Manuel Gary

Manuel Gary

Born: February 9, 1912
Died: December 31, 1988
in Marseille, Bouches-du-Rhône, France

Movies for Manuel Gary...

Sénéchal the Magnificent
Title: Sénéchal the Magnificent
Character: (uncredited)
Released: May 24, 1957
Type: Movie
Sénéchal, an actor touring the provinces with the "Tournées Carlini" does not meet the success he thinks he deserves. One night in Dreux, he finds himself without his luggage and dressed up as a Foreign Legion officer, he is invited to a party thrown by a colonel. He creates a sensation there and does not leave the colonel's wife ... indifferent! Back in Paris, Sénéchal goes through a similar experience. This time around, wearing tuxedo and top hat, he gets mistaken for a diplomat and charms the guests of a wedding party. Arrested by the police, he chooses to do without an attorney at his trial and his brilliant eloquence has him acquitted. A question remains unanswered though : will all those people who give an ovation in real life ever go to see him on stage ?
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The Virtuous Bigamist
Title: The Virtuous Bigamist
Released: December 20, 1956
Type: Movie
The Provence, somewhere in the 1950's. Paul Verdier, traveling salesman, leaves his home and his quarrelsome wife for his weekly round. On the train he meets a young woman, Marie, who looks a little lost. No wonder. Marie is pregnant but lacks the customary husband. She's returning to her village but is not exactly looking forward to the confrontation with her parents and the villagers, all pretty conservative people. After getting to know Paul a little better (for which there is ample time during the trip by train and bus) Marie decides to ask Paul to act as her husband, just to allay the suspicions of her family. After some hesitating Paul accepts, charmed by the girl and unaware of the complications such is bound to cause to his own life.
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Fernandel the Dressmaker
Title: Fernandel the Dressmaker
Character: Clément
Released: April 13, 1956
Type: Movie
A modest taylor the women found irresistible inherit a Maison de couture in financial difficulty. Decided to save it he prepare a great collection. But when his wife discovered his relations with one of the mannequin, how would he prevent the scandale without loosing... both of them?!
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Don Camillo's Last Round
Title: Don Camillo's Last Round
Character: avv. Cerratini, delegato del PCI
Released: September 29, 1955
Type: Movie
Bewildered, Don Camillo learns that Peppone intends to stand for parliament. Determined to thwart his ambitions, the good priest, ignoring the recommendations of the Lord, decides to campaign against him.
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Spring, Autumn and Love
Title: Spring, Autumn and Love
Released: April 12, 1955
Type: Movie
Fernand Sarrazin, who runs a nougat factory to perfection, is a happy bachelor, notwithstanding the acrimonious presence of his sister-in-law Julie. Love enters his life in the form of a young orphan, Cécilia, whom he saves from drowning, falls in love with and marries. The treacherous Julie uses a young pianist to lead Cecilia astray. She returns, however, repentant, after a short stay in Paris. Good Fernand forgives her, but when he learns of his sister-in-law's actions, he chases her out of his house.
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Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Title: Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves
Character: Mendiant
Released: December 24, 1954
Type: Movie
A lord’s servant, Ali Baba, is sent to retrieve a slave for his master, but ends up on an adventure filled with gold, mischief, love, and forty famous thieves instead.
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The Sheep Has Five Legs
Title: The Sheep Has Five Legs
Character: Le docteur
Released: September 24, 1954
Type: Movie
A publicity-minded French mayor reunites quintuplets and their earthy father, all six played by Fernandel.
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The Big Flag
Title: The Big Flag
Released: June 21, 1954
Type: Movie
For Naval officers duty comes first. Navy Lieutenant Favrel is one of these men. He has promised his wife Simone to stay with her all the time but a last mission aboard a training cruiser makes him realize that his life is tied to the sea. For his part, Navy cadet Pierre Hardouin understands that sailing is his vocation. The prospect of staying home alone while Pierre is on mission, frightens Madeleine, the girl of his heart. But the young woman ends up accepting the ordeal and marrying Pierre.
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Carnival
Title: Carnival
Character: Arthur
Released: May 25, 1953
Type: Movie
Dardamelle does not conceal the fact that his wife has made him a cuckold.How will his fellow townspeople react?
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The Wild Oat
Title: The Wild Oat
Character: Le Receveur du Car
Released: February 27, 1953
Type: Movie
A small village is torn apart by a quarrel between the baker and the italian grocery tenant, mother of a pregnant young girl. She accuses the baker's son, doing his military service in Algeria, to be the father of the would be child. Offended, the baker refuses to deliver bread to the villagers standing on the mother's side.
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Forbidden Fruit
Title: Forbidden Fruit
Character: Jacky
Released: September 19, 1952
Type: Movie
A doctor, leading an agreed life of the provincial petty bourgeoisie, falls in love with a young woman. As their relationship deepens, he becomes violently jealous and blames her for her dating and friendships.
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French Touch
Title: French Touch
Character: Gaëtan
Released: May 9, 1952
Type: Movie
Mario, a bumptious sheep-shearer, discovers he has a inimtable touch that makes women, as well as sheep, swoon at his professional caress. He is soon the most sought-after hairdresser in France and is awarded the Legion of Honor...
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The Little World of Don Camillo
Title: The Little World of Don Camillo
Character: Il delegato
Released: March 28, 1952
Type: Movie
In a village of the Po valley where the earth is hard and life miserly, the priest and the communist mayor are always fighting to be the head of the community. If in secret, they admired and liked each other, politics still divided them as it is dividing the country. And when the mayor wants his "People's House"; the priest wants his "Garden City" for the poor. Division exist between the richest and the poorest, the pious and the atheists and even between lovers. But if the people are hard as the country, they are good in the bottom of there heart.
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Trip to America
Title: Trip to America
Released: October 31, 1951
Type: Movie
As part of the fascination in post World War II France with American culture, a young French couple here travel to the US to see for themselves the prosperity they have heard about.
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The Red Inn
Title: The Red Inn
Character: Gendarme (uncredited)
Released: October 19, 1951
Type: Movie
A group of travelers, including a monk, stay in a lonely inn in the mountains. The host confesses the monk his habit of serving poisoned soup to the guests, to rob their possessions and to bury them in the backyard.
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The Hunting Ground
Title: The Hunting Ground
Character: Felicien Berger
Released: October 10, 1951
Type: Movie
In Cantagrel, Urbain Coindet, a farmer and town councilor in his forties, finds his wife hanging from a beam in the barn. Aurélie Coindet has committed suicide but not everybody is convinced. The village is soon divided in two conflicting sides, the Republicans who support Urbain and the clericals accusing him of murder, which particularly suits Frédéric, a tobacco smuggler who hates the farmer. Urbain's case becomes even worse as he develops a tender feeling for Jeanne, a sweet young lady who happens to be Frédéric's sister...
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Skipper Next to God
Title: Skipper Next to God
Character: The American Officer (uncredited)
Released: March 2, 1951
Type: Movie
Captain Joris Kniper believes so strongly that he is "skipper next to God" that he is used to playing God on his ship. Tough and bossy, he gives orders which are not to be discussed. But, some day, he is driven to accept on board several German Jews fleeing the nazis and who are refused asylum everywhere. He gradually realizes that skipper he is, but next to God only.The Bible will help him to find the way to self-questioning, awareness and charity.
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Gunman in the Streets
Title: Gunman in the Streets
Character: (uncredited)
Released: December 13, 1950
Type: Movie
An American is on the run in the streets and back alleys of France.
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The Strollers
Title: The Strollers
Character: L'ami de Gisèle (uncredited)
Released: November 25, 1950
Type: Movie
Jean-Louis forgets to use the pedestrian crossing;Who could have believed then where it would lead the unfortunate guy to?
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Not Any Weekend for Our Love
Title: Not Any Weekend for Our Love
Character: Léon
Released: January 23, 1950
Type: Movie
The announcement of the future marriage of Franck Reno, the star singer, causes considerable excitement around the world.
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At the Grand Balcony
Title: At the Grand Balcony
Character: Goupil
Released: November 30, 1949
Type: Movie
World War I aviator Carbot attempts to establish a commercial airline after the war, for the purpose of delivering the mail to the outermost regions of France.
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The Big Circus
Title: The Big Circus
Character: le mécanicien
Released: November 25, 1949
Type: Movie
During the second World War. The lives of three comrades fighting in the Forces Françaises Libres' flight. Pierre is a valiant pilot, afraid of nothing. Jean is reported missing during the Normandy landings. Jacques gets killed on the very last day of the conflict, leaving behind him a weeping widow.
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Colonel Durand
Title: Colonel Durand
Released: August 25, 1948
Type: Movie
In his younger days, a dashing officer, Colonel Durand, compromised Madame De Monthieux, who entered a convent. Now, he is garrisoned at Strasbourg.
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Halte... Police!
Title: Halte... Police!
Released: July 9, 1948
Type: Movie
Darrac, a reporter for Paris-Inter, and Nicole, a journalist for Le Soir-Express, know each other, compete and end up falling in love over the three police investigations they follow for their newspapers.
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La Renégate
Title: La Renégate
Released: April 9, 1948
Type: Movie
In a small town in Spanish Morocco, old Ricardo, who runs a café, lives with his daughter, Conchita. She believes that Ricardo is her father. In reality, he took her in at the age of eighteen months in a douar abandoned during the conquest. One day a Berber chief, Tamar, sees Conchita, tells her that she is from his tribe and wants to take her away. She rejects it, then accepts later to find that Muslim civilization is incompatible with the Christian training she received. She escapes and succeeds in obtaining forgiveness from Tamar. A French officer from the Intelligence Service offers to collect it.
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Secret Cargo
Title: Secret Cargo
Released: December 27, 1947
Type: Movie
In a Central American state, the owner of a dance hall and his sponsor engage in drug trafficking. Are involved in various intrigues, a gypsy orchestra, its singer, the sister of the conductor, some policemen. Imprisonment and death are at the end of the adventures.
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Mirror
Title: Mirror
Character: A Folco gang member
Released: May 2, 1947
Type: Movie
Portrait of a two-faced man. By day he is rich, brilliant and respectable financial officer Lussac; at night, he becomes "Mirror", a ruthless gang leader in Marseilles.
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La Nuit de Sybille
Title: La Nuit de Sybille
Character: Jacques
Released: March 5, 1947
Type: Movie
Two burglars enter a house where a young woman has illegally settled. In exchange for her silence, she asks them to play the role of her parents so that she can welcome her lover.
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120, rue de la Gare
Title: 120, rue de la Gare
Released: June 6, 1946
Type: Movie
On the verge of death, a man entrusts Inspector Burma with an address. Burma conducts a difficult investigation with many twists and turns, which takes him from Lyon to Paris, following in the footsteps of the members of a mysterious business firm.
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The Grand Hotel Affair
Title: The Grand Hotel Affair
Released: March 29, 1946
Type: Movie
In Marseilles, the fisherman Tonin closely monitors the actions of the wreckage workers led by a certain Mr. Léon. Could these bizarre individuals have something to do with the double murder at the Grand Hotel?
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Le Capitan (1ère époque) Flamberge au vent
Title: Le Capitan (1ère époque) Flamberge au vent
Character: Le troisième sbire
Released: March 27, 1946
Type: Movie
France under Louis XIII. 1615. The Duke of Angoulême is at the head of a group of gentlemen who are conspiring to drive the Florentines out of court, of whom Concini is the all-powerful leader. A cadet from Gascony, Adhémar de Capestang, who was later to become the Capitan, left his native province to come and try his luck in Paris. Along the way, he saves a young girl, Gisèle d'Angoulême, from a masked individual who wanted to kidnap her.
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A Cage of Nightingales
Title: A Cage of Nightingales
Character: Un journaliste
Released: September 6, 1945
Type: Movie
In France, in 1930, a supervisor of a boarding school for young offenders seeks to awaken the music by forming a choir, despite the skepticism of his boarding school director.
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L'aventure est au coin de la rue
Title: L'aventure est au coin de la rue
Character: Vulcain
Released: February 18, 1944
Type: Movie
A rich young man, Pierre Trévoux, has a desire for adventure and boasts of his courage. While he is staying with friends in the countryside, his hosts, to play a trick on him, organize a fake burglary, but he discovers the hoax. When he returns home, he finds his house broken into. Convinced that the game continues, he does not understand that he is dealing with real gangsters. His recklessness allows him to rout the criminals.
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Angel of the Night
Title: Angel of the Night
Character: Roland
Released: January 19, 1944
Type: Movie
A young sculptor presides over the destinies of a student club where a miserable young girl ends up one evening. The treasurer of the association falls in love with the young girl who returns the favor. The war. The sculptor comes back blind. Out of gratitude, the young girl marries him and restores his confidence in his talent; out of discretion, the treasurer steps aside.
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Don't Shout it from the Rooftops
Title: Don't Shout it from the Rooftops
Character: Un journaliste
Released: July 14, 1943
Type: Movie
A scientist who have discovered how to turn salt water into petrol dies before he has revealed his formula. By mistake it's assumed that his assistant knows it although he does not.
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Promise to the Unknown One
Title: Promise to the Unknown One
Released: October 2, 1942
Type: Movie
A young woman is in love with a young writer, winner of the Prix Goncourt. Married to a banker, she must face her husband's anger and the blackmail of a former suitor.
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Saturnin de Marseille
Title: Saturnin de Marseille
Released: January 9, 1941
Type: Movie
A student, who wishes to become an opera singer, is helped by a good boy, Saturnin, who improvises as a manager. The student succeeds and becomes famous, without ever forgetting little Denise whom he no longer believes worthy of his love. His guardian angel definitely fixes things.
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Le café du port
Title: Le café du port
Released: May 8, 1940
Type: Movie
Following a heartbreak, Aimée, a young girl is taken in by the owners of a café for whom she starts working, and falls in love with René, a sailor who gave her a taste for life.
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L'Étrange Nuit de Noël
Title: L'Étrange Nuit de Noël
Released: August 17, 1939
Type: Movie
Taking advantage of their uncle's absence, André and Raymond Rafet organize a New Year's Eve party at his house. The uncle returns unexpectedly, disturbs the party, threatens his nephews to disinherit them and then locks himself in his office. A few minutes later, he is found dead, poisoned.
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Fric-Frac
Title: Fric-Frac
Character: (uncredited)
Released: June 15, 1939
Type: Movie
An employee at a jewelry store falls in love with a woman who secretly plans to rob the store.
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The Chess Player
Title: The Chess Player
Released: November 25, 1938
Type: Movie
A toymaker in Poland specializes in building lifesize mechanical men. He builds a chess-playing "automaton" to hide a pretty young Polish activist who is being hunted by occupying Russian forces.
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Tricoche and Cacolet
Title: Tricoche and Cacolet
Character: (uncredited)
Released: September 6, 1938
Type: Movie
Two friends, Tricoche and Cacolet, are partners in a detective agency. Chance has it that Cacolet is hired by Van der Pouf, a rich banker who wants him to watch over his wife Bernardine while the latter, on her part, seeks the services of Thicoche.