André Luguet
Acting
Biography
André Luguet (15 May 1892 – 24 May 1979) was a French stage and film actor. He appeared in more than 120 films between 1910 and 1970. He was born in Fontenay-sous-Bois, France, and died in Cannes, France. His daughter Rosine Luguet became an actress. Source: Article "André Luguet" from Wikipedia in English, licensed under CC-BY-SA 3.0.
Born: May 15, 1892
Place of Birth: Fontenay-sous-Bois, Val-de-Marne, France
Known For
À nous deux, madame la vie
Two bank employees like Lucie, their colleague. They steal money from the cash register to gamble. Jean wins and Paul ends up in prison for five years. When he leaves, he discovers that Jean has become a businessman and that he has married Lucie.
The Woman I Loved the Most
Claude is a young man whose girlfriend has just broken up with him. Feeling unable to overcome the pain, Claude has no other idea than to end his life. Back home, he finds five middle-aged or elderly men sitting at the dinner table but he refuses to join the guests and goes upstairs to his bedroom. The worst is prevented thanks to a servant who has caught sight of Claude's revolver. Claude 's uncle joins his nephew and manages to persuade him not to take action. He takes him downstairs to the dining room where each in turn, the five guests start telling their own story. For it happens that they too once had their heart broken and that they too once wanted to die for love.
The Accursed Kings
It is the start of the 14th century and Philip IV the Fair reigns supreme over France. His three sons would rule after him. Isabelle, his only daughter, is married to King Edward II of England. Under Philip's reign, France is great but its people are unhappy. Only one power dares to stand up to him: the order of the Knights Templar. When the last Grand Master of the Temple, Jacques de Molay, is burned at the stake, he curses Philip and so begins a dark period, full of blood and violence, death and tears ...
Florence is Crazy
Monsieur Benoit's existence is transformed when his dour wife suddenly thinks in a bout of folly that she will become a chanteuse and her husband the impresario.
The Two Orphans
Le lys dans la vallée
Félix de Vandenesse's youthful love for the beautiful, inaccessible Madame de Mortsauf, who devotes her life to a half-mad husband and two fragile children. Madame de Mortsauf maintains a friendly, tender relationship. But when she learns of the young man's affair with an Englishwoman, she dies of jealousy and regret.
Henri-Georges Clouzot's Inferno
In 1964, Henri-Georges Clouzot's production of L'Enfer came to a halt. Despite huge expectations, major studio backing and an unlimited budget, after three weeks the production collapsed. This documentary presents Inferno's incredible expressionistic original rushes, screen tests, and on-location footage, whilst also reconstructing Clouzot's original vision, and shedding light on the ill-fated endeavor through interviews, dramatizations of unfilmed scenes, and Clouzot's own notes.
The Man Who Played God
While giving a private performance for a visiting monarch, concert pianist Montgomery Royle is deafened when a bomb is detonated in an attempt to assassinate the foreign ruler. With his career over as a result of his injury, Royle returns to New York City with his sister Florence, close friend Mildred Miller, and considerably younger fiancée Grace Blair. After abandoning thoughts of suicide, Montgomery discovers he can lip read, and he spends his days observing people in Central Park from his apartment window. As he learns of people's problems, he tries to help them anonymously and becomes absorbed in his game of "playing God".
Tous les deux
Jean and Claude - he a car builder, she a model - loved each other, then separated because of Jean's despotic affections. Claude has retired with her child and a friend to a farm she can't manage. Wearily, the friend alerts Jean who, in the twinkling of an eye, erases the difficulties. Claude also learns that the child has been recognized and that his father has always looked after him. The two reconcile and embark on a journey for better or for worse.
Le Jeu de l'amour et du hasard
Unwilling to marry, Silvia poses as a maid in order to meet the man she is to marry incognito. This will allow her to study the character and behaviour of her fiancé. But the young man resorts to the same stratagem...
Filmography
as Duhamel (archive footage)
as Hugues de Bouville, chambellan de Philippe IV le Bel
as M. de Norpois
as M. de Chessel
as Baron de Bocquigny
as L'invité au vernissage qui dit 'C'est simple, mais ça existe!' (uncredited)
as M. Orgon, père de Silvia et Mario
as Lawyer
as Colonel de Sailly
as Le premier ministre
as Antoine's grandfather
as Sir Reginald Dumfrey
as Maurice Zoltan
as René Bernard
as Neck
as Le général Rupert
as Le chef de deuxième bureau
as M Fenal, Julien's Father
as Governor
as Thomas Longué
as Stevenson
as Alcide Laurier
as Minister Charles Fouquet
as Sir Richard Wilkinson, Governor of Aden
as L'éditeur Fusillard
as Count de Linières
as Louis XV
as Industrialist Achille Duboutois
as M. Marinier, père
as Chatenay-Maillard
as The great couturier Martial Sumonet
as Gérard de Saint-Aignan
as Jean Defert
as Bernard Levaison
as Maxime Delcroix
as The Traveler / Léopold de Witt
as Alain Plessis
as Dominique Ségard
as Banker
as Jérôme Benoit
as Claude Orly
as The real Count Raoul de Tremblay-Matour
as Martial
as Hubert de Sainte-Croix
as Pierre Morland
as Duke of Aubières
as Carlier
as Rémi
as Lawyer
as Henri Senterre
as Detective Anthony Gethryn
as Pierre Desmarets
as Count d'Argay, ambassador
as Maître Jacques Presle
as Self
as Carlos
as Alexis de Saint-Grisols
as Harry
as Lucien Moreuil
as Iretski
as Jean Magnier
as Jérôme Le Govain
as Doctor Rigal
as Roger de Céran
as André Savignolle
as Gérard Delaval
as Patrick O'Leary
as André Cartault et François Villard
as Frédéric Chapuis
as Henri Fournier
as Gar Evans
as Count Andre
as Max Boncour
as André Lucot
as The King
as Gilbert Latour
as Pierre Latour
as Count Robert Renaud
as Paul Brandt
as Jeff Haywood
as Captain Kovacs
as Lord Montague
as Georges Barsac
as Maurice Lacroix
as St. Pierre
as Yves Le Guerantec
as Jacques Dollon
as Guest
as The actor