Second World War, the son of a Grenoble collaborator went up to his grandmother's house on the Vercors plateau to wait for the war to end without him. On July 21, 1944, German troops overran the plateau. Forced to flee, he joins a small group of Resistance fighters and civilians, and struggles to survive for three days and nights.
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Title: Suivez Budart
Character: Budart
Released: August 9, 1972
Type: TV
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The Truce
Title: The Truce
Released: January 1, 1968
Type: Movie
A nightclub owner and his stripper girlfriend take a country ride, meet another rival underworld guy along the way, and team up to thwart a third gangster who's on their tails.
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Idiot in Paris
Title: Idiot in Paris
Character: Un habitant de Jaligny
Released: March 22, 1967
Type: Movie
Goubi, the simpleton of his village in the French Department Allier, has but one wish: to see Paris. One day, the truckers Grafouillère deposit a drunk Goubi in the biggest market of Paris (the "Halles"). The poor man is completely lost, but the meat merchant Dessertine takes him under his wings when he hears that Goubi was likewise 'raised by the State'...
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Seventeenth Heaven
Title: Seventeenth Heaven
Character: Le père de Marie (uncredited)
Released: April 27, 1966
Type: Movie
The brave and moody François, a window washer by trade, has fallen head over heels in love with a delicious woman he spotted while working on the 17th floor of a building. From that moment on, all his dreams turn to the woman he doesn't dare approach. Fortunately, he finally meets her in Perros-Guirec, after following her on a train journey. She calls herself a chatelaine; he introduces himself as a writer. Will love triumph over these pious lies?