Daniel Duval

Daniel Duval

Born: November 28, 1944
Died: October 9, 2013
in Vitry-sur-Seine, Val-de-Marne, France
Daniel Duval (28 November 1944 – 10 October 2013) was a French film actor, director and writer.

Best known as an actor, Duval has credits in over 70 television and film productions. As a filmmaker, Duval was awarded the Silver Prize at the 10th Moscow International Film Festival in 1977 for his drama film Shadow of the Castles, which he wrote and directed. In 2008 and 2010, he appeared in a recurring role during the second and third seasons, respectively, of the hit French TV drama Engrenages.

He was briefly married to Anna Karina, from 1978 to 1981.

Source: Article "Daniel Duval" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.

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Pure Life
Title: Pure Life
Character: Tonton
Released: August 28, 2014
Type: Movie
1949, a French explorer goes on a solitary expedition in the Amazon forest. He leaves behind him a diary that reflects the meaning of Pure Life and his encounters but leaves the mystery of his own disappearance unsolved. Based on a true story.
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Les déferlantes
Title: Les déferlantes
Character: Théo
Released: September 12, 2013
Type: Movie
Holed up in a small Normandy town, Louise hides from her ghosts as she looks after grumpy old Theo, the retired lighthouse keeper who shares her passion for ornithology. As she wanders the twisted shores, observing birds and people alike, Louise also keeps track of old Florelle, another broken soul who searches the beaches, seemingly waiting for the crashing waves to return something to her. Observing the locals' reactions to Lambert's return, the heir of a family lost at sea, Louise is intrigued by his past but, at the same time, attracted to him. As their relationship deepens, they start to unravel the web of secrets that have haunted the small village for decades. Together, they struggle to uncover the truth that could set them both free.
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On the Shore
Title: On the Shore
Character: Michel Matarasso
Released: January 4, 2012
Type: Movie
In this study of the lust for youth, Michel, a disillusioned cop nearing retirement, becomes obsessed with the body of a beautiful woman he meets on the beach. His search for an unattainable love drives him deeper into darkness.
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Headwinds
Title: Headwinds
Character: Xavier
Released: December 14, 2011
Type: Movie
Sarah tells Paul that she wants out of their marriage; the next day she disappears. A year later and Paul along with their children return to his childhood town to start anew after the loss of his wife and their mother.
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A Gang Story
Title: A Gang Story
Character: Christo
Released: November 10, 2011
Type: Movie
After growing up in a poor gypsy camp, Edmond Vidal, aka Momon, has retained a sense of family, unfailing loyalty and pride in his origins. Most of all, he has remained friends with Serge Suttel, with whom he first discovered prison life - for stealing cherries. The two of them inevitably got involved in organized crime. The team they formed, the Ganf Des Lyonnais, made them the most notorious armed robbers of the early 1970s. Their irresistible rise ended in 1974 with a spectacular arrest. Today, as he nears 60, Momon would like to forget that part of his life. He has found peace by retiring from the "business". He tends to his wife Janou, who suffered so in the past, and to his children and grandchildren, all of whom have great respect for this man of simple and universal values, so clear-headed and full of kindness. But then Serge Suttel, who has disowned nothing of his past, comes back into the picture.
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Beautiful Lies
Title: Beautiful Lies
Character: le père d'Emilie
Released: December 8, 2010
Type: Movie
A hairdresser forwards a passionate love letter to her widowed mother.
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RTT
Title: RTT
Character: Segal
Released: December 9, 2009
Type: Movie
When Florence, his companion of five years, shocks him with the news that she's leaving him, moving to Miami and marrying another man, Arthur loses it. He follows Florence to all the way to Florida with plans to stop the wedding, which is set to take place in just a few days. Along the way, he crosses paths with Emilie, who is also heading to Miami, but unlike Arthur, is wanted by the police. As a result, Arthur gets stuck on an adventure he definitely never expected.
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How to Draw a Perfect Circle
Title: How to Draw a Perfect Circle
Character: Paul
Released: September 23, 2009
Type: Movie
Guilherme and Sofia, brother and sister, grow up sharing experiences and slowly discovering their sexuality. The thing that Sofia doesn't know is how far Guilherme will go to keep her inside his own perverse, dark and perfect circle.
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District 13: Ultimatum
Title: District 13: Ultimatum
Character: Walter Gassman
Released: February 18, 2009
Type: Movie
Damien and Leito return to District 13 on a mission to bring peace to the troubled sector that is controlled by five different gang bosses, before the city’s secret services take drastic measures to solve the problem.
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Title: Hard
Character: Ferenz
Released: May 9, 2008
Type: TV
Hard is a French television series created and produced by Cathy Verney, airing since 9 May 2008 on Canal+ in France, and later internationally. The series focuses on the pornographic movie industry. It is part of the "New Trilogy" collection on Canal+.
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One Day You'll Understand
Title: One Day You'll Understand
Character: Georges Gornick
Released: January 1, 2008
Type: Movie
A man endeavors to collect memories of his grandparents who died in a concentration camp during the Holocaust.
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The Second Wind
Title: The Second Wind
Character: Venture Ricci
Released: October 24, 2007
Type: Movie
Gu, a famous gangster, has just escaped from jail. All french police is after him. Before leaving the country with Manouche, the woman he loves, Gu needs a final job to get some money. The job works, but a police's scheming makes Gu appear as a traitor to his own accomplices. Gu will do whatever it takes to clean his honor...
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3 Friends
Title: 3 Friends
Character: Francis
Released: August 22, 2007
Type: Movie
Three childhood friends support each other through life's ups and downs in this comedy/drama. Each goes through a difficult time in their life, and is "helped" by the others - always well-intentioned, but not always with the intended results! Baptiste's (Kad Merad) wife leaves him and he becomes depressed then obsessive-compulsive. César (Pascal Elbé) has a secret affair with his boss's daughter - he's nervous about seeing her in case dad finds out, but if he stops seeing her she threatens to tell all anyway - either way his job is on the line. Claire (Mathilde Seigner), adopted as a baby, struggles to decide whether to try and find her birth-mother.The links between the three play a crucial part in each of their lives - a deep and supportive bond, but one which risks preventing them ever forming a relationship with someone else.
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The Grocer's Son
Title: The Grocer's Son
Character: Père d’Antoine
Released: June 15, 2007
Type: Movie
Antoine Sforza, a thirty-year-old young man, left his village ten years before in order to start a new life in the big city, but now that his father, a traveling grocer, is in hospital after a stroke, he more or less reluctantly accepts to come back to replace him in his daily rounds.
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Gomez vs Tavarès
Title: Gomez vs Tavarès
Character: M. Eisenberg
Released: June 13, 2007
Type: Movie
Two crooked lawmen (Stomy Bugsy, Titoff) search for a precious stone to collect an inheritance.
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Jean de La Fontaine, le défi
Title: Jean de La Fontaine, le défi
Character: Terron
Released: April 18, 2007
Type: Movie
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Title: Mafiosa
Character: François Paoli
Released: December 12, 2006
Type: TV
By the will of her dead uncle who was murdered Sandra Paoli is propelled to the head of a powerful mafia clan. She becomes a respected, but also hated, woman in a world of men, murder and criminality.
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A City Is Beautiful at Night
Title: A City Is Beautiful at Night
Character: The cop
Released: November 8, 2006
Type: Movie
Adapted from the best-seller, the films is a road movie full of music and poetry, driving us from the hot districts of Marseille, to Paris, Montrealand Dakar. Paulo, the young writer, follows Richard, the old musician, in his wanderings, encounters, love stories and will share his vision of life. Richard transmits to Paulo his crazy and strange experience, opening the door to an enchanting world of passion.
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A Year in My Life
Title: A Year in My Life
Character: Le psychologue
Released: March 8, 2006
Type: Movie
In 1950s France, a young boy is taken in by a couple after spending a few months in the care of social service.
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Caché
Title: Caché
Character: Pierre
Released: October 5, 2005
Type: Movie
A married couple is terrorized by a series of videotapes planted on their front porch.
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Time to Leave
Title: Time to Leave
Character: Père
Released: May 16, 2005
Type: Movie
Romain, 31, a fashion photographer with terminal cancer, elects to die alone, preparing others to live past him rather than prolong the inevitable with chemotherapy or be smothered in sympathy by those who know him.
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36th Precinct
Title: 36th Precinct
Character: Eddy Valence
Released: November 24, 2004
Type: Movie
The film takes place in Paris, where two cops are competing for the vacant seat of chief of police while in the middle of a search for a gang of violent thieves. The movie is directed by Olivier Marchal, a former police officer who spent 12 years with the French police before creating this story, which is taken in part from real facts that happened during the 1980s in France.
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À San Remo
Title: À San Remo
Character: Étienne
Released: April 15, 2004
Type: Movie
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Process
Title: Process
Character: The lover
Released: February 10, 2004
Type: Movie
The story of a woman who decides to kill herself. She puts herself through a series of experiences that test the limits of what is humanly bearable in an ultimate attempt to find a reason to live.
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Time of the Wolf
Title: Time of the Wolf
Character: Georges Laurent
Released: August 28, 2003
Type: Movie
When Anna and her family arrive at their holiday home, they find it occupied by strangers. This confrontation is just the beginning of a painful learning process.
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Payoff
Title: Payoff
Character: M. Izenberg
Released: May 7, 2003
Type: Movie
Two very different cops are forced to work together...
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Total Khéops
Title: Total Khéops
Character: Manu
Released: July 3, 2002
Type: Movie
A man is murdered soon after getting out of jail. His longtime friend, a cop, sets out to find out who did it and why.
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Le margouillat
Title: Le margouillat
Released: July 5, 2000
Type: Movie
The ambitious Alex is trapped by his father-in-law who fears that he will take his place in the multinational company of which he is the CEO. The latter has a photo montage made that accuses his troublesome son-in-law of adultery. This ploy leads Alex and his wife into a heated argument which, unfortunately, leads to an accident in which the wife is killed. Alex is then accused of his wife's murder. But in this descent into hell, he finds the strength to react.
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The Wind of the Night
Title: The Wind of the Night
Character: Serge
Released: March 3, 1999
Type: Movie
A wayward young man finds himself involved with two mysterious people of a previous generation. After an affair with the married Hélène, the young man tries to escape her obsessions on a road trip with Serge, a taciturn relic of the 60s.
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Beware of My Love
Title: Beware of My Love
Character: Samuel
Released: September 2, 1998
Type: Movie
Muriel, a writer nearing 50 whose older lover won't live with her in Paris, meets a man on a train - Samuel, an Arab. He's attracted to her and pursues her, dropping in, asserting himself. She's willing to connect. He's passionate, then boorish, then jealous and possessive. He seems fixed on "Who's the strongest?," while she wants respect and trust. She's self-possessed as well as sexually charged, willing to laugh, and alternately firm and forgiving. He has little money, no immigration papers, few prospects, and a gambling jag. What does each want, and why does she stick with it? Is this colonial strife, war between the sexes, or a love story?
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J'irai au paradis car l'enfer est ici
Title: J'irai au paradis car l'enfer est ici
Character: Bertrand Cardone
Released: October 1, 1997
Type: Movie
In this French gangster drama, a young hoodlum, new to his famed father's dubious profession, successfully completes his first hit but then finds himself trapped in between a brutal vendetta between rival gangs. To save himself, Francois joins forces with a motley gang of crooks, led by the emotionally unstable Rufin, and tries to wait the situation out while amusing himself with the affections of a nightclub chanteuse. Meanwhile, his colleagues are being killed off, one by one, leaving him to wonder whether or not his father will use his clout to save him.
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Will It Snow for Christmas?
Title: Will It Snow for Christmas?
Character: The father
Released: December 25, 1996
Type: Movie
A woman and her seven children live on a farm in Southern France. In spite of the hard work and the mediocre accommodation, their life would be a happy one, but for one person: the owner of the farm, an egotistic and authoritarian individual who is also the lover of the woman and the father of all her children. The farmer handles them as his property, uses them as cheap labour to work in the fields, and denies them the right to leave the farm. It is only the love of the woman for her children that allows them to endure their situation; but even for her, disenchantment has set in.
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Love, etc.
Title: Love, etc.
Character: Yvon
Released: November 27, 1996
Type: Movie
A triangle: love, obsession, and choice. Pierre, a ladies' man who has little cash and no fixed residence, describes his best friend Benoît as the world's oldest 32-year-old. The shy, well-employed Benoît's life changes when he answers the personal ad of Marie, a 25-year-old who restores paintings. He's attracted to her and she likes his steady calm and his honest attention. They're soon a couple, and they include Pierre in their dinners, outings, and trips. What will happen when Pierre realizes that he too is in love with Marie?
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Nefertiti: Daughter of the Sun
Title: Nefertiti: Daughter of the Sun
Character: Monkutura
Released: January 1, 1994
Type: Movie
Tadushepa grows from a young princess from the Mitanni kingdom to the legendary Queen Nefertiti of Egypt. The film starts with the discovery of her bust by a German archaeologist in 1912 and then turns the time back to the moment just before she is married to the old Pharaoh Amanophis III. She must say goodbye to her lover, the sculptor Yame. But in Egypt she appears to have a great talent for power. After the death of Amanophis she collapses on the heir to the throne Akhematon.
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Mais qui arrêtera la pluie ?
Title: Mais qui arrêtera la pluie ?
Released: August 25, 1990
Type: Movie
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Stan the Flasher
Title: Stan the Flasher
Character: Le père de Natacha
Released: March 7, 1990
Type: Movie
Claude Berri, who usually participates in films by directing them, here returns to the screen as Stan, an over-the-hill lothario, much given to quoting Shakespeare, who occasionally goes around naked under his raincoat and exposes himself to strangers, who are usually not interested in his primitive display of genitalia. It also appears that he is unable to sexually satisfy his much younger lover, and he suspects her of having another boyfriend. He earns his living tutoring students (mostly young girls) in English literature. When, in his frustration, he gropes one of the girls in her home during a tutoring session, she protests, her father (who is at home) beats him up, and he is sentenced to a jail term. There, he is teamed up with a slightly loopy murderer. When he gets out of jail, he finds his girlfriend has left for good, and ends his life.
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Strike
Title: Strike
Released: January 2, 1988
Type: Movie
Short film by Michel De Vidas.
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Lorfou
Title: Lorfou
Character: Brunier
Released: March 28, 1987
Type: Movie
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Among Wolves
Title: Among Wolves
Character: Le Gitan
Released: December 31, 1985
Type: Movie
An American general with highly confidential defence information has been kidnapped by terrorists and is being held in a cliff-top fortress in the Mediterranean.
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A Summer in Hell
Title: A Summer in Hell
Character: le commissaire Turielle
Released: April 17, 1984
Type: Movie
An amateur detective helps a hotel owner to find her younger sister.
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The Judge
Title: The Judge
Character: Antoine Rocca
Released: April 11, 1984
Type: Movie
A courageous judge tries to dismantle a drug traffickers ring.
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Title: Champs-Elysées
Character: Self
Released: January 16, 1982
Type: TV
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L'amour trop fort
Title: L'amour trop fort
Character: Charlie Maupas
Released: April 15, 1981
Type: Movie
Max is an old and unsuccessful actor while Charlie is an ambitious young director, yet they are bound together by close friendship. Until the day Rose-Marie, a rather conservative young antique dealer, walks into Charlie's life. When Max's wife walks out on him, he clings to the young couple like ivy. However he soons becomes a dead weight and Rose-Marie threatens to leave if Charlie doesn't choose between her and Max.
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The Telephone Bar
Title: The Telephone Bar
Character: Toni Véronèse
Released: August 27, 1980
Type: Movie
A gangster (Daniel Duval) incurs the wrath of the patriarch of a well-established crime family.
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Memoirs of a French Whore
Title: Memoirs of a French Whore
Character: Gérard
Released: October 17, 1979
Type: Movie
Marie is nineteen and bored in her little suburban life with no future. In a café, she meets the charismatic and beautiful Gerard. Blinded by adoration, Mary decides to leave her parents and her clerk job to live with the man she considers as the love of her life. But Gerard is a pimp, who soon forces her into prostitution. From within homes to out on the streets, the young woman gradually discovers a world of decay and violence.
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The Last Romantic Lover
Title: The Last Romantic Lover
Character: Un candidat recalé
Released: April 26, 1978
Type: Movie
The romance between a lion tamer and a liberated girl.
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Your Turn, My Turn
Title: Your Turn, My Turn
Character: Serge
Released: March 15, 1978
Type: Movie
Family mother and model wife, Agnes hits a vehicle while driving in Paris. She immediately falls in love with the driver of the damaged car.
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Ben and Benedict
Title: Ben and Benedict
Character: Rémi Peyrou
Released: April 10, 1977
Type: Movie
Ben (Françoise Lebrun) is a woman who never gets to do what she really wants to do and is the victim of everybody and everything. Benedict is her imaginary creation: the girl who would respond with strength and mastery to situations she can only submit to. She is married to a cad who says he only married her because she was pregnant, and now he wants his freedom. Her real love is a fellow medical student, who shows some interest in her. Nonetheless, she remains faithful to her unenthusiastic husband, until she becomes pregnant again. At this point, she begins to act more like the Benedict of her dreams and less like the "Ben" she has lived as until now.
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La Décharge
Title: La Décharge
Character: Mario
Released: January 14, 1976
Type: Movie
A fake documentary on the life forms of the Paris Suburbs, viewed through the eyes of homeless, unemployed people the sharks of politics and building societies push to hopeless life.
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Act of Aggression
Title: Act of Aggression
Character: Un motard
Released: April 16, 1975
Type: Movie
After his wife and daughter are raped and killed by a motorbike gang, a man sets out to take revenge.
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Title: Les Rendez-vous du dimanche
Character: Self
Released: January 12, 1975
Type: TV
A talk show presented by Michel Drucker
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Le voyage d'Amélie
Title: Le voyage d'Amélie
Character: Dan
Released: December 18, 1974
Type: Movie
In this gentle comedy, a disaffected group of young people bungle their first hold-up when the old lady they choose to rob turns out to be even poorer than they are. Not only that, but her husband has died, and she needs to get his body back to his hometown for burial and she is getting no help from the state. The would-be robbers good-naturedly agree to help her, and have a series of odd adventures involving the old lady, the corpse, and themselves. Eventually, the old lady dies as well, and they are really in a pickle.
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Title: Midi trente
Character: Self
Released: March 6, 1972
Type: TV