John Serret

John Serret

Born: January 1, 1917
in France

Movies for John Serret...

Plenty
Title: Plenty
Character: French Farmer
Released: September 20, 1985
Type: Movie
David Hare's account of a one-time French freedom fighter who gradually realizes that her post-war life is not meeting her expectations.
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Romance on the Orient Express
Title: Romance on the Orient Express
Released: March 4, 1985
Type: Movie
Lily, an American travelling on the famous Orient Express train from Venice, Italy to Paris, France, suddenly runs into her former lover, Alex, who met and had a tender romance ten years earlier while vacationing in France, which ended abruptly when he walked out on her without saying a word. Now Alex tries to make up for lost time with Lily while she digs into his past to find out what haunting secrets that he has which led to their abrupt break-up.
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L’Elegance
Title: L’Elegance
Character: French Man
Released: March 3, 1982
Type: Movie
1982. A shop worker saves money all year for a holiday in France, using a magazine as guide to the mode of dress and manners of behaviour she thinks expected of a wealthy woman.
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Title: Bergerac
Character: Gardener
Released: October 18, 1981
Type: TV
Bergerac is a British television show set on Jersey. Produced by the BBC in association with the Seven Network, and first screened on BBC1, it stars John Nettles as the title character Detective Sergeant Jim Bergerac, a detective in Le Bureau des Étrangers, part of the States of Jersey Police.
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Thicker Than Water
Title: Thicker Than Water
Character: Monsieur Fontaine
Released: January 24, 1980
Type: Movie
The Black Pudding Festival in Normandy, France, brings competitors from all over Europe. The British contingent is there for all the fun of the fair-and determined to win!
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Title: Minder
Character: Chef de Train
Released: October 29, 1979
Type: TV
This comedy drama series featured Terry McCann, a former boxer with a conviction for G.B.H., and Arthur Daley, a second-hand car dealer with an eye for a nice little earner. Alongside his many business ventures, Arthur would regularly hire Terry out as a minder or bodyguard, later replaced by nephew, Ray Daley.
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Aces High
Title: Aces High
Character: French Colonel
Released: May 19, 1976
Type: Movie
The first World War is in its third year and aerial combat above the Western Front is consuming the nation's favored children at an appalling rate. By early 1917, the average life-span of a British pilot is less than a fortnight. Such losses place a fearsome strain on Gresham, commanding officer of the squadron. Aces High recreates the early days of the Royal Flying Corps with some magnificently staged aerial battles, and sensitive direction presents a moving portrayal of the futilities of war.
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Permission to Kill
Title: Permission to Kill
Character: Frenchman
Released: November 20, 1975
Type: Movie
Western intelligence agents try, by all means necessary, to prevent a Communist-bloc defector from leaving the West in his bid to return home to lead an uprising.
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Title: The Adventurer
Character: Le propriétaire du bar
Released: September 29, 1972
Type: TV
The Adventurer is an ITC Entertainment TV adventure series created by Dennis Spooner that ran for one season from 1972 to 1973. It premiered in the UK on 29 September 1972. The show starred Gene Barry as Gene Bradley, a government agent of independent means who poses as a glamorous American movie star.
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There's a Girl in My Soup
Title: There's a Girl in My Soup
Character: Elevator Operator (uncredited)
Released: December 15, 1970
Type: Movie
TV personality Robert Danvers, an exceedingly vain rotter, seduces young women daily, never staying long with one. He meets his match in Marion, an American, 19, who's available but refuses any romantic illusions.
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The Voyeur
Title: The Voyeur
Released: November 26, 1970
Type: Movie
Forty-year-old Sandro is married to Claude. Sandro has one strange obsession: he is a self-confessed voyeur. He films his wife in all walks of life on his wobbly hand held camcorder. But everything changes when Mark enters their life.
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A Nice Girl Like Me
Title: A Nice Girl Like Me
Character: Museum Attendant
Released: November 23, 1969
Type: Movie
Candy is a fetching unwed young lady with a penchant for pregnancy. Her adventures begin when she leaves her sheltered boarding school background for Paris. The result is the birth of Valentine nine months later.
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Inspector Clouseau
Title: Inspector Clouseau
Character: Priest
Released: July 19, 1968
Type: Movie
Detective Inspector Jacques Clouseau is borrowed from the Surete on special assignment for Scotland Yard in hopes that a fresh outlook will help the government recover the loot from the Great Train Robbery, which is being used to underwrite a new crime wave. What they don't count on, however, is having more than one Clouseau on the job.
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Dark of the Sun
Title: Dark of the Sun
Character: Father Dominic
Released: February 8, 1968
Type: Movie
A band of mercenaries led by Captain Curry travel through war-torn Congo across deadly terrain, battling rival armies, to steal $50 million in uncut diamonds. But infighting, sadistic rebels and a time lock jeopardize everything.
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Title: Gideon's Way
Character: Antoine Dubec
Released: March 18, 1965
Type: TV
Gideon's Way is a British television crime series made by ITC Entertainment in 1964/65, based on the novels by John Creasey. The series was made at Elstree in twin production with The Saint TV series. It starred Liverpudlian John Gregson in the title role as Commander George Gideon of Scotland Yard, with Alexander Davion as his assistant, Detective Chief Inspector David Keen, Reginald Jessup as Det. Superintendent LeMaitre, Ian Rossiter as Detective Chief Superintendent Joe Bell and Basil Dignam as Commissioner Scott-Marle. The show did not acknowledge any help from Scotland Yard, any other police force or advisor. Daphne Anderson starred as his wife, Kate with Giles Watling as young son, Malcolm, Richard James as older son, Matthew who seemed to have a lot of new girlfriends and Andrea Allan as daughter, Pru. Unusually for police stories, Gideon was shown as a family man at home though urgent phone calls from his bosses tend to disrupt family plans too often. However, he did admit in "State Visit" that his wife had walked out on him for a while years ago when he put the job first and her second. They live in an expensive detached house in Chelsea.
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Title: The Saint
Character: Insp. Quercy
Released: October 4, 1962
Type: TV
Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need.
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Title: The Saint
Character: Insp. Henri Lavin
Released: October 4, 1962
Type: TV
Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need.
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Title: The Saint
Character: Bank Manager
Released: October 4, 1962
Type: TV
Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need.
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Title: The Saint
Character: Quercy
Released: October 4, 1962
Type: TV
Simon Templar is The Saint, a handsome, sophisticated, debonair, modern-day Robin Hood who recovers ill-gotten wealth and redistributes it to those in need.
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Two Wives at One Wedding
Title: Two Wives at One Wedding
Character: Father Larouche
Released: August 1, 1961
Type: Movie
Tom Murray's wedding day takes a turn for the worse when a mysterious woman arrives uninvited and claims to be Tom's wife.
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Taste of Fear
Title: Taste of Fear
Character: Inspector Legrand
Released: June 5, 1961
Type: Movie
A wheelchair-bound young girl returns to her father's estate after ten years, and although she's told he's away, she keeps seeing his dead body on the estate.
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Title: Man from Interpol
Character: Inspector Gouthier / Inspector Frenay
Released: January 30, 1960
Type: TV
From the cobble-stoned streets of Vienna ... to the shadowy alleys of Morocco ... danger lies in waif for Special Agent Smith. "MAN FROM INTERPOL" is a weekly adventure series starring Richard Wyler as Anthony Smith, special agent in Scotland Yard's Interpol Division, a member ol the world's mightiest international police organization. Working together, the member nations of Interpol wage a relentless war against International crime. In the thick of the most dangerous maneuvers of criminal society, Smith and others like him in many countries, work alone and then pool their efforts to bring international criminals to justice.
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The Bird, the Bear and the Actress
Title: The Bird, the Bear and the Actress
Character: Monsieur Martin
Released: March 8, 1959
Type: Movie
A group discover a famous designer and their entrepreneur sees this as a chance to have his name associated with their new production. The leading lady is outraged at the way they intend to exploit the old man.
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The Strange Awakening
Title: The Strange Awakening
Character: Commissaire Sagain
Released: April 16, 1958
Type: Movie
Peter Chance suffers a blow to the head and wakes up with amnesia in a luxurious home, where a doctor and several women tell him he's a missing heir who's inherited millions. But Peter soon suspects something is not quite right with their story. He sets out to learn the truth before he's forced to sign a document that purportedly finalizes the transfer of the estate. This drama is based on Hugh Wheeler's novel Puzzle for Fiends.
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Rogue's Yarn
Title: Rogue's Yarn
Character: Inspector Lafarge
Released: August 1, 1957
Type: Movie
An adulterous husband plans to kill his invalid wife. He thinks that he has the perfect alibi, but an alert detective unravels his story.
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The Hypnotist
Title: The Hypnotist
Character: Dr. Martin
Released: July 29, 1957
Type: Movie
Culver is a psychiatrist who uses hypnotism to treat his patients. When Carpenter, a test pilot, comes to see him complaining of blackouts that make his job difficult, Culver tries to mesmerise him into killing his wife.
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House of Secrets
Title: House of Secrets
Character: Commissaire
Released: October 23, 1956
Type: Movie
Police in Paris recruit an English ship's officer (Michael Craig) to help trap counterfeiters by joining them.
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The Gold Express
Title: The Gold Express
Character: Luke Dubois
Released: August 1, 1955
Type: Movie
Claustrophobic train-set comedy-thriller (produced by H.G. Wells son) with an ace reporter coming up against crooks intent on stealing a gold shipment on the Scotland to London express. A scatterbrained scientist, a gun-toting dame with revenge on her mind and a pair of eccentric spinster crime novelists – who steal the film – round out the motley band of passengers who cross the path of our intrepid hero as he tries to get his big scoop.
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The Sword and the Rose
Title: The Sword and the Rose
Character: French Squire
Released: July 23, 1953
Type: Movie
Tells the story of Mary Tudor and her troubled path to true love. Henry VIII, for political reasons, determines to wed her to the King of France. She tries to flee to America with her love but is captured when she is "un-hatted" on board ship. In return for her consent to the marriage with France, Henry agrees to let her choose her second husband. When King Louis of France dies, Mary is kidnaped by the Duke of Buckingham. He tries to force her to marry him but she is rescued by her love in an exciting battle on the beach.
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The Floating Dutchman
Title: The Floating Dutchman
Character: Delbos
Released: January 1, 1952
Type: Movie
Two men working on the docks close to London's Tower Bridge find the body of an unidentified man floating in the Thames. The police later identify the body to be that of a diamond courier from Holland. The police have to find his murderer, as well as the missing diamonds he was carrying.
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I Was a Male War Bride
Title: I Was a Male War Bride
Character: French Notary (uncredited)
Released: August 26, 1949
Type: Movie
After marrying an American lieutenant with whom he was assigned to work in post-war Germany, a French captain attempts to find a way to accompany her back to the States under the terms of the War Bride Act.
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The Passionate Friends
Title: The Passionate Friends
Character: Emigration Official
Released: January 26, 1949
Type: Movie
A woman is torn between the love of her life, who is married to someone else, and her older husband.
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The Laughing Lady
Title: The Laughing Lady
Character: Dumas, Tribunal President
Released: October 16, 1946
Type: Movie
A musical set during the French Revolution.
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Bedelia
Title: Bedelia
Character: Jeweler's Customer
Released: July 8, 1946
Type: Movie
Bedelia Carrington is living happily, it appears, in Monte Carlo with her husband Charlie Carrington. But a cultivated young artist, Ben Chaney, begins probing into her past with curious concern. Chaney, who is really a detective, learns that Bedelia's obsession for money has led her, in the past, to husband-poisoning for the insurance money.