André Marnay
Acting
Biography
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Born: November 14, 1877
Place of Birth: Levallois-Perret, Seine [now Hauts-de-Seine], France
Known For
Father Goriot
An old merchant ruined by the dot its two ungrateful daughters, moved to the Vauquer pension in Paris. In after Balzac.
Emile the African
Émile Boulard is a props man in a Paris movie studio. He has a wife, Suzanne. Or to be more accurate, let's say he HAD a wife since she left him fifteen years before, allegedly ... to go buy a post stamp. But now that their daughter Martine , who lives with her, is old enough to marry, she resurfaces. She confesses that, in order to explain his absence, she has told Martine her father was a great explorer and lion hunter in Africa. Not to disappoint his daughter, Émile accepts to pose as the adventurer he is supposed to be. At the same time he will help Daniel, Martine's bashful fiancé, not to become a henpecked husband like him.
Le Roman d'un jeune homme pauvre
Maxime de Champcey, a bankrupt marquis, is hired by the wealthy Laroque and falls for his daughter Marguerite. She loves him too but rejects him under the belief he's a fortune hunter.
Méphisto
On his wedding night with Hilda Bergmann, the daughter of a swedish chemist, the young and rich american Willy Keanton is stabbed by an unidentified masked man. He kidnaps the young woman, who is found later on by the count Robert d'Arbel. The detective Jacques Miral, nicknamed « the pointed tower's ferret » is put in charge of the case. Soon, he discovers that an international bandit, Méphisto, seeks to seize the formula of a process against asphyxiating gas, invented by professor Bergmann. The struggle is tough between Miral and the uncatchable Méphisto. Monique Aubray, Keanton's secretary and engaged to the detective, the Nostradamus stallholders and the « mastiff of Bordeaux », and the famous novelist Fortuné Bidon are also involved in the case...
The Count of Monte Cristo Part 2 - The Retaliation
Having found the fabulous treasure of which Abbé Faria had spoken to him, Dantès has only one idea left: revenge. He will succeed patiently, but will not however have the heart to break the poor Mercedes. Then he will leave for the East, accompanied by a lovely Levantine, Haydé, who served him to accomplish his revenge.
Let’s Go Up the Champs-Élysées
The history of one of France's most famous streets is retold, featuring multiple performances from Guitry himself.
Du Guesclin
A chronicle of the life of Bertrand du Guesclin, grand officer of the French army in the 14th century.
Sending of Flowers
Envoi de Fleurs is based on incidents in the life of French composer Paul Delmet. Played by popular French singing star Tino Rossi, Delmet is depicted as a man all too willing to give up personal happiness in favor of blind ambition. After carrying on a romance by correspondence with beautiful young Suzanne (Micheline Francey), Delmet is on the verge of marrying the girl. Instead, he allows himself to be talked out of leaving France to further his own career, with disastrous results for all concerned.
Pasteur
Guitry reprises his role as Pasteur which he played successfully at the Vaudeville Theatre in 1919.
L'instinct
Between the feelings of the man who believes himself to be deceived and of the surgeon's instinct, it is the latter which triumphs in Doctor Bernon, who saves the man presumed to be his wife's lover. He then realizes that this is not the case and that she is still worthy of him.
Filmography
as Vicar
as The notary
as Minister Plévénic
as (uncredited)
as President of the Assize Court
as L'aumônier général
as Louis-Philippe
as Mr. André Martin
as Monsieur Martin
as Doctor
as Le notaire
as Le colonel Hennequin
as Richard
as Lepetissale
as André Bernon
as Le curé
as Krivoshine
as Le pope
as Savary
as Baron de Hornebecke