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Vacances payées (1938)
Character: N/A
Prosper, the accountant of a fashion house, takes a vacation to Monte Carlo without his wife Sabine. And if he goes alone it is for a very good reason: he has a rendezvous with Olga, a beautiful woman. Once in Monte Carlo, he wins a large sum of money at the casino. Unfortunately for him he immediately becomes the prey of three gangsters who proceed to relieve him of his newly acquired fortune.
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Thérèse Martin (1938)
Character: Doctor Dartès
The life of Thérèse Martin, who entered the Carmel at the age of 15, in 1888, under the name of Sister Thérèse of the Child Jesus, died nine years later, and canonized in 1925.
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Liberté (1938)
Character: N/A
Fictionalized biography of the sculptor Bartholdi.
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Les hommes sans nom (1937)
Character: Le sergent Brandt
The life in Morocco of an officer of the Foreign Legion, Colonel de Joyeuse.
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La Loupiote (1937)
Character: Charlot
Little Germaine Valcour, an adulterine child, is abandoned and taken in by a showman, Father Ballot. She becomes the consolation of the good man whose daughter has gone wrong. Madame Vaulcour died of grief while her lover, after many bad blows, takes justice into his own hands. The girl stays with her adoptive parents.
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Promesses (1939)
Character: N/A
A scout leader enlists a friend of hers who broke off her engagement because of the young man's ruin. Both try to instill in the young boys entrusted to them a sense of duty and honor.
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Flofloche (1934)
Character: Bob
The pharmacist Floche who was once the merry Flofloche, had a daughter by a dancer. He wants his daughter to become a pharmacist, but of course all she thinks about is dancing. And she dances while Mr. Floche finds happiness with a musichall star.
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Le billet de logement (1932)
Character: Champeaux
Major Labourdette receives an accommodation ticket to spend the night with the widow Martin. Now, there are two Martin widows in the small garrison town, and one of them keeps a house of promiscuous girls. Labourdette gets the wrong landlady and ends up at home. He will keep an unforgettable memory of this night.
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Le moussaillon (1942)
Character: N/A
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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Pas sur la bouche (1931)
Character: Charley
A wife uses the pretext, that her American husband refuses to kiss her on the lips, to divorce him. Later after she is remarried he tries in vain to win her back.
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Grisou (1938)
Character: N/A
Femme fatale Madeleine Robinson is married to Raymond Aimos, a coal miner with a face like a pickled walnut and a libido to match. She wants some action, and what she can’t get from her impotent husband, she looks for elsewhere, first with his best friend Pierre Brasseur, then with his boss Lucien Gallas, who is also dating Brasseur’s kid sister Odette Joyeux.
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La fusée (1933)
Character: André Girbal
The rise of a canning maker and then his abandonment of the factory because his ideal of social progress for his workers is undermined by the Board of Directors.
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La terre qui meurt (1936)
Character: André
In Vendée, an old farmer is gradually abandoned by his family who do not see their future in the fields. Only a cripple in love and abandoned remain at his side.
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La voix du métal (1933)
Character: Lucien
A woman of the world has fallen in love with a metalworker, and one evening gives herself to him. Some time later, the worker becomes blind. One last time, he will touch with his hands the machines with which he will no longer work while the countess returns to her life of pleasures.
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Le Val d'enfer (1943)
Character: Barthélémy
Noël Bienvenu, owner of a career, is a widower and lives with his parents. His son Bastien, whom he despises, was sentenced to six months in prison for theft. Noël goes to see a dying friend, Romieux, who asks him to take care of his daughter Marthe, who has settled in Paris (Batignolles district). Noël goes there and discovers that Marthe is destitute (her lover Gaston being an incarcerated mobster): he then offers her to come and live with him and soon, marries her.
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Fièvres (1942)
Character: Le jeune homme traqué
Despite a perfect marriage and a superb career as a singer, Jean Dupray cheats on his wife. She dies while listening to the song he dedicated to her, "Maria". He then retired to the south where he led a life in complete anonymity. But his best friend's fiancé recognizes him and seduces him. Following a fight with his best friend, he decides to return to order by becoming a monk.
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Une main a frappé (1939)
Character: Frank David
The wife of a stable manager will try everything to clear her husband, a very violent being, accused of the assassination of a trainer.
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Bar du sud (1938)
Character: Stavrotchek
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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Le Petit Jacques (1934)
Character: Paul Laverdac
An honest worker is unjustly accused of murder. The culprit promises him to give his son a good education if he allows himself to be condemned.
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Le Chant de l'exilé (1943)
Character: Jean Iragola
In the French Basque Country, Ramon, the son of a farmer and fruit and vegetable merchant with a beautiful voice, has the good life. He is engaged to his charming cousin Maria. But his daily life is called into question when, during a fight, he believes he has killed a bad boy. He flees to Algeria where, with a friend, he joins the Saharan Pioneers.
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L'ange que j'ai vendu (1938)
Character: Maurice Rogier
Baronski has had enough of being a small-time merchant and decides, aided by his daughter Esther, to try his hand at big business. Why not be a film producer for instance? But it is easier said than done and he is soon relieved of 100,000 francs by a crook. Undaunted, he produces a film written by a young scriptwriter, Maurice Rogier, discovered by his daughter but does not believe it could become a success. Esther, for her part, decides to have "L'ange que j'ai vendu" shown in a local movie theater and the film immediately proves a hit. All is well that ends well, Esther marrying Maurice into the bargain.
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La Petite de Montparnasse (1932)
Character: André
A count's son has a place to meet his poor Parisian girlfriend and even work they can share to make a few bucks, but the father prefers he marry someone else.
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Madame et ses peaux-rouges (1948)
Character: Charles Filleul
After the exodus, a woman with a tidy life decides to take in the abandoned children; she meets a singer who knows how to make her see life with more poetry.
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La femme à l'orchidée (1952)
Character: Luciano / Commissioner Renaudin
A bold police officer arrives, not without difficulty, to infiltrate a dangerous gang of drug traffickers. With the help of a beautiful young woman, he tries to stop their nefarious activities ...
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Un soir à Marseille (1938)
Character: Bourel
The wife of a Marseille industrialist is murdered. An inspector and a young journalist investigate together, and suspect the husband, then the lover, before finding the real culprit.
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Les quatre sergents du Fort Carré (1952)
Character: Colonel
André, Pierre, Finot and Le Guen are cadets in the Fort Carré Military Academy of Antibes and they are the best friends in the world. One of them, André falls madly in love with Catherine, a charming orphan. But Catherine is kidnapped by bandits and when André comes to after being knocked out, she has disappeared. André reacts promptly and aided by his three inseparable friends, tracks down the bandits and frees Catherine. The two lovebirds marry and live happily ever after.
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Camilla (1954)
Character: N/A
Camilla, a middle-aged Venetian widow, arrives in Rome to take up service as a maid for the Rossetti family, who are not prosperous. With her discreet presence, she is an element of cohesion for them thru tensions and misfortunes.
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Frères corses (1939)
Character: Jérôme, smuggler
Siamese twins, separated at birth, maintain a psychic knowledge of each other's dire fates.
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Aux portes de Paris (1935)
Character: Ferdinand
A local man raised two boys. One is his son and the other is that of a rich industrialist, to get the bonus to the unhappy father, he gives his own son a lazy scoundrel, to the tearful father and decides to keep the other boy, but the truth does not soon to burst.
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Madame et le mort (1943)
Character: Léopold
A person who had usurped the identity of a famous writer of detective stories was killed in the train. Why and by whom?
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L'Enfer des anges (1941)
Character: Jean Ballard
Abandoned children, left to their own devices and a life of danger, are adopted by a kind man.
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Ai margini della metropoli (1953)
Character: Avv. di P.C.
Based on real events, in Rome a lawyer is not sure whether to accept defending a lower-class worker wrongly accused of the murder of his girlfriend.
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Terra straniera (1954)
Character: N/A
A group of illegal immigrants find a job in a French mine and organizes strikes to improve their working condition.
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Terra straniera (1954)
Character: Proporietario Minera
A group of illegal immigrants find a job in a French mine and organizes strikes to improve their working condition.
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La Cavalcade des heures (1943)
Character: André
Symbolizing the destiny of man, Hora imposes her destiny on everyone. She appears to a petty bourgeois trying to escape from his mediocre life, to a frivolous mother, to a reveler in nightclubs, to a man stranded without money in a restaurant, to a young sportsman, to a singer tired of the selfishness of his listeners and to a condemned man. To each, she brings the imperative message of Time...
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Giorni d'amore (1954)
Character: Oreste Droppio, padre di Pasquale
A man and a woman would like to get married, but lack the necessary funds for the traditional "big" wedding. Thus they plan to escape to the countryside and "live in sin".
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Le Bienfaiteur (1942)
Character: Bébert
A kind and generous village noble, specializing in good works, actually leads a double existence and carries out dishonest activities.
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