René-Jean Chauffard

René-Jean Chauffard

Born: August 24, 1920
Died: October 30, 1972
in Paris, France

Movies for René-Jean Chauffard...

Chut !
Title: Chut !
Released: January 1, 1972
Type: Movie
A small saver discovers the scam that threatens all subscribers to the "Caution foncière". He embarks on an incredible adventure to recover the funds paid in by his friends, and succeeds in exposing the scandal.
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The Lion's Share
Title: The Lion's Share
Released: September 8, 1971
Type: Movie
A writer is reunited with an old childhood friend, who gives him the opportunity to devise a heist.
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Love Hate
Title: Love Hate
Character: Commissaire Gaber
Released: September 8, 1971
Type: Movie
A prisoner escapes and kidnaps a woman with her he falls in love. He's involved in a bad business where politicians and underworld are leading the dance. He'll die like the albatross in Baudelaire's poem.
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Solo
Title: Solo
Character: Le rouquin
Released: February 27, 1970
Type: Movie
During an orgy, Some old and wealthy notables are being murdered by a small group of leftist young revolutionaries. Very soon the police are tracking down Virgile Cabral, the leader of the group. Meanwhile, Virgile's brother and only relative, Vincent, a violinist (and a thief), comes back to Paris. They have not seen each other for three years. Vincent does not believe in the revolution. He only tries to live as he wishes to live. But by looking for his hunted down brother, he has no other choice than to be involved in a fight that is not his.
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The Stud
Title: The Stud
Character: le docteur Finus
Released: February 13, 1970
Type: Movie
Veterinary surgeon William Chaminade is having a peaceful holiday in the South of France when he is witness to an event that will change not only his life but the destiny of France! A young woman tries to kill herself by jumping from the upstairs window of the hotel where he is staying. Thanks to the services of a passing athlete, the woman is unharmed, and she reveals that her distress is down to her husband’s apparent lack of interest in her. Immediately, Chaminade has a brainwave. He will open a special centre for people like this unfortunate young woman, who will be able to satisfy their romantic needs, at the tax payers’ expense. All is well until this innovative ’pleasure centre’ draws the attention of an over-zealous tax inspector, Dupuis...
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Sadistic Hallucinations
Title: Sadistic Hallucinations
Character: L'homme barbu
Released: July 30, 1969
Type: Movie
In a mysterious French castle dark meetings and apparitions happen, seasoned by nauseating erotic menages. The involvement frantically increases up to the amazing epilogue.
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The Big Wash
Title: The Big Wash
Character: Commissaire Aiglefin
Released: November 12, 1968
Type: Movie
Sickened to see his students always sleeping in class, a teacher with a colleague and an anarchist start a war against the television. They climbed on Paris roofs to coat the T.V. antennas with a special product cutting the signal reception.
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Le Socrate
Title: Le Socrate
Character: Lemay
Released: October 3, 1968
Type: Movie
A modern-day Socrates leaves behind his life as a philosopher to live off the land. When a police inspector is assigned to follow the man and question his motives, the cop gets caught up in the charming philosophy of the man who has left his material possessions behind. He encounters a pretty young woman and her nihilistic boyfriend, the latter who makes a living with his psychedelic side shows. The boyfriend gets the newspapers to print the philosopher's thoughts, prompting him to acquire a bevy of believers. There is some nudity in this comical thought-provoking story, but the main focus remains the words of the man who left behind creature comforts to find himself.
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Spray of the Days
Title: Spray of the Days
Character: Bookstore
Released: April 21, 1968
Type: Movie
Chick fell in love with Alise because of a shared passion for writer Jean-Sol Partre who gradually devoured their relationship. Soon after, Colin, the main character, also falls in love with a young girl, Chloe, but after their marriage she soon suffers from a strange illness: a water lily grows in her lungs.
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Heraclitus the Dark
Title: Heraclitus the Dark
Character: Récitant (voice)
Released: December 13, 1967
Type: Movie
Deval shot “Héraclite l’obscur” in Tunisia in 1967, with his then-girlfriend and editor Jackie Raynal, in 35 mm and in color. He was the first Zanzibar member to shoot a film not only outside of Paris but also in an exotic location. “Héraclite l’obscur” is described by its author as a “philosophical peplum”. – spectacle theater
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Les Compagnons de la marguerite
Title: Les Compagnons de la marguerite
Character: Le commissaire Rudel
Released: January 20, 1967
Type: Movie
Jean-Louis Matouzec works for French National Library as an expert looking after the restoration of old manuscripts.He falsifies marriage certificates as his wife refuses divorce.
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The War Is Over
Title: The War Is Over
Character: A Clochard
Released: May 11, 1966
Type: Movie
Diego is one of the chiefs of the Spanish Communist Party. On his way from Madrid to Paris, he is arrested at the border for an ID check but manages to get free. When he arrives in Paris, he starts searching for one of his comrade to prevent him from going to Madrid where he could be arrested.
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L'or du duc
Title: L'or du duc
Released: September 23, 1965
Type: Movie
A young duke marries a girl, also penniless, and moves into a bus left him by an uncle, with their ten children. At last he finds the bus is made of solid gold.
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Jaloux comme un tigre
Title: Jaloux comme un tigre
Character: le bijoutier qui cherche des escargots
Released: June 16, 1964
Type: Movie
Henri has a beautiful wife, Sophie. Unfortunately, suffering from an unhealthy jealousy, he spends much of his time watching his wife's every move, and a few domestic scenes often ensue.
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Thank Heaven for Small Favors
Title: Thank Heaven for Small Favors
Character: Inspector guarding Raoul
Released: August 28, 1963
Type: Movie
Bad financial conditions compel an aristocratic family to do strange work.
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Sahara on Fire
Title: Sahara on Fire
Character: Paulin
Released: January 18, 1961
Type: Movie
A young engineer, Lucien Rombeau, is sent to the Sahara by the oil company that employs him, which wants to put an end to drilling that it considers unproductive. He ends up agreeing with the chief prospector, who refuses to stop the work and is convinced that prospecting will not be in vain.
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Blood and Roses
Title: Blood and Roses
Character: Dr. Verari
Released: September 14, 1960
Type: Movie
The spirit of a vengeful female vampire is released from her grave and possesses a wealthy young woman of nobility, who preys on other women in her village.
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Pantalaskas
Title: Pantalaskas
Character: (uncredited)
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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Sans famille
Title: Sans famille
Character: The cookie (uncredited)
Released: January 1, 1958
Type: Movie
The Remi abandoned by his foster father sold to the troubadour Vasalis, in his living through the rural villages the people to entertain, gehoplen his three dogs and a monkey. In the beginning Remi takes its new master, but a demanding and hard man, and the animals have not been too much with the clumsy boy. But gradually creates a bond between Remi and his new comrades, until their friendship is suddenly disrupted when Vasalis is arrested for vagrancy and sentenced. Then Remi, alone in the world, along with his animal friends in position to try to keep ...
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Diamond Machine
Title: Diamond Machine
Character: Blynn
Released: December 29, 1955
Type: Movie
A group of bandits conspire to kidnap a scientist who can help them manufacture diamonds.Unbeknownst to them , the FBI is already on their case.
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Frou-Frou
Title: Frou-Frou
Character: Un homme au vernissage (uncredited)
Released: June 19, 1955
Type: Movie
A story of the love of Frou-Frou - an actress and singer in the in the beginning of her career.
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French Cancan
Title: French Cancan
Character: L'inspecteur de police (uncredited)
Released: April 27, 1955
Type: Movie
Nineteenth-century Paris comes vibrantly alive in Jean Renoir’s exhilarating tale of the opening of the world-renowned Moulin Rouge. Jean Gabin plays the wily impresario Danglard, who makes the cancan all the rage while juggling the love of two beautiful women—an Egyptian belly-dancer and a naive working girl turned cancan star.
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Papa, Mama, the Maid and I
Title: Papa, Mama, the Maid and I
Character: Un voisin de l'immeuble
Released: November 26, 1954
Type: Movie
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The Secret of Helene Marimon
Title: The Secret of Helene Marimon
Released: May 13, 1954
Type: Movie
At the end of the Great War, the wounded Jacques Taillandier is cared for by the beautiful Hélène Marimon and becomes her lover. He hides from her the fact that her husband is a comrade from the trenches, and only reveals the truth when he learns of Marimon's death. Outraged, Hélène drives him away. After many years, Jacques reappears to learn that Hélène had once given him a daughter. Hélène, unwilling to reveal anything to young Dominique, forces the man she loves to leave her country. Dominique not only gets her mother to talk, but also reunites those separated by fate.
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Beauties of the Night
Title: Beauties of the Night
Character: M. de Villebois, le mari d'Edmée (uncredited)
Released: November 14, 1952
Type: Movie
A daydreaming French composer sees himself as a fine figure dashing through history.
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Matrimonial Agency
Title: Matrimonial Agency
Character: (uncredited)
Released: May 21, 1952
Type: Movie
Noël is a bachelor who inherits a matrimonial agency. After contemplating selling it, he chooses to manage it.
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Chicago Digest
Title: Chicago Digest
Released: July 24, 1951
Type: Movie
This comedy short subject satirizes the Hollywood genre which the French had given the name to of Film Noir.
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Paris Vice Squad
Title: Paris Vice Squad
Character: Binet, le chimiste de la Police Judiciaire
Released: April 18, 1951
Type: Movie
Identite Judiciare stars Raymond Souplex as wily French police inspector Basquier. The villain is Berthet (Jean Debucourt), a high-ranking government official. Basquier suspects that Berthet is a vicious murderer, but is unable to prove anything thanks to bureaucratic interference. Thus, the good inspector plays a waiting game a la Columbo, hoping for that one fatal slip on the part of the killer. Certain portions of Identite Judiciare proved a bit too intense for American audiences, and were accordingly snipped by the censors.
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Paris Incident
Title: Paris Incident
Character: The post office clerk
Released: November 2, 1950
Type: Movie
Story is primarily based on the adventures of Antoine, a young telegraph messenger on his second night of work. He is given three telegrams, one of which is for the president of the Camber of Deputies. Excited, Antoine runs his bicycle into a truck and loses the telegrams. What follows is an amusing and agonizing search for the missing messages. He is assisted first by a glum, wise-beyond-her-years little girl, Amelie; an off-duty police superintendent, a schoolmaster, a cookie-tin maker and a fireman. The harmonica musical theme is played by Flore Falvey.
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Scandals of Clochemerle
Title: Scandals of Clochemerle
Character: Oscar de Saint-Choul
Released: June 9, 1948
Type: Movie
A little town erupts in turmoil about the construction of a public urinal. The army is sent in to restore order, but the military add to the confusion by getting involved with the local women.
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The Lovers of the Pont Saint-Jean
Title: The Lovers of the Pont Saint-Jean
Released: December 23, 1947
Type: Movie
On the banks of the Rhône, not far from Tain l'Hermitage, Alcide Garonne, an old ferryman - and incidentally a poacher - lives out of wedlock with Victorine Rousset nicknamed Maryse, a colorful tramp. When Garrone's son, Pilou, a worker, falls in love with Augusta, the mayor's daughter, the unconventional old couple tries to protect the unconventional young pair from the disapproval of self righteous villagers.
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The Lovers of the Pont Saint-Jean
Title: The Lovers of the Pont Saint-Jean
Character: le menuisier
Released: December 23, 1947
Type: Movie
On the banks of the Rhône, not far from Tain l'Hermitage, Alcide Garonne, an old ferryman - and incidentally a poacher - lives out of wedlock with Victorine Rousset nicknamed Maryse, a colorful tramp. When Garrone's son, Pilou, a worker, falls in love with Augusta, the mayor's daughter, the unconventional old couple tries to protect the unconventional young pair from the disapproval of self righteous villagers.
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The Ideal Couple
Title: The Ideal Couple
Released: May 31, 1946
Type: Movie
Diavalo is the popular hero of French serials circa 1912. Diana is an actress who falls in love with Diavalo. Diavalo is forced to wear a series of disguises to elude the police so he can attend a Gala for the President.
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Girl with Grey Eyes
Title: Girl with Grey Eyes
Released: November 24, 1945
Type: Movie
A village lost in the mountains where Catherine called L'Airelle's love affair takes place with a young doctor. Catherine's father is the local bonesetter whose wife threw herself into a glacier out of despair of love and whose body reappears intact twenty years later. In addition, the pharmacist of the country is accused of having seduced a young girl who is avenged by her mother. The bonesetter also dies, the village fortunately continues to live.