Lucas Gridoux

Lucas Gridoux

Born: April 16, 1896
Died: April 22, 1952
in Hertza, Romania

Movies for Lucas Gridoux...

Le cas du docteur Galloy
Title: Le cas du docteur Galloy
Released: June 20, 1951
Type: Movie
Madame Guérin, who has been suffering from cancer, benefits from a period of remission and she tries to regain health at any price. That is why she decides to consult a healer. But when her friend, also affected by cancer, is saved by an operation, she hesitates between traditional and parallel medicine.
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Le clochard milliardaire
Title: Le clochard milliardaire
Released: May 18, 1951
Type: Movie
Olivier Cabrol is an immature young reveler who lives from hand to mouth. One day he inherits a fabulous fortune from an eccentric uncle. But on the one condition to spend a certain amount of time as a tramp. Olivier accepts out of sheer greed but soon finds the experience rewarding. He finds himself as well as new friends (true ones this time) and even love in the person of Colette.
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Trafic sur les dunes
Title: Trafic sur les dunes
Character: Monsieur Lucien
Released: April 20, 1951
Type: Movie
On the Franco-Belgian border, large and small traffickers engage in their illicit activities. For his part, a policeman is working to put an end to smuggling in the area.
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Bibi Fricotin
Title: Bibi Fricotin
Character: Le contrôleur des impôts
Released: April 11, 1951
Type: Movie
To find the heritage of his friend Catherine's ancestors, the leaping Bibi Fricotin, helped by the seer Fatma, goes through a thousand funny or comical adventures, thanks to multiple means of transport, ranging from the bicycle to the helicopter. Despite the pitfalls sown in her path by the young girl's uncle and aunt, the Tartazans, the inheritance will be found with a museum curator.
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Oriental Port
Title: Oriental Port
Character: The malay
Released: December 6, 1950
Type: Movie
In Marseille, a customs inspector falls in love with a young woman involved in dubious traffic.
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The Unknown Road
Title: The Unknown Road
Released: December 2, 1949
Type: Movie
The Moroccan adventure of Charles de Foucauld, explorer in Morocco, in 1883-1884. The ex-officer's contact with the wisdom of the Koran, the mores of the natives, the solitude on the edge of the oases made him rediscover his faith and already we guessed in him the future Father de Foucauld.
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Rouletabille Against the Queen of Spades
Title: Rouletabille Against the Queen of Spades
Released: December 21, 1948
Type: Movie
Rouletabille's fiancée, a young journalist always on the lookout for an investigation to solve, tells him how she has just suppressed a spy. Marriage is in question...
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Impasse of Two Angels
Title: Impasse of Two Angels
Character: L'impresario de Marianne
Released: October 3, 1948
Type: Movie
Stage actress Marianne has decided to give up her career to marry wealthy nobleman Marquis Antoine de Fontaines. As a wedding present, Antoine gives his future wife a precious diamond necklace, which is coveted by a gang of crooks. Jean, one of them, is given the mission to approach Marianne and steal the necklace from her. The only trouble is that when he meets her, she recognizes him as the man she once loved.
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Si jeunesse savait...
Title: Si jeunesse savait...
Released: April 30, 1948
Type: Movie
Charles Vigne, a wealthy banker, frees Abdul, a good genius imprisoned in a vase. To thank him, Abdul grants his wish: to become a child again, while retaining the experience he has acquired. But the "disappearance" of the banker panics the financial markets and has disastrous consequences for the bank. Eventually, Charles Vigne will ask Abdul to give him back his real age.
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Secret Cargo
Title: Secret Cargo
Character: N'Goué, le restaurateur chinois
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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Rouletabille joue et gagne
Title: Rouletabille joue et gagne
Released: July 9, 1947
Type: Movie
The adventures of the famous Joseph Rouletabille, an adventurous young journalist, gone to solve a murder in the south of France. He puts an end to the conflict between two rival bands for the possession of a revolutionary metal, belenium.
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The Kids Are Leading the Investigation
Title: The Kids Are Leading the Investigation
Character: Le commissaire
Released: June 25, 1947
Type: Movie
When Monsieur Crauqual, the supervisor, is found hanging, all wonder why this rather rich person decided to kill himself. And when a pupil is found hanging too, François and his friends decide to investigate. They are certain there is a killer within the walls of Collège François 1er and determined to prevent him from going on running wild.
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Endless Night
Title: Endless Night
Character: Maloeil
Released: June 4, 1947
Type: Movie
Fleeing Paris where he killed, Olivier takes refuge in the Giraud farm and falls in love with his daughter, to the chagrin of her suitor, a man named Joseph. When the latter is found dead, Olivier is accused and the young woman will arrive too late to clear him, the poor man having fallen into a ravine while trying to flee.
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The Scarlet Bazaar
Title: The Scarlet Bazaar
Character: The antique dealer
Released: April 23, 1947
Type: Movie
Agnès Bonnardet leaves her parents to marry Claude Sironi, a painter who becomes famous but loses his talent. Meanwhile Agnes acquires a style of her own as an artist, which makes Claude jealous of his young wife. One day, he sends one of his own paintings to the Bazar de la Charité, a very trendy Paris department store, instead of one of his wife's works as ordered. Afraid of her being mad at him, he locks her up in the cloak room. A dreadful fire suddenly breaks out and sets the building ablaze.
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Panic
Title: Panic
Character: Mr Fortin, le pharmacien
Released: January 15, 1947
Type: Movie
Proud, eccentric, and antisocial, Monsieur Hire has always kept to himself. But after a woman turns up dead in the Paris suburb where he lives, he feels drawn to a pretty young newcomer to town and discovers that his neighbors are only too ready to suspect the worst of him.
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Queen's Necklace
Title: Queen's Necklace
Released: September 14, 1946
Type: Movie
The adventurer Jeanne de Valois-Saint-Rémy, descendant (by the left hand) of the king of France Henri II, and who claims to be "Countess de la Motte", imagines a tortuous plan to steal a magnificent diamond necklace that the queen Marie-Antoinette refused to buy from the jewelers Boehmer and Bassange.
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Le Capitan (1ère époque) Flamberge au vent
Title: Le Capitan (1ère époque) Flamberge au vent
Character: Samuel
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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Nadia la femme traquée
Title: Nadia la femme traquée
Character: Carl
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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L'intrigante
Title: L'intrigante
Character: Loiseau, le couturier
Released: August 29, 1940
Type: Movie
A father falls in love with his son's mistress whom he has forced to emigrate to force him to break up. More carefree than a schoolboy, he ruins himself for the beauty who soon chases him away. The family will soon be reunited permanently.
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The Path of Honor
Title: The Path of Honor
Released: March 9, 1940
Type: Movie
Two twin brothers have joined the army, Paul by vocation is a lieutenant of spahis and Georges to escape the police is a sergeant in the Foreign Legion. A snitch having informed the police of Georges' presence at the Legion, he must leave. In Casablanca, Paul helps his brother escape the police by taking his identity to allow him to regain his honor.
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L'Étrange Nuit de Noël
Title: L'Étrange Nuit de Noël
Character: Steve
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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Yamilé Under the Cedars
Title: Yamilé Under the Cedars
Character: Aboud
Released: June 1, 1939
Type: Movie
A Lebanese Christian girl of European origin is attracted to a visiting Muslim chief and rides off with him.When her Christian fiance brings her back,she is punished for her transgression.
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Le Château des 4 obèses
Title: Le Château des 4 obèses
Character: L'inspecteur Lenoir (as Lucas-Gridoux)
Released: May 24, 1939
Type: Movie
In a castle, one stormy evening, Doctor Carter and a whole merry company find themselves welcomed by the four brothers who hold the place. The four obese disappear one by one, without leaving a trace.
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Feux de joie
Title: Feux de joie
Character: Xena Héraclès
Released: February 1, 1939
Type: Movie
Once their military service is over, the instrumentalists of a regimental orchestra find themselves in civilian life and decide to run a hotel themselves on the Côte d'Azur.
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Satan's Paradise
Title: Satan's Paradise
Character: Docteur Alcacer
Released: September 3, 1938
Type: Movie
Driven by necessity, Jean Larcher, a young agricultural engineer, accepts the degrading mission of leading to ruin, under cover of administering it, a huge cocoa plantation on the island of São Tomé. His employers, a financial coalition, indeed plan to dispossess its owner, an inexperienced young woman who has just inherited it, of her property. But when Jean comes into contact with her, he recognizes Francesca, a girl he had fond feelings for when he was a student.
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Tempête sur l'Asie
Title: Tempête sur l'Asie
Character: Jack Murphy
Released: April 20, 1938
Type: Movie
An adventurer tries to seize oil deposits in Mongolia .
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Southern Bar
Title: Southern Bar
Character: Malou-Kahim Pacha (as Lucas-Gridoux)
Released: March 23, 1938
Type: Movie
Baron Arnold, a businessman, takes his young wife to Africa where he instructs her to seduce Captain Olivier, an intelligence officer. But Olivier illuminates the baroness on the unsavory activities of her husband as a weapons dealer and entrepreneur of revolutions.
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Tamara la complaisante
Title: Tamara la complaisante
Character: Mossilieff
Released: February 17, 1938
Type: Movie
A man, enthralled by a peasant woman he encounters in Siberia, forgets his fiancee, turns to crime, and brings about ruin.
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Rail Pirates
Title: Rail Pirates
Character: Général Tsai
Released: January 19, 1938
Type: Movie
Henri Pierson, the chief engineer of a railway line crossing Yunnan in China, must prevent the incessant attacks of a gang of looters.
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Balthazar
Title: Balthazar
Released: December 29, 1937
Type: Movie
Following a slight accident, a stranger appears in a Provençal village and knocks at the door of the Philippes'villa, asking them for help. Albert Philippe is suspicious but his wife shows some interest in the man. After leaving the Philippe family, the unknown man goes to the village, meets the mayor and buys an island opposite the Philippe villa. It suddenly appears that the mysterious fellow is none other than Balthazar Lemonnier, a well-known millionaire. No sooner is the news disclosed than everybody, including the initially distrustful Mr. Philippe, wants to become his friend.
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The Men Without Names
Title: The Men Without Names
Character: Le caïd Hadj-Ayar
Released: December 1, 1937
Type: Movie
The life in Morocco of an officer of the Foreign Legion, Colonel de Joyeuse.
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Forfaiture
Title: Forfaiture
Character: Tang-Si
Released: November 24, 1937
Type: Movie
Denise Moret joins her husband, Pierre, in Mongolia where he works as a civil engineer. One night she loose a lot of money on the roulette and therefore is forced to borrow money from Prince Lee-Lang. The Prince immediately begins to flirt and make advances towards Denise. Advances she rejects.
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The Citadel of Silence
Title: The Citadel of Silence
Character: The spy
Released: June 3, 1937
Type: Movie
During the students ' rebellion against Nicholas the Second in Russia, Viana tries to kill the governor but it's her lover who is arrested and sent to a sinister fortress : hence the title. To help the prisoner,Vania marries the officer who commands the place. There the convicts have really a bad time, but Vania manages to communicate with her dear captive. But beware of informers.
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Franco de port
Title: Franco de port
Character: Deputy director of the Judicial Police
Released: May 14, 1937
Type: Movie
Monsieur Fred is a friendly Southerner who recruits pretty girls down on their luck to send to South America. After some dramatic incidents and an eventful chase, a policeman manages to lock up the gang he runs.
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Pépé le Moko
Title: Pépé le Moko
Character: Slimane
Released: January 28, 1937
Type: Movie
Pépé le Moko, one of France's most wanted criminals, hides out in the Casbah section of Algiers. He knows police will be waiting for him if he tries to leave the city. When Pépé meets Gaby, a gorgeous woman from Paris who is lost in the Casbah, he falls for her.
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The Life and Loves of Beethoven
Title: The Life and Loves of Beethoven
Character: Smeskall
Released: January 15, 1937
Type: Movie
Lyrical biography of the classical composer, depicted as a romantic hero, an accursed artist.
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Behold the Man
Title: Behold the Man
Character: Judas Iscariot
Released: January 1, 1935
Type: Movie
The final days of Jesus from the time he enters the city of Jerusalem. Viewed as a threat, it is decided that he must be captured, tried, and executed as a criminal, a plan aided and abetted by disciple Judas Iscariot.
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The Kidnapping
Title: The Kidnapping
Character: Mânu - l'idiot
Released: November 23, 1934
Type: Movie
Hans has killed the dog of Firmin, a shepherd. Wild with rage, Firmin kidnaps Elsi, Hans' fiancée and locks her up at his home. Hans, a peddler, vows to find the missing girl. This is what he does and he manages, with the help of Mânu, the village idiot, to give Elsi a letter. On seeing her, the changeling falls in love at first sight with the young woman. Elsi soon realizes that Mânu can become her instrument of vengeance.
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Cartouche
Title: Cartouche
Released: September 28, 1934
Type: Movie
In 1721, at the end of his career as a bandit, Cartouche, touched by the grace of an honest young girl, and falling into the hands of justice under the charge of the father of his beloved, asks as a last resort, that the young girl may, before her execution, come and forgive her.
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Un tour de cochon
Title: Un tour de cochon
Released: June 22, 1934
Type: Movie
A rich old man wants to give a good lesson to his niece and his nephew, who are very full of themselves. He pretends to be dead, after having put as a testamentary clause, so that they touch his fabulous inheritance, that our two "stylists" marry respectively the servant and the cook of the philosopher character...
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American Love
Title: American Love
Character: Le fakir Habib Khan
Released: December 24, 1931
Type: Movie
A young American lady has certain prejudices against the people in France, but comes there to find a lover.She causes nothing but trouble.