Gabriel Signoret

Gabriel Signoret

Born: November 15, 1878
Died: March 16, 1937
in Marseille, Bouches du Rhône, France

Movies for Gabriel Signoret...

Arsène Lupin, Detective
Title: Arsène Lupin, Detective
Character: L'inspecteur Béchoux
Released: April 30, 1937
Type: Movie
Arsène Lupin decides to run a detective agency in addition to being a gentleman thief. As a detective he happens to cooperate with police in order to unveil the criminal activities of a villain. When he succeeds the villain returns the favour. The unmasked Arsène Lupin manages to escape with the villain's gangster moll as his new companion.
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Nights of Fire
Title: Nights of Fire
Released: April 16, 1937
Type: Movie
19th Century Russia. State prosecutor Fedor Andreiev is presiding over the trial of a man who murdered his wife's lover. Despite a robust defence from the brilliant young lawyer Serge Rostoff, the accused man is found guilty and will be deported to Siberia. Having spoken to the condemned man, Fedor Andreiev sees a disturbing parallel with his own life...
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Culprit
Title: Culprit
Character: Monsieur Lescuyer
Released: January 21, 1937
Type: Movie
A man from a wealthy family falls in love with a florist, but the lover has to go to war and to leave his darling crying... and giving birth to a child.
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Let's Make a Dream
Title: Let's Make a Dream
Character: Un Invité (Prologue) (as Signoret)
Released: December 31, 1936
Type: Movie
A husband who has just cheated on his wife returns home in the early morning, puzzled. He finds there, without knowing it, the lover of his wife, to whom he confesses his infidelity.
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The Bureaucrats
Title: The Bureaucrats
Character: M. Soupe
Released: December 15, 1936
Type: Movie
A comedy about the petty bureaucrats who need special leather props under their posteriors because of the long hours they spend sitting at their desks.
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Ménilmontant
Title: Ménilmontant
Character: Le père Chinelle
Released: November 20, 1936
Type: Movie
Because they brought her back a lost piece of jewelry, a very rich lady accedes to the request of three old people and transforms a vacant lot into a park for the neighborhood children.
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27, rue de la Paix
Title: 27, rue de la Paix
Character: Le procureur Montfort
Released: November 11, 1936
Type: Movie
A young woman wishing to divorce, promises money to her husband's ex-mistress to obtain her testimony on her behalf. But the same evening, the corpse of the young woman is found in the Seine. Everything seems to confirm the husband's guilt, however a journalist disappears with the evidence.
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Symphonie D'Amour
Title: Symphonie D'Amour
Character: Marquis of Barfleur
Released: September 18, 1936
Type: Movie
A ten-year old film when it was first released in the USA as "Symphonie D'Amour" in 1946. Panard (Fernand Gravet) is a talented composer who is having little success in his musical career. He is reduced to hiring out as a sandwich-board man to advertise what proves to be his own show. His girl, Jacqueline Francell, interests a Marquis in backing the show. She and Panard are happily reunited after the successful opening of his operetta.
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The Flame
Title: The Flame
Released: May 8, 1936
Type: Movie
A woman of easy virtue rejects a proposal of marriage made to her by a rich lover. But when her son is taken from her to be brought up in the best conditions, she keeps thinking about him. When she finds him, twenty years later, she can not adapt to the environment to which he now belongs.
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The New Men
Title: The New Men
Character: Le Maréchal Lyautey
Released: March 4, 1936
Type: Movie
Dedicated to men, natives and French, which under the leadership of General Lyautey, made modern Morocco. After a historical prologue where we see Clemenceau yield to the entreaties of Lyautey, we are witnessing the arrival of settlers on Moroccan soil with the rapid rise of one of them: the ambitious Bourron. Similarly it has conquered the land from scratch, Bourron could conquer a woman, Christiane, who followed him not without confessing his love for another man. It is this love that Bourron will use later to acquire a forest of olive trees, which he believed to be the symbol of its success. Christiane accept but never forgive her husband...
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The New Men
Title: The New Men
Released: March 4, 1936
Type: Movie
Dedicated to men, natives and French, which under the leadership of General Lyautey, made modern Morocco. After a historical prologue where we see Clemenceau yield to the entreaties of Lyautey, we are witnessing the arrival of settlers on Moroccan soil with the rapid rise of one of them: the ambitious Bourron. Similarly it has conquered the land from scratch, Bourron could conquer a woman, Christiane, who followed him not without confessing his love for another man. It is this love that Bourron will use later to acquire a forest of olive trees, which he believed to be the symbol of its success. Christiane accept but never forgive her husband...
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Bourrachon
Title: Bourrachon
Character: Apothecary Bourrachon
Released: November 20, 1935
Type: Movie
The pharmacist Bourrachon learns that his wife Adrienne deceives him with Dr. Rigal, whose specialties he sells in his pharmacy. His sister, the authoritarian Mrs. Bruneau, urged him to divorce and introduced Geneviève to substitute Adrienne. But after five months of marriage, Geneviève gives birth to a child whose real father turns out to be Henri, the salesman of the Bourrachon pharmacy. Mrs Bruneau will then try to persuade her brother to bring an action disavowal of paternity for the honor of the family and especially to protect the inheritance of his own daughters. But Bourrachon will eventually become attached to the child and endorse his paternity.
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Le Billet de mille
Title: Le Billet de mille
Character: The director of the boarding school
Released: January 11, 1935
Type: Movie
The tribulations of a banknote, from its exit from a counter to its destruction, passing through dozens of hands.
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Sacrifice of Honor
Title: Sacrifice of Honor
Character: Amiral Morbraz
Released: January 4, 1935
Type: Movie
Before the Battle is the English-language title of this espionage melodrama. The first half of the film takes place aboard a French cruising ship, steaming through dangerous waters during WWI. Among the passengers is heroine Jeanne (Annabella), who was once in love with first-officer D'Artelles (Robert Vidalin) but he now seems strangely preoccupied. It turns out that the ship is on a secret mission, which ultimately dooms the vessel to a Lusitania-like death. After the sinking, Captain De Corlaix (Victor Francen) faces a court-martial, and it is at this point that the film clarifies several baffling plot points. Despite its complexity, the story is fairly believable, with the exception of the grafted-on romantic subplot.
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Trois pour cent
Title: Trois pour cent
Released: February 3, 1934
Type: Movie
Small rentiers do not want their son to marry a young rich girl. They hijack letters and prevent meetings. But love wins. Defeated, the parents accept this union which shocked their petty bourgeois but honest spirit.
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Asile de nuit
Title: Asile de nuit
Character: Haps
Released: April 4, 1930
Type: Movie
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The Cradle of God
Title: The Cradle of God
Released: June 4, 1926
Type: Movie
A young intellectual, J. Powers, loses his faith in God after the untimely death of his wife. He devotes his great talents to writing a shockingly blasphemous book, debunking all religion, and then embarks on a trip to Jerusalem. Far from reconciling him to God, the sight of all the different sects worshipping in that ancient city only serves to embitter him and deepen his unbelief. One day, wandering in the country, he loses his way and stops to ask directions at a small house. The inhabitants are a poor but devout family whose daughter, Ruth, revives his broken heart. At the risk of losing her, he confesses to her his loss of faith, and she gently declares that meditation on the Gospels will heal him. He sorrowfully tells her that he wishes he could believe as she does, but it is impossible.
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Jocaste
Title: Jocaste
Character: Martin Haviland
Released: May 15, 1925
Type: Movie
Following her father's advice, Hélène Haviland (Sandra Milovanoff) accepts the marriage proposal of Fellaire de Sizac (Abel Tarride). Later she finds Dr. Groult (Henri Fabert), one of their friends, trying to kill her husband by poisoning slowly over a long period of time. It's painful but she keeps silence...
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L'ornière
Title: L'ornière
Released: January 16, 1925
Type: Movie
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L'enfant des halles
Title: L'enfant des halles
Released: April 11, 1924
Type: Movie
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Le secret de Polichinelle
Title: Le secret de Polichinelle
Character: Le docteur Trévoux
Released: November 2, 1923
Type: Movie
Based on the play by Pierre Wolff.
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The Bread Peddler
Title: The Bread Peddler
Character: Ovide Soliveau
Released: September 14, 1923
Type: Movie
The Bread Peddler is a 1923 French silent drama film directed by René Le Somptier and starring Suzanne Desprès, Gabriel Signoret and Geneviève Félix. It is based on Xavier de Montépin's novel of the same title.
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Roger la Honte
Title: Roger la Honte
Character: Roger Laroque
Released: September 22, 1922
Type: Movie
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Le Père Goriot
Title: Le Père Goriot
Released: January 1, 1922
Type: Movie
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Prometheus, Banker
Title: Prometheus, Banker
Character: Monsieur Prévoyan
Released: May 11, 1921
Type: Movie
A vamp seduces a banker and breaks with him when she's obtained all that she wanted.
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Le Rêve
Title: Le Rêve
Released: April 15, 1921
Type: Movie
During this harsh winter, as Christmas approaches, Angélique, a poor child, is found by an old couple, Hubertine and Hubert. But this couple is not the richest, and the life of this small family is hard and laborious. Angélique likes to escape to the city, to dream. One day, she meets Félicien, with whom she falls in love. But she is told that this handsome man is the bishop's son, so marrying him is impossible.
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Flipotte
Title: Flipotte
Released: November 19, 1920
Type: Movie
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Le silence
Title: Le silence
Character: Pierre
Released: September 24, 1920
Type: Movie
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Tears of Forgiveness
Title: Tears of Forgiveness
Released: October 22, 1919
Type: Movie
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The Cigarette
Title: The Cigarette
Character: Pierre Guérande
Released: October 10, 1919
Type: Movie
A Parisian museum director believes his wife is cheating on him and so places a poisoned cigarette in the box on his desk, thus allowing chance to decide the moment of his death.
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Infatuation
Title: Infatuation
Character: Paul Bernard
Released: December 1, 1918
Type: Movie
Flora Nys, a poor flower girl of Paris faces hard times. Her rent overdue, Le Baron, the landlord, oppresses her and puts before her a shady proposition. Indignantly she orders him out of her room. When she takes up her flowers, preparatory to going forth to sell them, she discovers that Le Baron has trampled on them. Tempted by her poverty she steals a fur in a department store.
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The Blindness of Youth
Title: The Blindness of Youth
Character: Arne
Released: November 30, 1917
Type: Movie
"A charming story of a young society girl and the pathetic love of a youth..." Considered a lost film.
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The King of the Sea
Title: The King of the Sea
Released: October 21, 1917
Type: Movie
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Mothers of France
Title: Mothers of France
Character: Commandant d'Urbex
Released: January 2, 1916
Type: Movie
A mother loses first her son and then her husband in the trenches of France during the First World War. She devotes herself to the French cause and to helping those wounded in the war.
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Le Noël du poilu
Title: Le Noël du poilu
Released: December 16, 1915
Type: Movie
A soldier during World War 1 wants to be reunited with his family for Christmas.
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The Story of Midinette
Title: The Story of Midinette
Released: May 1, 1915
Type: Movie
During the WWI, Jeannette (Musidora) finds refuge in the South France, among other women. She starts the correspondence with a soldier of the front line and sends him a parcel.
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L'étoile du génie
Title: L'étoile du génie
Character: le compositeur Signoski
Released: June 5, 1914
Type: Movie
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Struggle for Life
Title: Struggle for Life
Character: Jacques Préval - industrialist
Released: February 20, 1914
Type: Movie
An honest worker is made redundant, but he will solve his problems by marrying the employer's daughter.
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The King of Prison
Title: The King of Prison
Character: Fernand Pradier
Released: January 1, 1913
Type: Movie
Fernand Pradier (Gabriel Signoret) is an honest merchant and a simple person at heart who tries to make her daughter Germaine (Gabrielle Robinne) happy. She is engaged to a rich banker St-Bris (René Alexandre). However, the fiance once belonged to a criminal organization and, despite his efforts of rehabilitation, one of his ancient accomplices makes their engagement impossible. Eventually imprisoned, she escapes with the help of a beautiful typist (Stacia Napierkowska)...