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Chaque minute compte (1960)
Character: Inspector
The Leroy factory manager, Sorel, is a gambler with debts, playing double-game. He enjoys the advantages of his social situation and the confidence shown him by his boss, Leroy.
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Le Beau Voyage (1947)
Character: The librarian
She dragged out a more than mediocre life in the port of Antwerp; he is a renowned pianist-virtuoso. These two solitary beings, totally different, meet by chance on a liner and gradually realize that they complement each other harmoniously.
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Miss Pigalle (1958)
Character: N/A
A young woman has been run over by the car of Carlos, a brilliant embassy attaché. Feeling sorry for her, Carlos drives her to his place and decides to take her in. The young lady accepts his offer but refuses to tell Carlos her name, wanting to be called Miss Pigalle, after the Paris district where she was born. It does not take long before Yvonne (Miss Pigalle's true name) and Carlos fall in love. Life is like a dream and, when Yvonne gets pregnant, their happiness is at their peak. Unfortunately, a revolution breaks out and Carlos returns to his country in secret. Feeling forsaken and at a loss, Yvonne, who is now penniless, has no other solution but prostitute herself.
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Et moi j'te dis qu'elle t'a fait d'l'oeil! (1950)
Character: An agent
André Courvalin, a merry bachelor, considers marrying, but not his exuberant mistress Aurélie. He would much rather wed sweet Suzanne. Trouble is that Suzanne is already engaged to Yves, one of his friends. But every problem has its solution. Accordingly, André finalizes a cynical stratagem. He sends Yves to negotiate his own breakup with Aurélie while he warns Aurélie's husband about Yves' presence by her side.All goes according to plan : Yves is mistakenly taken for Aurélie's husband.
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La Kermesse érotique (1974)
Character: N/A
Madame Arrieu is the owner of an apartment building in Paris, where she lives with her three respectful nieces. Then, Elvira, a lady who paints nudes, gets behind in her lodging payments. Elvira, wishing to impress a prospective customer from the United States, asks Mme. Arrieu to let her use her (better) apartment, to receive him - just for a couple of hours. The lady refuses, but then she must leave for a short spell... Temptation is too big.
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Ce joli monde (1957)
Character: Man who asks for a little white
Pépito runs a gang of thugs with authority. He has a natural son, Gaston, a professor of literature in Aix-en-Provence, whom he has hardly ever seen. Gaston announces himself for Christmas, and Pépito decides to make him look good by moving into his headquarters: a château where the crooks will be able to exercise their talents as composers.
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Les joyeux lurons (1972)
Character: N/A
Three priests in cassocks visit a modest and naive country priest in a village in the South of France. They claim to be sent by the bishop for the purpose of recovering a precious reliquary currently in the hands of a vigorously anti-clerical squire. The non apostolic behavior of the three priests causes the disturbance in the village without altering the confidence of the priest. But the situation is complicated at the Sunday Mass: one is drunk on the sacristy, the other improvises a sermon not very Catholic and the third is a mess in the choir of singing. With the naive complicity of the priest, their scam is about to end ...
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Dis bonjour à la dame !.. (1977)
Character: Postmaster of Valois
Robert Ferry, a PTT employee, is having problems with his two sons. The elder has impregnated his girlfriend, a young hippie, and the younger, Daniel, is said to have homosexual tendencies. Determined to put his son back on the straight and narrow, Robert decides to go against his principles and force a young girl on him...
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Le temps des copains (1963)
Character: Bernard
Three young students, who met on the train, arrive in Paris and decide to find accommodation together.
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Les mordus de Paris (1965)
Character: N/A
Paris is a city where effervescence is dangerous for city dwellers, who have become nothing more than "nervous machines". Two eminent psychiatrists, one French and one American, decided to administer a sedative to all Parisians, proceeding by arrondissement, which they injected in single, double or triple doses. Soon, the whole of Paris was injected. Calm, good humor and kindness returned, but 11 refused to be treated and remained the only Parisian not to have been treated.
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Aux frais de la princesse (1969)
Character: Jo
The Eloi family, who have just won the "model family" competition, set off for winter sports. Also on the trip are Aunt Gabrielle and Dagobert, the village warden. For the eccentric little group, the initiation to the joys of skiing begins with a lot of excitement. The vacation gets complicated when a Hindu prince has a precious diamond stolen from the local hotel.
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Je prends la chose... du bon côté! (1974)
Character: N/A
Francis makes a living from his charms, satisfying a large and varied clientele. His gigolo activity is beginning to tire him. A couple of perverted customers, wanting to see him make love with their dog Rita, decide to give up for good. He joins Martine, a healthy, well-balanced young woman.
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Le Passage de Vénus (1951)
Character: Rémi
Yesterday night, Lazare Chantoiseau painted the town red. This morning he wakes up with a very unsettling idea in mind: he is sure to have stolen and raped a strange woman in the Luxembourg Gardens, so he decides to give himself up. On that occasion he gets to know his victim, Hortense, as well as her husband, an astronomer. Lazare realizes he is innocent, which does not prevent from becoming... Hortense's lover!
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Scandale (1948)
Character: N/A
A young woman who inherits her uncle's nightclub, invents a gangster husband in order to gain respect.
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Minuit... Champs-Elysées (1954)
Character: Gendarme
A burglar, Bob Duchemin, is charged with murder following a mysterious settling of accounts. Suspicion also falls on the manager of a cabaret on the Champs-Elysées, as well as the owner of the establishment, Enrico. But Bob is also found guilty and sentenced to twenty years' hard labor. Soon abandoned by his fiancée, Lili, Bob learns that she has become Enrico's mistress, one of the attractions at the Tipico. The young singer's affair quickly makes her an international star. For his part, Bob escapes and seeks revenge. He meets a young pure freak who dissuades him from carrying out his murder plans. Bob kills Enrico anyway, but in self-defense. Afterwards, having been found innocent, he will be able to "remake his life" with the pure young girl.
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Les moutons de Panurge (1961)
Character: N/A
Charles and Jeanne Renard live with their young kids in a dormitory town. Everyday train and metro,work and return by train and metro to the dormitory town (the famous french sentence "Métro,boulot,dodo"). But how fragile is marital bliss ?
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Un certain Monsieur Jo (1958)
Character: N/A
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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À la manière de Sherlock Holmes (1956)
Character: N/A
A horrific and, on the face of it, incomprehensible murder has just been committed on the unsympathetic person of a loan shark. The victim's body is found lifeless, but the circumstances of his death are far from clear. For want of anything better to go on, the police immediately suspect a penniless gentleman who had the bad idea and misfortune to be present at the time of the crime. The police don't take the time to look for other possible suspects, and are not at the end of their surprises. A dark story seems to lie behind this imbroglio of incoherent facts.
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Le Distrait (1970)
Character: Policeman
A comedy about an absent-minded man who works at a advertising company and topples from one problem to another.
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Un éléphant ça trompe énormément (1976)
Character: Fire Captain (uncredited)
On an otherwise normal day, Étienne, a happily married man and a good father, sees something that stops him dead in his tracks: a gorgeous woman in a billowing red dress. Long after she has left his vision, her memory continues to haunt his mind. He falls instantly in love with her and tries everything to get to know her better. Helping Étienne snare his elusive lady in red are his three bumbling buddies, which all have secret affairs and/or cheat on their wives.
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Retenez-moi... ou je fais un malheur ! (1984)
Character: N/A
Lewis plays a Las Vegas policeman visiting his ex-wife in France, only to be caught up in the shenanigans of a group of art thieves. His ex-wife has remarried and her husband is undercover among the art thieves, carrying out an assignment given him by his superiors in the police force. Inevitably, the current husband and the ex-husband are bound to clash.
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Bébert et l'Omnibus (1963)
Character: Punter who follows the results (uncredited)
The Martin family is shopping in a department store. Tiennot is responsible for looking after his little brother, Bébert, but he prefers to chase girls. On the train home, Tiennot leaves Bébert alone. On arrival, Bébert has disappeared. The Martin family sets out to find him.
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La Cage aux rossignols (1945)
Character: (uncredited)
In France, in 1930, a supervisor of a boarding school for young offenders seeks to awaken the music by forming a choir, despite the skepticism of his boarding school director.
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Alexandre le bienheureux (1968)
Character: Mayor
Alexandre, a young and honest farmer, is oppressed by an authoritarian wife, who makes him work like a dog. When she dies in a car crash, he decides to stay in bed, absolutely free and inactive. Just a dog is occupied to carry food and newspapers to him.
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La Famille Fenouillard (1961)
Character: Antoine Petit (uncredited)
The Fenouillards (Sophie Desmarets and Jean Richard are the parents, Annie Sinigalia and Marie-José Ruíz are the daughters) are shopkeepers with higher aspirations. The Monsieur wants to run for mayor of their town, but the family acknowledges he has little experience of the real world -- and so they all take off to experience it together. After starting out by getting lost, the family goes through an odyssey that takes them to Brazil, the Antarctic, and Japan in a series of episodic adventures.
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Les vacanciers (1974)
Character: Chief of the gendarmerie
The eventful and incredible vacation of a Parisian family come to rest in a small village located in the heart of Alsace.
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Clochemerle (1948)
Character: N/A
A little town erupts in turmoil about the construction of a public urinal. The army is sent in to restore order, but the military add to the confusion by getting involved with the local women.
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Un nuage entre les dents (1974)
Character: N/A
Malisard is a reporter at "Soir de Paris", his colleague Prévot is a photographer. Together, they roam the streets of Paris.
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Folle à tuer (1975)
Character: Un gendarme (uncredited)
Julie Ballenger has spent five years in a psychiatric clinic. Leaving the clinic apparently cured, she is hired by a wealthy industrialist, Mostri, to work as a governess to his young nephew, Thomas. The boy is heir to a huge fortune after the recent death of his wealthy parents who died in mysterious circumstances. During a visit to a park, Julie and Thomas are kidnapped at gun-point and driven away to deserted quarry. The two hostages manage to escape, but are closely pursued by an armed killer...
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Le Grand Blond avec une chaussure noire (1972)
Character: Cyclist
A hapless orchestra player becomes an unwitting pawn of rival factions within the French secret service after he is chosen as a decoy by being identified as a super secret agent.
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Ni vu… Ni connu… (1958)
Character: Le docteur
In a small French village, everything would be quiet if the local wildlife cop was not being ridiculed by a smart poacher.
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Judex (1963)
Character: Un pêcheur de Loisy
Georges Franju's Judex is an arch, playful tribute to the serials of the influential silent filmmaker Louis Feuillade. Franju shuffles through the plot of Feuillade's lengthy serial of the same name, about an adventurer named Judex whose revenge against the corrupt banker Favraux unleashes a complicated series of schemes.
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Y'a un os dans la moulinette (1974)
Character: N/A
Two unemployed actors accept what they believe to be an acting job from a wealthy man without realizing that he needs two real private detectives.
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Le Gendarme en balade (1970)
Character: Begleitung von Josépha Cruchot
The whole clique of Cruchot's police station is retired. Now he lives with his rich wife in her castle - and is bored almost to death. He fights with the butler, because he isn't even allowed to do the simple works. But when one of the clique suffers from amnesia after an accident, all of the others reunite and kidnap him, to take him on a tour to their old working places and through their memories. In their old uniforms they turn St. Tropez upside down.
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Le Soleil des voyous (1967)
Character: Commissioner (uncredited)
An American talks a retired French crook into robbing a bank, but kidnappers demand the loot as ransom.
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L'Insolent (1973)
Character: Fairground barker
Having escaped from prison Ristack contacts his partner, to organize an attack on a van full of gold. The heist goes well but each man is trying to keep all the loot for himself...
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