André Penvern
Acting
Biography
André Penvern is a French actor born in Sèvres. At age 17, he began working with National Drama Centers. He went from small parts to stage manager, sound and lightning designer, etc. His meeting with Margot Capelier, casting director, was crucial for him. She introduced him to Fred Zinnemann Otto Preminger John Frankenheimer, Gérard Oury. He alternates between theater and television, encountering Jean Marboeuf Alain Bonnot, Philippe de Broca, Olivier Dahan.
Born: November 26, 1947
Place of Birth: Sèvres, Seine-et-Oise [now Hauts-de-Seine], France
Known For
The secret files of Inspector Lavardin
The Dossiers of Inspector Lavardin is a French television series in four 90-minute episodes, created by Dominique Roulet and Claude Chabrol and broadcast between September 15, 1988 and February 1, 1990 on TF1. It follows the two films Chicken in Vinegar and Inspector Lavardin directed by Claude Chabrol and already featuring Jean Poiret in the role of Lavardin. This short series depicts the investigations of Inspector Lavardin, a tongue-in-cheek policeman known for his bad manners.
The Investigations of Commissioner Maigret
Louis XVI, l'homme qui ne voulait pas être roi
The dramatic events around the French king Louis XVI and the French crises in the late 1700's with no will to pay taxes, which led Louis XVI into an impossible situation as a king.
Inglourious Basterds
In Nazi-occupied France during World War II, a group of Jewish-American soldiers known as "The Basterds" are chosen specifically to spread fear throughout the Third Reich by scalping and brutally killing Nazis. The Basterds, lead by Lt. Aldo Raine soon cross paths with a French-Jewish teenage girl who runs a movie theater in Paris which is targeted by the soldiers.
Kramer contre Kramer
Brigade des mineurs
L'Alambic
Chère Marianne
The Tenant
A quiet and inconspicuous man rents an apartment in Paris where he finds himself drawn into a rabbit hole of dangerous paranoia.
The Poisoner
Loudun, October 1947. Leon Besnard and Marie celebrate their eighteenth wedding anniversary with friends and Ady, a former German prisoner they have "adopted". A few days later, Leon dies. Louise, a friend of the couple's and probably Leon's mistress claims that, on his deathbed, the deceased told her that Marie was poisoning him. The whole town soon condemns Marie and she is arrested and sent to jail. Did she really kill Léon as well as twelve other members of her family as she finds herself charged with?
Filmography
as André
as Le juge
as André, doctor
as André
as Raymond
as Monsieur Lome
as Alfred
as Georges
as Monsieur Dupoirier
as Urbain, the mayor
as Guillaume Hugonet
as M. Blandin
as Charles de Gaulle
as Mister Beranger
as Hubert
as Sam / The Butler / Shaunessy / The Pub Manager
as Walter
as Marcel
as Antoine Ferchereau
as Le père de Béatrice
as Tony
as Maxime Weygand
as Old French Veterinarian
as Mr Luve
as Le Procureur
as le père Romand
as Jacques Canetti
as Professor Boiledieu
as Père Dominique
as Gégé, le père
as Le boulanger (voice)
as Veraldi
as Colonel de Villeneuve
as Le préfet
as Ganasse
as Albert Wurtz
as Le Maire
as Gosset
as Hotel Clerk
as Prosecutor Delorme
as Alibert
as Police Inspector
as Anatole
as Concierge
as Waiter on the Train
as Henri Bretonne
as Le préfet
as Micho
as Frederick Leger
as Courtier I
as Le contremaître
as Jean-Michel, le mari d'Odette
as Un ami de Georges
as Hansel
as Le médecin, qui vient pour Hector
as M. Champjoie
as Le buraliste
as Jean-Louis
as Un homme (uncredited)
as Apparition (uncredited)
as Stanislas, le directeur de production
as 'Top Hat'
as French Policeman (uncredited)
as Television speaker
as Robert Mendira
as Cafe waiter
as Bartender
as Assistant to Andréani
as Policeman at Tulle Station
as (non crédité)
as Intern
as Inspecteur Castaing
as Lesueur