Armand Lurville
Acting
Biography
Armand Lurville (March 21, 1875 – September 25, 1955) was a French stage and film actor.[1] [2] A character actor, he appeared in a number of films from the silent era to the 1950s.
Born: March 21, 1875
Place of Birth: Paris, France
Known For
The Passion of Joan of Arc
A classic of the silent age, this film tells the story of the doomed but ultimately canonized 15th-century teenage warrior. On trial for claiming she'd spoken to God, Jeanne d'Arc is subjected to inhumane treatment and scare tactics at the hands of church court officials. Initially bullied into changing her story, Jeanne eventually opts for what she sees as the truth. Her punishment, a famously brutal execution, earns her perpetual martyrdom.
Baccara
A rich banker is actually a crook. His mistress, an alien, wants to become French and the only way is to marry a Frenchman.
Hatred
Captain Justin Mollenard works for a company that sells armaments to the Far East. After an eventful stay in Shanghai, where he and his cargo are the victim of a malicious attack, he returns to his hometown of Dunkirk. Mollenard receives a frosty welcome from his wife Mathilde, who resents the way in which he has neglected his family for so many years. Mollenard’s only wish is to get back to sea as soon as he can, but a sudden heart-attack leaves him paralysed and entirely in his wife’s power...
Hôtel du Nord
A young couple's suicide pact goes awry, leaving the woman to face her survival with a new admirer while pining for her lost love.
Nights in Port Said
The niece of a shady tavern-keeper of Port Said, surrounded by dangerous men who haunt the ports, meets a man whom she will love and with whom she flees.
L'Embuscade
A young man is hired by an industrialist, while a secret hangs over his birth. His boss's wife turns out to be his mother, who hides the truth from him.
The Queen's Lover
Exiled from the court of Spain, Don Salluste, the chief of police, wants to take revenge on the Queen. One day he meets Ruy Blas, a young student who happens to be a lookalike of Don Cesar, his nephew. Salluste disguises Ruy Blas and presents him as Don Cesar. It doesn't take long before Ruy Blas, intelligent, virtuous and generous as he is becomes popular and the Queen, who has fallen in love with him, appoints him Prime Minister. All seems for the best in the best of worlds but Salluste has not forgotten his revenge, far from that ...
Gervaise
An adaptation of Émile Zola’s 1877 masterpiece L’assommoir, the film is an uncompromising depiction of a lowly laundress’s struggles to deal with an alcoholic husband while running her own business.
Un revenant
A ballet producer returns to his native town and schemes to avenge himself on the family who tried to murder him 20 years before.
Pasteur
Guitry reprises his role as Pasteur which he played successfully at the Vaudeville Theatre in 1919.
Filmography
as l'archevêque
as Le commissaire
as le vieux banquier
as General Counsel
as Le commissaire
as Tenant
as Dubailly d'Elbeuf
as General
as Lesueur
as Ganduron
as The dean
as Master Pierre
as The first witness
as Saint-Gaudens
as Notary
as Lescudier de la Trombe
as Mr. Leverdier
as Veratcheff
as M. Meyse
as Regnier-Lambert
as Judge