Roger Legris

Roger Legris

Born: July 3, 1898
Died: May 22, 1981
in Malakoff, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France
Roger Legris was born in 1898 in Malakoff, Seine, France. He was an actor, known for Port of Shadows (1938), Pépé le Moko (1937) and Song of the Streets (1933).

Movies for Roger Legris...

The Stud
Title: The Stud
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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The Big Wash
Title: The Big Wash
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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Les Compagnons de la marguerite
Title: Les Compagnons de la marguerite
Character: Le président du tribunal
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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Your Money or Your Life
Title: Your Money or Your Life
Character: Dumoulin, le pharmacien
Released: April 26, 1966
Type: Movie
Pétepan learns that his money has been lost by Robinhoude brothers.He asks his assistants to withdraw his amount from the bank.
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The Big Scare
Title: The Big Scare
Released: October 28, 1964
Type: Movie
Two police inspectors pursue a dangerous counterfeiter on the run.
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Thank Heaven for Small Favors
Title: Thank Heaven for Small Favors
Character: Sacristain of Saint-Étienne du Mont
Released: August 28, 1963
Type: Movie
Bad financial conditions compel an aristocratic family to do strange work.
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Snobs !
Title: Snobs !
Character: Nicolas Grimon
Released: September 5, 1962
Type: Movie
The director of a dairy cooperative in La Manche dies in a vat of milk. In line to succeed him are his four deputy managers, all with very different temperaments: the aristocratic Dufaux, the seductive Courtin, the pious Lainé and the wait-and-see Tousseur. Each of them pulls out all the stops to win a major order from Morloch. Once this is achieved, election to the post of director by the cooperators is all but assured.
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Head Against the Wall
Title: Head Against the Wall
Character: Decauville, the driver
Released: March 20, 1959
Type: Movie
An aimless young man is committed to a psychiatric hospital by his father in an attempt to cure him of his delinquent tendencies.
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A Certain Mr. Jo
Title: A Certain Mr. Jo
Character: L'aveugle
Released: April 16, 1958
Type: Movie
Jo Guardini, now the peaceful owner of a charming inn by the banks of the River Marne, once was a dreaded gangster. The respectful citizen does not want to have anything to do with the underworld any more. Unfortunately, two of his former accomplices kidnap a little girl and decide to hide her in his hotel. What will Jo do : side with the law in the person of inspector Loriot or have a relapse in crime?
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Les pépées au service secret
Title: Les pépées au service secret
Character: Le blanchisseur de la prison
Released: August 10, 1956
Type: Movie
Elvire, Nathalie and Christine, three young ladies with a proven track record, are called in by the Secret Service to retrieve coveted papers concerning a new explosive. Introduced to a fearsome environment thanks to a female helper, they face kidnappings, play a double game, toil endlessly, lend helicopters and finally triumph, smiling, after a breathtaking fight.
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The Indiscreet
Title: The Indiscreet
Released: March 16, 1956
Type: Movie
A dying man entrusts 25 million to a young girl's care, but she's afraid of being suspected of theft.
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Rayés des vivants
Title: Rayés des vivants
Released: October 24, 1952
Type: Movie
With the help of a social worker and Isabelle, Pierre, a delinquent influenced by Marcelle, undertakes a slow and difficult reintegration.
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The Green Glove
Title: The Green Glove
Character: Conrad Vernot (uncredited)
Released: February 28, 1952
Type: Movie
In World War II France, American soldier Michael Blake captures, then loses Nazi-collaborator art thief Paul Rona, who leaves behind a gem studded gauntlet (a stolen religious relic). Years later, financial reverses lead Mike to return in search of the object. In Paris, he must dodge mysterious followers and a corpse that's hard to explain; so he and attractive tour guide Christine decamp on a cross-country pursuit that becomes love on the run...then takes yet another turn.
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Utopia
Title: Utopia
Character: Fortune hunter
Released: October 17, 1951
Type: Movie
Stan and Ollie are marooned on an atoll. This was their last film together.
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Good Enough to Eat
Title: Good Enough to Eat
Character: Félix
Released: June 8, 1951
Type: Movie
Rose Chaperon is asked by her confectioner mother Mathilde to bring jewels to her sick grandmother, Madame de Mergrand. But Hugues, the latter's brother, is prepared to do anything to get his hands on the loot. To this end he hires a villainous young man, Jean-Louis nicknamed Loup, to do the job. Will Loup engulf and devour Little "Rose "Riding Hood?
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The Treasure of Cantenac
Title: The Treasure of Cantenac
Character: l'idiot du village
Released: September 6, 1950
Type: Movie
While he was about to end his life, Baron de Cantenac wanted to return one last time to the land of his ancestors. He then discovers a treasure that he will strive to use to revive his village.
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Various Facts About Paris
Title: Various Facts About Paris
Released: July 19, 1950
Type: Movie
Full of hopes, the young Raymonde leaves her country life in north of France to work in Paris. She promises her first love, François, that she will return to marry him. But their lives take differents paths, even if they never stop loving each other.
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The Killer is Listening
Title: The Killer is Listening
Character: A taxidermist (uncredited)
Released: January 1, 1948
Type: Movie
April fools in a studio where a radio host pretends to shoot dead all the performers....till a true crime occurs.
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Le charcutier de Machonville
Title: Le charcutier de Machonville
Released: June 18, 1947
Type: Movie
In a town on the banks of the Saône1 Grasalard, a butcher, likes to feast and play boules with his friends. Although married, he falls in love with another woman.
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L'Auberge de l'abîme
Title: L'Auberge de l'abîme
Character: Milette
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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Pension Jonas
Title: Pension Jonas
Released: March 6, 1942
Type: Movie
A tramp has taken up residence in the belly of a museum whale.
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Patrouille blanche
Title: Patrouille blanche
Released: March 5, 1942
Type: Movie
An Oriental villain named Halloway is called in by wealthy oil interests who want to destroy a dam project for hydroelectric power that may threaten their profits.
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Ne bougez plus !
Title: Ne bougez plus !
Character: Marmuse
Released: October 30, 1941
Type: Movie
Are these two tramps who come to pose for an advertising agency at Patrice Farfadou, the fashionable photographer, the Prince Andromache of Miremir and his faithful secretary Palmer? Who will find the key to the Enigma: The melancholic Hector, the youthful Geneviève, or the feverish Elyane?
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The Last One of the Six
Title: The Last One of the Six
Character: Le photographe
Released: September 16, 1941
Type: Movie
Paris, France. Commissaire Wens is put in charge of the investigation into the murder of one of six friends who, in the past, made a very profitable promise.
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Moulin Rouge
Title: Moulin Rouge
Character: Stage manager
Released: December 8, 1940
Type: Movie
A poor wretch, who has just been hired as a music-hall artist, in spite of himself becomes the tenant of a particular Parisian building.
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Bécassine
Title: Bécassine
Released: September 3, 1940
Type: Movie
A little Breton tries to save her boss's daughter an unhappy marriage.
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Cristobal's Gold
Title: Cristobal's Gold
Character: Le râleur
Released: April 22, 1940
Type: Movie
Dupuy, the first officer of the Cristobal, a French merchant ship, is informed by cabaret dancer La Rubia that the Cristobal carries a priceless secret cargo of gold. Based on the novel by Albert t'Serstevens.
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Grey contre X
Title: Grey contre X
Released: February 25, 1940
Type: Movie
Grey conducts a triple murder investigation, the last murder committed gives him some clues to the murderer and that the victim may have known his killer. He devises a plan to identify the guilty party, who is a scary psycho and he is captured.
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Narcisse
Title: Narcisse
Character: Lafolle
Released: February 10, 1940
Type: Movie
To inherit from his late uncle, Narcisse Pigeon is obliged to pass his pilot's license.
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Deuxième bureau contre kommandantur
Title: Deuxième bureau contre kommandantur
Character: Le balayeur Airvault
Released: June 7, 1939
Type: Movie
In 1917, in a small village in the North, Abbe Gaillard is suspected by the Germans of facilitating the escape of French and Belgian soldiers. A false alibi makes him innocent and he can thus continue his mission, thanks to the devotion of an Alsatian who, in enemy uniform, obscurely serves his country.
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The Deserter
Title: The Deserter
Character: Blaise - Le domestique
Released: March 18, 1939
Type: Movie
During WW1, a train is stopped by a bombing, a young soldier takes advantage of the opportunity to go to his native village to see his parents.
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Vidocq
Title: Vidocq
Released: March 18, 1939
Type: Movie
A film based upon the life of Vidocq, the famous adventurer, who, after numerous prison escapes ceased being a crook, a thief and a counterfeiter, and was employed by Pasquier’s government’istry as director of the crime-fighting Sûreté Nationale.
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Coral Reefs
Title: Coral Reefs
Character: Johnson
Released: March 1, 1939
Type: Movie
The adventures of a sailor from Mexico to a lagoon in the Pacific ocean, and the meeting with a lonely girl.
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Raphaël le tatoué
Title: Raphaël le tatoué
Character: Bédouin
Released: February 9, 1939
Type: Movie
Modeste is a timid watchman at an automobile factory which is run with an iron hand by its owner, Roger Drapeau. One evening, Modeste leaves his post to visit a fairground, where he meets the attractive Aline. Having glimpsed his employer, Modeste makes a hasty return to the factory. When Monsieur Drapeau appears, Modeste explains that it must have been his twin brother that his boss saw at the fairground, a nasty piece of work named Raphaël. Not only does Drapeau fail to see through this unconvincing lie, but it gives him an idea to win a marathon car race. Modeste and Raphaël will take alternate turns in the stages of the race and, because they are so similar, no one will be any the wiser. Unable to admit that he has no brother but afraid of losing his job, Modeste allows himself to be coerced into taking part in the race...
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The Novel of Werther
Title: The Novel of Werther
Character: Franz
Released: December 14, 1938
Type: Movie
Herr Werther, a new magistrate to the Grand Duchy of Walheim who is a violinist and poet, seems to have fate on his side as he meets and pursues a beautiful local woman, Charlotte. But as Werther sets to propose marriage, Charlotte reluctantly tells him she has been promised to another, Werther's superior, Judge Hochstätten. Werther and Charlotte decide to keep their romance from the judge and each descends into depression. Will they be able to keep their feelings a secret?
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The Rebel
Title: The Rebel
Character: Gauthier
Released: October 28, 1938
Type: Movie
Pimaï, the strong-headed anarchist, joined the navy out of bravado. But the sweet influence of a young girl leads him to prove that he is worthy of the profession he has chosen and the flag he serves.
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Troubled Heart
Title: Troubled Heart
Character: Abel Morin
Released: June 1, 1938
Type: Movie
In 1914, students living in a boarding house are disturbed by a young woman. On the eve of being called up, one of them declares his love for her. She abandons herself to someone who may not come back.
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Port of Shadows
Title: Port of Shadows
Character: Hotel Manager
Released: May 17, 1938
Type: Movie
Down a foggy, desolate road to the port city of Le Havre travels Jean, an army deserter looking for another chance to make good on life. Fate, however, has a different plan for him, as acts of both revenge and kindness render him front-page news.
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The West
Title: The West
Character: Le Goff
Released: February 16, 1938
Type: Movie
The film portrays the relationship between a female Moroccan student, who has been forced to leave her studies at the Sorbonne for financial reasons and works as a dancer in a Paris nightclub, and a French naval officer. However, on returning to Casablanca she is tricked into believing that he had the led attack on her village that wiped out her family. She begins to plot her revenge.
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Hatred
Title: Hatred
Character: Le radio
Released: January 26, 1938
Type: Movie
Captain Justin Mollenard works for a company that sells armaments to the Far East. After an eventful stay in Shanghai, where he and his cargo are the victim of a malicious attack, he returns to his hometown of Dunkirk. Mollenard receives a frosty welcome from his wife Mathilde, who resents the way in which he has neglected his family for so many years. Mollenard’s only wish is to get back to sea as soon as he can, but a sudden heart-attack leaves him paralysed and entirely in his wife’s power...
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Miarka
Title: Miarka
Released: December 29, 1937
Type: Movie
Cattion d'Urville takes in a gypsy, Sarah, and her granddaughter Miarka, in an outbuilding of her chateau. Miarka, while growing up, attracts the attention of Luigi, Cattion's nephew who, little by little, falls in love with her. Sarah raised her daughter in the tradition of gypsies who curse anyone who marries a man who is not a gypsy. Miarka ends up loving Luigi and he wants to marry her. The law of race opposes it. Fortunately, a well-conducted genealogical investigation will discover that Luigi is of the gypsy race. They will marry.
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Feu!
Title: Feu!
Character: Quiriadec
Released: October 29, 1937
Type: Movie
During the Rif War, a lieutenant commands a torpedo boat. He finds in an abandoned yacht, a beautiful portrait of a woman, and soon meets this one who is married to a brutal and jealous baron.
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Un carnet de bal
Title: Un carnet de bal
Character: Melanco - Un complice de Jo
Released: September 9, 1937
Type: Movie
After the death of her husband, Christine realizes she has possibly wasted her life by marrying him instead of the man towards whom, in her youth, she had a stronger inclination. To overcome these dreary thoughts, she decides to find out about him and the other men who danced with her during a ball that was a turning point in her life, many years ago. She pays a visit to those forgotten acquaintances one after the other; Christine is not only surprised to see how they have fared, but also discovers the impact she had, unknowingly, on the feelings and the destiny of these persons.
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The Queen of Spades
Title: The Queen of Spades
Released: July 1, 1937
Type: Movie
Russia, 1835. Lieutenant Hermann, a compulsive gambler, is fascinated by an infallible martingale held by Countess Tomski, nicknamed The Queen of Spades. The day Hermann wants to wring the secret from her, the countess dies of fear. Following this tragic scene, Hermann sinks into dementia. Luckily, Lisa, his frail lover, brings him back to life and happiness.
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Nights of Fire
Title: Nights of Fire
Released: April 16, 1937
Type: Movie
19th Century Russia. State prosecutor Fedor Andreiev is presiding over the trial of a man who murdered his wife's lover. Despite a robust defence from the brilliant young lawyer Serge Rostoff, the accused man is found guilty and will be deported to Siberia. Having spoken to the condemned man, Fedor Andreiev sees a disturbing parallel with his own life...
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Pépé le Moko
Title: Pépé le Moko
Character: Max
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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Southern Carrier
Title: Southern Carrier
Character: Le premier radio
Released: January 22, 1937
Type: Movie
A pilot on one of the air mail flights between France and its African colonies has a brief romance with his distressed cousin before he returns to the call of duty, and the rebels in the desert.
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Un mauvais garçon
Title: Un mauvais garçon
Released: December 18, 1936
Type: Movie
Monsieur Serval has made a deal with his daughter Jacqueline. She can be a lawyer and act her own way provided that, in a given period of time, she becomes a great name of the profession. If she does not, she must pledge herself to marry the son of a rich man, Monsieur Feutrier. Jacqueline accepts and starts her career by defending Pierre Besnard, a bad Boy. Not only does she get the case dismissed but she falls in love with Pierre as well. But she is not famous for all that and sooner or later she will have to bring herself to marry Feutrier's son.
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The Tender Enemy
Title: The Tender Enemy
Character: Le Saint-Cyrien (uncredited)
Released: October 24, 1936
Type: Movie
Line, Annette's daughter, is about to marry a man she's not in love with. At the engagement party three ghosts revisit their disastrous relationships with Annette and decide to take action to help Line.
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Symphonie D'Amour
Title: Symphonie D'Amour
Character: Davin's secretary
Released: September 18, 1936
Type: Movie
A ten-year old film when it was first released in the USA as "Symphonie D'Amour" in 1946. Panard (Fernand Gravet) is a talented composer who is having little success in his musical career. He is reduced to hiring out as a sandwich-board man to advertise what proves to be his own show. His girl, Jacqueline Francell, interests a Marquis in backing the show. She and Panard are happily reunited after the successful opening of his operetta.
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They Were Five
Title: They Were Five
Character: Le garçon de café
Released: September 1, 1936
Type: Movie
Five unemployed workers win 100,000 Francs in the national lottery. Instead of sharing the money, they buy a ruin and build an open-air cafe. But difficulties come to split their friendly group apart.
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Under Western Eyes
Title: Under Western Eyes
Character: Le photographe
Released: March 20, 1936
Type: Movie
Political turmoil convulses 19th-century Russia as Razumov, a young student preparing for a career in the czarist bureaucracy, unwittingly becomes embroiled in the assassination of a public official.
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Carnival in Flanders
Title: Carnival in Flanders
Character: The Merchant
Released: December 3, 1935
Type: Movie
Flanders, Hispanic Monarchy, 1616. The inhabitants of the small town of Boom are busy organizing the annual local festivities when the arrival of the Duke of Olivares, who rules the country on behalf of the King Philip III of Spain, is announced. While the male citizens cowardly surrender to panic like rats on a sinking ship, the brave female citizens, led by the bold wife of the burgomaster, decide to become the best hosts the Spaniards can ever meet.
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Skylark
Title: Skylark
Released: October 11, 1934
Type: Movie
Adémaï is forcibly engaged to the farmer's daughter. He tries in vain to get rid of it and, weary of the struggle, flees in a plane with his comrade Michelet whom he believes to be an instructor. For three days and three nights, the unfortunates turn in a closed circuit, thus beating the world record.
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The House on the Dune
Title: The House on the Dune
Released: August 3, 1934
Type: Movie
In a village on the French-Belgian border, a smuggler named Sylvain falls in love with the pretty Pascaline, which infuriates Germaine, his mistress. The jealous woman reports Sylvain to the police. As a result, the young man gets hurt during a night chase. Fortunately Pascaline offers him hospitality and looks after him.
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L'amour en cage
Title: L'amour en cage
Released: June 29, 1934
Type: Movie
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Song of the Streets
Title: Song of the Streets
Released: July 26, 1933
Type: Movie
A gang of poverty-ridden juvenile delinquents progress from petty theft to hard crime, but a kindly judge manages to set most of them on the right path after they are finally apprehended.