Lucien Frégis

Lucien Frégis

Born: July 5, 1904
Died: August 25, 1979
in Paris, France

Movies for Lucien Frégis...

Troubleshooters
Title: Troubleshooters
Character: Un chasseur
Released: April 7, 1971
Type: Movie
The day he is released from jail, Serge is expected by four killers sent by Count Charles Varèse assigned to make him confess where he has hidden the jewels stolen during his last stickup. On the other hand the police inspector who arrested him offers him protection on condition he gives him the same piece of information. Serge refuses and is about to be tortured by Varèse's henchmen when Michel, a friendly hood, comes to his rescue. His friendship will result in... a heap of corpses! —Guy Bellinger
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Viper in the Fist
Title: Viper in the Fist
Character: Le père Vadeboncoeur
Released: March 16, 1971
Type: Movie
Jean, nicknamed Brasse-Bouillon, and his brother Ferdinand live with their paternal grandmother, who is responsible for their upbringing. But when their parents returned from Japan, they settled in Belle-Angerie and resumed their role with the children, while their grandmother had to leave for cousins. The boys soon come up against the contempt of their mother, Marthe. Faced with this shrew, whom he nicknamed "Folcoche" (a contraction of "madwoman" and "pig"), Jean decided to join the resistance.
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Title: L'Homme du Picardie
Character: L'éclusier de Lesches
Released: December 16, 1968
Type: TV
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Salut Berthe !
Title: Salut Berthe !
Released: August 20, 1968
Type: Movie
Adrien Chautard, a major industrialist from Abidjan, has been chosen to replace an expert on the official Ivory Coast delegation sent to Paris to discuss the country's association with the Common Market. Chautard is delighted at the prospect of this trip, where he will be reunited with the woman of his dreams: Elisabeth. Alas, at Abidjan airport, a nasty surprise awaits him: Berthe, his lawful wife, has decided to leave with him to consult a leading cardiologist in the capital.
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Les combinards
Title: Les combinards
Released: February 2, 1966
Type: Movie
Léo and Claude, two penniless friends turned con artists, answer matrimonial classified ads to trap women. But one of the friends soon finds his own game turned against him.
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How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning
Title: How to Keep the Red Lamp Burning
Character: Conseiller Général, membre de l'Athlétic Club (Les Bons Vivants)
Released: October 28, 1965
Type: Movie
The film consists of three novels. The film begins with the fact that the Bernard Blier hero removes a lantern from the entrance to a brothel. The second part is about how the lantern and jewelery were stolen from a young baroness. And in the third part the hero of Louis de Funes hangs a lantern at the entrance to his house.
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Operation Diplomatic Passport
Title: Operation Diplomatic Passport
Released: March 31, 1965
Type: Movie
The daughter of a foreign diplomat in Paris is courted by two men. One of them entrusts her with a harmless commission for Poland, as she has a diplomatic passport. But it's a trap, and the girl is forced to work for Eastern spies.
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The Suitor
Title: The Suitor
Character: Painter in Park Scene
Released: November 12, 1962
Type: Movie
Absent-minded yet cultured, Pierre answers his parents demands to wed by ignoring both astronomy and the housemaid, instead falling head-over-heels for rich damsels.
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The Mysteries of Paris
Title: The Mysteries of Paris
Character: Doctor (uncredited)
Released: October 4, 1962
Type: Movie
The Marquis Rodolphe de Sombrueil accidentally runs over a working man with his carriage and helps his widow -- unjustly accused of robbery -- to find her missing daughter.
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Happy Anniversary
Title: Happy Anniversary
Released: February 28, 1962
Type: Movie
Heureux Anniversaire is a 1962 French short comedy film directed by Pierre Étaix. While his wife impatiently waits and gets drunk, a husband tries to get the appropriate anniversary gifts and fight his way home through traffic in time for their celebratory lunch. It won an Oscar in 1963 for Best Short Subject.
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L'exécution
Title: L'exécution
Character: 1st player
Released: January 29, 1961
Type: Movie
Paris, at the start of the German Occupation, five men plan to sabotage a factory.
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The Fenouillard Family
Title: The Fenouillard Family
Character: A traveler (uncredited)
Released: January 4, 1961
Type: Movie
The Fenouillards (Sophie Desmarets and Jean Richard are the parents, Annie Sinigalia and Marie-José Ruíz are the daughters) are shopkeepers with higher aspirations. The Monsieur wants to run for mayor of their town, but the family acknowledges he has little experience of the real world -- and so they all take off to experience it together. After starting out by getting lost, the family goes through an odyssey that takes them to Brazil, the Antarctic, and Japan in a series of episodic adventures.
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Ravishing
Title: Ravishing
Character: Le garagiste
Released: December 14, 1960
Type: Movie
A womanizing pilot who is asked by a friend to intervene in one of the friend's romantic tangles. The pilot is quite willing to help out but then a confusion about the woman who is the target of the intervention causes a series of unexpected circumstances.
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Pantalaskas
Title: Pantalaskas
Released: February 8, 1960
Type: Movie
An off-beat, uneven tale about a man intent on suicide and the three people who try to talk him out of it, Pantalaskas stars American Carl Studer in the title role of the morose, would-be suicide. Set in Paris and taking place over an entire night, the story has a complication in that the trio who want to prevent the suicide do not speak the man's language -- he is Lithuanian and speaks no French. So the protagonists comb the underbelly of a nighttime Paris, looking high and low but mostly low for anyone who speaks Lithuanian. Depending mainly on dialogue for its impact, the verbose drama reveals how the protagonists undergo a transformation as the night wears on.
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Every Day Has Its Secret
Title: Every Day Has Its Secret
Released: June 11, 1958
Type: Movie
Given up for dead three years ago in a plane crash in the Amazon rainforest, a young woman arrives in Paris to find her eminent ethnologist husband. She learns of his death in obscure circumstances, having remarried in the meantime. She sets out to unravel the mystery surrounding her husband's death.
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Mon Oncle
Title: Mon Oncle
Character: Monsieur Pichard
Released: May 10, 1958
Type: Movie
Genial, bumbling Monsieur Hulot loves his top-floor apartment in a grimy corner of the city, and cannot fathom why his sister's family has moved to the suburbs. Their house is an ultra-modern nightmare, which Hulot only visits for the sake of stealing away his rambunctious young nephew. Hulot's sister, however, wants to win him over to her new way of life, and conspires to set him up with a wife and job.
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Le souffle du désir
Title: Le souffle du désir
Released: April 9, 1958
Type: Movie
Daniel Bellanger, a night-club crooner, is a basically straight,honest man. He has just married Christiane, a cashier in a Montmartre hotel and his main objective in life is to live happily with his wife and Pierrot, the son she had of a former union. Unfortunately Daniel accepts the offer of his old friend Freddy to run a gambling den. The place is frequented by a host of dubious guys, among whom a hood named Mario. The latter finds Christiane to his liking and soon shows he is prepared to do anything to take her away from Daniel, including kidnapping little Pierrot.
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There's Always a Price Tag
Title: There's Always a Price Tag
Character: Le gendarme
Released: September 18, 1957
Type: Movie
Adapted from James Hadley Chase’s novel, plot finds Robert Mabillon Gelin as a struggling artist who saves Eric Freminger from a drunken suicide attempt, and promptly gets offered employment as a chauffeur by way of gratitude. Once back at the Freminger residence, Robert finds Eric is a severely depressed man with a host of problems. And then Helene Freminger arrives on the scene, hostile, suspicious but ever so sultry, it’s the kick-start of events that can only lead to misery – or worse – for all involved.
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Forgive Our Trespasses
Title: Forgive Our Trespasses
Released: August 1, 1956
Type: Movie
In a port area of ​​France, clashes between a gang of young delinquents and a tribe of gypsies.
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Law of the Streets
Title: Law of the Streets
Released: April 25, 1956
Type: Movie
Yves Tréguier, a young orphan, escapes from a reform school in Brittany to join "Dédé la Glace" in Paris, an old-timer with whom he has a sincere friendship. The love of Zette, a young girl he has met, and the benevolent friendship of Father Blain, the bistro owner, give him the desire for regular work. "Jo le Grec", a pimp jealous of Dédé's friendship with Yves, seduces Wanda, a prostitute he loves, and shoots Dédé dead. Blain prevents him from doing the same to Yves, and shoots him in turn. Yves can live an honest life with Zette and the baby she's expecting.
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Maid in Paris
Title: Maid in Paris
Released: January 20, 1956
Type: Movie
Penelope Benson, known as Penny, is both romantic and determined. Put in a select boarding school by her mother, she takes advantage of a trip to Paris to get away from it all and live her own life. That's how she meets Antoine du Merlet, whom she takes for a young hoodlum when in fact he's a police superintendent. She spends the night at his place, which leads to a number of setbacks for poor Antoine, who is stigmatized by the headmistress, abandoned by his mistress and has to face a strip-tease session starring the unconscious Penny... But Penny's a spicy one and Antoine's a nice guy, so... !
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We're Moving the Colonel
Title: We're Moving the Colonel
Character: Le bistrotier
Released: December 9, 1955
Type: Movie
The dynamic Flora has decided to burglarize Colonel de la Ribodiere's apartment in the company of Romeo and Clotaire. The two men discover the old soldier lifeless on his bed. One after the other, the colonel's goddaughter Annette, the gendarmes and their brigadier, the Grivier cousins, who are sniffing out the inheritance, and the three thieves, who are hoping to get their way, pass by each other and avoid each other in the house. La Ribodière isn't dead, but he listens to what's being said, forms an opinion about everyone, ousts the Griviers, rewards Annette with a betrothal to Clotaire, and gives Flora and Roméo absolution.
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Girl on the Third Floor
Title: Girl on the Third Floor
Character: Un agent (uncredited)
Released: August 2, 1955
Type: Movie
A Parisian reporter tries to exonerate a fugitive neighbor of charges he murdered his wife.
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Les hommes en blanc
Title: Les hommes en blanc
Character: Un paysan
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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Série noire
Title: Série noire
Character: Un trafiquant
Released: March 4, 1955
Type: Movie
Léo Fardier is a police inspector who goes to prison undercover as a convict. He shares a cell with Mariani, a Corsican mafioso, whose trust he earns. The day Léo leaves prison, the criminal entrusts him with a letter to deliver to his estranged wife. He finds her, and she falls under his spell. The problem is that he, too, has fallen in love with her.
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Crainquebille
Title: Crainquebille
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 Three Musketeers
Title: The Three Musketeers
Released: October 7, 1953
Type: Movie
The umpteenth adaptation of Dumas' novel finds d'Artagnan and his friends promoting the love affairs of Anne of Austria and the Duke of Buckingham, incurring the wrath of the Cardinal and exposing themselves to the cold cruelty of Milady de Winter. Also featured are the tender Mme Bonacieux, the hilarious Planchet, the Queen's ferrets and Bethune's executioner, against a backdrop of clanging swords.
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My Husband Is Marvelous
Title: My Husband Is Marvelous
Released: April 29, 1953
Type: Movie
A young journalist, Sylvia, has to interview a writer, Claude Chatel, whose success is due to his misogyny.
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Monsieur Hulot's Holiday
Title: Monsieur Hulot's Holiday
Character: Hotel Proprietor
Released: February 25, 1953
Type: Movie
Monsieur Hulot, Jacques Tati’s endearing clown, takes a holiday at a seaside resort, where his presence provokes one catastrophe after another. Tati’s masterpiece of gentle slapstick is a series of effortlessly well-choreographed sight gags involving dogs, boats, and firecrackers; it was the first entry in the Hulot series and the film that launched its maker to international stardom.
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The Happiest of Men
Title: The Happiest of Men
Character: The policeman
Released: November 26, 1952
Type: Movie
An industrialist who prefers painting to business is cheated on by his wife with a painter who prefers business to painting.
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Mister Taxi
Title: Mister Taxi
Released: September 3, 1952
Type: Movie
An honest taxi driver gets into trouble by looking for a customer who left her purse full of cash in her vehicle.
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Life in a Song
Title: Life in a Song
Released: October 12, 1951
Type: Movie
The cinematographic illustration of fifteen cheerful, tender or ferocious songs that made the success of the songwriter of the comedian Noël-Noël. After "Les casses pieds", "La vie chantée" stages several sketches of daily life where everyone can recognize themselves and laugh about it.
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The Elders of Saint-Loup
Title: The Elders of Saint-Loup
Character: L'inspecteur Froment (uncredited)
Released: September 8, 1950
Type: Movie
Due to financial problems, the boarding-school of Saint-Loup is on the verge of closing its doors. In desperation, Jacquelin, the headmaster, has the idea to invite former students to a fund-raising reunion. Among the alumni, three men whose common point is to have been in love at the time with the headmaster's niece. One is a banker, the second a priest and the last one a globetrotter. All of a sudden, the peace of the assembly is disturbed: Jacquelin's niece has just been murdered.
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Sorceror
Title: Sorceror
Character: An Inspector (uncredited)
Released: January 27, 1950
Type: Movie
A young rogue kills an old lady to rob her. Arrested, he believes it is for this crime, hides nothing from his lawyer, who soon tells him that he is only accused of another theft prior to his crime. Sentenced to six months suspended prison sentence, he will also have to answer for the crime of the old lady.
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Return to Life
Title: Return to Life
Character: Grocer (segment "Le retour de Louis") (uncredited)
Released: September 14, 1949
Type: Movie
In France in 1946, the difficult return to civilian life of five deportees and prisoners of war after having lived through the hell of the Second World War.
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Mission in Tangier
Title: Mission in Tangier
Character: Un journaliste
Released: June 6, 1949
Type: Movie
During the Second World War, Georges Masse undergoes a dangerous mission by taking secret documents from Tangiers to London.
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The Spice of Life
Title: The Spice of Life
Released: November 26, 1948
Type: Movie
A series of vignettes, in which Noel-Noel appears as the moderator, lecturer, commentator and leading actor, that examine the bores and pests of everyday life much like Pete Smith and Robert Benchley had done for years in American short subjects. Among those are the Practical Joker who will do anything for a laugh; the Party Entertainer who never stops singing; the Talkative Neigbor who forgets the time; the noisy neighbors who dance the tango all night; and women drivers, people who telephone at meal time, the friend you never saw before and amatuer medical experts. Much use of trick photography, montages, puppets and animation along with some adult Gallic wit and gentle satire.
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Métier de fous
Title: Métier de fous
Released: November 19, 1948
Type: Movie
A very Parisian author cannot finish a comedy. It is ruin for the director of the theater, who has the idea of ​​taking his foal to the coast. There, recruited actors will perform a series of variations on the theme of heartaches to inspire him. After a number of misunderstandings, the operation succeeds.