Michel Jourdan

Michel Jourdan

Born: June 2, 1926
Died: August 4, 1985
in Nantes, Loire-Atlantique, France

Movies for Michel Jourdan...

Don't Take God's Children for Wild Geese
Title: Don't Take God's Children for Wild Geese
Character: An advisor of Charles
Released: September 6, 1968
Type: Movie
Rita is a girl that lives on taking gangsters as lovers. But when the money stops coming, she swears revenge.
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OSS 117 Is Unleashed
Title: OSS 117 Is Unleashed
Released: June 18, 1963
Type: Movie
An American agent disappears after a scuba diving reconnaissance mission in Corsica. The Secret Service sends agent code name OSS 117 to investigate.
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Vice and Virtue
Title: Vice and Virtue
Character: SS General Stripping Justine
Released: March 1, 1963
Type: Movie
1944 : Occupied France. Juliette (Vice) is Wehrmacht General Bamberg's mistress and enjoys a privileged life. Her younger sister Justine (Virtue) is about to marry Jean who is in the Resistance and come to Juliette for help. Both sisters end up at "la Commanderie", where Juliette becomes SS Colonel Schonberg's mistress and Justine is detained with other pretty girls who must satisfy the sexual needs of high-ranking nazi officials. Inspired by "Justine ou les infortunes de la vertu" by the marquis de Sade
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Three Faces of Sin
Title: Three Faces of Sin
Character: Un invité au vernissage
Released: September 12, 1961
Type: Movie
Laurent is an artist and sometimes con-man. He wanders into the life of Renee one day in her antique shop and tries to seduce her. Before they can leave town on a weekend getaway together, Renee's teenage daughter Daniele quits school and unexpectedly shows up. Laurent and Daniele fall for each other immediately and end up getting married. The film follows the disastrous situation created by the jealous mother and her daughter's immature husband.
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Pete the Tender
Title: Pete the Tender
Character: Pierrot's sidekick
Released: November 30, 1960
Type: Movie
In this crime drama, Michel Simon is cast as Pierrot, an elderly gangster who does not fit the stereotype -- he is soft-hearted. After a petty criminal betrays his cohorts by taking off with the loot from a big robbery, he is caught and sent to jail. Now he has served his time, and Pierrot is given the task of retrieving the stolen cash. The tyro criminal tries to use a pretty young woman who has fallen in love with him as a red herring for Pierrot's investigation. Everything backfires though, and Pierrot is left considering what to do with the loot, and with the criminal who does not yet realize he loves his attractive accomplice and could have a good life with her if he opts for walking the straight and narrow.
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The Cat Shows Her Claws
Title: The Cat Shows Her Claws
Character: Tonio
Released: March 9, 1960
Type: Movie
France under the Occupation. Executed for treason against the Resistance, Cora, code-named "La Chatte", was left for dead. Recovered and cared for by the Germans, Dr. von Hollwitz brainwashed her to control her and use her as a counter-espionage. In the spring of 1944, her escape was faked so that she could resume contact with the Resistance. She has to scupper the mission of Charles, an engineer with the SNCF, to blow up a train loaded with V1s intended to power the launch pads set up on the French coast to bomb London. But at the last moment, La Chatte regains her lucidity.
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Stop the Massacre
Title: Stop the Massacre
Released: November 11, 1959
Type: Movie
Promoted to wrestling champion by chance, Tonin, known as le Bourreau de l'Ardèche, moves to Paris. He is quickly snapped up by Monsieur Bob, a self-styled manager who, in reality, hides his dealings under the cover of a nightclub, but who is also Tonin's regimental buddy. So Tonin acts as a front man, while Bob provides him with fake victories. The beautiful Wanda, the gangster's mistress, appeals to Tonin; she's charitable and sets him on the right path. He returns to the Ardèche and marries the daughter of the village mayor, after learning what a dangerous protector Bob is.
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The Cat
Title: The Cat
Released: April 19, 1958
Type: Movie
During the Occupation, Cora takes the place of her dead husband at the head of a Resistance network. One evening, she sympathizes with Bernard, a Swiss journalist. However, he is actually an undercover German officer who is close to the man ordered to find her using an Identikit picture...
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When a Woman Meddles
Title: When a Woman Meddles
Character: Godot's henchman
Released: November 15, 1957
Type: Movie
Quand la Femme S'en Mele (When the Woman Butts In) stars French film favorite Edwige Feuillere as a high-class gangster's moll named Maine. When Maine's first husband and daughter pay a visit, it's an awkward time for our heroine and her current amour, gang boss Godot (Jean Servais). In addition to fielding a lot of embarrassing questions, Godot also has to deal with a pesky turf war with a rival mobster. Not that the ex-husband is a paragon of virtue: he's busy trying to get even with a crooked business associate.
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Young Girls Beware
Title: Young Girls Beware
Released: July 4, 1957
Type: Movie
Raven, a mobster just released from prison, settles the score by murdering Mendetta and her partner, who had turned him in. Having taken over Mendetta's various bars, he finds himself at war with other mobsters who want to kill him.
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Burning Fuse
Title: Burning Fuse
Released: February 27, 1957
Type: Movie
Lola, the wife of arms dealer Pedro Wassewich, is attracted to Ludovic, a young painter who turns out to be the emissary of a notorious gangster. He claims to have been sent by the latter to pick up a shipment. In fact, it's the police who, behind the scenes, orchestrate the operation to catch Wassewich red-handed.
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Mémoires d'un flic
Title: Mémoires d'un flic
Character: Fred Lafont
Released: December 27, 1955
Type: Movie
In Marseille, crime squad captain Dominique fights against racketeers and tries to put a young man back on the right track.
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Razzia
Title: Razzia
Character: Marcel
Released: April 7, 1955
Type: Movie
Henri, the Man from Nantes, comes back to his country after a successful stay in the United States, where he was working for Liski, the drug dealer. With the fame of being a tough guy preceding him, he sets himself to the task of knowing why the French operations were not so profitable - and soon he is master of all links of the organization. He can now get it honed to perfection - or destroy it. Only... the Police are following his every step.
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Touchez Pas au Grisbi
Title: Touchez Pas au Grisbi
Character: Marco
Released: March 17, 1954
Type: Movie
Gentleman gangster Max and his partner, Riton, pull off their last, most successful heist and find themselves comfortable enough to retire in the style they enjoy. However, Max confides the details of the theft to his younger mistress, Josey -- who has secretly taken up with ambitious young rival gangster Angelo. Angelo then has Riton kidnapped and demands the stash of gold as ransom, which threatens Max's dreams of the perfect retirement.
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At the Edge of the City
Title: At the Edge of the City
Character: Mario Ilari
Released: October 16, 1953
Type: Movie
Based on real events, in Rome a lawyer is not sure whether to accept defending a lower-class worker wrongly accused of the murder of his girlfriend.
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The Forest of Farewell
Title: The Forest of Farewell
Character: Michel
Released: July 30, 1952
Type: Movie
A young girl marries a man she doesn't love and delights in humiliating him.
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They Were Five
Title: They Were Five
Character: Roger Courtois - l'acteur
Released: January 23, 1952
Type: Movie
Now that the world conflict is over, five inseparable wartime buddies swear eternal friendship now to each other. But there's many a slip 'twixt the cup and the lip. Jean becomes a postman, Marcel a boxer, Roger an actor, André a student and Philippe remains what he has always been, a young man of good social standing. Roger, who can't find any role, is introduced through his singer sister Valérie, to Frédo, a shady nightclub owner.Roger soon becomes one of Frédo's henchmen. To make matters worse, he swipes Jean's fiancée, Simone. Marcel, who loses fight after fight, ends up joining Fredo's gang as well. André, who wanted to redeem the faults of his father during the Occupation, gets killed in the Indochina war. Marcel is shot down while taking part in a robbery. In her turn, Valérie is bumped off by an accomplice of Fredo and Roger is sent to jail.
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Les quatre sergents du Fort Carré
Title: Les quatre sergents du Fort Carré
Character: Pierre Thomelin
Released: January 18, 1952
Type: Movie
André, Pierre, Finot and Le Guen are cadets in the Fort Carré Military Academy of Antibes and they are the best friends in the world. One of them, André falls madly in love with Catherine, a charming orphan. But Catherine is kidnapped by bandits and when André comes to after being knocked out, she has disappeared. André reacts promptly and aided by his three inseparable friends, tracks down the bandits and frees Catherine. The two lovebirds marry and live happily ever after.
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Mammy
Title: Mammy
Character: The real Maurice
Released: November 28, 1951
Type: Movie
Mammy has a grandson she adores even though he is a good for nothing. One day Maurice disappears and Mammy becomes blind. When Maurice finally announces his return the fond old lady is overjoyed. Unfortunately, Maurice's plane crashes and catches fire. The young man is reported missing, presumably dead. Pierre, Mammy's husband, can't bring himself to announce such a shocking news. Desperate, he finds no other solution than subterfuge : he will ask a young couple to pass themselves off as Maurice and his girlfriend.
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La maison du printemps
Title: La maison du printemps
Character: Alain
Released: September 29, 1950
Type: Movie
Four young girls fall in love with the same man.
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The Passenger
Title: The Passenger
Released: November 4, 1949
Type: Movie
When her godmother dies, Nicole's happiness collapses and her fiancé leaves her because she is ruined.
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Le droit de l'enfant
Title: Le droit de l'enfant
Character: Michel Laroque
Released: April 8, 1949
Type: Movie
Jacques Herbelin is the faithful husband of Louise and the proud father of Cécile, a kind little girl. But Louise does not reciprocate her husband's affection and prefers to cheat on him in the arms of Marquis de Condottier. The latter is a sinister character who, not satisfied with being Herbelin's wife's lover, sets his heart on their daughter, who has now become a pretty young lady. Jacques can't take it anymore.
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Scandal
Title: Scandal
Character: The reporter (uncredited)
Released: December 1, 1948
Type: Movie
A young woman who inherits her uncle's nightclub, invents a gangster husband in order to gain respect.
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Monelle
Title: Monelle
Character: Un danseur à la noce (uncredited)
Released: September 15, 1948
Type: Movie
A beautiful young pianist falls for her mentor.
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Dedee
Title: Dedee
Released: September 3, 1948
Type: Movie
Dedee is a prostitute, working in Monsieur Rene's night club on Antwerp's harbour. The porter is Marco, her pimp. Dedee is not happy, until she meets Francesco, an italian sailorman. They fall in love and Dedee begins to dream about an escape of her daily dullness.
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Convicted
Title: Convicted
Released: April 13, 1948
Type: Movie
After losing her only child and falling for another man, a wife no longer loves her husband, but he thinks if he takes her back to some of the places they enjoyed in earlier years, it might rekindle their doomed marriage.