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L'Affaire de la rue de Lourcine (1923)
Character: Un invité au dîner
Back from an alcohol-fueled evening, two former high school friends wake up and find they may have murdered a female coal-dealer.
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Ploum, ploum, tra-la-la (1947)
Character: François
A shy but resourceful seller of corks helps a young man get married by passing himself off as a wealthy uncle in the eyes of the mother of the future bride, a marquise hostile to any misalliance.
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Jérôme Perreau héros des barricades (1935)
Character: Jérôme Perreau
A hero of the Paris streets is recruited for a conspiracy against Mazarin in the court of the King, but he reveals the subversive plot to Anne of Austria.
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Le Comte Obligado (1935)
Character: Antoine
Antoine, elevator operator of a haute couture house, takes advantage of an inheritance to lead the high life for three days by pretending to be a rich count.
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Le roi des resquilleurs (1930)
Character: Eugène Leroy «Bouboule»
The film is the first of a series of films containing the character of "Bouboule", created by the singer Milton and comprising La Bande à Bouboule (1931), directed by Léon Mathot, Le Roi du cirage (1931), directed by Pierre Colombier, Bouboule Ier, roi des Nègres (1933), directed by Léon Mathot, and Prince Bouboule, directed by Jacques Houssin (1939).
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Le Prince Bouboule (1939)
Character: Eugène Leroy aka Bouboule
Bouboule is a taxi driver. A Russian princess wishing to acquire French nationality offers to marry her to divorce a few months later. After incredible adventures, Bouboule manages to save the inheritance of his wife, divorces and finds his sweet Lucette.
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Les Deux Combinards (1938)
Character: André Michaud
The first schemer, short of money, offers himself at a high price to facilitate the fantasies of the other, by playing the role of substitute. The second is an unscrupulous banker who sows ruin and grief but who is soon ruined and fooled in turn.
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Le Billet de mille (1935)
Character: 'Bouboule', sandwich man
The tribulations of a banknote, from its exit from a counter to its destruction, passing through dozens of hands.
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Famille nombreuse (1934)
Character: Hector Follenfant
Follenfant, father of a large family, completed late military service. He looks a lot like the commander who is shy and thanks to this resemblance, Follenfant who is also a ventriloquist, makes his superior and his own happy by marrying the widowed seamstress and mother, too, of a large family.
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Nu comme un ver (1933)
Character: N/A
A very rich businessman, knight of the Legion of Honor, bets that he can start his career from scratch. After all kinds of adventures, he climbs the ladder of society and, having become rich again, finds love and a new fortune.
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Bouboule 1er, roi nègre (1934)
Character: N/A
Georges Vinot nicknamed Bouboule, a colorful but naive Parisian, falls prey to a gang of diamond thieves. Not only do they manipulate him into smuggling stolen precious stones into Senegal but they have bought life insurance on his head, which means they are prepared to do anything to liquidate him. But Bouboule succeeds in thwarting all their traps and eventually decides to settle down in a Senegalese village, of which he becomes... king!
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Le Roi du cirage (1931)
Character: N/A
Bouboule, a shoeshine boy at a Parisian train station, is about to discover a revolutionary shoe polish. Unfortunately, due to a series of misunderstandings, he loses his job. But at the same time, he wins a fabulous sum in the lottery. From then on, shoe polish is back in the spotlight…
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Et dix de der (1948)
Character: Leroy
A police inspector tries to capture international robbers who are actually also police.
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Par habitude (1923)
Character: Bouboule
Maurice returns out of habit in the apartment from which he has just moved and turns the lives of the new tenants upside down.
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Gangster malgré lui (1935)
Character: Georges
The crazy adventures of a character forced by circumstances to take on such dangerous professions as those of gangster, burglar, Chinese chiropodist and amateur detective.
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