Gérard Dournel

Gérard Dournel

Born: March 8, 1927
Died: April 25, 1998
in Calais, Pas-de-Calais, France

Movies for Gérard Dournel...

Judith Therpauve
Title: Judith Therpauve
Released: October 6, 1978
Type: Movie
When her old resistance buddies come to her looking for someone to helm a financially troubled liberal newspaper, Judith (Simone Signoret) is at first reluctant, but for this old hero of the French anti-Nazi resistance, challenges are hard to ignore. She takes on the job, mortgaging her house to keep the paper solvent. When things take a turn for the worse, because of concerted opposition by conservative forces, she is forced to sell the paper, and she regards this as a personal failure.
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The Good and the Bad
Title: The Good and the Bad
Character: Le Supérieur
Released: January 19, 1976
Type: Movie
The film follows the exploits of Jacques, a car-mechanic turned pro-thief, and his Jewish co-conspirator Simon as their robberies, beginning well before the Second World War, take on a political coloration under the occupation.
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Incorrigible
Title: Incorrigible
Character: First 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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Cat and Mouse
Title: Cat and Mouse
Character: le supérieur de Lechat
Released: September 3, 1975
Type: Movie
A jaded and charming police inspector is assigned along with his cheerful partner to a case involving the mysterious death and/or suicide of a wealthy entrepreneur. The chief suspect is his enchanting wife who was aware that her husband had a mistress. It is also possible that the dead man may be the victim of a radical terrorist group.
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Les Rosenberg ne doivent pas mourir
Title: Les Rosenberg ne doivent pas mourir
Released: May 24, 1975
Type: Movie
A French film about a famous American trial - that of Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who became the first people in American history to receive the death penalty for espionage.
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Marriage
Title: Marriage
Character: l'ancien combattant
Released: December 31, 1974
Type: Movie
Four wedding anniversaries serve to chronicle the beginning and end of a thirty-year marriage.
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Title: The Accursed Kings
Character: Denis d'Hirson
Released: December 21, 1972
Type: TV
It is the start of the 14th century and Philip IV the Fair reigns supreme over France. His three sons would rule after him. Isabelle, his only daughter, is married to King Edward II of England. Under Philip's reign, France is great but its people are unhappy. Only one power dares to stand up to him: the order of the Knights Templar. When the last Grand Master of the Temple, Jacques de Molay, is burned at the stake, he curses Philip and so begins a dark period, full of blood and violence, death and tears ...
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The Companions of Baal
Title: The Companions of Baal
Character: Piédoie
Released: July 29, 1968
Type: Movie
Journalist Claude Leroy (Jacques Champreux) reports that a secret society, The Companions of Baal, is behind a hold-up in the small town of Blaingirey. They are led by the Grand Maître Hubert de Mauvouloir (Jean Martin). An adorant of Lucifer, he aims to enslave the world. Accompanied by their acolyte, Pierrot Robichat (Gérard Zimmermann), and a young girl, Françoise Cordier (Claire Nadeau), Claude Leroy is determined to finally reveal the mysteries of the group's criminal enterprise.
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Gaspard des montagnes
Title: Gaspard des montagnes
Character: 'Le Nanne'
Released: December 30, 1965
Type: Movie
We are in 1814, in Auvergne, in the dark fir forests of Livradois, near La Chaise Dieu. Gaspard and his beautiful cousin Anne-Marie see their love thwarted and their lives disrupted because of a treasure that an old uncle, who made his fortune in Guadeloupe, buried in the mountains of Auvergne.
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The Doc
Title: The Doc
Released: March 16, 1956
Type: Movie
Having lost his physician's license, Dr. Louis Krantz joins a gang of hoods to treat their wounded. When his son falls ill and needs expensive medical help, Louis decides to participate in a hold-up with the gang. Unfortunately for them, the robbery goes wrong. The gang boss, persuaded that Louis has betrayed them, decides to gun him down.