Robert Porte

Robert Porte

Born: March 9, 1923
Died: December 10, 1966
in Roanne, Loire, France

Movies for Robert Porte...

Title: Marie Tudor
Character: Norfolk
Released: April 23, 1966
Type: TV
Based on the play by Victor Hugo, portraying the rise, fall and execution of Fabiano Fabiani, a fictional favourite of Mary I of England.
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Angelique: The Road To Versailles
Title: Angelique: The Road To Versailles
Character: Monsieur, frère du Roi
Released: July 7, 1965
Type: Movie
Angelique is saved by the king of the cutthroats when she is endangered in the streets of Paris. After her hero is killed, she has many amorous affairs and becomes a successful businesswoman.
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Angelique
Title: Angelique
Character: Monsieur, frère du roi
Released: December 8, 1964
Type: Movie
In 17th-century France, beautiful country maiden Angélique marries wealthy neighbor Jeoffray de Peyrac out of convenience, but eventually, she falls in love with him. So when Jeoffray is arrested and then vanishes, she bravely sets out to find him. This is the first of many dramas based on Anne and Serge Golon's novels about strong-willed Angélique and her adventures during the reign of Louis XIV, the Sun King.
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Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Françoise
Title: Anatomy of a Marriage: My Days with Françoise
Character: Un interne
Released: January 31, 1964
Type: Movie
The story of the couple from the very first meeting to break up told from a view of a woman, Francoise. The film shares the same plot with "Jean-Marc ou La vie conjugale", that tells the same story from another perspective.
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Tartarin de Tarascon
Title: Tartarin de Tarascon
Character: Bézuquet
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
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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The Nun of Monza
Title: The Nun of Monza
Character: Carlo
Released: May 10, 1962
Type: Movie
Virginia de Leyva, daughter of a Spanish Lord, becomes a nun in Monza, in 1600s. She becomes very strict with herself and the students until she's unable to resist a romance with the nobleman Gian Paolo Osio which will lead both to danger.
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The Little Boy from the Lift
Title: The Little Boy from the Lift
Released: April 5, 1962
Type: Movie
A young boy is hired as a lift attendant in a grand hotel when his mother dies. To fulfill his dream, he takes part in a competition organized by the manager, and wins 1st prize: a two-day stay in one of the princely suites. He wants to share the experience with his young girlfriend, the florist, but discovers that she has betrayed him and returns to her elevator.
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The Pavements of Paris
Title: The Pavements of Paris
Character: Commissioner Bosquet
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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Sahara on Fire
Title: Sahara on Fire
Character: Pénélope
Released: January 18, 1961
Type: Movie
A young engineer, Lucien Rombeau, is sent to the Sahara by the oil company that employs him, which wants to put an end to drilling that it considers unproductive. He ends up agreeing with the chief prospector, who refuses to stop the work and is convinced that prospecting will not be in vain.
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Captain Blood
Title: Captain Blood
Character: Duc de Rohan
Released: October 5, 1960
Type: Movie
Le capitan is a 1960 French-Italian swashbuckler film directed by André Hunebelle and starring Jean Marais, Bourvil, Elsa Martinelli and Lise Delamare. It is based on a novel by Michel Zévaco.
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The Wretches
Title: The Wretches
Released: May 8, 1960
Type: Movie
Meant to be a psychological study of a dysfunctional couple and an equally unbalanced maid, this slow-paced, murky melodrama stars Michele Morgan and Robert Hossein as Thelma and Jess, two Americans who move into a down-at-the-heels Paris neighborhood. The couple is still suffering from the loss of their only son in an automobile accident that happened some time in the distant past. Thelma tends to drown her sorrows in alcohol, while Jess is introspected and morose. After they hire a maid to help out with the housework, she falls for the taciturn Jess. Her interest seems to be only a simple attraction, yet appearances, as it turns out, are deceiving.
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Alain Mimoun
Title: Alain Mimoun
Character: Narrator
Released: December 31, 1959
Type: Movie
A documentary about French marathon runner Alain Mimoun at the 1956 Olympic Games in Melbourne.
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The Three Musketeers
Title: The Three Musketeers
Character: le Comte de Rochefort
Released: December 25, 1959
Type: Movie
The Three Musketeers (French: Les trois mousquetaires) is a 1959 French TV film based on a play adaptation of the 1844 novel by Alexandre Dumas. It is notable for featuring Jean Paul Belmondo in the lead.
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Time Bomb
Title: Time Bomb
Character: Steward
Released: January 20, 1959
Type: Movie
Plotters decide to scuttle a ship for the insurance money, but things go wrong.
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Thérèse Étienne
Title: Thérèse Étienne
Released: February 7, 1958
Type: Movie
Her father having served a prison sentence, there is unending gossiping about Therese's family. Unable to put up with it any longer, the young woman leaves her native village for the canton of Bern where she manages to be hired by Anton Muller, a wealthy, authoritarian farmer. Under the young woman's spell, Anton wants to make his servant his mistress but Thérèse refuses energetically.. Later on, she nevertheless accepts to marry Anton. On the wedding day, she meets Gottfried, her bridegroom's son, and they instantly fall passionately in love with each other.
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Not Delivered
Title: Not Delivered
Character: L'inspecteur Detourbe
Released: January 15, 1958
Type: Movie
After resolving to start a new life with his girlfriend Jacqueline, Bastien Sassey decides to give up working as a courier for drugs traffickers. So that he and Jacqueline can make a fresh start he agrees to take on one more job for a large sum of cash, but he betrays his employer.
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Girl Merchants
Title: Girl Merchants
Released: October 4, 1957
Type: Movie
A young French woman travels to South America for a job offer and ends up a prisoner in a slave camp for women by a sadistic gangster.
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An Eye for an Eye
Title: An Eye for an Eye
Character: Le docteur Matik
Released: September 13, 1957
Type: Movie
In North Africa, an anguished husband tests the character of the doctor he believes is responsible for his wife’s death.
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The Suspects
Title: The Suspects
Character: Koskah
Released: August 20, 1957
Type: Movie
Commissaire Perrache, the chief of the D.S.T., the French domestic intelligence service, tries to neutralize a group of terrorists named the Partisans de la Métropole. He sends one of his best agents, inspector Louis Vignon, incidentally the husband of his charming secretary Lucette, on the trail of an illegal transmitter. But Vignon gets kidnapped by the gang and held captive on a boat off the shores of Monaco...
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Bold Adventure
Title: Bold Adventure
Released: November 7, 1956
Type: Movie
In the 16th century, as Flanders is invaded by the Spanish, Till the Mischievous uses stratagems to enter the service of Ferdinand Alvare de Toledo, Duke of Alba, and from there organize resistance against the invaders.
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Les hommes en blanc
Title: Les hommes en blanc
Character: Dr. Ricaud
Released: May 9, 1955
Type: Movie
Jean Nerac completes his medical studies, sure of a successful career, but less sure of his attempts with fellow student Marianne, who refuses to accept him. Nerac leaves for the Auvergne. An old doctor will soon die, but replacing him will be difficult, as one of Jean's colleagues has failed. However, with patience, skill, modesty and friendship, Jean Nerac overcame the mistrust of his patients. He settled in these austere mountains, and Marianne, convinced of the young man's worth, helped him with her presence.
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Queen Margot
Title: Queen Margot
Character: Charles IX
Released: November 25, 1954
Type: Movie
Marguerite de Valois, daughter of Catherine de Médicis, celebrates her wedding with Henri de Navarre. Officially, it's a rapprochement between the League and the Huguenots. In fact, it was an opportunity to bring all the Huguenots to Paris and kill them all at once. King Charles IX fails in his attempt on Coligny's life. Queen Margot tries to save her husband from the St. Bartholomew's Day massacre by preventing the annulment of his marriage, forcing Henri to share her bed. Two knights from opposing camps are wounded and, saved în extremis, are hidden together by the queen and her cousin. Margot falls in love with one of them, but has to run to warn her husband of a new attack and cannot prevent the two knights from being beheaded.
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The Contessa's Secret
Title: The Contessa's Secret
Character: Pablo Mazzini
Released: September 26, 1954
Type: Movie
The lover of an Italian revolutionary offers herself to Napoleon in exchange for her sweetheart's life.