Roger Duchesne

Roger Duchesne

Born: July 26, 1906
Died: December 25, 1996
in Luxeuil-les-Bains, Haute-Saône, France

Movies for Roger Duchesne...

Girl Merchants
Title: Girl Merchants
Released: October 4, 1957
Type: Movie
A young French woman travels to South America for a job offer and ends up a prisoner in a slave camp for women by a sadistic gangster.
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Girl Merchants
Title: Girl Merchants
Character: Gofferi
Released: October 4, 1957
Type: Movie
A young French woman travels to South America for a job offer and ends up a prisoner in a slave camp for women by a sadistic gangster.
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Bob le Flambeur
Title: Bob le Flambeur
Character: Robert 'Bob le Flambeur' Montagné
Released: August 24, 1956
Type: Movie
In Paris, Bob Montagne is practically synonymous with gambling -- and winning. He is kind, classy and well-liked by virtually everyone in town, including police inspector Ledru. However, when Bob's luck turns sour, he begins to lose friends and makes the most desperate gamble of his life: to rob the Deauville casino during Grand Prix weekend, when the vaults are full. Unfortunately, Bob soon learns that the game is rigged and the cops are on to him.
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Adrien
Title: Adrien
Character: Étienne
Released: December 22, 1943
Type: Movie
Adrien Moulinet, a modest encashing agent in the Nortier bank, is also an inventor in his spare time. His latest revolutionary creation is the motorized roller skate. His problem is to be able to market them. Jules Petitpas, a jobless adman, is the right man for that.
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Jeannou
Title: Jeannou
Character: Pierre Levasseur
Released: November 10, 1943
Type: Movie
Jeannou lives in a castle in Périgord with his father, the last man of aristocratic lineage landowners, very attached to traditions. She meets Peter, a young engineer, she joined in Paris, decided to marry her. A few months later, pregnant, she returned to the area where the wedding will be celebrated.
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Le Mistral
Title: Le Mistral
Character: Philippe
Released: April 8, 1943
Type: Movie
In a small Provençal port, a young girl tries to divert a fisherman from his laborious life and his chaste loves.
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L'Auberge de l'abîme
Title: L'Auberge de l'abîme
Character: Jacques Eymard
Released: February 24, 1943
Type: Movie
At the end of the last century, in the Cévennes, a valiant officer was taken for a brigand. Brought to defend himself, he kills one of his attackers and seeks refuge in caves where he hides and from which he no longer dares to come out. The devotion of a doctor saves him and he marries the daughter of this one.
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The Lost Woman
Title: The Lost Woman
Character: L'abbé
Released: August 5, 1942
Type: Movie
Marie, a young bourgeois and Jean, a cargo sailor have an affair, she becomes pregnant but he has to go back to the sea. Marie leaves for Paris where she meets Pierre and marries him. War breaks out, Jean and Pierre will befriend each other on the front.
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L'Ange Gardien
Title: L'Ange Gardien
Character: Henri Duboin
Released: July 3, 1942
Type: Movie
A former colonial official lives far from Paris with a dry cousin who pays attention to his heritage. He never took care of his son, married to a singer, even less of his granddaughter Colette. The chances of life mean that the grandfather is obliged to take in Colette for a while. This works wonders, unmasks the cousin conniving with cronies, unravels the intrigues, thwarts the machinations and reconciles all the members of the family.
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Le moussaillon
Title: Le moussaillon
Released: February 6, 1942
Type: Movie
The son of a sailor, who seduced and abandoned the mother, doesn't get along with the new man, a clockmaker, the woman weds. He turns to delinquent behavior and smuggling and leaves on a ship, just like his father.
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Cartacalha, reine des gitans
Title: Cartacalha, reine des gitans
Released: January 21, 1942
Type: Movie
The gypsy dancer Cartacalha is elected queen of the gypsies. She loves a horse breeder, the Galejon, but following misunderstandings and perfidy, she leaves for Paris, invited by a playwright who predicts a total success on stage. Having become a star, she returns to the Camargue where, still abused, she tries to commit suicide.
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Montmartre on the Seine
Title: Montmartre on the Seine
Character: Claude
Released: November 19, 1941
Type: Movie
Maurice loves Juliet and Michael loves Lily. Romance blossoms on the hill. They are workers, artisans, and Lily has a real talent as a singer. But Claude's arrival brings trouble to their relationships. Maurice, jealous, approaches Lily. Singing in the streets, Lily quickly becomes a cabaret star.
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Nadia la femme traquée
Title: Nadia la femme traquée
Character: André Varony
Released: December 20, 1940
Type: Movie
A group of political exiles conspire in France against their government. They are pursued by Daminoff, head of the intelligence service of the country of origin of the conspirators, who uses Nadia, a singer who soon betrays him by taking up the cause of his compatriots. Dramatic chases ensue until Daminoff, having tracked down Nadia and her friends, fires on Chief André and seizes the secret plans. But these are false. André, injured, is stricken with amnesia. Seeing Nadia again, he will become himself again and marry her.
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Immediate Call
Title: Immediate Call
Released: June 15, 1939
Type: Movie
In September 1938, an American diplomat negotiated in London the peace of Munich, rather than rush to Paris where his wife, a famous film actress, is about to fall into the arms of a young first. He gains peace but loses his happiness.
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The World Will Shake
Title: The World Will Shake
Character: Gérard Gallois
Released: May 10, 1939
Type: Movie
In this sci-fi film, a scientist invents a prescient machine that can tell people when they will die. Oddly enough, the people do not want to know and therefore begin to riot…
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The World Will Shake
Title: The World Will Shake
Character: Gérard Gallois (uncredited)
Released: May 10, 1939
Type: Movie
In this sci-fi film, a scientist invents a prescient machine that can tell people when they will die. Oddly enough, the people do not want to know and therefore begin to riot…
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Savage Brigade
Title: Savage Brigade
Character: Grand-duc Paul
Released: April 26, 1939
Type: Movie
The duel between a Czarist general and a lieutenant, over the general's wife, is postponed with war approaching. Years later, the rivals meet again but the general realizes his wife has been faithful to him after all.
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Conflit
Title: Conflit
Character: Robert
Released: December 21, 1938
Type: Movie
Claire Buisson becomes enamored with Gerard and soon afterwords she becomes pregnant. Gerard advises her to abort the child but, at the last moment, Claire decides to keep her child and leaves for her sister's place in the province.
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Gibraltar
Title: Gibraltar
Character: Lt. Robert Jackson
Released: April 1, 1938
Type: Movie
A British officer poses as a traitor in order to infiltrate a team of terrorists who are sabotaging ships, while a seductive cabaret dancer is working for the mysterious genius who runs the enemy spy ring.
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Le Tigre du Bengale
Title: Le Tigre du Bengale
Released: March 9, 1938
Type: Movie
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Prison Without Bars
Title: Prison Without Bars
Character: Guy Maréchal
Released: January 7, 1938
Type: Movie
In a state correctional institute for teenage girls, Madame Appel, the superintendent, rules with an iron fist. The State appoints thirty-year-old Yvonne to evaluate the situation. The young woman is convinced that the girls should feel wanted rather than be constantly subdued and is accordingly determined to make Madame Appel change her methods of education.
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L'Ange du foyer
Title: L'Ange du foyer
Character: Jacques de Chardin
Released: February 26, 1937
Type: Movie
Jacques de Chardin, runner of women, marries a rich and young American, Mary-Ann. He does not give up, however, his conquests and has an affair with Chouquette. His wife and her friend, Baron Sigismond, decide to fake an affair in order to get revenge.
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The Bureaucrats
Title: The Bureaucrats
Character: Chavarax
Released: December 15, 1936
Type: Movie
A comedy about the petty bureaucrats who need special leather props under their posteriors because of the long hours they spend sitting at their desks.
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The Story of a Cheat
Title: The Story of a Cheat
Character: Serge Abramitch
Released: October 2, 1936
Type: Movie
Life story of a charming scoundrel, with little dialogue other than the star/director's witty narration. As a boy, only he survives a family tragedy when he's deprived of supper (poisonous mushrooms!) for stealing...concluding that dishonesty pays. Through years of dabbling in crime and amusing adventures, two women appear and reappear in his life, a dazzling blonde jewel thief and a stunning brunette gambler. Finally, he meets the mysterious Charbonnier who had saved his life in World War I, leading to the surprising next phase in his career...
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Wolves Between Them
Title: Wolves Between Them
Released: September 3, 1936
Type: Movie
A Nazi spy has stolen a gas mask filter of formidable efficiency in Paris. Two agents from the 2nd office have the task of going to take him back to Berlin.
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Seven Men, One Woman
Title: Seven Men, One Woman
Character: De Villiers
Released: August 28, 1936
Type: Movie
At the urging of her childhood friend Brémontier, Lucie de Kéradec, a wealthy widowed countess who wishes to remarry, invites all of her seven suitors to her mansion. Her untold intention is to test them by claiming to be ruined. The experience is a success in that each of the potential husbands reveals his inner nature but a failure when it comes to finding a new life partner. None of the guests passes the test except - the eighth man, namely Brémontier who loved Lucie in secret but, being penniless, had not dared declare his flame to her.
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Taras Bulba
Title: Taras Bulba
Character: Ostap Bulba
Released: March 5, 1936
Type: Movie
In war against the Poles, the leader Cossack sees itself betrayed by one of his threads, been in love the girl of an enemy.
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The Golem
Title: The Golem
Character: Trignac
Released: February 6, 1936
Type: Movie
The Golem, a giant creature created out of clay by a rabbi, comes to life in a time of trouble to protect the Jews of Prague from persecution.
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Fanfare of Love
Title: Fanfare of Love
Released: November 15, 1935
Type: Movie
Two unemployed musicians dress up as women to be hired by an all -female orchestra "Tulips from Holland"; they fall in love with two gorgeous musicians.
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Vers l'abîme
Title: Vers l'abîme
Character: Roll
Released: July 13, 1934
Type: Movie
The dramatic story of a military attaché, in a European embassy who will sign a fake check, in order to recover important secret documents that have been stolen from him.